The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-13
Portage Lake News.
Iuorse Races on Sat-
day Were Inter
eSting.
os.r 1000 People Attend
. Bicycle Race Run, hut the wind
WA, Too strong 10 Mike Good
Time.

\ The races at the Hancock Driving park
saturday were attended by about 1000
nsonIs and they wtr, given their full
ronev,s worth in continual round oil
1T uhich lasted until 7 o'clock IN the
.roo,no The first event OF the day was
.ho 6oal heat between Payne's Bay Tom
\ IA SiIverton in the 2;35 class which
,sos postponed the day before owing to
aortness. Bay Tom drew the pole, but
civarton was an easy winner in 2:32h
Ealing first money and giving Bay Tom
second. Governor T was withdrawn
and Sorrel Dick did not go in this heat as
: he had already won third place
The third heat in the running race be-
tween Billy Knox and Message. in which
Zach won a heat the day before, was won
nv Message with ease in 55A, taking first
money and giving Billy Knox second.
In the free-ioral Bay Tom and Gov
arpor T were drawn leaving only Belle
and Two Strike 70 compete and a great
mapy spectators were disappointed in
not SEEING ire unknown Chicago PAGER
which was reported TO have been entered
in this race. Two Strike won in three
straight heats, best time 2:2l Belle
became uumanageable in the first heat
4 and left the track twice, giog way up
the hank near the road to the stables
and the driver had great difficulty 10 get
ting her under the wire at all. All three
heats we're a walk a. way for Two Strike,
but many believe il Belle had been in bet
. ter condition he would have had to do
his utmost to beat her. Two Strike
afterwards went an exhibition mile
paced by the running horse Message. for
a purse of $50 to beat the track record
of2:16A make by Duke F. in October
1895, which he did not succeed in doing,
I bis time being 2:17. G ittin offered to
wager $500 that he would drive him a
mile on the Hancock track in 2:15 next
Saturday, but refused bet Of $50 to
do it then and there.
10 the half mile race between the run
ming horse Message and tandem bicycle
ridden by L. Gilmore and Fl. Furlott, the
horse won by nearly an eighth of a mile
in 55a seconds.
Ina matched race between McCIure's
Sorrel Dick and Ruelle's Marmaduke
best two out OF three for purse OF $50,
Sorrel Dick won two straight heats in
GAG ard 2:55.
there were seven horses entered in t. Q
3.ninute class, Korpi and Dock having
been drawn. In the first heat Watson's
Bay was first under the wire, but was st t
back to second place. and first place
given to George c because OF foul, Wat
son not keeping his place in coming down
the stretch. Ia the second and third
heats Watson's Bay was an easy winner,
george second and George third, but in
the fourth heat little George. 1.-TWO
otrlse Junior surprised them all by TAX.
ing b st place without a break in 2:43,
tOe best time made in any heat in this
eass The judges believed that Kaiue
nad pulled his horse in this heat and de-
CARED all bets off and notified Kaine that
arepetition OF the oiiense would result in
another driver being placed behind his
morse or in his being sent to the barn.
10 the fifth heat George also took fret
place and the judges selected Wallace
ormsby to drive Watson's Bay ia the
N1th and last heat of the race, but did
not declare the bets off, which caused con-
siderable dissatisfaction. Ormsby was
unable to do any better with the bay
morse, George winning the heat and race,
satson's Bay second, George G third and
'aerest nowhere" as Judge Byers.
watson's Bay was the favorite up to
neiourth heat and considerable money
'oanged hands IN this race. Below will
~'ound a summary of the events: