The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-16

The wonderful performances of the un- beaten Eirect Hal on the Grand Circuit during the past summer speak in thCn- der tones not only of the inestimable advantages of the McCurdy place near Lowndesboro but also of the careful painstaking work of everybody on the place. The superb son of Bessie Hal was raised and given all of his early educa- ton at the McCurdy place, and 1t Is doubtful if even that prince of reinsmen, Ed Geers, Is as proud of Direct Hal as the Messrs. McCurdy. Next Saturday morning little Ally will reach Mont gomery that from her blood lines should be as much of a wonder as Direct Hal About year ago MT. w. D. McCurdy, who owns an interest in Bessie Hal, bred her to The Earl, a son of Mambrino King and from the same family that gave to the trotting world The Abbott The Monk, etc. The result of the Bessie Hal-Eari union was this filly which is the per- sonal property of MT. w. D. McCurdy. The young lady will, as stated, reach shipped at once to the famous McCurdy farm in Lowndes County where she will receive her first experience of looking through bridle, stepping between shafts, to the McCurdy place probably next week.
 On the 18th day of August. 1900 there was sent to Fred Newehs barn at River side a 3-year-old gray lilly from the Nc Curdy place. Her name was Texas and she was sired by McCurdy's Hambleton- ian out of Nancy Jane, brood mare which was the daughter of the famous Sentinel Wilkes. She was very green. never having been worked much but du- ring her workout the first morning after her arrival at Riverside I saw Ike Kelly, the negro who was driving for the Nc Curdy's that summer, drive her the last quarter of a hard mile in 33 1-4 seconds. About a year after that MT. Louis Mc- Curdy, who owned her. sold her to a MT. Bronson for s1,250 and last week, in workout at Lexington Texas trotted mile in a fraction under PIP. Bronson has had an offer of 5,000 for the Ally from certain parties who want to take her to Russia Whether the sale is made or not it seems to me that it is another big thing for McCurdy raised horses.
 Dan Patch will try to lower Star Pont- CTS record at Memphis the 24th of this month, and speaking of the great pacer The Memphis Commercial-Appea says:
 'When Dan Patch went his record mile at Readville, 1t was stated that at least two of the watches showed exactly 1:59 To yet the time had to be announced :59 IA, are calculated by quarters of second although almost all watches are made to show fifths of a second only.
 "The difference between fifth of SecOHu ana d quarter Ol u ocSoiAu SVOhiS at first to be so small as to be unimport-. ant, or, at least, too short space of time to make any very visible dinerence in the performances of horses. but small as 1t Is, the difference between a mile in l :59 1-5 and a mile in 1:59 IA is so great that even those people who call every heat that is very close dead heat could easily see the difference.
 When Star Pointer made his record Of 159 IA at Readville. in 1897. he stepped two feet ? 90-53 inches every twentieth of a second. The difference between 1:59 1-5 and 1:59 IA is one-twentieth part of a second, so that, if Star Pointers mile in 1:59 IA was correctly timed, that is. if the watches were exactly at 1:59 1-4 when he reached the wire, he would have been feet ? 30-53 inches from the wire if the watches had been stopped at 1:59 To; in other words. he would have been beaten by Dan Patch by two feet and two inches and fraction over half an inch.
 'Dan Patch is young and sound; comes for a long time, and should be able to still further reduce his record at Mem phis the fastest track in the country.
 Dan Patch is six years of age and was bred by D. A. Mesner, Jr., of Oxford, Ind. He has the unique distinction of never having been beaten in a race. and having lost but one heat In all his races. As a 4-year-old he was raced on the half mile tracks, and earned a record of 2:l6. Last season he was tourned over to My ron E. McHenry, who raced him in the Grand Circuit. He closed last season with a record of 2:04 1-2.
 turned him over to the man who had so successful raced him last year. This year he has started in two two class races. the 2:04 pace at Detroit and Cleve- land, and won both events, reducing his record to 2:03 3-4 at the latter place. At Columbus he was started for the first time against the watch, and paced the mile in 200 3-4. Since then he has been pacing miles against time. At Brighton Beach he equaled his Columbus record. At Readvile he reduced 1t to 200 1-4. A. . Providence he paced his first mile better than two minutes, establishing a record of 159 l-2. At Syracuse he duplicated his Readville performance. At the Empire City he went his slowest exhibition mile 2:02 IA, Over the local course on Octo- Der A, horsemen predict that Dan Patch will lower the record made at Readville,
 The sudden rise in Tuscaloosa football stock would stagger even the Gates crowd of gamblers and railroad speculators, and the roseate clouds of hope and anticipa- tion are lowering over the devoted heads of old Tuscaloosa boys in Montgomery.
 It all came about through the result of the two last games played by Tuscaloo- sa and Auburn. True, in little Marion Tuscaloosa did not have very much to contend with but the awful drubbing that the University gave them-S5 to O. proved that Eli Abbott has instilled into the bunch the same principles of getting down the field and holding their own line steady that made the famous Tuscaloosa team of '94 celebrated. On the other hand the fact of the Techs getting through the Auburn line argues a bit bad Iy for the team that in the past has all ways made ducks of the Tech team. It