The Washington herald., 1911-05-28
By l.. d. SALE.


sented by DR.. ]. E. Sansbury. at his
Forestville track on Tuesday. Inc cur
tain will rise at II o'clock on cofkins
baseball game between the SurrattsVlile
High School nine and the Seat Pheasant
bows. The scene of the game will be the
infeld of the track. which has been spe.
ciallv prepared for the event. The 2:2o
trot Will be called by Starter l.. d. Sale
promptly at 1:30. The trot and pace, halr
mile heats. will follow and those sched-
uled to appear are Peter Ford, Nina Alc-
Gregor. and jim Sin.
Then Charley Hal, the free-for-all PAGER,
will try to take a fall out of the coming
great trotter, Won March. The third race
will be a five-furlong one, and the fourth
a ladies' race of four furlongs. any style
of riding, for a s25 purse to the winner,
or division may be had OF 80 per cent
for first horse, % per cent for second
horse, and Is per cent Of the purse Tor
the horse that comes in last. The mile
dash will bring TO the score number OF
our best local runners for purse of $50.
winner take all A Prince George County
midway will be in evidence on the
grounds. when the elephant will walk
round, the curtain go down and the pand
play Annie Rooney"
The best and most taking feature Of
the Decoration events at Forestville lies
in the fact that it will not be family"
affair. pure and simple No one or two
men will own or control all of the horses
that will perform. and thereby hog all.
or nearly all, of the purses offered. The
doctor has never been charged with ava
rice or smallness in his dealings with
l.; F,rlo -1,n hn V-l
up will he widely distributed, as ii should
be in all cases, and even were no money
hung up at all. every horseman in Wash
ington worthy of notice would give Dr.
Sanshurv the benefit of his services for
the disposition he has shown to aid them
in making a success of the Speedway
events at this point. Those who do not
have horses to race intend to be present
in order TO give the doctor hearty send
off and the proper encouragement, III
order that he may maintain his track
and furnish sport for the summer season
Others who do own horses. but who are
not yet quite ready to race them, have
been patriotic enough TO pay entry fees,
without expectation of return. in order
that the doctor may know that they are
with him in spirit and purse. With such
a constituency behind him. DR.. Sansbury
may rest assured Iildl DtSoIdbioi LAY a.
Forestville will be a red letter one for
his track.
A pleasanter spot for holiday outing
than the Forestville track cannot be
found within a radius of eight miles. The
way there is over good turnpike, and the
ride such an enjoyable one that one Is
there almost before il is noticed that he
has fairly left town. There are no tedi-
Gus waits for steam cars to bring one
home. Conveyances will be in waiting to
take passengers TO the trolley line, or, If
one wishes to make an early start for
home with his conveyance, he can do so
and get there in time for his dinner.
This is one good reason why all the
roads that lead out of Washington on
Tuesday next will converge on Forest
Vile An added feature of the days
sport will be the effort of H. c. Machen.
of Washington. to drive his car on the
track mile in one minute. Mr.. Machen
will drive his new model 4. T. which
won the Four-leaf Clover sweepstakes in
the recent contest TO York and return.
Mr.. Charles c. Waters. owner of Pleas
ant Fields Stock Farm. Germantown.
Md. in a recent letter states that his
lee. 2:l91-4: Allie X. 2:291-4: Patchen
BeIl. 2:I7 II. and black filly by Kinster.
2:l434 dam Alice j.. 2:14 Ia. This filly
in the matter of speed and manners is
one of the most promising in Montgom-
cry County. The writer saw her work
over the farm track last summer, and
then predicted that she would add fresh
luster to the fame of Pleasant Fields
Stock Farm.
Mr. Waters thinks very highly Of a
four-year-old flly by kinslee, dam by
Monocacy. 2:15 3-4. and also of a three
year-old by Joe Patchen. 200 1-2 dam
Prestoria Wilkes. 2-131-2 They, too, will
be raced the coming season If all goes
we'll with them Mr. Waters trains his
own horses, and usually drives them in
races when his health, which is not of
the best, does not prevent. For upward
of fifteen years past he has been one of
the main props of racing in Maryland,
and his stable is always considered wher-
ever entered in the Maryland and West
Virginia circuits.
Favorable reports continue to come in
from Rockville and Laurel. where Bowl
ing, Widmeier, and Corbin preside over
the destinies of the trotters and PAGERS
placed IN llelT CndTSe. SOIDll HO" HdS
string consisting of fourteen trotters
and PAGERS, and each week now he is let
ting the more forward of them down a
peg. He is placing special reliance on
John Morris Berka, and j. NJ. Corbin's
Solagraph to bring home the coonskins
when he cuts them loose. and still pins
his faith TO Michael Morris Koroni, whom
he believes will make a -high-class trot-
ter after he has ground him to the proper
edge. II breeding. manners, and gait
count (and they do) Corhin should feel
himself on easy street this year. Others
that he has in hand look good to him,
and by fall should be paying back part,
at least, of their feed and training bills.
p. J. OKeefe will soon have Ed BALI,
2:ll IA, in town again for a few DAYS
before he starts for the Baltimore cir
cult, with which he is familiar. II will
be a great disappointment to the numer-
Gus admirers of the bay gelding. II ia
vorable reports are not received from
him the present season. He is at the
height of his maturity. he has extreme
speed and breeding, and he likes to race.
Widmeir has been very careful in bring
ing him into racing condition, and thus
far BALI has stood his stunts in a very
acceptable manner.
Bowling is not saying very much about
the horses in his charge but 1t is known
that they are coming forward as fast as
he wants them TO. Thus far he has no
Bedworth Jr.'s on his staff, but he may
have one before the season is older Cor
bin is stepping Peter LOTUS Miss Arcola
along, and she is beginning to show
something of her old Speedway form