The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-25
FUTURITY MAY BE TAME
SQUIRE BROWN WRITES OF
 THAT EVENT.
Racing of the Georgia Horses as Riverside is Attracting Atten- tion-other News of Sports
 and Sportsmen.

There is not near the interest in this | years Futurity that there was Tn tnis great 2-year-old classic last summer because it looks altogether one-sided. Readers of The Advertiser Will re- member the volumes of gossip about the chances of the two millionaires, Whit ney and Keene last summer. The ex- Secretary of the Navy gave Tod Sloan a small fortune to come over here rom England and ride Ballyhoo Bey in that race. How the dude knight of the pig skin won with the game colt IS an cient history. It was a great race. A Montgomery man who saw It says that if anything it was even better than the one of the year before when keene won it with the great Mesmerist.
 This year 1t looks as If whitney has a leadpipe cinch on the race. HIS two colts, King Hanover and Gold smith seem to have the call of the entire field.
 From a special from Saratoga to New York paper it seems that slip was made in the running of the Grand Union Hotel Stakes at Saratoga on last Wednesday. According to this special Goldsmith should have won and saved the Hanover youngsters al- lowance in the Futurity. Burns landed King Hanover, however. and that colt will be penaliZed seventeen pounds, having an impost of 12s pounds instead of 112 in the Futurity. How this. Will affect his chances remains to be seen, but it appears that Goldsmith's chances are enhanced.
 Dor rlx he nfhar dav Qev- eral gentlemen were discussing the match between Cresceus and The Ab- bot, and the argument was made that there would certainly be another race. The claim was based on the fact that the Chimes geiding made such a fight in the first heat and that Ed Geers was unable to keep him on his feet in the second The prediction ofhnother race has been verified as the grand trotters will get together again on September 3 at the Hartford, Conn.,, track. The race is to be in 5.
 Through an oversight the statement in the Macon paper that MT. Newell owned Brookside was published in The Advertiser yesterday. The speedy white stallion is the property of MT. Wort Walker, who says that somebody is going to have a big old horse race when he is beaten.
 During the Georgia races this week it Is to be hoped that if the distance flag is used 1t will be observed. If no attention is paid to 1t as was the case the last time the flag had better be cut out as it will simply make 8 burlesque of that end of the races.
 Another suggestion that the manage ment would do well to profit by is that n nf in e the different heats off. In the past there has been a good bit of dragging when the bell called the starters for heat. If the drivers of the diff ferent horses become impressed with the idea that they are required to get | on the trask as soon after the call bell | as possible the dragging act will be passed up.
 These races are attracting wide at | tention from the different towns near Montgomery, and besides the Macon | gentlemen there will be a good crowd | from Atlanta. If there is snap and ginger in the conduct of the races the Georgia people as we'll as those at home will have good impression of the Gentlemans Driving Club.
 The amateur ball team from Colum-
 bus is scheduled to play the local Y.
 NJ. c. A. team here this week, but
 nothing definite has been learned.
 The prospects are that the crowds at
 the different football games here this
 fall will be a god bit in excess of the
 record breaking crowd at the Auburn | Sewanee game. That crowd was the
 largest that ever attended a game of
 football south of the Ohio iRiver. The | college boys are becoming convinced
 that Montgomery Is the logical place
 for football games in this section of the
 country. The crowds have shown that
 the games are better attended than in
 any other city. This will he a gala
 season for the devotees of the gridiror
 game in Montgomery.
 l Squire Brown.