The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-30
EXCELLENT RACE CARD
FINE SPORT WITNESSED BY A
 BIG CROWD.
Butts Konn Took Last Heat from Macon Stallion in Heart breaking Finish-Will Race
 Again Today.

| The best racing that has been seen in Montgomery in many day was that | of the Macon and Montgomery horses on the track of the Gentlemens Driv- ing Club at Riverside yesterday.
 Every one of the three races were enjoyable but 1t remained for the best thing of the afternoon to come just as the gathering shadows began throwing out dark hints of the fast coming night. From out of the fallipg dusk | sprang two horses, their nostrils al- most. seeming to breathe fire. while | every nerve and sinew in their bodies | was strained almost to the heart | breaking point. The men in the zulkies behind these animals were using the l whips just as fast and hard as those | pieces of rattan could be yielded. In l the grand stand and banked along the | railing a big crowd of wildly excited l men yelled themselves hoarse. When one of the animals managed to poke his nose in front of the other just before they reached the wire the enthusiasm fairly boiled over. It was pandemon;- um broke loose and what hal been yells before became now one long prolonged roar. and hats, canes. umbrellas and | everything movable flew heavenward. l It was the last heat of the 2:25 pace | in which were entered Tampico and Decoy. the two Macon horses. and Mir. Gerson's Butts Kohn. To Thomas Roam. who handled the Gerson pacer.
 belongs the credit of the most artistic
 piece of driving ever seen In Montgom- i erv.
 | The pace had been a pretty lively one all the way in that heat and as they | turned into the stretch Decoy. the Ma con stallion. was showing the way. the local pacer having let some daylight | between them by an unfortunate break. Roam by hard digging closed up the gap and down the stretch the most | magnificent horse race that one ever sees took place. The pace now was fu- | rious and everybody expected one or | both of the horses to leave their feet. They were both as steady as If 1t was a mere exercise jog. About forty yards from the wire they were at each others throat latch. and as they hurled them selves over the wire Boam by a super
 human effort. to which the game horse
 he was driving responded, managed to
 flash first by the shortest of heads.
 It wac a beautiful finish and
 the handling of both horses was |
 cry hat in that vast crowd went off to Driver Boam and the big-hearted animal he was handling so well.
 It was beautiful afternoon, more suggestive of day in early fall than an August evening. and the generous sun that had been pouring on the track all the morning. had made the course as fast as lightning. The big grandstand was well filled while in the grove on the east side of the stand was such a mass of vehicles as to give a good imitation of a stampede when the afternoon spor: was over.
 The great number of vehicles at the track was shown by an incident that happened as people were speeding to- wards tEe city. At the Western Rail- road crossing a big freight engine with long string of cars blocked the way. ] The advance guard of the vehicles had just reached the crossing. of course. having to stop. Others came up and were brought to the same abrupt halt | until there was a blockade of vehicles reaching good long distance down the Riverside irive. Patiently the own CTS of these vehicles waited. but when twenty or thirty minutes had passe I | and the train seemed no nearer getting nut of the crossing than at first, things began to be muttered that would not look we'll in print. It was fully thirty minutes before the engine. after sev- eral consumptive wheezes, managed to slowly and painfully back the train off of the crossing.
 l But to get back to the track. AS soon after 230 o'clock as possible the bell called the horses on the track for the first heat of the 2:40 trot. The scion of the great McGregor family drew the pole. The Wilcox colt went up in the air, however. just as they started down the first turn and Mamie Hatch kept the lead she had gained to the wire. In the three next heats the Wilcox colt kept as steady as a die. and proved that he was a worthy son of MT Hartley's dead stallion, George McGregor
 Yarrow. the son of old Fred R. | Wilkes. who was munching oats in the big barn at the track. drew the pole in the 2:20 pace with Jenks second, | Narclssa third. and Minnie fourth po- sition. On the fourth score they were sent away to what looked like a good start. Minnie. however. breaking just on the wire. Around to the half they went in 1:07 and pretty fight it was down the stretch between Narrow, Jenks and Narcissa, the three 1 finishing in this order. Minnie finished way back.
 | In the second heat, the pace was again hot, and after passing the three quarters, MT. Newell began making a
 gap between Jenks and the others. | There was a battle In the stretch be- tween MT. Jackson's game colt and the Wilkes horse Jenks landed. however, and in the next heat he had the pole and kept in front for quite awhile. Yarrow challenged him, however. and there was another battle royal down the stretch. Jenks winning against. Min nie had been breaking so badly that she was taken out at the close of the third heat leaving Jenks, Narrow and Narcissa to fight it out.
 In the fourth heat, Jenks went off his feet. but at the finish, managed to beat Narcissa out of the second place, | Yarrow winning
 In the intermission of this race the hostler of Narcissa had taken her boots off. thinking she was scratched. and there was not time to get her ready for the next heat The fifth heat was a two horse race between Yarrow and Jenks. Each of them had two heats to his credit, and 1t looked like a red