St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-08
Amidst Amusement Black
BELL Captures the Gen.
tlemen's Race.


The day was ScOrchlng hot at the
track yesterday, and sweltering
crowd of 5000 people enthused and
sweltered as they enthused over the
events of the day. 1t was genuine
day of sport, and it was accentuated by
the people getting shade the best of
| the bookmasers. This was not be-
cause the horses they made fayorltes
won, but because the speculators saw
differently. and preferred other per-
formers. For illustration Jim Dunn,
giving Eli, Innocence and Laura Agnes
weights and Jumps, was the favorlte,
but the betting public saw a good thing
in Eli at three to two, and they en-
phasized their Judgment to the loss of
the bookies. 1t is true that Callie Fer
guson was favorite in the second event,
but there was none else in it. and fol-
lowing the GLOBES tips Ragner was
played for the place, although the
book makers were more afraid of
Frances.
The gentleman's race was riddle.
No one knew one dog from auother
dog, yet the bet their money as freely as
though it were race between the
grandest thorougbreus of the turf.
Blue Bird and Black Bell were the
choice, and they won IN the reverse
order.
The betting in the sweepstakes race
was we'll divided between Prince Fort
unatus, at to 5, and Guido at even
money. So it is estimated that the peO-
pie had the best of the contact. Prince
Fortunatus was the hot tip, and the
money flowed in on him in the earlier
stages of sthe betting, but Guido's uu-
broken chain of victories inspired an
obdurate confidence, and the more con-
servative followed him through to the
very end.
The last event came on and Guido
was OH the track again as gay as though
he had not just fought desperate but
losing battle with Prince FOrtunatus.
He was the favorite once more at odds
of Z to 10 against him. But there were
a great many who have had great eX-
pectations from Pomfret with his Long
| fellow-Fuchsia lineage, and many a
good dollar was lost on him, as in sew
eral of the previous events in the meet
ing.
The day was too utterly hot for the
greatest performances, yet the time was
| good in most races. Eli who has run
| second to Kingman and Ed Hopper and
third to Yale '91 and Sympathetics Last,
made a great run and beat out Inno-
cence and jim Dunn in the first race,
and Callie Ferguson and Ragner had an
easy snap in the second.
Then came the humorous event OF the
meeting. Five scrubs from South St
Paul went at catchweights, half-mlle
heats. 1t kept the audience in an up
roar until the very end. The owner of
Blue Bird thought he had snap when
| he won the first heat so handily. He
rode without shoes and bareheaded, by
the way, and made a show all by him.
| self. When the first heat was taken,
he treated his horse to pail of water
in compensation. Of course. Blue Bird
was done for right there. The sports
who witnessed this absurd performance
rushed to the books and hedged by buy
| ing Black Bell. Blue Bird came IN
| third in the second heat, and when the
run-otf was made McBeth stripped his
horse of the saddle, and in badly soiled
stockings he attempted to run Black
| Bell down la cowboy. But it wouldn't
work. This race was recompense for
| the admission fee. alone.