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1 PIMLICO TURF NOTES " . 9 J. H. Stotler, trainer of the A. G. Van-derbilt stable, has signed the light-weight R. D. Scott, a brother of apprentice R. Scott, who is riding here, to a long-period contract. The youngster, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, is sixteen and scales the beams at 91 pounds. It was reported here that Green Cheese, formidable jumper of the Greentree Stable, went amiss in training. John Yocum, express traffic agent of P. R. R., stated that War Admiral, of the Glen Riddle Farm, will be transferred from Narragansett Park on Monday to winter quarters at Berlin, Md. Trainer H. T. Pearsall plans taking six horses to California for Mr. James Newton of Philadelphia. Volitant, of the Saratoga Stable, has been named for the Flamingo Stakes at Hialeah Park and will be shipped to the Florida track at the close of the present meeting. The Saratoga Stable colt will also be nominated for the Kentucky Derby. The yearlings of George D. Widener that are stationed at Lexington, Ky., are scheduled to be transferred to Erdenheim Farm in Pennsylvania shortly. J. A. Manfuso, owner of the good handicap performer, Aneroid, has instructed trainer Dion Kerr to keep the son of The Porter and Outburst in training for the Bowie Handicap to be run closing day here. H. Clay Miller of the Cambridge Arms apartments, Baltimore, Md., a spectator at Pimlico Friday, dropped dead after the third race in the clubhouse. He was fifty-seven years old. George Woolf, who rode Seabiscuit to his triumph over War Admiral on opening day, and who has been ill since with influenza, reported back to work Friday morning. Woolf leaves in a few days for the winters racing in California.
