The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-24
STATE FAIR RACES
.TTRACTIvE PROGRAMME AR
RANGED YESTERDAY.
MAY INVITE THE PRESIDENT.
PROPOSITION TO DO so MAY BE
BROUGHT BEFORE DIRECTORS.


Tbe Matter First Brought Up Yester-
dav and Received With hmm ediate
FavOr-Genera1Iy Understood That
the President Would Like to Make
a Trip South-Boxes of the Race
Track Grandstand to BE Sold at
Re settled on Later-Spaulding
county Will Send an Exhibit.
The Racing Committee of the State
Fair Association completed it's race
,rogramme yesterday and will have
comics for distribution in a few days.
The programme is as follows:
Thursday, Nov. I'll. 800 class, trot-
ting. purse, $500; 2:14 class, pacing,
purse. $4OO
Running
Five furlongs, purse, $i50.
One mile over hurdles, purse $3.50.
Saturday, Nov. g.
Harness-2:24 class, trotting. purse,
$500. 2:SO class, pacing, purse, $500; 2:16
class, trotting, purse, $500.
Monday, Nov. IL
Harness-2:S0 class, trotting, purse
$500: 2:22 class, pacing, purse $500.
Running-Five and a half furlongs,
purse, $3.50; one mile, selling, $3.50.
Tuesday, Nov. 70
Running-Six furlongs, purse, $50;
half-mile heats, two in three, purse,
5000, seven furlongs, purse, $3.50; one
mile, purse, $500.
Wednesday, Nov. 13-
Harness, 2:20 class, trotting, purse,
$500. Free for all class, pacing. $500
Running, five furlongs, selling, $3.50.
Six and a half furlongs, selling, $3.50.
Thursday, Nov. IA
Harness, 2:26 class, pacing, purse,
$500. Free for all class, trotting, $500.
2lS class, pacing, purse $500.
Friday, Nov. 10
Seven hundred dollars reserved for
running races, programme and con-
ditions to be arranged after meeting
opens
The conditions make it necessary that
all races be the best three in five; five
to enter and three to start. The en-
trance fee will be per cent. of the
purse and per cent. additional from
the money winners. The money will
be divided into sums of so, rs, Is and
10 per cent. and no horse will be al
lowed to receive more than one money.
Those in charge of the races reserve
the right to postpone, change the order
of the programme, or to declare off any
races not filled, but the nominators in
any class not filling may transfer their
entries to any class to which they are
eligible, or entrance money will be re-
turned.
The harness races, except as provid-
ed for as above, are subject to the rules
of the American Trotting Association.
of which the Fair Association is a
member. Purses will be paid the morn
ing after the race. Entries will close
oct %, and records made on that day
will be no bar. The programme is so
arranged that a horse can start twice
The running races will be according
to the rules of the American Turf Con-
gress, with the exceptions that en-
trance will be free, and that the money
will be divided into sums of 20, 20 and
10 per cent.
The committee also announces on the
programme that the stalls at the Fair
grounds are free, and that the Savan-
nah races will follow those at Macon
Atlanta and Valdosta, and come before
those al Charleston and Jacksonville
Entry blanks and further information
can be had by addressing Mr.. H. H.
Hull, manager racing department. or
Mr.. j. G. Shaw, secretary of the Fair
Association.
The matter of suitable badges for
the various officers of the Fair, and
the tags and tickets for exhibitors.
visitors, and other classes of persons
that will visit the grounds were ar
ranged for last night
1t has been decided also to auction
on at public cutlery the boxes of the
grandstand, of which there are twenty
eight with a seating capacity of five
10 eight each. The time and place of
this sale will be decided on later.
May Ask Roosevelt.
The latest matter that has been
brought to the attention of the Fair
management is project to invite
PRESIDENT Roosevelt to visit Savannah
some day during the continuance of
tne FAR. The President, it is gener-
any understood, would like to visit the
oouth, and that the people of the
SOUTH particularly those of Savannah,
would like to have him do so there is
no question.
Inough this matter of inviting so
distinguished a guest was brought up,
ohiy Yesterday 1t was received with
HM"lnuledlate and unanimous favor.
Nothlng definite about it has yet been
uohe, but it is more than probable that
~ VIII be discussed at the meeting of
ehe Board of Directors this afternoon
anu some action taken at that time.
IroInlses to make exhibitions at the
ar continue to be received. In a let
yer 10 Secretary Shaw yesterday Hon.
g. rope Brown informed him that
oap"uIuing county had decided to make
an agricultural exhibit.
contract through which Cant IT
~ butner and Mr.. Thomas Hewitt are
70 employ gatekeepers and ticket takers
.oI the Fair grounds, also providing
tuIhstiles, was entered into yesterday,
ene special committee with which the
natter had been left making the