The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-16
RESTORE RAGING
 IN TENNESSEE
MOVEMENT WILL BE BEGUN TO E-ESTABLlSH GAME IN BLUE
 GRASS SECTION.
Will Not EndeaVor to Reopen Book making, but Will Operate Under the New Pari-Mutual System.

Chicago Dec. 15.-There is just a chance that racing may be resumed again in Tennessee at some time in The near future, but, if so, it will be without the bookmaking adjunct
 That part of the game will have to go, and in it's place will come he auc- ton pools, and the pari-mutuals. At a recent session of the Tennessee leg islature there were two bills before the house, one to permit boxing and the other 70 resurrect racing
 Both of these bills could not be passed, and the adherents of both measures agreed to unite in passing the boxing bill, and to wait a more favorable time in which to pass he otIher. The boxing bill was passed and at the next session of the legis- lature, a bill fathered by John w. Schorr, the wealthy Memphis brewer; George C. Bennett and other promi. nent breeders will be introduced A.
 
 ished at Nashville, and the chances for the passage of the bill are said to be exceedingly brieiS-
 With such a bill coming up 1t is a pity the bluff old Col. Mon gomery. who was the head and front of the Memphis track, in the days of its pros perity, and who died many years ago. is not still in the land of the living The colonel was a hale, hearty and bluff Irishman, who ran the Memphis Jockey Club under his own rules, ana who was as homes. as the day is long Of his disregard for any set rules of the racing game. when they con ficted with his ideas of probity. many good story is told, and here is one of them.
 It was in the early eighties that Bill Whaelpn of Chicago, owner of the steeplechaser, Carter H. Harrison, then one of the best timber toppers that was running in the West, started for Memphis with his horse, but be- fore leaving Chicago he warned all of his friends in Riley's pool room to have a bet on Bucephales, a Ions shot in the race, that had been agreed upon. The race was a stake, and Carter H. Harrison was on edge. There was only one way that Carter H Harrison could lose, and that was 10 run outside of the flags, and that was the way that W'haelen planned 10 lose it. In the betting Carter H. Harrison was odds choice, and in the stand Col Montgomery was the pre- siding official
 There was nothing to the race but Carter H. Harrison, He went right to the front and stayed there over the entire route but he skipped a half a dozen jumps Under ordinary racing rules he would have been dis qualified. though he had finished first by half a dozen lengths, and that was ihe expectation of Whaelen and his friends. There was no hesitation in the stand Up went Carter F. Harri- sons number and when Whaclen, al- most paralyzed with astonishment, looked up from under the stand whe-a he stood, said:
 "Houd on, iedees; my horse did not go the course The colonel look ed down and said: "T don't care whether he did or not He's the best horse in the race, I'll give it 10 him anyway"
 Holy mither of Moses, gaspad Bn, "but phawtll me friends in Chicago say?"
 What Bills friends in Chicago did say would have filed a good sized book. and it took him years to con vince them that they had not been given the double cross. A few decj- sions of that particular Montgomery brand would work wonders at some of these winter tracks, and it is a pity that there are not more men like him in the racing business at the present 4its,n