The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-10

This afternoon mark the close of the
summer race meeting on the west side
This is the last of the SIS days of racing
in Butte and Anaconda. 1t has been
a brilliant carnival of sport and it will
live in history as a most pleasant one,
a happy season of recreation for the
sportively inclined. No great sensa-
lions have come to the surface during
the time, more han those brief flurries
of excitement caused by an occasional
dump" of magnificent proportions.
Some of the best horses in the North
west have tried for the rich purses and
not a day has passed without some
carded feature. As far as the public
was concerned the meeting has been a
success, and it is more than prob
able that the association has
profited by the exclusive running
meet. Only on rare occasions has the
public failed to get a run for its
money" In some cases-only a few
the starts have been bad, and at such
times dissatisfaction was apparent. I'm
til recently glaringly faulty starts were
the exception rather tina the rule. Mr..
Ferguson was credited with but a very
few bad breaks at the Butte meeting.
He is capable of making as good
starts as anybody else in the business
that's the reputation he bears. He has
frequently been complimented on his
skill in sending ava bad acting fields
to perfect breaks, and he has had to
contend with some stubborn youngsters
during this meeting. OF late. however,
II has appeared to the average man
that he was Indifferent to the ~considera-
lions of the Spectators and didn't care
a snap whether the horses were given
an wen break or not.
Manager Upton, whose aim IL has
been from the start to give the public
the best there was to be had, is to be
congratulated upon the success of his
efforts to give a card of such excep-
tional b~rilliancy for to-day. He has
brought together two fields of crack
horses to try for the two big purses,
the Copper City Handicap and the Last
Chance stake. Scottish Chieftain, WIN
ner of the Labor Day Handicap; Tenn
po, who escorted him under the wire in
that race; Ostler Joe, Senator Bland
and Tammany Hall ii. will be in the
big contest to-day for the handicap.
The starters in the Last Chance stake
will be The Light, Eloper, Ben Ledi,
Abralithe and White Fern. The dis
tance is five furlongs. The horses in
the handicap will go a mile and a quar-
ter.
In last nights betting Scottish Chief
tain ruled favorite. Bets were also of
l6Itd mat oSlltT joe anu Tempo WOULD
beat the Chieftain, and that Tempo
would beat senator Bland. Bets were
also made $50 to s35 that Scottish Chief
tain would beat Ostler Joe. Then Bland
and Joe were coupled for $25 against 500
for Chieftain, 50 for Tempo and SO for
Tammany Hall III. Then again S25 was
bet even that Joe would beat Bland.
A sample of the pools is as follows:
Scottish Chieftain s25, Senator Bland
s15, Ostler Joe SIS, Tempo $40, Tam
many Hall II. IS.
Pools on the Last Chance stake at five
furlongs were made as follows: The
Light $25. White Fern SIS, Eloper IS.
field, composed of Ben Ledi and Abral-
1.-THE. IS.
AS the weather is perfect It is safe
to predict a tremendous crowd to-day
at the track. Butte and Anaconda will
combine to make the last day memoir
able. This being the last day, of course
everybody will give the meeting a rous-
ing farewell.