The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-10
ANACONDA news.
THEY BEGIN TOMORROW
Race Meeting Will Open Under
Favorable Circumstances.
A TALK WITH. Mr.. Upton
The Manager Believes That the Anaconda
Meeting viii Be Highly Successful
Pools to Be sold at the Mon
tana Every Night.

To-morrow will witness h opening
of the racing season of 1898 in Anacon-
da. Every indication points to the
fact that the meeting will by long odds
be the best the city has ever had. The
opening day will be designated MS
DAILY day and will no doubt be a day
of great sport. There is a big stake
race, and the event will undoubtedly
draw a large crowd.
Pools will be sold every evening at
the Montana, beginning this evening.
The aim will be to start the selling
in the evening as early as possible.
Ed A. Upton, manager of the Butte
and Anaconda tracks. is just recover-
ing from an illness which has extend
ed over a considerable period. He
was seen at the Montana last evening
and was asked his opinion of the meet
ing in Butte. He said:
Taking it all in all. the meeting
was a pronounced success. / was
sick most of the time and could not
be in attendance, but from all i can
learn the racing was unusually clean
and of a higher class than has been
ever before seen in Montana. The gate
receipts are considerably heavier than
they were last year, n averaged bet
ter than during any year since L nave
had the management.
MANY predicted that on account Of
the absence of the trotters the betting
would fall off from 20 to % per cent,
but the fact is that the volume of bet
ting per day showed a loss of less than
nine per cent. 1T was much better than
j expected, inasmuch as the people
lar no line on the horses when he
meeting opened. whereas, heretofore,
the circuit had always begun at Ana
conda, and thus CAV the people st
Butte a line to go by. This, however,
will be better for the Anaconda meet
ing, as the public now has a line on
the horses. and the meeting here VIII
reap the benefits of an arrangement
that the meetings at Butte formerly
had the advantage Of"
Then you think the Anaconda meet
ing will be a SUGGEST"
81 certainly do. and a greater sue
cess than the most ~sanguine have pre-
dicted, because we have more horses
tina ever before and Anaconda has
more people than ever before. Since
our last meeting the grounds have been
beautifed and visitors to the track
this year will. in my opinion, be pleas
antly surprised. In fact. / think the
Anaconda grounds are now among
the most beautiful and picturesque in
the country.
tThis, taken with the fact thatawe
will have quite a number of horses
that did not start at Butte, as well as
some of the very best stakes that we
have ever offered, will bring the peo-
pie, and / think we can arrange a pro-
gramme that will hold them to the end
of the meeting. On our opening day.
tomorrow. there ought to be a good
crowd. and I trust there will be, but
I believe that on Labo Day we will
see more people than were ever before
on either the Butte or Anaconda
tracks"
will the meeting be on the same
lines as at Butte?"
Yes: almost exactly. except that the
horses will be called here at 2:3O in
stead of at 3 O'clock. The train from
Butte will reach the grounds at 2
o'clock, and his will give all an OPP
p%ortunity to get a lay of the and and,
incidentally, to make a few bets.
do YOU expect as many people
from Butte here as went from here TO
Butter"
More. Because the railroad facili-
ties are better and those who come
from Butte are landed practically at
the grand stand and will be sent back
on a special train made up at Anacou-
da, instead of having to wait for a
train from a distance. which. as was
the case at Butte. might sometimes be
delayed. The fact of the matter IS
that the train service between Butte
and Anaconda during the Anaconda
meeting will be as nearly perfect as 1t
is possible to max it, and that fact
ought to increase the attendance"