The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-26
HARNESS HORSE RACES
MONTGOMERY ANIMALS TO GO TO
BIRMINGHAM.
DRIVING Clubs of Two Cities to Enter
Contests for Silver Cups and
Owners Are Anx-

Harness racing in this section re-
Sas the seen ons
lxation Of the Montgomery Driving
Club few months ago.
Following the example of the Mont
Eomery club the Birmingham people Al
Few days ago organized a driving club,
Will H. Jones being elected President,
Louis Schillenger, Vice President. and
William johnson, Secretary and Treas
AS stated in The Advertiser Sunday
the Birmingham people have invited
the Montgomery Driving Club to go to
been completed for the inter-city races
10 be held next Saturday.
wv. HI. Jones of Birmingham reached
terday the final details of the race
meet were arranged, the program
showing that the races will be the fast
est held in this section in many years.
The Birmingham Club has offered IA
handsome solid silver loving cup to be
raced for in a series between Mont
gomery and Birmingham. The club
winning three out of five races be-
PONIES possessor of the cup until II Is
won by its rival. The cup becomes
the individual property of the club that
wins three out of the five races three
successive times.
The races at Riverside the other day
90 not count in the cup contests, the
1rst of the cup races being held next
Saturday in Birmingham.
The Birmingham horsemen were
very much gratifed with the cordial
reception and courtesy shown them by
the Montgomery Driving Club and Mr.
Jones said yesterday morning that the
Birmingham Club is anxious to try and
outdo Montgomery in courtesy when
they go to Birmingham next Saturday
The Birmingham tnace has the repu-
tation OF being one of the fastest half
mile tracks in the country. So fast is
II that Dan Patch was carried there
last year to try for the worlds record
on a half mile track. The superb son
of ''old Black Joe" made new worlds
prd had been 2:04 "a and he clipped a
quarter of second off the mark, pac-
ting the mile in 2:o4 1-2.
Local horsemen are putting in an
extremely strenuous week They are
determined to bring that cup back Sat-
urday night. and to do it they realize
p bit faster than they ever stepped in
their lives. Those Birmingham horses
last week showed them this, and they
don't have to be from Missouri to-tsee
Friday night car of seven horses
viii be shipped from Riverside, Park
to birmingham; the following horses
PIE Hummer. Gilbert C.: Riverside, Ben
Putterworth and Elected. These
horses are receiving the most bruisng
when they get on that Birmingham
track Saturday If they are not every
one. as fit as a fiddle it will not be the
local track.
The first race Saturday will he be-
tween four of the fastest animals in
I Birmingham-Will Bramblett. S!rath-
meathe, Louise and Tom BOam. Local
horsemen only know anything about
pne of that bunch-Will Bramblett. the
long, rangy sorrel son of Chestnut Hal
who did unutterable things to Hal All
mont last week. He was never extend
ed in Montgomery, winning his straight
heats in kind of exercise jog, but he
showed conclusively that he had n
world of reserve speed. Just by way
of showing something about his speed,
he beat Tom Beam in a $500 match
race on the Fourth Of July. the half
In 1:04 "a. Strathmeathe. son of
6trathmore, is said to have the soeed
> of this bunch with Louise looking dan
gerous. So, II is easily seen what a
horse race it will be.
The next race will be filled with local
3rterest. Two Montgomery horses and
two Birmingham horses-Hal Almont
jerks, Harry and Dolly Brown. jerks
may almost be said to be local horse,
c. P. Jackson. who then was the Mont
gomery General Agent of the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad. selling him to a
Birmingham gentleman. He was re-
garded here as one of the most con-