Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-16
HORSEMEN LOOK TO
THE GREAT WESTERN
Owners and Trainers Prepare
for Driving Clubs Turf
Classic.
HAL M'KINNEY GOES EAST
BY RUSSELL PHELPS.

BY RUSSELL PHELPS.
Over in another column you'll find
an account of how several thousand
speed mad" racing fans cheered
themselves hoarse as the "daredevils"
"circled the oval" shit the boards. "
"flirted with DEATH" and all that.
And all we'll enough Motor racing
is a grand game; but there are those,
and they are legion, who would hold
out, even if the whole world, Mars,
Saturn and all the rest of the planets
were motorized to the 'steenth degree,
that there is but one real sport-horse
racing, the proverbial sport of kings.
The roar and sputter and deafening,
power-spitting engines of the gas
boys "sulkies" overshadowed and
drowned out most everything else in
the sport line here during the last
week, especially over at East Omaha,
a place referred to by the buzz wagon
scribe as the motor speedway" but
nevertheless stubbornly contended to
be, by the perpertrator of this column,
the harness racing track of the
Omaha Driving club"
Horses Stay in Clear.
A few horses-horses that are being
quartered at the local track for one
reason or another, instead Of starting
in the numerous meetings. looming
10 on all sides of Omaha these days,
nervously paved the ground and fid-
geted in their stalls during the week
and wondered what the noise was all
about.
But the horse will again have his
inning in Omaha in a month or so.
and the chances are ten to one that
the thousands of loyal Omaha sport.
men and sportswomen who journeyed
out to the speedway yesterday, will
repeat the performance August u to
rs, inclusive, the dates of the Great
Western circuit meeting at East
Omaha under the auspices of the
Omaha Driving club.
That it will be the greatest harness
racing card ever hung up in Nebraska
or the middle west is conceded by
even the doubling Thomases of the
horse fraternity.
The great, Great Western circuit,
offering in stakes and purses sum
that totals up quarter OF a million
dollars for the eleven meetings, sched-
ules the first program tomorrow at
Cleveland. Then in order come: De-
troit, Peoria, Galesburg, Burlington,
Omaha, Des Moines, Minneapolis,
Milwaukee, Springfield and Sedalia'
The talent is predicting the most sue
cessful season the Great Western has
ever experienced.
Hal Mckinney Goes East.
Omaha's greatest PAGER, Hal Nc
Kinney, owned by Tom Dcnnison,
was taken to Galesburg last week
after completing the most notable
early meeting campaign in the IA
nous stations racing history. The
pride of the Dennison stables is in
charge of Bob Sebastin, the we'll
known driver and trainer. A picked
caretaker was taken along to give
constant attention to the kingly ami
NAL that so successfully cleaned up
the free-for-all pacing events in Ne
braska the last couple of months.
Hal Mckinney is to be given daily
workouts on the mile track at Gales
burg, and then, if in his owners esti-
nation, the son of Hal B. has shown
himself to be well fitted for the longer
distance, he will be entered in the big
noise. At just what meeting Hal
Mckinney will make his debut on the
Grand, Mr.. Dennison has not as yet
decided. 1t all depends on what the
PAGER does at Galesburg in the way OF
training on the mile oval.
Mr.. Dennison went to Cleveland
yesterday where r. c. H., 2:l3A, a
fancy trotter in which he owns hall
interest, will start in the initial pro-
gram of the Ohio city meeting. Peter
son Brothers of Omaha own the other
half interest in R. c. H. Marvin
Childs will handle the reins.
Local racing interest the last week
conferred upon Fremont, where the
second meeting of the Nebraska
Speed association drew large crowds
and afforded the fans three days Of
classy stepping. Several Omaha.
owned speed merchants got in the
money, large delegations of local fan.
watching their favorites work by, and
horsemen making the run to the meet.
ing each day and returning the same
evening. The horses entered for the
third meeting on the Speed associa-
ton circuit will be turned at West
Point on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday of this week.
Death Of Dan Patch.
The death of Dan Patch at Mime.
apolis last week marked the passing
of the greaest PAGER the world has
ever known. His death was followed
in a day by that Of his owner, M
w SAVAGE one Of the counrty's fore.