The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-07-22
SHE FAILED TO START
DISAPPOINTMENT FOR THOSE
WATCHING MARE ALABAMA.
Local Tennis Players are Now Hard
at Work Practicing for the :,
Atlanta Tennis
Tourney.

It was something of disappointment to
local horsemen that the mare Alabama
(or Miss Willemont, as MT Plant now
calls herr did not start at the Grand Crl-
cult meeting in Detroit last week.
She was to have started in the Cham
Der Of Commerce stake the race that Ed
Geers made such a record in with Direct
Hal, but the work of the Plant string
has been so unfavorable, that none OF
them will be started until about August.
Roy Miller has them up at Hartford,
Conn, and will probably start Alabama
in the 2:07 pace on the 31st Of this month
at Columbus.
The Grand Circuit meeting shifts from
Detroit to Cleveland this week where
the entry list is something very heavy
over 400 nominations in twenty events.
Practically all the horses that raced so
fast and we'll at Detroit will be there,
land has no special rich stakes as pieces
de-resistance, but depends on class
card of the highest grade to provide SEN
sational results, which are always forth
gram of the week at Cleveland is today.
which includes 10th the 2:04 pace and
2:07 trot. For the former are entered
Searchhght C2:o31-D. Dan Patch (2;O4 I'D,
old H POD and Indiana Goa s-D. For
the latter Lord Derby (2:06 I'D, Chain
Shot cos 10, Charley Herr (2:OO, Dolly
Dillon GOD. and The Monk G:OD LORD
Derby, which was scratched at Detroit,
will likely start. and meeting between
him and The Monk will be indeed worth
going miles to see. In the 2:04 pace at De-
troit Dan Patch won easily, not having
t. beat 205, but great horse as ne 10 just
now IL anything can force him he is apt
to go a wonderful heat at a moment ;
warning Searchlight went a good race
against him at Detroit. 1t was his hrst
start in two years and should be of great
henedt to him. This week he ought 10
he iTprrnVe6 able to carry Dan
Patch a merry mile or two.
After Cleveland CONS Columbus, the
meeting there opening on the 18th and
closing en- the LIST of August, the 200 pace
for the opening day.
The following week. Monday, August 4
the horses go to Buffalo. the feature OF
the opening day there being the lroquoii
Hotel stakes (2:0S pacing, in 81.
On .he third day of the meeting. Wed
nesday. August g. is the 2:O6 pace q in -
| in which the cracks that started at De
troit last week and at Cleveland TO-DAY
| will start.
Whether Alabama will start in this race
or not remains to be seen, but Fred New
! ell says the speedy daughter OF Aumon
could easily nave done 2:07 mile the
/ day he sold her to Mr.. Plant. - a.
! If there Is anything in b!ood lines Inc
mare Is certainly conner. being by All
| mont out of mare who was sired DS
| William l., the sire of the great Axtell
On the last day OF the BuHaIo meeunt
! is the 2:07 trOt $4,000 purse, in 81. II
which Lord Derby. The Monk Dolly On
| Ion, Boralma. etc. viii start Then thu
next week Brighton Beach with its grea
match between The Abbot and Lord Der
| by on the fourth day of the meeting. tn
features of the opening day being tn
$40. 600 Bonner Memorial (2:l2 trot, in 81
and the 2:O6 pace. in 5.
f. Z. Smathers, owner of Lord Derby
and ]. ]. Scanned, owner of The Abbot
| dannzifad with Harry RnaCheF
| sporting editor of The New York Journal
two certified checks of 5000 each, to bint
the above match. the next forfeit beini
$1,000 to be deposited the night befor
| the race.
Anothr interesting feature of the New
| York races will be the two-minute pac
on the last dav August Is. and it ma,
10 for the second time Il