The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-02
ON FIELD AND TRACK
HARNESS HORSES HAVE HELD
 PUBLIC ATTENTION.
Football Games Will Be Played To- day, in Which Montgomery is Deeply Interested-Vander-
 bilt Team Hits Road.

This will be another interesting day in football circles, and after the surprises of last Saturdays games much curiosity IS being felt for the results today: Mana ger Marshall with the Vanderbilt team left Nashville last night for what will no doubt be the hardest trip of this season. Today they play the Washington Univer- sity in St. Louis and on Monday play the University of Kansas at Lawrence, kas'
 Another very interesting game to Mont gemery will be on Monday when Auburn plays the University of North Carolina, probably the strongest team in the South.
 The big Eastern Colleges will also have games today and football enthusiasts will be on the qui vive.
 For the first time in the history of rac- ing the harness horses during the past season have held every bit as much at tention from the public as the runners.
 While most of the speed at Riverside has been sold, yet there are still left Annie Caffey and Jenks and several colt trotters and pacers who promise to de- velope into very fast goers.
 In regard to the recent Lexington meet ing a telegram from that town to The Louisville Courier-Journal says: The echoes of the Lexington meeting still furnish topics of conversation for horsemen here. Though no statement has yet been made by Secretary Wilson, 1t Is
  the standpoint of finance was one of the
 most successful ever held over the local track.
 While nineteen of the events decided went in straight heats. and for Lexington 1t was a good year for favorites, still the field player who consistently placed his money against the favorite in every one of the races decided. came out the better field he was about $125 to the good at the end of the meeting. Sixteen favorites came home first under the wire in the twenty-nine races, but in two of these events the favorite so far outclassed the the favorite win fourteen out of twenty seven betting races.
 In the list of events which were won in straight heats was the Kentucky Futuri- ty, won by Peter Stirling; 2:12 class trot- ting. won by Captor; Tennessee Stake,
 won by Dan Patch: 2:20 class trotting
 won by Galbetor; Wilson Stake, won by Audubon Boy; 2:1e class trotting, won by
 William Glenn; 2:o6 class pacing, won by Mazette; 2:25 class trotting won by Hen rietta; Mcdowell Stake, won by Dolly
 Dillon; Louisville Prize, won by Peter Stirling; Walnut Hall Cup, won by Cap tor; 2:14 class trotting, won by Walter | Chimes: West Stake. won by Leola: 2:10 class trotting, won by Chain Shot; Lex ington Stake, won by Prelatess; 2:17 class
 pacing. won by pr. R.; Bluegrass Stake, | won by Sally Simpson. and Kentucky Stake. won by Hawthorne.
 There were fourteen stakes and ten of them went in straight heats. It required | seven heats to win the Pennsylvania, and | seven to dispose of the 2:1S class trotting. | No other races during the meeting ex- ceeded five heats excepting the 2:22 class | trotting and the 2:12 pace each of six | heats. The Johnston Stake was finished
 in five heats. the 2:2o class trotting. the
 Futurity for 2-year-old trotters, the POS
 class pacing and the 2:14 class pacing all | required four heats