Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-20

Jun lHe mltS with the eX-champlOn.
Benjamin Harrison Dibblee has been
chosen head coach of the Harvard Var
.sity eleven for the coming season.
7. The date Of the next college regatta
has been fixed. June 20 at New Haven is
the, time when the crimson and blue
Hal Pointer, 2:O41a, Familiarity known
to race track followers as the "P'inter
moss" Is doing ordinary carriage work
in Detroit. He is the property Of Charles
H.. Fee. h bought him from William
ago. and the great old PAGER is hauling
a light wagon in the city of straits with
no more distinction or recognition than
a common horse. Hal Pointer is is years
Of age, but has been Transforming" for
four or five years and the half-mile rings
up. Being a game horse, he never shirk
his duty. but it does seem inconsiderate
to make this famous c~ampaigner win his
oats in his old days.
There is talk of having the Grand cir
cult of 1900 continue through the entire
racing season, instead OF consisting of
summer and early fall meetings as here
tofore. Terre Haute that has made ap-
plication is sure to be admitted. and
Indianapolis has also applied for men,
bership in the big line. This insures a
second series Of western meetings in the
Grand circuit, carrying the circuit to
Lexington for the wind-up of the years
racing. If Pittsburg takes it's old place
in the circuit as has been talked Of con-
siderably of late, dates will likely be
given that city w the last eastern
meeting and the first Indiana meeting.
This would make an admirable connec-
tinn hpt wepn tho % cf n nd vast and would
break what would be otherwise a long
shipment.
William Russell Allen Of the Allen
Farm, Pittsfield, and George w. Archer
of Rochester. N. Y, got to bantering each
other on the respective merits and pros
poets of their yearling rioters, while sit
ting in the Murray Hill Hotel in New
York last week. which led to a novel
match being made.
Both horsemen have made entries in
the 500, 900 Kentucky futurity, to be trot-
ted in 1902. Mr.. Allen, who owns Krem-
lin (2:O7s4), named two colts by his horse
and offered to bet Archer 500 that one of
these youngsters would get a better posi-
ton in the race han the best of Archer's
trotters. The latter accepted the prop
I ~osition, and named two foals by Brown
Velvet, the son of Vatican. Hamilton
Busby was made the stakeholder.
1t takes little perception to predict
that in a few years all the towns of any
size in the country will boast of a speed
way. The large cities either have one
: now or are making preparations to build
one the coming spring.
The last place to fall into line is Cleve-
land. whose road drivers do not intend
: to be behind other cities in speedway
: facilities. The Forest City is well known
; among horsemen as eminently a t~rottinG
city, n has been so noted for many
years. Eve while the ~trotter was neg
lected in other parts Of the country, his
popularity never Waned in Cleveland.
Secretary Sidney w. Giles of the Cleve-
lend Driving Park writes that the park
commissioner has consented to construct
a speedway about 2h miles in length, ex-
tending from Woodland Hills Park to
the boulevard connecting Shaker and
Garfield Parks. Work will be commenced
on the opening of spring, and the speed
way will probably be completed by the
winter of 1901.
Referring to the boycott against early
closing purses. Mr.. Giles says: II do not