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MONTANA AND ITS RACING The sharp American success of 1836 in a rac race ¬ ing King way was that of the meetings at Anaconda and Butte Montana Their reflections have been startling Ogden who won the Futurity and May W the best good thing of the west ¬ ern Bern season came from them Although he did not appear on the surface Marcus Daly Dally was the good angel of the Montana meetings Ed Tipton Lipton of Lexington was the mechanic His success as secretary of both tracks was sharp and clear Tiptons Tritons a trotting horseman in reputation The Kentucky Associations suc such ¬ cess was his first passport It was one of great class classTipton castigation Tipton Lipton is a student and when Secretary Mil ¬ ler leer was in harness for the Lexington Racing Association Tipton Lipton did much of the work with him Tipton Lipton went to Montana in the early sum ¬ mer mere He was in Chicago on his way to Ken ¬ tucky tuck a few days ago I saw him at the Great Northern He is in love with the West We gossipped gossiped of Mr Daly Dally Montana its racing horses and the Anaconda and Butte meetings Mr Tipton Lipton said No wonder Ogden won the Futurity He raced like a wonder in Montana and John Campbell is confident that he is the colt of a century Ogden is a noble individu individual ¬ ally May Ws a shifty goodlooking boohooing filly dho dhow won two fast races with us five furlongs in 1 Uiy2 and threequarters treasurers in 1 U1A The tracks at Anaconda and Butte though are as good as 9t ney NE and intelligent fitting and tools can make ihem hem ihemTo Hemet To my idea Moutana Montana is the greatest country on earth in which to race or hold races because the people there look upon racing as a sport worthy of patronage and they have the money to gratify their notions Wages are good and the men who toil are amongst the best patrons of both the gate and the pool box The women bet almost as much as the men menConsidering nonconcurring Considering the fact that our thoroughbred fields average fewer than five horses to a race and that we started in with not more than 120 thoroughbreds but they were good enough to go into any kind of a race I think the meeting at both Anaconda and Butto Butt were simply mar ¬ vels veils The attendance was large and enthusias enthusiasm ¬ tic and though we had few real plungers the volume of betting was enormous everybody buying a mutual ticket if no more Had we had 100 more thoroughbreds the meeting from a betting standpoint would have been almost on the phenomenal or unheard of order As it was I am well satisfied that our betting brought us more per day than was realized this year at either Louisville Oakley Ankle Latonia Antonia New ¬ port St Louis or Milwaukee Then too there was not a single book on All the betting was done by the French mutual and auction system Men who have been all around the racing world I mean by all around to cover Europe and Australia tell me that they never saw such mutual betting except in Paris 1 believe them for it was no unusual thing for 40000 per lay to go through the ma ¬ chines chimes on five races of very small fields Then too no matter what the winning 5 tickets paid they realized from 515 to 39790 their Li Iders Ides were satisfied much better than the cverage coverage bettor is satisfied with booking and booking prices From first to last there was no talk about horses running dead in the inter ¬ est of certain bookmakers bookmakersOf bookmakers Of course there was some kicking we never saw a meeting without it But it was not such as is usual around tracks where the betting is done in the books Yes I I am a strong advocate of going back to first principles and selling puols polls and mutuals mutual and dropping the books if possible The change has got to come and it cant come too soon to suit me meOf memo Of course the Mutual aad ad Auction Systems will be hard to introduce in cities like Chicago But they are the present systems for smaller ilaces laces Banish the books and tracks like Washington Park can be made to pay 1000 to 50UU per day in commissions alone That may sound small for such a noble rating place as Washington Park but even there year in and ar out it is pretty hard to average from fifty sixty books daily dailyI daily I expect to go back to Montana in 1897 and all I want is enough thoroughbreds to fill my fields Had the eastern brigade known the fiold fold there would have been plenty of horses this summer The balance will be easy enough because I now understand all the conditions to make success reasonably certain certainWho certain Who is the leader in racing in Moutana Montana You know that it is Marcus Daly Dally whom I re ¬ gard guard as the greatest sportsman ever in America and as broad guaged gauged a a man as ever lived I never saw his equal when it comes to doing anything that he con ¬ siders sliders worth his while Nothing can be done too well for him and he is willing at all times to pay what a thing is worth or even a little more if it will help along some poor fellow try ¬ ing King to get up in the world He kept up wages in Montana when other big mining men wanted to reduce them and today he is the greatest friend labor has in America He believes in the motto Live and let live and lives up to it every day Of course he has enemies because he is a man of brains and asseits assets himself when neces nieces sary scary but it will be a bad day for the men who toil and their dependents when Montana loses him May he live to be a hundred years old
