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ANOTHER CLASH LIKELY War Admiral and Seabiscuit May Meet at Narragansett Park Charles S Howard Considering Offer Offerof of Increasing Handicap to 25000 25000Added Added Appears Confident PAWTUCKET R I Nov 5 In telephone conversations this morning with Samuel D Riddle and Charles S Howard judge James E Dooley president of the Narragansett Racing Association renewed his offer of in ¬ creasing the 10000 added of the Rhode Is ¬ land Handicap November 12 to 25000 added providing both Seabiscuit and War Admiral face the starter on that date dateMr Mr Riddle some days ago signified his intention of starting in the Rhode Island whether or not Seabiscuit does and whether or not the added money is 10000 or 25000 but Mr Howard thus far has reserved his final decision for a day or two Judge Dooley is confidently expecting a favorable reply from the California sportsman by Monday MondayBy By increasing the value of the stake Gan sett offers Seabiscuit the best opportunity he will have this year to surpass the money earned record of Sun Beau The Biscuit has earned 340480 and must add 36264 to his total to equal Sun Beaus mark of 376 444 Should he start and win the Riggs Memorial Handicap at Pimlico Saturday he will be approximately 25000 in arrears of the big horses total With the 25000 added Rhode Island Handicap to shoot at on the following Saturday Seabiscuit has a wonder ¬ ful chance to establish an alltime earncd money record within the next two weeks weeksMr Mr Howard informed judge Dooley that he tentatively accepted the offer but he wished to give very careful thought to his complete plans for the future before making a final decision He asserted he is confident that Seabiscuit can repeat his victory over War Admiral and is willing to have the test take place in a stake race instead of a two horse match matchMr Mr Riddle has refused to alibi or excuse War Admirals defeat He assured judge Dooley over the telephone that War Admiral Continued on twentythird page ANOTHER CLASH LIKELY Continued from first page would start and expressed the hope that Mr Howard would decide to start Seabiscuit I think my horse will beat him and I think we should provide another race he de ¬ clared claredWhen When nominations closed for the Rhode Island Handicap twentytwo horses had been named Probable starters besides War Admiral and Seabiscuit include Clodion Great Union Grey Count Mucho Gusto Thanksgiving Sargazo Wise Prince Car dinalis and Nedayr NedayrThe The distance of the Rhode Island is one mile and an eighth onesixteenth shorter than the Pimlico match race and being a handicap affair it brings strongly into the picture one Robert S Shelley Narragansett racing secretary and handicapper handicapperThe The question at once arises how Shelley will view the respective merits of the cham ¬ pions Will he allow poundage for that four lengths defeat the Admiral sustained or will the owner insist that equal weights be allotted both horses Well that is Shel ¬ leys own particular problem and his solu ¬ tion will not be known unti the weights are published at 500 p m on Tuesday Novem ¬ ber 9
