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Maryland Sport Shifts to Pimlico Oval This Afternoon for Meeting of 23 Days I Baltimore Spring Handicap * Lures 1 6, With War Age and Weal or Woe Heading Field By PALMER HEAGERTT PIMLICO, Maryland, May 7. — The Maryland Jockey Clubs 23-day spring racing season, the final week of which will conflict with nearby Delaware Park, commences Tuesday afternoon with a program featuring the 0,000 added Baltimore Spring Handicap, a test of five and one-half furlongs. Highlight of the meeting, extended by seven days when legislation increased the Maryland racing schedule by 20 days, will be the eightieth running of the famed Preakness Stakes, second jewel in racings Triple Crown. The Preakness will be contested at the usual ■ mile and three-sixteenths i distance on Saturday, May 19. On the initial Saturday program, May 12, the sport will be featured by the 0,000 added Riggs Handicap, at a mile and one- ► half over the turf course. On the day preceding the Preakness, Pimlico offers the inaugural running of the Mr. Fitz Handicap, at a mile and three-sixteenths on the main track. On the same evening, the management of the Maryland Jockey Club, in cooperation with the Variety Club, will revive the Preakness Ball, to be held at the Southern Hotel in Baltimore. Following the Preakness will be the 0,000 added Pimlico Nursery on Saturday, May 26; the 5,000 added Dixie Handicap on Wednesday, May 30, and the 0,000 added Black-Eyed Susan on closing day, Saturday, June 2. The Nursery is at five furlongs, the Dixie at a mile and three furlongs on the grass and the Black-Eyed Susan at a mile and one-sixteenth. The Baltimore Spring, which will be run as the seventh race, has attracted a bumper crop of 16 fleet sprinters, including Mrs. Ben Cohens War Age and B. B. Thiels Weal or Woe, winner of the Maiyland Continued on Page Forty HERMAN COHEN— President of Pimlico track to which point the Maryland racing scene shifts today. Maryland Sport Shifts To Pimlico Oyal Today Six in Baltimore Spring Handicap; War Age, Weal or Woe Head Field Continued from Page One Sprint and Capitol handicaps, respectively, during the recent Laurel meeting. Wag Age will carry 116 pounds, as compared to 112 pounds for Weal or Woe. Highweight starter in the feature will be Mrs. Henry Obres Golden Admiral, under 119 pounds, with William L. Huntleys Hilarious next with 117 pounds. Grouped at 116 pounds are Duke Singers Hangover and the aforsmentioned War Age. Rounding out the field for the inaugural feature are Filippo Baidis Dinner Winner, 114; Stephen C. Clark Jr.s Decimal, Walter E. Crismers Elberwhirl and Mrs. Royal Firman Jr.s Early Warning, 113 apiece: the coupling of Giles D. Mills Nick Jimmie and Mrs. Henry A. Parr m,s Staffordshire, 111 and 110, respectively; G. Menefees Solid Gem and M. O. Kaplans Admiral George, 110 each; C. T. Coburns Coburns .Wish and Companas Stables Ros Clag, each with 107 and Mrs. L. M. Carvers Betty Ban* with 104 pounds. Weal or Woe, in winning the Capitol, was timed in 1:11% while leaving War Age back among the also-rans as a seven-to-five favorite. War Age, however, made amerfds in no uncertain fashion when he came back to take the Maryland sprint in 1:10% in easy fashion.. Weal or Woe, on the other hand, was sent to New Jersey and was second to Gunrod over a sloppy track in 1:09%. Bobby Martin will ride War Age, with Eldon Nelson to handle Weal or Woe. Golden Admiral, a steady campaigner at Bowie, was purchased at private terms during that meeting and raced once for his present owner and won at seven furlongs. In a" subsequent effort at Garden State he was beaten two lengths in 1:10% by I . Appeal. Tony Russo will ride him tomorrow. Hilarious and Hangover will be making their northern debuts following successful Florida campaigns. Hangover was beaten a head by Prince Noor in 1:10% in his final Gulfstream outing after having won previously by five lengths in 1:10. He also was second behind the veteran Squared Away in the Armed Handicap early in that meeting. Hilarious raced poorly at Gulfstream but was a steady performer at Hialeah earlier in the winter. Dinner Winner, Decimal, Elberwhirl, Early Warning, Solid Gem and Coburns Wish have been winners in Maryland this spring. Elberwhirl won his last start in 1:11%, while Decimal also was a winner last out being timed in 1:11% while taking the measure of Olympia Wiz.
