The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-19
SPORTING NEWS.
The Ellison COlOrs We're Car
ried to Victory at Memphis.
The Two Year Old Colt Finished
an Easy Winner.
M'GEE ALSO A WINNER.
Jockey Lyne's Riding Was a Big
Feature or the Day.
Federal at 3 to 5 Had Nothing
to Give Him Work.

Memphis, Tenn, April 19.-Charley
Ellison established a record when his
illy. Lady Ellison, won the Memphis
stakes at Montgomery park In the
schedule of stakes for the spring meet
ings here there are three fixtures for 3
year-olds and this year Ellison has
won the three. John SmuIlski carried
Ellison's colors to victory in the Gas
ton hotel stakes; Miss Inez was good
enough to beat her field in the Ardelle
stakes; and today Lady Ellison came
to the front with an effort that stamps
her a FLY of stake quality by winning
the Memphis stakes, which is for 2
year-Olds of either sex and a distance
of five Notwithstanding farther
than the young horses had previously
been asked to go at this meeting. Eli
son made a bold bid for the stake
when he named Lady Ellison and John
Slnullsk to go and his entry was made
favorite at 6 to 5. while the ScrSrr
pair, Vidalia and Useful Lady, had the
second call at odds around 2 to 1.
Useful Lady was speedy enough to
run away from the barrier and open
a gap of three lengths for the first half
but Lady Ellison, who took second
place in the early running, kept on
about her business and having the
courage and speed for a final squirt,
caught Useful Lady long before the
finish, and after shaking off this one
Of the Schorr pair, had enough left TO
stand off the challenge of Vidalia and
kept a margin of a neck at the finish
1t was a drive between the two and in
the matter Of jockeys, Vidalia was per-
haps the better provided, but Robbins
on Lady Ellison made his hand ride
count against the whip efforts of Lyme,
and might have maintained his lead
much farther. John Smullski had some
trouble in following the early pace, but
he closed we'll at the end and dropped
into thiri place.
In the next best race of the day Cor
Organs MCGEE was an easy winner over
Witful. The conditions of the race made
MCGEE, and the My, gooq as Sne was =.
was unequal to the task. W1tful tried TO
Lyme waited with MCGEE. which gave. the
race an interest for seven furlongs. There
away and went to the end by himself.
That was the second win for Lyme lie
had the mount on Colonial Girl in the
second race, six furlOngS. ana under the
same kind of tactics landed that one an
easy winner. Colonial Girl is said to be
good mare, but she had nothing of any
CONSEQUENCE to beat, and so therefore is
not yet to be rated a top notcher.
the four and one-half furlongs selling
race for 2-year-olds. for which he was a
short priced favorfte. Everything else IN
the race beat him away from the post,
but Sheehan got him going around the
stretch turn and got him up in time to
take winning hOnOrs a nose IN frOnL OF
Fox Hunting and Gleeman; The really
unexpected winner was Australian IN the
fifth race. Bensonhurst carried all the
wise play on that race, but was not quite
good enough. and was beaten in the final
stride by Australian
Federal at to 5 had nothing to give
him an argument in the final affair, &C
thing to do in disposing of Nolto by a
length at the finish. The executive com
mittee of the new Memphis Jockey club,
with whom the decisions in the Murray
Corrigan and Murray-Daly cases rest,
concluded their hearing last evening. The
committee reached a decision, but re-
fused to make public the result of the
hearing The starter was busy again, and
suspended j.. Wilson for one day in addi-
ton to fining several other jockeys.