The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-28
OFFER Big PURSES
MEET OF RACING ASSOCIATION
WILL DRAW GOOD ONES.
$4,000 TO THE WINNERS.
EIGHTEEN RACES AND a PURSE OF
$500 OFFERED IN EACH.

Directors of Association Approve
Programme Submitted by Vice
President Hull - Meeting to BE
Held From Nov. TO Nov. 10, In
cIusive-Fast Horses Coming From
All over the south No Slow
Classes. the 2:24 Trotting Being at
the Bottom of the List-A star at
the Gnme TO Hold the FIng-Coun-
try viii Know of the Meeting to
lie Held Here.
A trotting meet with prizes aggregat-
ing 50, 900 is what the Savannah Racing
Association will offer the Savannah
public during the six days. beginning
Nov. 10 and ending Nov, Is. There will
be eighteen races, with a purse of $500
in each.
This programme, with its amDlifica-
tons. was submitted by Vice President
H. H. Hull at a meeting of the direc-
tors of the Racing Association held
yesterday at the Office of the president
The programme received the unani-
nous approval of the directors.
The Atlanta harness meet ends on
Oct. II, while that at Valdosta begins
on Nov. 8. The horses that will enter
at these two meets will be free to come
to Savannah when the races are held
here, while from other Southern tracks,
it is expected will be drawn fleet nags
that the inducements offered at Atlanta
and Valdosta have not sufficed to
catch. In a word the meet at Savannah
will be beyond question the best series
of harness events ever held south of
Memphis and east of New Orleans.
No Slow CIasses Listed.
The horses that will be brought to
Savannah will be of a higher type than
those entered at the meeting of last
year, and there will be no slow classes,
the slOwest being 2:24. There will be
nine trotting and nine pacing races,
with classes as follows:
Trotting-2;24, 2:22, 2:2O. 2:1S, 2:17,
PIG, PA, 2:I2 and free-for-all.
Pacing-2:22, 2:20, 2:1S, PIT, 2:16, 2:14
PIP, 2:10 and f.ee-for-all
The elimination of slow classes, it is
believed by Mr. Hull, will result in
only first-class horses being entered. If
good horse, he thinks, has not made
as good time as 2:24 during the season,
the owner will hold him until next sea-
son, while the nags that have shown
their inability to cover a mile in that
time have already been retired to the
North.
There will be three races on each day
of the meeting, which will be decided
in five heats. The card for each day will
be made up from the various classes of
trotters and PAGERS.
Mr.. Hull has received a large num-
Der of letters from horsemen all over
the country, asking information of the
race meeting here, and promising to
enter their stables if good inducements
are offered.
Starter VIII BE n star.
While definite arrangements for
a starter have not been made, Mr..
Hull is in correspondence with Frank
Walker, known throughout the country
as one of the best in the business. Mr..
Walker has started races on the Grand
Circuit and at Louisville and Lexing-
ton, and has no superior with the flag.
1t is believed now that his services will
be secured-they will certainly, if he
and Mr.. Hull can come to terms but if
not then the starter will be some other
man who trots in the same class.
Mr.. Hull has gone to work energeti-
cally to bring the meeting to the at
tention of the racing public. 1t will be
extensively advertised in the leading
turf papers of the country, and there
will be liberal response. Some of the
best horses now on the track will be
in Savannah, and that a successful
meeting will follow the Savannah Rae
ing Associations first effort to place
racing here on firm footing, there
is no doubt.
To Increase Membership.
At the meeting of the directors of
the association yesterday President
George w. Owens presided, and there
were present, in addition, Vice Presi-
dent A. b. Moore, Second Vice Presi-
dent and General Manager H. H. Hull,
Directors l. A. Solomon, J. H. Estill,
John r. Young and Hugh Logan.
The directors adopted "a resolution
authorizing the president to invite such
men as he pleased to become members
of the. association. The annual dues
are $25, payment of which entities the
member to admission for himself and
two ladies at all races to the grounds
and stand In addition, the members
are to be allowed the use of the track
for speeding their horses, when such
use will not interfere with that mr.
which it was built
The programme for the meeting will
be prepared and printed in the course
of the next few days, and its distribu
tion throughout the country will then
he made