. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. August 12, 1899] ®%* gveebtv cvtxb ^i3tt*mmu 103 HARLEM AND HAWTHORNE. How the Oalifornians are Faring at the Race Tracks tn the Windy Olty. [Special Correspondence oi the Bbeedeb and Sportsman.] Chicago, 111., Jaly 30, 1899. The game of horse race has taken control of the inhabi- tants hereaboutsâat least, the sport-loving portion of the population. The average attendance at the Hawthorne or Harlem races is at least 3500 Oaths closing day of the 1 last meeting at Haw home the tarnstilea showed an attend- ance of over 10,000, and yesterday, at Harlem, fully S0
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. August 12, 1899] ®%* gveebtv cvtxb ^i3tt*mmu 103 HARLEM AND HAWTHORNE. How the Oalifornians are Faring at the Race Tracks tn the Windy Olty. [Special Correspondence oi the Bbeedeb and Sportsman.] Chicago, 111., Jaly 30, 1899. The game of horse race has taken control of the inhabi- tants hereaboutsâat least, the sport-loving portion of the population. The average attendance at the Hawthorne or Harlem races is at least 3500 Oaths closing day of the 1 last meeting at Haw home the tarnstilea showed an attend- ance of over 10,000, and yesterday, at Harlem, fully S000 | persons mast have witnesse 1 the sis contests. The weather has been fair, the tracks fast at least seven-eighths of the â time, and local time records hive been shattered in many instances. This season the Hawthorne track, which was | generally accounted fully two seconds "slower" than the Harlem one, haB turned out to be a ''faster" course to the ,extent of about three quarters of a second to a mile, fjr Tenby ran a mile at Hawthorne in 1:39} and could go the route at Harlem no batter than 1:40. Goebel ran six fur- longs in 1:12| at Harlem a few weeks ago and old Meddler beat him out in Blower time. The latter went the distance in 1:13 flit at Hatvthoroe with 114 lbs. up, eased the last sixteenth, Donald Bain did seven-eighths of a mile in 1:25$ at the latter coarse. Booey Boney went a mile in 1, and Benneville did likewise, if memory serves me. Horses that raced in California last winter have been verv much ,lin the hunt" here this summer, notably old O'Connell, who was a frequent winner early in the season; Sloan & HnrBt's Prioc9 Blazes, Fred Foster's Yellowtaii, Sam Mc- Keever and Geo. H. Ketchum, Earnshaw Bros.' Einstein and Mistral 11 , Holman & Hollis' Ojr Johnny, Liuls Ez^li's Kamsin and Espionage, C. P. Fink's Hirdly, Frank Van Ness' (J. Smith's) Limewater, Kittleman's Myth, P. Ryan's Native Son, P. Corrigan's Ricivao, W. P. Mi
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