Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-20
RACES.
Opening Day Of The Inaugural Meeting
of the Driving Park Associations
Fine Prospects for the Success Oh the
Biggest Meeting Ever Held IN
the Southwest.
Prominent Turfmen aud Horses Here
from Every Section Of the Country.

The streets were crowded All nay
long Yesterday with visitors, VINO are
here to attend the big race meeting TO
lbeoip this afternoon. There was Dut
one tonic of conversation, no matter IN
what section of the city one iound
himself The all-absorbing subject ny
the flreside, over the counters OF the
yorious business houses, in the
crowded hotels and on the
corners of the city's thoroughiares was
The races, Everybody seems thorough
| lv aroused and there has been whet-
ting of the mental appetite of the pup
| lie akin TO revolution. All UNDER
Stand that we are to have such races as
were never before witnessed III TINS
section, and few are they who ever
Stir from their own firesides but who
are anxious to be in attendance. There
were many signs yesterday among the
clerks i'm the various business houses,
there being no certainty that they VIII
get TO 20. As this is the first meeting,
and is TO be such grand one, the pub
| lie spirit and kindness of heart OF the
! business men should lead them To
close their houses during the three
hours of each day to be devoted to the
races so that their clerks may he per-
mitted to attend. The young men
will appreciate such action on the part
of their employers, and make up IN
the morning for all lost time. Moth
! ing will he really lost, as everybody
will he at the races, and business VIII
have to he suspended for lack OF GUS
toners.
TO-DAY's RACES.
There will be four races to-day, all OF
them good, and aflOrding a fair held
for profit to the one that can pick
them. The entries for the three-min-
ute class, trotting, are Flora o., Maud
b., Jerome Turner and Joe Morris.
| No pools were sold on this race. Rates
on the other races were about as fol-
lows. there being slight variations OF
course in the rates:
Two-thirty class-NIay III. $50; Isaac
Sl2; Texas Bill s.; Smith O'Brien 81
Total $ii.
Half.mile dash-AIss Yates 500
Bonita SO; Field (Sam Bass and Bay
RebeD s.. Total $50.
One mile dash-Trix $50; Olivette
Sl6; Brigand Belle $40; Mollie Moore
SIG: Thady Sl2; Princess Sl2; Glen
dover 81; Callao s.. Total SlOS.
In these last two races the horse
are about us nearly matched rs on,
could desire. ANY winner will pay
the hacker well. The first race Will b,
run at one o'clock.
Below are given the entries for TIN
trotting and pacing of the entire week
the publication being made by request
The entries for all running races clos'
thirty minutes after the close of th
racing each day:
TRoT-3-MINUTE CLASS.
j. II. Wilkes, Fort Worth, enters {
m. Flora c., pedigree unknown.
G. G. Brownlee, Fort Worth, enter
b. IN. Maud b., by Tritte Dillon, dan
thoroughbred mare.
j. Il. Crawford. Sewers, Texas, en
tiers b. ;. Jerome Turner, by Bryerly
Abdallah, dam by Wilson's pacin
Abdallah.
j. c. Halsell, Gainesville, enters :
M. Eva, pedigree unknown.
+. Redfield, Chicago, enters 5. {
Golden Thread, pedigree unknown.
II. Mozart, Fort Worth, entere ;. 9
Joe Morris, pedigree unknown.
j. p. Welsh, Springfield, NO, enter
5. &. Lucy H., pedigree unknown.
II. j. Bcel, Lexington, Ky, enter
Beel's Whirlwind, by Whirlwird, dan
Cotton Picker.
TRoT-2:3O CLASS.
G. l.. Cause, Fort Worth, enter
Texas Bill, pedigree unknown.
Frank Van Ness, st. Louis, Mo-, ell
tiers b. &. Isaac, by George Wille!
dam by Patchen Chief.
l.. b. Martin, Lancaster, o., enter
5. IN. May III.
T.. L. Geers Columbia, Tenn, entel
b. e. Smith Obrien.
PAcGNG-3.nNUTE CLASS.
Dick Tilden, Joplin, Mo-, ente
Little Willie.
Tom Miles, Hillsboro, Texas, ente
!, b. s. Buckskin.
j. b. Gaun, st. Louis, enters Toi
*.
G. G. Brownlee, Fort Worth, Texa
enters jug, Jr., by Tom Hall.
. Il. +. Gees, Columbia, Tenn, ente
b. {. Joe Braden.
A. b. Price. st. Louis, Mo-, enters
s. Oscar, by Tom Hall.
4 J. c. Miller, san Antonio, enters r.
e G. Tornado, pedigree unknown.
:, j. =. Saihpheli, tnicagoi ente
Fritz.
TRoT-2::223 Glass.
i John w. Russell, Columbus. o., e
i tcrs b. Y. VIII Benham.
d Ben Stanley, Detroit, Mich, ente
+ b. m. Lady Brownwell
Lew Glenn, Point Pleasant, Ia, q
:, tiers Big Soap, by Honesty.
r TRoT-2:i0 CLASS.
J. d. Gaun, It. Louis, Mo-, ente
Joe Skull.
j. b. Gaun, st. Louis, Mo. ente
!, Matte L.
$ G, G. Brownlec, Fort Worth, ente
/. b : Pirlc, by Rysdyck Hambletonia
If dam Nellie, by Abdallah.
II II. II. Nicely, Gainesville, KY, e
0 tiers blk Z Jack Fletcher.
: Frank Van Ness, 1t Louis, Mo-, q
i tiers bl'k $. The King, by Geor,
: Wilkes, dam Jewell.
G j. G. Halsell, Gainesville, Texas, ei
: tiers z. m. Eva.
r. McCart, Fort Worth, enters s ],
Morris.
4 J. w. Russell, Columbus, O., ente
I b. M. Belle o.
Ben Stanley, Detroit Mich, ente
/. III a