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MATCH RACE ON NOV. 1 Riddle and Howard Agree on Terms for Pimlico Special. War Admiral and Seabiscuit to Meet Over One Mile and Three-Sixteenths Route. BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 6 Racing circles were humming today over the news that War Admiral and Seabiscuit have finally been matched again, apparently under conditions which would seem to assure their actually meeting, barring mishap. The race has been set for November 1 at Pimlico. Alfred G. Vanderbilt, vice-president of the Maryland Jockey Club, arrived in Baltimore .this afternoon from New York following the completion of the details for the race be- " tween owners Samuel D. Riddle and Charles S. Howard. It has been known that Vanderbilt has been working on the matter for "over two weeks and the result can be regarded as a tribute to his energy and sagacity in bringing the respective owners - -together. He smilingly acknowledged congratulations with the comment that Messrs. Riddle And Howard were grand to work with, although "I did have to leg it a bit." CONDITIONS OF RACE. The conditions of the race call for the Maryland Jockey Club to put up 5,000 to the winner, if both horses go, with a ,000 forfeit posted by each owner in the event of a walkover. In the latter instance the Maryland Jockey Club will award the horse - walking over ,000. In other words if both horses go, the net to the winner will be 0,-000, and if a walk-over the net to the lone - starter will be 0,000. Tuesday, November 1, opening day of Pimlicos widely heralded stake-a-day meeting, has been set as the time with provision made that the race be postponed to Thursday, November 3, in the event that track conditions are not suitable. The distance of a mile and three-sixteenths is not strange to War Admiral or Seabiscuit, the former having won at that distance in the 1937 Preak- ..ness, and Seabiscuit also winning the Riggs "Handicap at Pimlico last autumn over the same distance. The walk-up start specified seems to offer fequal advantages to both horses. This coupled with the agreed weight of 120 pounds each seems to indicate that the race will be run in record time. TRAINING PLANS. - Indications were today that both horses will immediately start training for the event at Pimlico. Trainer Tom Smith, handler of the Howard star, said today that he believed he would van Seabiscuit to Pimlico tomorrow in order to give him every advantage of the circumstances under which he would actually race. Trainer Conway of the Riddle ace has a similar problem with the additional task of training War Admiral down to the mile and three-sixteenths. War Admirals last race was in the Jockey Gold Cup at Belmont Continued on twenty-second vage. MATCH RACEON NOV. 1 Continued from first page. Park last Saturday over a distance of two miles. War Admiral and nine other members of the Riddle stable are expected at Pimlico early next week. Details of the arrangements for the race will not be announced for several days, although it is known that the Pimlico officials have never favored an increase in admission prices, even on their biggest days, as the Preakness when the same year-round prices obtain. The race will probably be counted as one of the seven flat races allowed the race association by the Maryland Racing Commission. This would permit straight betting only. An interesting sidelight is that the feature of the day prior to the scheduling of the two-horse event was the Battleship Steeplechase, a new stakes event at Pimlico named in honor of this years winner of the English Grand National. There is a possibility that Battleship will lead the horses to the post in the event named after him. If so the crowd of race fans will witness Americas three greatest horses of the year.
