The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-19
HARNESS RACES TO BE CLASSY Secretary Fuller Is Get
 ting Busy. CUT OUT MERRY-Go-RoUNDs Many Added Events Will Prove
 Attractive. Cards wili Be Arranged for Msntxem- cry, Birmisghan, Memphis ssA
 Nashville for Coming
 Fall Fairs.

The patrons of the fairs held in Montgomery. Birmingham, Memphis and sasn. @ next the ss hfss' ss a. ss.s sibiy ever been held in Dixie. The wisest thing that the oniciais of the southsrn Fair Circuit ever did was 10 tary of the organization.
 MT. Fuller is well known in Mont gomery, where he acted as the starting frs iirst time that the track out 1t there here was vas ever used and a magnt hcent week of racing. He Is a practical horseman and an ardent lover of the registered har. at the start is shown by the following circular that Is being scattered broad cast all over the Unified States:
 knowisdsed fashs .he leading G oh nss ted States. h fact. no fair that fails to give the light harness horse the fishes itself as success.
 Formerly the better class of horses and the best racing vas seen ct the whers pool ceiling was . fsature; to- day this is largely changed. Anti gambling laws in many States. has put . stop to racing, which depended large coupled with the -increasing mag nttnde of the fair interest interests, nss sss kFHuuU1 OK InS 6AElCHAkAk&l
 be the salvation of the breeding and racing industry. but will be the means of placing harness racing on broader
 The fairs, with their large. and va ance. are the means of infroduclhg the es Of frisn9s han ss sos shs and this wider circle of friends will nndoubtedly be the means of vastly
 The. organixatlon of the southern Fair circuit has been the means of horse interest in the Central South. In the past four years the amount offered annually in purses for trotters and pacsrs ny the sssoeiasaeas ln the ,sTs and at the same time the conditions governing entrance fees have annually been made more liberal. While this cult. the support given 1t by local and as 1t should be-
 only the sirGas @Os. Dsssra oereS Ss ps Dy circuit in the South, but the tracks ara l first-class mile courses and the stab ling and other conyeniences compare | favorably with the best in the country while the secretaries of the various as. sociations will be found courteous and ohllging: g:oo,..,a. comna.,,~ ,h. air. cult are worthy the support not. only of Southern horse owners and trainers, but of all parties on the lookout for an opportunity to race for good purses where the fields are not overlargs. the conditions liberal and the purses paid in cash at the wire.
 saThe weather In the South at this season of the year fs particularly pleas ant and invigorating. and the meetings of the circuit coming at the close of the racing season farther north. oher canacfty of the trotter and paeer by 4 Heightened racing season and affords owners and trainers q pleasant sojourn
 The circnit opens with Nashville hay- tnE six days-September 20 to 25; Mem- phls eleven days. September 2s to De- fober 9: Birmingham nine days Octo- Der Il to 20s and Montgomery winding
 rife circuit officiais are: R. M. Will Hams. President. Memphis,s Tenn: Rob- ert IL. Burch, Vice. President for Ten nessse; Frank D. Fuller, Secretary. Hermitage. Tenn; l.. Fl. McCurdy. Vice. prssident for Alabama, Exeeu- tive Committee, R. M. Williams, e. w. Ufford, Frank D. Fuller, J. W. Russ wurm. R. J. Chambers.
 The buriesaue, Herry-go -round run - cut csts out ans entirely. Several stake races that have not been inciuded will be held at the different towns, while a good many added races will be put on here. The class races that close June l. are as follows:
 NashviIis ana Memphis. Purse No. 1. 2:15 trot .......... .$l,VVV