The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-16
PROSPECTS OF
 RACING DARK Looks Gloomy Through
 out the South. FAIR CIRCUIT IN IRE BALANCE Birmingham Expects to Have Ons Big Meeting. unless southern Circuit IS organisea There win Be Few Horses Of
 clana At the Local Fair
FAIR CIRCUIT IN THE BALANCE

The admission of Memphis into the Great Western Circuit smashes the chain of the Southern Fair Circuit ana makes the outlook pretty gloomy not onlv for racing in the South, but at the fair here in Montgomery next Oc- tober. ,. a. .h. head of fine Southern Fair Circuit have taken no action so far, althougn ths Tennessee Fair Circuit people have had fheIr meeting and made every arE1ne1 ment for the coming season. a Er@Hn in TrnIier who will be remembered ln Mnntgomery as the starting judge or tha Southern Fair Circuit in 1soe, nag stnae' that time been the secretary o5 both the Tennessee Fair ,Circults anu the Southern Fair GircuitS. Sowsvar the prIvers' Association started hsns srairst his reelection ana sueceeoSo in having John Early, mempeE oL InS s, Drivers Association. elected secTstars ths of line Tennessee Fair Circuit. 1T the Soufiarn Fair Circuit is reorganEed it is nrobable that MT. Early VIII pc aecretarv of that association. elso, though at present there Is no Sousnehn Fair Association. .rohar of the Southern Fair Circuit. has joined fine half mile ranks Of the AenheSSSSe S Circuit as has also Huntsville. 1ne season for the Tennessee CiIculS attao oeSI.
 
 vile after which the other seven towns folIoVy in the order named-WineneSteE' Tullahoma, Shelbyville. MoftEes,S,DVt0' 0' Columbia. Nashville ana Huntsxliass' ,,r.
 Trhe North Alabama town winds up tbe season with the last week In sep tember. The racing in each town was originally fixed for four days, put as sheibyyiile it seems could not nave Sour days 1t was arranged to have tbrsa days race meet at each town. With inc program in each town there v.,tII he a two year old trot and a two year old pace of $20o each with addeo money. the regular nVe per Sene o1 fhs town+TulIahoma and SheInyVile es- necially--there has been httcn on Nc- count of the fact that those two s, 5sso ciations wanted runners ana the QrM- .- era Association is sticking 10 thelL resolution not to race on an association track where runners were alloWeu Rem whitehead, of the Thomas ana Whitehead stable over at NanoiVeI cornmittee of the Drivers Association and his vote has been cast against the bangtails. s..x,.
 The hia stahle at Vandiver Park will ha snlft fhis summer, Whitehead cam paigning a bunch of about five oyer th' | tracks of the Great Western Clrcult while Thomas will campaign the res
 of the string over the Tennessee aa oee- Glr, th' l l Southern Fair Circuit While White head has not decided definitely as yet he said yesterday that he thought n' would take Creighton Girl. the consist
 ent trotting mare that made a grea
 record last season. Al Stanley. the phe
 nomenal colt that startled the hors' world by his sensational perrormance' | over the Tennessee and Southern As
 sociation tracks and in the two yea old futurity at Lexington, last octobe
 when he was a consistent third ever! heat In the oficial time of 2:13: Mar! 1 Directly, the game little mare tha paced second to Lillie Pointer, whei the Teague mare won her race in Bir ninRham last summer in 2:09 l-2.
 Tie fourth horse that he win talk
 over the Great Western Circuit IS Ton T.. a green six year old pacer be longing to W. S. Teagus, Jr.. of thi
 city. While the pacsr has no ofieia
 mark he can get into any class. H
 is pretty speedy and Whitehead ha driven him some fast miles. out ct th track. His sire is RexWood. the grea