The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-24

They have got to go some to beat that bunch of horses sent from Mont gomery to be campaigned through this Southern circuit. With one or two exr captions every one of the horses Fae- ing on this circuit now were whipped into shape on the track of Thomas end Whitehead at vandiver Park.
 The first date of the circuit was Nashville. Next week they will be in Memphis, the week after in@ RiriIIing- ham and the following week in Mont gomery The track up in Nashville was heavy and slow from the heavy ruin of Monday and considering the conditions some unusually good miles were reeled off.
 Lilly Pointer W. S. Teague's speedy mare, was second in the. 2:12 pace, landing the two fastest heats of the race in 2:1e. 2:l6, finishing fourth in the first heat In 2:17 1-2. and second in the fourth heat In 2:2O.
 Mary Direct. Louis McCurdy's Dir ect year old. finished 2. 3. in the 22i pace in 2:19 1-2 2:l9. 2:2O.
 Galloway is handling Warren Bur tons bay mare, Hattie Glenn. and con- siderinS the fact that this mare has only been raced at the matinees of the Montgomery Driving Club her show ing was remarkably good.
 Ben Whitehead is campaigning Thom- as w. Lawson, the speedy Fred ;. Wilkes colt belonging to Mcqueen Smith of Prattville.
 True this Is the first time of the fielding in fast company hut rom aIe speed that he showed at NaholVel Park better things were looked TOT in Nashville. and on the fast FaSAS At Memphis and Montgomery he Is lia- al of am Stt ana IakG notice. ou Lnown horses as Sarah Smith. Louis McCurdys chestnut sellers mare hlt- tie Buddie, the gray Fred D. " mn II1,,I horse formerly the property or Miii VI, Jones of Birmingham; Egollst PSI. sn,. Iohn Thomas stallion; Pulsus. the Du9 Eeotist stallion that has trotted niies better than 2:l5 in front of a craGR Is. ins ,.,t good field of horses at VandlVer Fdrh' and some Nashville horses.
 Ben Rennick won the nrst ana thiie heats with Sarah Smith Tn z'-V l--, 9,Is1-4. finishing fifth in the second a,,S third in the fourth. Little Buddie 6nishing 4. 3, i; Pulsus ana Esotis' paii enIshfnr outside of the money All this shows two things. Ihat .hera ia no. better place in the South 10 work horses into shape than the track ~. Vandiver Park and secondly that there will be some hilUy f@ei"e ia1I T,av M are hitting 'em up pretty live ,,, arornd the big ring. and Bob Gc, wartz. of Mobile, with is Leslie Wa ssrrnsn. ia burning up some miles
 Tn inc 2:09 pace at Columbus lues- dan Ton Mcdonald, who Is campaign IoS him. started with a field Of nIteen hnRses. In the first heat he hnlsneo seventh in 06 1-4 was eleventh in the second In 2:07 won the third in 2:ot IA. won the fourth Tn fractloh Det ter time. and finished second Tn the fifth. . .,., .,,a idea that the speedy pacer could not last many bruising miles. His fastest mile in the South was at .VandiYer Park last October. when Bob SchwarG drove him a mile in S:07 hat without urging him in the slightest. The last two heats of his race at Columbus yes terday were unfinished from Tuesday. By winning the first and landing sec ond in the other, it looked like he was getting better.
 Horsemen will wonder when they see the grand race that Baron Grafton, the old pacer that Ed Geers is campaign ing for Frank Smith, of Memphis. did yesterday.
 2:Ol 3-4 and 2:03 the old horse waH 3, 2. ?, beating Hedgewood Boy in the third heat in 2:03 fiat. Two years ago at Vandiver Park it was all Mir. Geers could do to beat Lilly Pointer with Baron Grafton, and it looked like tho old pacer was all in then. Either the old campaigner has a new lease on life or the marvellous skill of the greatest