Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-22
TURF INTERESTS
LEAD MCCOY HERE
Famous Driver is in Omaha and May
Locate Here--Entries Come I'M
for Fall Meeting.
NEW TRACK is GIVEN PRAISE

by q. X. MURRAY.
omsha's glories Of the past on the har-
ness turf were recalled last week when
Scott Mccoy. who has trained and driven
TO records hundreds Of good horses. ar
rived here for stay OF several days.
Mccoy, who formerly raced numerous
we'll known horses, is one OF dozens OF
horsemen who have been stopping off In
Omaha" since the news went out that
this city is on the map again with a
bunch Of live wires backing the sport
here
Mccoy has been out OF the horse bush
ness since his engagement with Lttleton
stock farm at washington. Pa. termi-
mated, but like all the other men OF his
type, finds II impossible to stay out Tho
tension Of tho reins and the companion
ship OF horses are, as necessary to- his ]
happiness as a violin to a man VINO has
spent his life playing that Instrument.
Mccoy may remain In Onleha- Two or
three local patrons OF the sport are adj I
vislng him to start training horses here
and he Ia looking rather favorably on the
idea. Ho II recognized everywhere as
one OF the most capable mechanics in the
business and Omaha horsemen would be
glad 70 welcome him as permanent
resident Of this city.
Mccoy once started out from Omaha
with t-year-oid pacing stallion pur-
chased in this city. and In a few weeks
made tho colt the fastest t-year-old
pacing stallion in the world. The horse
was Winslow Wilkes, 2:0e1. which later
became a suocessful sire.
II was Emmett @. Solomon, now deputy
county treasurer. who gave 'wHnslowi
wilkes his first speed lessons The Solo
In ~. i
horse business in Omaha.
Horsomen should not forget that en-
tries Cor omahas second race meeting
OF the year, which will be held at the
County Fair associations track at Ben
son, will close September /. This meet
Ing promises to be highly successful and
a nice new plant awaits the incoming
trotters and PAGERS. The races will be
held during the county fair the fourth
week In September.
The track IL a half-miie oval. and. al
though II Is new the soil at Benson Is
fast dirt and the track IL being used
regularly for motorcycle and automobile
races. The result probably will be that
the Benson oval will DO as fast as any in
the state when the horses race over II
In September.
The Fair association is charging horse
men per cent entrance fees. with the
customary per cent additional from.
money winners. The purses are 500 each.
This IL per cent less than Is usually
charged az meetings on this scale.
! Arthur @. Thomas. editor of The Horse
man. and Spirit OF the Times of Chi
cago. an excellent turf journal, IL In
terested In Omaha's revival OF harness
racing. Mr. Thomas formerly was n
resident OF Benson; was editor Of BEN
sons local newspaper. and conducted
printing and Publishing house in Omaha.
which was known 20 horsemen all over
the United states. until he went to Chi
csgo to become editor OF The Horseman.
lie is a son of a. L. Thomas, the noted
driver.
Mr.. Thomas In a letter addressed TO
the writer OF these paragraphs. writes
some kindly words OF praise for this de-
partment and remarks that the first work
which he ever did for daily newspaper
was for The Bee when he was secretary
OF the old Trl-city Amateur Driving club.
about twelve years ago