The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-07-22
ey E. o. LAURENCE.

BY &. D. LAURENCE.
The dear old public" which has so
much to do with whether q race meet
ing Is a success or not. had an inning
at Windsor yesterday, when five fav-
orites showed In front At fair odds,
and the layers" did not lay up as
much as they paid out.
The piker family must have walked
home, as only one lonely 10 TO 7 shot
was In front, and that In the timber
topping event
Lots OF excitement was caused In the
steeplechase when DR.. Heard stumbled
and when IL was all over II was found
that Yourell had fractured an arm.
The boy was given medical attention
at the track and later sent to a hos
pital
The winners of the various races
were, Steamboat, Prince, Ta-Nun-Da,
Nimbus, Light 0,My Life. Eagle Bird
and Arctic.
Compton was claimed out OF the last
race by r. f. Carman for his entered
price, plus first money. Carman also
had large wager on Arctic and made
small sized killing.
Phil ,Hyams. the plunger. Is said to
have had good day. having bet on
four miners.
A popular victory yesterday was
that OF Eagle Bird, at odds on and a
| lusty yell greeted this good filly as
she passed under the wire In front OF
King Avondale.
The bookmakers at Windsor must
have had hard shedding as some OF the
plungers were carrying around loose
change" to the amount OF 100000 "a
| few more cyphers WatsonD and $2-
| 900 winning wagers were common at
the over-the-river emporium Of chance.
Today's card IL a good one and well
worth the journey to foreign shores,
bring composed of seven good races.
This is supposed generally to be
ioug=stut day and Dollar Bill and hts
brother "Two-Spot" should be on hand
long before the first race. In order to
get a line on the refreshment depart
ment II by any lucky chance the book
makers, Benevolent society might be
donating something to charity. the
middle name Of the brothers.
| The present meeting OF the Wind
sor Racing association has been by far
the hest ever given at the Canadian
! course and Farmer and Hendrie de-
i - q oa A
b Dode. starter, and Messrs Price and
Nelson. the judges, for the able man
ner In which the meeting was con-
Quoted.
| Very few kicks were heard regard
ing the racing, which Is little out OF
the ordinary, so the sport must have
been clean as II could be made.
| Most OF the horses at Windsor will
ship wednesday to TT. Erie, where the
bang tails' hold forth for seven days.
under the management of the Texo-
Canadian John Madigan.
Today is the last day boys, pick 'em
right and don't be did"
AS the racing gameh as been re-
stricted TO Kentucky and the Canad-
| ian tracks, with a few bush meetings
in the far west, excepted, and the
horsemen having abandoned hope OF
a resumption of the sport In New
York, the eyes of che racing world
are now turned on Cuba, where II. ID.
Brown Is constructing plant near
Havana TO race 100 or more days this
winter.
That the venture will be successful
there Is little doubt as Brown Is a
man who has had nothing but success
In every enterprise of the kind that
he has undertaken. The two plants,
City Park at New Orleans, and Jack
sonville, Florida, will be monuments
to his forethought and skill as long as
racing Is known.
Both these plants were builtu nder
most discouraging conditions and had
| Il not been that "Cnrley" Brown was a
man who did not know what failure
meant. neither OF these tracks would
have ever been heard OF In the racing
world. True, adverse legislation has
| closed both these magnificent tracks
but they were the scenes OF the big.
gest meetings ever given outside or
| New York for several years.
RACING may not be dead IN jackson=
Vile notwithstanding the enactment
of the drastic measure passed last
May by the cracker" legislature as.
in the opinion of some of the ablest
attorneys OF the Peninsular state, the
anti-racing bill will not stand test
az to its constitutionality and as
the Florida association Is re-erecting
the big grandstand that was burned
last May, II would seem that there Is
n good deal In the rumors that 40
days meeting would be given thii
winter, proceeding the 100 days OF
lcontinuous racing at Havana