Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-05
THE IVY CITY MEETING.
Aftermath Of the Races-Men Who Won
Heavily.

The meeting which closed at Ivy City Satur-
day was perhaps the most successful the club
has ever held. While the first three days were
miserable, owing to the rain, the racing during
that time was good-even il the attendance
was not good. The race in which Capt Sam
Browns Reporter beat Badge three-quarters Of
mile in 116, in mud fetlock deep, was as
good race as has been run this year over any
track, and Badge no doubt owes his defeat in
his next race to the hard race run with Re-
porter. Mr.. Cassatt was the largest winner
during the meeting, with Byron McClelland
second. Each won five races. J. Il. McCor-
mick won all three steeplechases and a selling
race with Pasha The Dryers, W. B. Jennings
Green Norris and w. c. DAILY won three races
each, W. Jenning, Walter Gratz, D. A. Honig
and W. p. Maxwell two EACH while w. P.
Burch, Gov. Bowie, J. Gallagher, and G. H.
Kernaghan won one each. The heavy betters
Jared very well. Pittsburg Phil quit the
meeting about $1,000 winner, Byron McClel-
land added nearly sis, 900 to his bank account
The Ghost worked his system to the tune of
$4,000, while nearly all the small betters lost
money. As stated in THE STAR Saturday, the
club made about $4,000, and a prominent
member said that it was the last time the club
would ever turn over to the Fair Association all
its earnings. The club will now either lease
Ivy City or build race-track of its own.
In regard to the combination spoken of in
the morning paper Setween horsemen to
divide the purses if an extra meeting was given,
Mr.. F. NJ. Draney, of the executive committee
OF the Jockey Club, said to STAR reporter to-
day: THE committee never had the most re-
mote idea of extending the meeting beyond
the eight days originally announced. The
extra meeting given last fall was not a success
from racing standpoint, and the committee
had no desire to repeat a mistake that was
made then. Another thing this is election
week and it would have been impossible on
that account to have extended the meeting
To say that the horsemen would have entered
such a combination as is spoken of is a gross
injustice to them, OF all the owners here it is
very doubtful if there were two who would
have done such thing, and you know it takes
two or more to make such combination. No;
you may say in THE STAR we don't believe
there was combination, and we never had an
idea OF extending our meeting"
Potomac Fossils.
WHAT THE SCIENTISTS HAVE DISCOVERED IN THIS
VICINITY.
F. 81. Knowlton, of the National Mu-
scum, read a paper before the Biological
Society Saturday night on the fossil woods
and hgnites of the Potomac formation.
He said that specimens of silicified wood and
Ignite found in this formation indicate that
centuries ago immense trees, belonging to the
same species as those in California, grew upon
the land which now forms this city. The Po-
tomac formation has a thickness of AGO feet, di-
vided into two members. The upper consists
OF clay and the lower member of sandstone.
Nearly all of the fossils found in the sandstone
section. The largest trunk of silicified wood
was found at the new reservoir in this city by
Messrs. MCGEE d Ward. 1t was 20 feet below
the surface and was from 80 to 40 feet long. 1t
had diameter Of 2 feet.