Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-03-08
SOME GOOD PURSES.
DETROIT DRIVING CLUR STAKES
FOR BLUE RIBBON MEET.
FINE FIELD IN MONTGOMERY.
NEARLY THIRTY ELIGIBLE FOR
EARLY HANDICAP AT MEMPHIS.
Ed CorriEnn I'm Disfavor at IngIeside
New York BOwIers Defeat Cin-
c%innatis - Baseball News
and Gossip-Genernl
Sporting News.

Detroit, Mich, March 1.-The Detroit
Driving Club announces the following spe-
cial stakes and purses to be competed for
at the Blue Ribbon meeting July is TO q.
The entries close April /: Trotting-slo.0o
Merchants ard Manufacturers stake for
horses eligible 10 2:24 class; $500 Hotel
Cadillac stake for horses eligible to 2:l9
class; 800 purse, 2:21 class.
~Pacing-s5,0o0 Chamber of Commerce stake
for horses eligible to pa class; 1900 Hotel
Normandie stake for horses eligible to 2:l9
class; SIS 40 purse. 2:2I class.
The Merchants and Manufacturers stake
will be divided as follows: Four thousand
five hundred dollars to the first horse: 1900
TO the second and $500 TO the third: 5000
for a consolation stake open to horses that
start and win no part of the main stake, to
be trotted three days from the date of the
decision of the first race. In the event Of
there being less than three horses eligible to
the consolation stake there shall be paid
to the fourth horse in the main stake the
sum OF $1,000, to the fifth horse $3.50 and the
remaining money divided pro rata among
the first three horses. Liberal purses are
offered for the other events Of the week.
Memphis, Tenn, March THE Mont
eomery handicap, which will be run on
Saturday, April Q, the opening day of the
Memphis meeting, closed with forty-three
nominations, and, as fifteen have declared,
there remains twenty-eight eligible to
Ornament, III: Boanerges. lis; Meadow
IIDTDt. no.. X1dNgr Nv. sVs NV o"A
BILE. los; Harry Duke. los: Good Times; lo6;
DR.. Walmsley, log; Performance, lGo; Lau-
reate, Jos; Buckyidere. 1g5; Linda, iot; Es.
Presbyterian. 100: Balk Line, ss: Sacket, ss;
Forbush. 81; Eitholin. IS; sidonian, IS;
Spasgei 81 j.. J Edsa s sIeadms % NJ 4; f sasto Of
IS; c. S. Bush. IS.
From this entry list there should GER
tsinly be S,t z i lar & 3 flsla aS ID dta money. a viii 'b be
worth not less than Sl.i5o net TO the WIN
ner. quite a snug sum for any winner 10
pick up at the opening OF the legitimate
Speculation is rife as to the probable
winner. With Ornament out-and II Is
will give his horse a bruising race SO
early in the season, with SO many valuable
engagements ahead-it looks like there Will
be as good as 3 to L against the post Ia
What most interests horsemen at Mont
gomery park, especially those who nave
saivable and Estaca, belonging to Pat
Dunno; Performance. owned by Cap1aih
S. s. Brown. and Boanerges. William NC
Guigan's candidate. salyable was a shi1 ,NS
horse last year, and his impost Of Jos
pounds. with Willie Martin in the saddle,
makes him a factor in the stake;
The same can be said of Performance,
as she closed the season last year with. a
brilliant record Of twelve successive VIC
tories.
'.ftting' a horse for his early engage
ments also has TO be considered when the
form of the race is being considered
will be at the track within the next three
weeks. the chances of Macy, Pani kauNar,
Harry Duke. DR.. Walmsley. Buckv1dere,
Good Times and Ulysses are regarded Ia1
worth needing, thus a spirited contest VIII
be witnessed and IT promises TO be the best
betting race from both a public and book
John W Schorr is sanguine Of winning
both the Tennessee Derby and the Kentucky
Derby with Lieber Karl. the speedy son OF
PRESBYTERIAN proved himself to be one OF
the best 2-year-olds out last year. defeating
Bannockburn and others. and Lieber Kari
can lose the religiously named colt at any
part of the Derby distance. Lieber Karl
has wintered well and will be specially pre-
pared for the Tennessee Derby. TO be run
April 10. and which has a guaranteed value
of 5000.
Regardless of the form shown by May
Hampstead at New Orleans there are sew
eral owners at the track here who do not
fear to meet Charley Patterson's crack filly
in the Ardelle and other 2-year-old stakes
TO be run at the Memphis meeting Tom
Hayes has a FLY that the stable boys say
Abe Cohn and VIII Da-den both have
fllies that have shown up well in their
work. and 80 has John Burns. who is train
ing Senator J.; S: o'Brien,s horses; ,.,,.
''preped" for the Crescent City derby.
which will be run at New Orleans March
%. Bob Tucker cer-atnly thinks his colt
expense of shipping him TO New Orleans.
Just for the pleasure of seeing him chase
after Presbyterian.
President s. R.. Montgomery has been
dangerously i'll with pneumonia for a week
and his physicians say there is but faint
hopes OF his recovery, His death would
Jockey Club. as he is like unto his father,
who was a great patron of the turf.
The selection of c. j. Fitzgerald by the
New York Jockey Club as their starter
cant. and Kit Chinn has been appointed to
handle the flag at the meeting here. Colo
mel NJ. Lewis Clark will offciate as presid-
ing judge.
Louisville. Ky. March 7.-Secretnry Price.
of the Louisville Jockey t.iub. has com
by making the final payment in the coming
Kentucky Derby. Every prominent colt on
the Western turf except one is included in
the list; The missing one is Bangle. whose
owner in a letter to Secretary Price says
he will not be prepared for any Of the
early spring events, the intention being
ments. All the other colts of prominence.
however. have qualified. and III: Derby
years. The list of those making the final
payment is as follows:
PIaudit. Lieber Karl, Bannockburn. DIR.
Han dor. Don Quixote. Pacemaker. Sack
EFT. Irwin. Judge QuigIey. Goodrich. OK
pard. Widower. Marcato. Sound Money.
Swing. Dominis. Pontus. Clay Poynter,
Tencer and Chalfonte-
OF these Plaudit. DIR. Black. Galiivant.
Don Quixote. Judge Quigley. OXnard. Wild
over. Marcato. Sound Money and Pontu.
are quartered at the track here; Lieber
Karl. Frank Thompson. Isabey. Irwin,
Goodrich. Sackett and Swing are at Mem
phis: Pacemaker at Nashville. while the
others are at Lexington and Latonia.
The list of those who have qualified for
A. flnIG 80 nc nflnrFS- IA,-snt
Flora Louise. Hazel Dean. Lady irene. Bell
Chase, Crockett. Lennon. Aspasia, Queens
C;amhit, Lucy M: Alice Farley. Tarda,
Rermuda Dance. Afamada. Azucena. Clarsi
CUP. FerrcIl. Her Favor, The Red F!liy
Wing Shot and Melba.
There are now about $50 horses quartered
at the track here and there is not a sick
one among them.
The following odds were posted in tht