The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-28

Memphis dispatch to yesterdays Nash
 vile American, says:
 The Montgomery Handicap. which | has been run over various courses at l Montgomery Park almost annually since | 1885. is never without interest to those | wh0 love the game of racing and in
 Mondays renewal, which will mark the feature, of the opening card at the New 1 Memphis Jockey Clubs twenty-sixth an | iiuai meet, there are representatives en- | tered from many points of the turf com pass.
 The hopes of California and probably l the good wishes of a multitude of turf followers. casual and regular, will go with Claude, the winner of many a race, | including four derbies. and the candidate i that has traversed the continent espe- cially for the struggle in the classic fix | ture. Oother sectional interest is mani-
 Tested in the result of the race through
 the arrival here of Coruscate from Nash vile and De Reszke and others from New Orleans
 Being the first big handicap of the racing season in the Middle West 1t is
 but natural that the eyes of the turf and it's result invariably affords form tigurers and turf devotees in general a good line on the all-aged division tha' will be later found striving for events candidates for Mondays prize are en- en- tered in the Elm Ridge Handicap at
 kansas City, the Harlem National at Chicago, Citizens Handicap at Nash Ville. the S50,0O0 Worlds Fair Handicap at St. Louis and other classics for spring Or summer decision this years interest in the Montgomery ought to be manifold.
 ''The race, including last years vic- torv by Ordnung. the aged son or Order, from J. w. Schorr's barn. has had It's seventeenth renewal. The year 1883 marked the first running of the classic. when Green B. Morris Apollo traversed the distance, then a mile and a half, and beat out Mediator and Joe Murray and others of rather inferior quality The second renewal. which was in 1886, was woI by Ed Corrigan's Modesty, who for long time enjoyed the distinction of being the only member of turf feminity to succeed in leading the way to tho wire. No victory of the Corrigan stablo was ever celebrated more elaborately than Modesty's win of the Montgomery The mare had previously won the Ameri- can Derby and when she showed her heels to her field in the local event the celebration that attended the afternah was of the nature which required several days. days cooling out process from many banquet at the aristocratic club within the track enclosure were Capt S. S. Brown. who is represented in Mondays renewal by Conjurer; Col. M Lewis years back; Gen. W. H. Jackson, of Belle Meade fame. and other turf lights
 MT. Corrigan made several efforts to win the Montgomery after that, but fail ure started his candidates with the ex- ception of the year 1891 when Riley, son of Lougfellow. beat H. J. Scoggan's Vollera and FaSette.
 Many candidates have entered after the Montgomery on more than one oc- casion. but to Farmer Bill Scully's mare Hypocrtte, by Longfellow% is recorded thu glory or distinction of having been the only one to win the race twice. Hypocrite's first victory was in Is91 when she won from Stoney Montgomerv and Cassius and others. Again in the following year she was much the hest and proved 1t by beating Elyton and