Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-29
THE RACES.
Taird Day r Jockey Club Purse
Free Handicap-Club Purse.
Bayonef, barney Williams and AL
lie Hunt the Winners.

Soft were the skies yesterday-so soft
and summcr-like that about twenty-five
hundred people were induced to attend
the races. About sixty ladies graced
the grand stand with their presence,
making heaven above to overcome the
attraction of the "hells" beneath. The
managers put money in their purses
they smiled blandly, and really they
looked as if they had almost concluded
to send to the city for a band of music
wherewith TO honor and greet the
respectable attendance; but this gem
erous thought was chased away
they had no music in their souls
to make draft upon the money in their
pockets. But yesterday all were happy;
the managers smiled as il they made a
"keno;" the men smiled as they in
vested in pools; the ladies smiled at
each other. Below, the dispensers of
liquids smiled at their receipts; the faro
bankers and proprietors of the numerous
games of chance smileth as the tiger
smiles when the lambs invade his lair.
Nature smiled at herself and were
Mephistopheles or Faust on the race
track, he would have smiled at all, for
an present were made to revolve, as it
we're, in wheel of fortune for the bene-
fit of the Egyptian monarch.
THE FIRST RACE
was the Jockey Club purse, $500; dash
Of a mile, and halffree to all ages
Bayonet, Ida Grissom, Mamie Doug
lass and Jim Hinton got away for the
dash, with Bayonet in the lead, which
he lost ere the quarter-mile post was
reached, and dropped back into the
bunch of horses. Jim Hinton got away
from the crowd and held the first place
for some time. Bayonet and Ida Girls
som soon passed Hinton, and engaged
in struggle down the home stretch,
which resulted in Bayonet winning the
race by two lengths in 2:47l; Ida Girls
som, second; Mamie Douglass, third;
Jim Hinton, fourth.
SECOND RACE.
Free handicap; dash of two miles for
purse of $500; free for all. Barney
Williams, Morgan Scout and Tanglefoot
engaged in this contest, with Barney a
favorite in the pools. This was an ex-
citing contest Barney took the lead at
the start and kept it to the three-quarter
mile post, where, feeling the pull Of his
rider, he dropped back into the bunch
and permitted the Scout TO lead round
the turn, when Tanglefoot moved up
Tapped the Scout and won the first mile
with Barney close ups in rear. The
fayorite seemed TO be going under as the
horses ran the second mile. The Scout
went ahead again with Tanglefoo'
second, and this position was sustained
to the turn down the home stretch
Barney made a dash for the finish
passed Tanglefoot and jumped up TO the
side Of the Scout A fine struggle tool
place down the stretch, and the Seoul
rider went into the timber business will
a vim, but he failed to keep Barney from
winning the race by a neck in BAH.
Third RACE.
Club purse, $3.50; mile heats, for al
ages. Allie Hunt, Banquet, Keno
Frank Chatham and Regent started 70
this race, with Allie Hunt selling in tn
4. pools for $3.50, Banquet, $3.50, and tn
field, $40.
First Heaf.-The start was in favor o
Regent, but ere the quarter mile pos
t was reached a general punching tool
place. AT the half mile post the horse
paired of, Regent and Frank CheathaH
in the lead, Allie Hunt and Banque
second and Keno behind. Down tn