Arizona republican., 1905-12-16
THE FIRST MATINEE
 A SUCCESSFUL ONE
A Big Crowd Saw the Speed Exhibit
 at the Fairgrounds.


 with which it can be entertained, and
 that's horses. Fully $500 people vis-
 ited the track at the territorial fair
 grounds yesterday afternoon, the occa-
 sion being a complimentary matinee given by the Arizona Fair association.
 And they were well repaid for their
 time, for an afternoon of real sport was given them. There never was a
 meeting held in all the world in De- cember at which the time was any
 ways near the average time of all the trotting and pacing races of yester- day, that of 2:14 7-10. Besides this Sally Pointer. which in one heat paced a mile in 2:09 IA and Hazel Patch, who paced a mile in 2:OS 3-4. made the fastest time ever made in the month of December by harness horses in any race ever paced or trotted.
 The day was an ideal one, the wealth CT report at noon showing the tenn perature to be Il. It was long before the time the first event was advertised to take place that the large grand stand began to fill. Society was there in all it's splendor. Prominent officials of the territory and all the members of the fair commission as we'll as most of the officers of the fair association. A musical program was played by the Indian school band, the numbers being rendered between the events.
 The track could not have been in better shape and the way the crowd was handled speaks well for those in charge. Looking from the grand stand out over the course there was not one thing to mar the beauty of the land- scape. The swipes and different at tendants in their snow-white jackets and caps of duck with the drivers in the various colors of the stables to which they belong and the jockeying for the start of the first race put a thrill through every person in the grand stand and from the moment of the word to go in the first event until the finish of the last the interest was unflagging.
 The sensational event of the day was the wonderful performance of Paul D. Kelly, when in the second heat of the second race he broke and fell fully sixty-five yards behind the bunch, but after regaining his pace won back his place in the lead and finished under the wire a winner, with his time just one-half second short of the worlds record for this year made by a two- year-old pacer. There is but one two- that ever beat the time finally given the horse by the timers.
 Sally Pointer broke her record for the year in both heats of the first race against a strong field. At the Wiscon- sin state fair in Milwaukee she made herrecord for the year, 211A, but in the first heat of the event she won yesterday she was given the time of 2:1O and the second heat 2:09A. In this event something was anticipated of Florence Wilton. one of Colonel Greene's string, but she got off bad in the first heat and finished third. The first race (pacing) Sally Pointer won both heats in the time above giv- en; FearnOt and Selden Wilkes divid- ed for second and third place and Florence Wilton third. Stranger O.. who was entered to start was with drawn on account of sickness.
 The second race was a pacing event with four entries. The first and sec ond heat was one by Paul D. Kelly each in the same time, 2:14A. In the two heats the other entries all finish ed in the same position, Lillian Zolock second; Billy A, third; Monkey Mack, fourth. In both of the heats Paul D. Kelly won, Lillian Zolock was ClOSc StCOHu, DUH UT lne nurses Ildh- ing the circuit of the entire course sidc by side. The other two horses some twenty yards behind, finished in sim liar positions.
 The third race (pacing) with two starting Hazel Patch, the horse that made such a record the past year. driven by his owner Ed Sherman, and Custer, owned by J. c. Adams, driven by Hall was a splendid match. Hazei Patch had the pole and the horses worked side by side the circuit of the entire track, Hazel Patch taking the First heat in 2:11H. The second heat was one of the most interesting of the day. The horses got off well and nev- er during the entire heat was the | nose of either horse over three feet be- l hind that of his opponent. Hazel | Patch won the heat and the race but | Custer finished not a foot behind. The | time of the second heat was 2:OSA.
 In the fourth race Boralma's Broth l er, one of the Col. w. c. Greene string, | lriven by KlOtzbach, won two straight | heats taking the race. The time of the | first heat was 2:23. Peggy Arnott, | second; Billy H. third and Maud M, | l bad fourth. The second heat was won | n 2:21 with Billy H. second; Peggy [ Arnett third and Maud NJ, fourth. | Jessie Mckinney failed to start.
 There were four starters in the fifth | event of the program. In the first heat | Helena Morgan drew the pole and took he lead, easily maintaining her posi- ion to the finish. Her time was 2:17. Surprise, owned by w. w. Cook, with | Mickens driving, second; Pointer Star, owned by w. F. Holder and driven by lim third, Cobre Grande owned by Greene and driven by Klotzbach, ourth. Surprise, true to his name, | lcted bad in the first heat and lost ime by breaking but made a fast fin sh. In the second heat Helena Mor- gan was given the time of 2:17A | Pointer Star finished a close second | Surprise third and Cobre Grande ourth.