The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-26
CROWDS AT CHRISTMAS RACES
MORE EVENTS THAN COULD BE
FINISHED IN A DAY.

Perfidy and Lucy, the Charleston
Favorites, Captured Two Runs ana
Pauline Won "a Couple of Heats i'm
the Harness Race-Fhe diminished
Events TO Come on This Afternoon.
Lively Card Made, Up With Two
short Distance ''Cracker Races
i'm the List.
The attendance at the Thunderbolt
Driving Park yesterday afternoon dem
onstrated that good horses viii always
draw crowd to race track. Up to S:SJ
O'Clock the weather was anything but
good for racing, and Manager Doyle
thought he would have to postpone this
events. The first race was called on
time, the rain ceased falling ana the pa
irons of the track Saw the greater part OF
the card. The unfinished events had to.
go over until this afternoon
The harness race proved very inter-
esting affair for three heats and theedms
was considered good over heavy track.
Helene Blazes. Pauline. Phenon, Adela,
Opus, Taylor and Sloate's Bitters were the.
candidates which scored down in the
O:SO-class pace and trot.
The word was given at the second at
tempt and the seven entries went away
punched together On the turn Helene,
Blazes, driven by her owner, H. f. Kucx,
set the pace, and went a
splendid mile The only entry
that put up any argument for the
heat was Pauline, but she was unable
TO capture the speedy Helene, who won by
fully length. The time was 2:s6.
In this heat, while the horses were scor-
ing, Sioats Bitters fell down and broke
| his sulky shaft. James Furlong, who was
in the sulky handled the horse very clev-
erly and saved himself and horse from
| what might have been serious accident
The second heat was much hveller than
| the first and George Palmer surprised the
talent by landing the gray mare Patiiine
a winner. Adela made a lively brush
| through the homestretch, but could only
| get to the wheel of Pauline's sulky. The
| time made was 2:3Oia and the other en-
tries finished in bunch, several yards be
hind.
The third heat was also captured by
| Pauline, with Adela second, Helene third,
Phenon fourth and Opus fifth. As it was
| too dark to finish this contest, the race
goes over until this afternoon.
The running races We're exciting. The
| 3s-heats brought together five handsome
thoroughbreds. Perfidy Saticoy. Ben
| Roy, Bessie Abbott and Sanger answered
the bell call Arion and Nan Tucket were
scratched. When the flag fell the can
didates were given a splendid send-off by
| Starter Hudson, and they moved away. az
| a terrific clip. Jockey Bonnie Shaw, on
| Perfdy, at once shot to the front and
set the pace for the bunch. On the home
stretch the entries were all together. but
| Perfidy proved to have the speed of the
nta1EQd
coy second. Time 1:04.
| The second heat was another victory for
! the Charleston favorte, Perfidy, and the
| little mare did her work in splendid
style, showing that she is a race mare OF
high quality. Saticoy again finished sec,
ond Time 1904.
Fitz Mack was the only entry scratched
in the three-eighths of a mile dash, ana
the event was a hot affair from start to
finish. Lucy, Kingful, Two Armies, Lou
Hammond, Ben Roy and Nan Tucket
were the starters. Jockey Ben
ME Shaw again pnoted winner
with the bay May Lency,-- entered by
Doctor Messervey of Charleston, So c..
Nan Tucket finished second and the other
entries We're all in a bunch. Time 0:37.
On account of darkness the rest of the
programme was postponed until this after
noon at $3.50 o'clock. With the unfinished
290 class, and the three-quarer- dash,
~
teresting In addition to the unfinished
RACES. there will be two genuine short dis
tanced Cracker races" and the events
| will probably be the greatest
betting races of the meeting j.
H. Durrence, the noted short
race" horseman, of Tattnall county
has matched a sorrel horse, belonging to
A. E. Edwards of Tattnall county, against
Perfidy, the winner Of yesterdays race.
| The event is to be for $50 yards straight
away. and the stake Is for 800. Both horses
are 10 take a running start of fifty yards
| before the word is given In the other
race Mr.. Durrence will start Little Daisy
against Bill SHELLS runner Ben Roy
in a match race for 800 and the dis
tance is to be a quarter of a mile, both
horses to take moving start. ]. H.
Durrence seems to be confident that he
has two winners and intends to back his
judgment and so will his friends from
Tattnall county, who are located at the
track.
Manager Doyle intends to have another
days racing Thursday and the card will
embrace harness race and three running
events. There will also be running race,
where the winners of yesterday and those
of to-day can enter. This ought to mate
a most interesting race.
Horse racing is becoming popular N
this section, and there is no reason why
Savannah should not become one of The
great racing centers.