The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-02-04


lot that there Is in4-
are, he is q strang- HALF-MilE
er to the quaint az TRACKS.
fairs or q wholly
different nature that transpire almost
daily through the summer on the
smaller tracks OF the land.
Much can be said In favor or the
sport as exemplifled by the million
aire stables and the famous trainers
who come down the big line, II Is
true. Yet, IL real fun Is the consider
alton, give the man who knows, a
good little half.mile track, and let
him stroll out to the lower turn and
watch nine or ten PAGERS, In the 2:23
class. come charging into II. hopples
creaking. drivers yelling, whips crack
ing, sulkies humping. everybody try
ing for the pole and everybody else
trying to keep him away from IL.
Such sights are meat and drink for
the men who held session couple
OF days ago ut the annual meeting
OF the Michigan Short Ship circuit,
the livest affair OF It's kind In the
country.
During the lulls In the session. stor.
les like this were passed around:
you remember that little. black.
pacing mare. Bill Smith campaigned
for me last year? Well, she ought
to be about right next spring, I'm
thinking and we're looking for some
quite considerable oats money, II we
can stick In the 2:1S class. Last year
we won seven races and the mare
got mark OF seventeen and a quar-
ter. She could shade that any day.
In fact, we don't know how fast she
could go, for she was never beat
when the money was down. Perhaps,
Ill enter her In the G. OF c., though
guess our thousand-dollar stakes
look better to me.
"Bill and me won three races with
her In Michigan and then took her
down into Ohio. We entered at Can.
ton and the first man see there was
big Jim Jones. / knew his mare was
the one We had to beat.
I'VE shook hands. Well says I. I
hear you've got good one this year,
jim
Yes, Charlie, says he, I have,
I hear you're here with something
a good deal better'n fair, too
Jim. says I, What's the use OF
US KILN our bosses out there. to-
morrow. tryin' to beat each other?'
There amt no use at ALL says
he, Let's make up our minds which
one OF us needs that first money
worst. and get together. But don't
buy no pools downtown tonight; wait
till tomorrow at the track
We'll, my mare sold even favor
lite that night against The field and
the betting was brisk. I was some
surprised they'd heard 80 much about
her down there. But waited at the
track next morning for Jim. He did
not show up till just before the first
score. Then he says:
Charlie, the best man wins!'
"The skunk.
"Bill and me had talk and stood
pat. I went under the stand and bet
all / wanted to-all had, for that
matter-and did II in five minutes.
Believe me, I bet on my own mare.
"Jim's driver didn't try very hard
for the first heat and We won IL In
2:19 IA. Another Teller finished a
bang-up second on the outside. AZ.
ter the heat Bill and looked the 9th
er Teller up and asked him II he
thought he could stay there again. He
said he could and we offered him SIS
IL he'd do IL. We made Jim's mare
go the mile In third position and Bill
beat her on In fine finish I'm 2:18 IA
The third heat the other mare could
not come back and we won II.
THAT night down town, Jim show
ed me a stack OF $25 tickets on the
field. There must have been 100 oil
'em. But he wasn't sore bit"
What a lot of Chesterfields those
ball players are going to be when on,
OF that Automobile jury is around
What?
The Cleveland hockey team thai
was licked SO soundly In Detroit has
some nerve anyhow. Down to New
York and playing for the champion
ship What do you think Of that?
The nervous wreck" OF that wrest
ling behemoth must be, indeed, a har
rowing sight,
Our sympathies certainly go out To
Hal Lanigan of the st. Louis Times
who writes touchingly: Our race
tracks are closed down; our. fight
clubs are closed up; we're losers on
the diamond; our ten-pinners can't
win: our billiardists are on the bum,
There's link on everything" Hal,
old scout, why don't you move away?