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g SEABISCUirS OWNER AGREES Will Accept Terms for Match Race Against War Admiral at Belmont Fall Meeting. SAN MATEO, Calif., April 9. Charles S. Howard, owner of Seabiscuit, American handicap champion, has consented to permit his star to meet the three-year-old ace, War Admiral, at Belmont Park during September. Howard, when interviewed late Friday afternoon, stated: "I have always been in favor of a meeting between the two horses. Weights on a weight-for-age basis will be satisfactory, or a settlement of weights by mutual agreement. Either inside or outside post position, will also be satisfactory to me, but I would not particularly care for the walk-up start Seabiscuit is accustomed to breaking from the starting gate and I feel that he would be at a disadvantage in accepting a moving start. "War Admiral has broken well from the gate on occasions and it would be a more evenly matched affair if both horses left from a standing" start." Seabiscuit, now stabled at Tanforan, will be shipped to Inglewood following the Marchbank meeting- and will be pointed for the Hollywood Gold Cup. Following that engagement he will be sent east but will not be pitted against War Admiral until the "battle of a century" in September.
