The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-22
LAST WEEK OE RACING
HARNESS HORSES WILL CLOSE
 THEIR SEASON.
Something About Billings Park, the New Memphis Track-Football Game with University Team
 is Called Of.

Memphis. Tenn, with the inaugural meeting of the new Memphis Trotting | Association at the new Billings Park, which began yesterday.
 Racing by harness horses on the grand | scale has never before been hazardcd in | the Rlun City, hut there is every chance uous success. everything now indicating | that cnly bad weather can prevent 1t. | As Is W. Ii known. Billings Park Is named in honor of C. K. c. Billings of Chica and is the power behind the throne in the enterprise, though he does not ap- pear on the list of officers of the Mem phis TrottiEg Association. Its President. however, is Frank G. Jones ,the Mem phis street railway magnate and Mir. Billings's close personal friend and busi- ness ally.
 The new plant-for it is all brand new to the last detail-ls situated only twelve minutes ride by trolley from the heart of the city, and these who have seen it of the finest not cEly in this country but the world. Carteblanche was given throughout in its construction, and the re ult is superb.
 the most famous of trotting track ex- ports, who has built many of the best harness courses in America. including that at Readville, Mass, where Star Ground was broken for 1t last winter, and the horses have now been working over 1t for some time. That 1t is light his work Little Boy 2:00 stepped a half in 100 1-4, and a quarter in O:2S 3-4 to wagon over 1t, while numerous other horses jolted the watches. The grand stand is a mammoth steel and iron structure of the latest design, with a | cooling out paddock that is said to be the | finest and most spacious ever construct ed. The clubhouse Is a thing of beauty, | typically Southern in architecture. There are lcng rows of stables built after the most elaborate modern plans-water piped throughout and lighted by. cleo. | and superb private stable built for MT: Billings's personal use. The stable is 1Ss feet square. and consists of two wings, each A feet wide. with an inclosure 100 by IA feet for show purposes. In one o1 the wings will be stalled the famous Bill lngs stable of matinee and speedway the heavy harness and saddle horses there being twenty-four boxes in eacf
 Murray Howe, the Memphis Secretary ly known harness turf journalists in the West. and his program book for the meeting shows that he has been success full in attracting almost all the crack horses of the year to the meeting, which opened yesterday and will last all the week In his fifteen regular class events there are 2S2 entries. the pick of the best harness racers now in training. Besides these there will be six special events foi matinee horses to wagon. amateurs tc drive. the prizes being silver cups To morrow The Abbot (2:O3 1-+) will be start, ed to beat the worlds trotting record oi POP IA held by Cresceus, and yesterday the opening day, Little Boy started tt beat his own worlds pacing record oi 2:02 to wagon. This was given him by MT Jones at New York several weeks ago. but Mir. Billings has since purchased him of Mir. Jones. It is also probable that this seasons two great pacing rivals l md PrinRn A | G:o2, will draw out of the free-for-all
 in which both are entered. and go spe' cal match race.
 None of the races at Memphis Is being so widely discussed among the regulars as the 2:0S pace. which Is for $3.OOO purse and is set for tomorrow. It was an early closing event. and in 1t will meet the two pacers that. next the free-for-all-cracks have been the stars of the year. These are the un5eaten Dan Patch (2:04 1-2l and the Canadian gelding Harold H. 2:OQ The former has not lost race tnis sea @ son. having won eight on the grand cir cult. one at Brighton Beach and one al Lexington, the Tennessee pace In 2;b In the only heat which he lost he was de, liberatelv laid up Harold H. staEted eight times on the circuit, won six. was once seconI and once, when palpably off, unplaced. His last race was at Terre Haute and was sensational in the & ex- treme-three heats in 2:04 1-4. 2:0e IA 2:O4 the last half of the third heat in 100 flat and the third quarter in 2S 3-4 seconds a :5H gait-the fastest quarter ever oncial- ly timed in a class harness race. As liar old H. seemed to have a bit left even in this time, the performance was sensa- tional. Ever since the talent has been figuring him as the only horse with has a large following and will be heavily backed. Meanwhile Dan Patch partisans profess no fear of him, and assert that | when 1t comes to an issue the stallion will beat him one, two, three. Harold H wears the hobbies. which will influence many against him. but at Lexington. two weeks ago, he worked two heats below 2:05 without them. It Is assured that the race at Memphis will be one of the heav- lest betting events of the year, and If | both pacers are right and the day and | track good, the time will as likely as not | be amazingly fast.
 The victory of the University of Nash l vile over Auburn in Birmingham last Saturday was not only a dearly bought one but pretty expensive one. While the Tennessee eleven defeated Auburn the first time tlat team has sustained 8
 decisive defeat in years, Auburn no only scored but made the Nashville boys play such a hard game that they were completely done up at the end of the They were scheduled to play the Uni , versity boys in Tuscaloosa yesterday but it seems that Sunday the Nashville
 manager told Manager Mcqueen of Tue caloosa that they would have to breal the contract He gave as his reason tha
 Kuykendall, his right end, was so badly hurt in the Auburn game Saturday tha he would be unable to play in Tuscaloo sa. This on the face of 1t looks hk' playing the baby act for with all th'
 substitutes that Nashville has theI could very easily have filled the hole at right end, and it looks as if they were afraid to play Tuscaloosa after the touch of high life given them by Au- | burn.
 Tuscaloosa will have a game next Sat | urday with the University of Mississippi, and the friends of the varsity boys in Montgomery will have an opportunity of sizing up their team.
 | The game in Birmingham Saturday was the best thing that could happen to Au- burn, for the defeat will make them more determined to put up a creditable The disgracefu defeat of Georgia by Vanderbilt in Nashville Saturday does not discourage in the least the Auburn men in Montgomery and 1t is safe to say that the "Commodores' will go up against far different team Saturday than the one they met in Nashville.
 Butts Kohn was to have started in a PA pace yesterday in Atlanta but his
 sickness caused him to be scratched | It Is disappointing from the fact that he would have met YarrOw, the Fre6 s. Wilkes horse from Macon, who beat Jenks at Riverside and the only Macor horse, by the way, to win a race al Riverside. Squire Brown. FREE FALL FESTIVAL, Montgomery, Oct. 28th-Nov End The Central of Georgia, on account oi l the above occasion. will sell tickets tc . Montgomery at one fare for the rounC , trin October 2Sth- November Ist inclusiv,