The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-06
RA|LB|RDS HAVE
. HARD Job NAMING
MATINEE WINNERS
Speed Committee Has Com
pleted Fast Card for the
Weekly EventS-Free-for-
All Pace Stands Out.

Railbirds are up a tree in their ef-
forts to pick the winners in Saturdays
matinee Of the Tri-State Driving club
al me fairgrounds. The speed com
looks both fast and open, and the talent
that was bumped so consistently last
week may receive another series of
Jolts In the same place. Five out of six
races went to the outsiders.
The free-f AL pace stands out as
the feature, and is certain to be a
grand battle in every heat. Wanda
vincent seems to be getting good again,
and stepped a mile in 2:12 to defeat
oregon Boy, with as much ease as she
mas heretofore been going around in
zIf oregon Boy raced short, as his
stable thought he would, but the race
ana good workout this week should
make much better horse of him.
Both Tip Top, and Romac Mills
seemed to lack their usual snap last
week. and ana were pretty well hammered
out IN ,2:l2%, but race horses are very
much like human athletes; they have
several good days, then a bad one. and
II would. not be at all surprising to see
this pair of rivals get right and
forget all about the other two en-
The free-for-all tfot 70 generally has
some one horse that at this late in the
season stands well out above the 9TH
ers, such as Miss S16 last season, but
Just who is who at present is a prob
lem.
Great Rivalry Here.
Wiki Nui won very impressively
last week, and also holds the trotting
record Of 2:12h, while Alice A. has de-
1eated the McCreery mare two out of
three starts. There is doubtless more
rivalry in this race than there has been
since the Tip Top-Little Nina series,
ana as both entries worked splendidly
wednesday real race is in store for
the onlookers Saturday.
Another race that will be a dandy Is
the second, with six entries, and
very unusual feature here is that five
OF the six horses have all won in 2:16
some time during the season. Charley
Downs drove Betty Boyd a beautiful
race last week. trotting two heats in
2:lS4s, and then worked her last We'd
nesday without a skip or a bobble in
2:l4: Gertie B., who has not been at
herself for the past two or three Sat
urdays, came back in her workout this
week and reeled off a mile for Ike
Gronauer in 2:15A, with plenty in re-
TO one bet that the winner of this con-
test will lower it's season record
Inc first and fifth events are we'll bal
anced and though Lucy knight seems
to stand out a little in her race there
is not enough difference to make her a
very pronounced favorite.
Will Start on Time.
Club. officials announced last week
tnat they We're going to start racing
promptly at 2 o'clock, and were going
to countenance no delays in hurrying
through the program. They made good
with a vim and finished six racesStwo
or which went three heats each-in
Just three hours and 20 minutes. This
action made a most decided hit with
everyone on the grounds, and a con-
, tinuance of like tactics is certain to in
crease interest in the game. Starter
Allen Lewis and the judges associated
Win MIN in the stand are to be COM
plimented on the hurry-up methods they
used last Saturday.
=, Another decision reached by club Of
Iicers this week was to officially end
the matinee season on Aug. 28, instead
OF sept. IL. 1t was explained that this
action was taken as the fair at Jack
son, Tenn. opens on Sept. 10, and as
practically a third of the horses in the
Club are going there to race, owners
would not care to race here on the
18th then start back on the 18th at
jackson. Five or six horses will also
beshipped away within the next ten
DAYS or two weeks to start racing at
Fulton, Hopkinsville and other Ken
lucky points. In this lot are Heliobas,
Lucy Knight, Frank Bragg, Miss Belle
Patchen and others.
Another point to be considered when
racing dates were cut down was that
on Sept. l nearly all the stores that
nave been giving half holidays on Sat-
urdays during the summer will discon-
tinue this practice.
Admission and programs are free and
tne oand will furnish music between
heats The program: