The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-23
@ .::.:s:9 <: z: 'lVl||''l|l| ' APPEAL TUX BETTER DATE Local Racing Should Be
 Earlier. SOUTHERN CIRCUIT MEETS Something About Higher Purses
 and About Stakes. Believed That If Earlier Dates Could Be Secured For This City Fine Strings Of Horses Would Come.
Believed That If Earlier Dates Could Be Secured For This City Fine
 Strings Of Horses Would
 Come.

The annual meeting of the Southern, Fair Circuit will be held within the next few days when the status of the racing to be held over the Dixie cir- pcuits in fall will be determined,
 The circuit last season consisted of four cites-Nashville and Memphis in Ttnnessee and Birmingham and Mont joined the Great Western Circuit Of course some other town will have to De put in its place in the Southern SasbYie asCs season s5a bsgsa ngsd Montgomery October a. Numbers of owners complain that October 24 is too late to bring their strings to again in iSS7, but in in those & W two 'S years @ horse did not have a bar put on him in asfew days. after. he had won case last October at jvandiver Park.
 If Montgofnery, could get the dates this season that were given to Mem Phis last year-September 2s to Octo- things would be better sll round At the annual meeting of the Southern Fair Circuit in Nashville last year it saent HOsS sve G trUs sS w tFask 9 ss purse, and 2'21 pace with $1,000 purse; Every town in the Southern Circuit gave those two purses with the exception of Montgomery, and the result at yandiver Park Is too well known to go over again.
 If that same rule is observed for purses offered again-and the entrance fee for stakeNraces cut in half Mont gomery will get some. good horses in October. The conditions last year each money. Now this year if the conditions for stake races were two and one-half per cent of the purse and two and one-half per cent from win ners of each money a classy lot of fields would be the result
 What Are Stake Races.
 Stake races are more like throwing heads and tails, or doing what the seen," than anything else. An own stake race to be held in Montgomery in October. That horse will do well to step better than 2:17 while on the entered enter that % can get down many sec onds lower. The average owner hesi- tates over taking such chances when he win be called on to give up five cent if he happens to get in the money.
 To give an example: In 1907 there in which Bell Ewin, the fast pacing mare that Will Ewing was campaign ing that year, was entered with Lydia Curzon, the illy that that , John Thomas local horse that Mike Green drove. Belle Ewin could pace mile better than<2:10. Thomas's lilly could go sharp could not do much better than 2:1S. The unbalanced state of that | field can be seen.
 Last fall there was a stake trot at Vandiver Park in which Ward. Mar ica Sarah Smith and Lady Sarah was entered. Ward had won a race in 2:10 1-2 and 2:15 was about the average iaf AIaa okh md ar0 ha problem may be solved by the handt- capping feature, but cutting In half the five per cent looks to be the best right now.
 If the $1,00O purses are offered again it's good bet that they will hold in Montgomery this year for the pro Chambers with his baseball club will be the same with the races and things in general at the 1909 fair. Montgomery and this part of the South will hardly know the big ring from the following circuit which will be embraced this year:
 Detroit Mich, July 26-30.
 Kalamazoo, Mich, August 2-6.
 North Randall Ohio (Cleveland), AqsnTa BaTalo, o-iSi X. Y, Fort Erie). August
 Poughkeepsie. N. Y. August 2s-27.
 Long Branch, N. J.. August sO-sep-
 Hartford, Conn, September S-1O.
 Syracuse (New York State Fair),
 Columbus, Ohio, September 2O-octo-
 A new circuit up East this year that promises to cut a wide swath will be the o-West-Virginia-P -Pennsylva nia circuit; At meeting held in l ago Robert Anderson, of Wheeling, was elected president; Harry Coch ran, of Dawson, Pa, vice president; l.. P. D. Yost, of Canton, Ohio, sec The following new tracks are ad- mitted to membership: Fairmont, l Clarksburg and Morgantown, w. Va. Hagerstown, Cumberland and Balti-
 The Applications of Mansfield. Lima and Akron, Ohio, were disallowed owing to the impossibilty of prevent ing conflicting dates.
 The dates follow;
 Baltimore. Md. June S-l1.
 Fairmont. W; Va June I5-S; ..
 Canton. Ohio. July 5-S:
 Rockport, ohio. July 1916.
 Salem, Ohio, July 20-23.
 GPssn.5H2r Eas a82spqRg R onS AaSust 5uisy sys a7-'o
 Dawson. Pa, August 10-13
 .Roekport. Ohio, August 17-20.
 Canal Dover. Ohio. August 2S-26. Wheeling, w. Va, September e-10.
 Fairmont, w. Va: September i4-l9
 Clarksburg, w. Va, September 2S'
 Morgantown. Pa. September 5:S.
 Cumberland, Md, October 5-S.
 Hagerstown. Md. October 12-15.
 Baltimore, Md, October 1922. 
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