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Richard Nixons to View 81st Preakness Running Wife of Vice-President to Make Presentation of Woodlawn Vase PIMLICO. Baltimore. Md., May 14. — Vice-President Richard Nixon has accepted an invitation of the Maryland Jockey Club to attend the 81st running of the 00,000 Preakness this Saturday at Pimlico. The Vice-Presidents wife. Mis. Patricia Nixon, will present the historic Woodlawn vase to the winner of the race. It will be the first time a Vice-President has attended a horse racing program since Charles E. Curtis went to the Kentucky Derby over 25 years ago. The Woodlawn vase, created in 1860 as a racing trophy, is by tradition — dating back to Gov. Oden Bowie more than 80 years ago — customarily presented to the owner of the winner by Marylands chief executive. Gov. Theodore McKeldin is out of the country on a good will tour, but the traditional Governors Preakness luncheon will be continued in his honor. In accepting the M.J.C. invitation, Mr. Nixon wrote in part to Louis Pondfield, executive director of Pimlico: "It was most thoughtful of you to ask that either Mrs. Nixon or I present the Woodlawn vase to Continued on Pago Ten I I . J t 1 I 1 Richard Nixons to View 81st Preakness Running Wife of Vice-President to Make Presentation of Woodlawn Vase Continued from Page One the owner of the winner and we are glad to accept. She will present the vase and I will be glad to have the opportunity to congratulate him." The Nixons and their party are expected to arrive about midafternoon. Earlier in the day, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, brother of the President, and the President s" son, Maj. John Eisenhower, accompanied by his wife, will arrive at Pimlico. Dr. Eisenhower is the president of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Other guests attending the Governors Preakness luncheon include Judge Simon E. Sobeloff, of Federal District Court, and Mrs. Sobeloff, Senator Glenn Beall of Maryland, Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire and Senator Andrew F. Schoep-pel of Kansas, and Claude E. Hellman, Maryland Secretary of State, and Mis. Hellman. Reservations for Preakness Day also have been made for Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey. The Maryland Jockey Club, founded in 1743, has played host to high governmental personages through the year. Gen. George Washington attend the M.J.C. races when its track was located in Annapolis and President Andrew Jackson joined the club while in office in 1831. Congress adjourned on October 24, 1877, to see a match race at the present Pimlico.
