The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-07-30
Rlthmonn Qispatrb.
TUESDAY MORNING July 80 1881
A Great HaCe,

| TUESDAY MORNING. JULY 80 1891
Great wace,
AS many Of our readers d uhtless wish to
know what is going m in the sporting world,
| we copy from New York paper, Of the
| 10 h, the following account Of The great
match between Flora Temple and Z han AL
len
TIE match race II yesterday between Flo
| ra T mpie anc l. 'hin Alien aud his rum il &
mate Socks has h~en locked forward 10 la
| sporting circles vi h ;ha greatest Interest -
o. ~uEdsy afternoon he d 'unia team Ill I'd.
20; lii ensIcisihg gait on the Uaion Course,
| ano ON THURSDAY 'hst t'ey shJ wed The as
| toLishing lime OF 22t together. so. has very
| few of the knOwins ones felt SAT. in taking
| every ofer OF the Flora Temple party. espe-
| ciaIlv AT the lorg ooGs which were coDtiHenr
iy offered Net less Than tire thOusaT,d d
| persons were attrscttd TO the .ion Cour>e
yesterday, and the greatest excitemsat PIE
| vailed before and during the race.
| Tle match as ter 81 O. O. mie heats, best
| three in We, TO wagons tiora's best time to
| wagons previously was 2.25, snd Ethan Allen
| acd mats best lime Ia rubiic 70 their wagons,
| 2 ~ which hAy lmade hen they trot,ed
| tb> famous d. uhls cam race against La ern
| aud his mate The odds YES terday uece heav
| lily in F'cra's favor, a grHat deal of money
| having bs%n 'nYes.e at 100 10 % %. ~, and
| even 80, against The double team. Nc Manu :
| Know II 6elt ltrmlnatiOn. never to tes he pay
male be bsa atsu II he conId prevent il gssH e
| flora's fr'er ds .yrry assl rance tina, Ethan
Tonld not win the match unless be m tde oct
| ter time than Uas ever beard OF befIe And
| yetit was only apparently Il safe thing for the
| mare, for Ia Tsaiiry she was contehd'g ut
| ,eartut o. Dis Tue running mae of han
| really pulled al the weight, and Iett hlm free
| TO do b \ best , whereas + sura hao the whole
Wegnf OF her wagon and driver 10 orag
| nan Gevec locked better III hls Ia g than h.
| did yesterday, aid his maie, So1 ks, showed
| spieudla co, dition. Fi>rs, too, was every
IN ~ . h Ia ha de e
| Mann had priceed = foot in shoeing her. ia d
msuo her shOw tr'ftng lameness Socks l..
| d fine eight ears Old Day, well ribbed up, and
| has n verv powerful arm and pretty head.
| First IL ut The dub team drew the in
size. at Ter ona score the horsHs got off very
| nj, ely together. Sam Mel usnlin, VINO
| drove the tsam, commenced ms cid game OF
gpttiIgat Flora, ans got her OH her feet at III L
| first 'urn but his own team became tx ired
| and L han broke badly as they neared the
| quarter. Flora now got Il length a"ead. and
| working steadily in front when ) I'm
made l. han bre up, and by InBnlLg iItn
| about thirty yards rushed to the lead, In the
| tWinkhng OF an eye. After q sslng the half
mite, Ethan broke 2gain, but caught niceiy and
| made Erush. keeping we'll ahe'd vi r tora,
who wa gJit at a towering pace. The i'd
vantage was Kept by Sam who urged his
horses 70 Il most 1srr' Fl: speed, and shouted 20
Flora ike wild ludIau
AS the horses wn.eied into the home stretch
every eye strained 10 ste the ra e, ami
the utmost exciten ent prevailed in the crowd
There " as a great cloud OF dust, lookiI z like
gold powdrr III the slinung sunshine, and
out of it lOomed tie forms OF the three Spien
did horses rushing down The course a. il S aept
along by whIrtwind AS they reached the
stand the widest cries We're uttered, Ann
>hor', nervous cheers gwen by thoye VINO saw
their IaYorItes ahead Then III an lis -;in l
the horses came up with the pckets pass-d
the score, and in II seconi hid swept by like 4
dream As they rushed past the staad and
me dag fell, the mui ituoe heered to the echo
Am n n a v.i(Fe IN ~ IHa 1ir ~
ery BODY kne that great time h I'd been ma g,
ana those who nad bet that nothing b tier
than SO and - would be mace, l. Cossd chop
f,llen enough. III Ie WAS a rush OF he
crowd toward the judges stan d, n IDt rnpnt Of
breat bless silence, AID then great bnrst
OF applause rs II was announced that the dou
D,e team won H. hest IL 24!. Then there
was Il buzz uf eScliemsnt, aid every tongue
SCENE d suIt once e; tor tie time lOax too
seconds Better thdn wdS eVer mute to aoGg0as
b fore
Second ana THIRD Heats The horses did
not get II t-r tue ss1u Il neat for nearly an
hour, siI ce IN MCLaUghlib perveIseiy pc
vented IL send by not hee 'ing L 5 team Ia
nand lor Flora 10 get tair start with hm
\ last they got The word, and W.nlt II we'll
Iose her, tie II. Il ahead ii any thing
sam went ST hls ola tilck ag4.n, aid 10 aGs
flora break at The turn, aNu |h6Eaer NJ
Mann could not catch her up Ill time or nos
We do rot know, bEt the tsafn got no ienE .
aheaa al the QGArter post An advantage vas
kept until hey reached the home stretch, but
EiIa made one Lf Ter hIe bursts is hey
neared the three quarter posi-, and died
about half the distance htca. The uo.ting
throughout the heat wa % magnificent as III
the previous one. especially down the sire ch,
1 here The hoTsts went in d sty IL that we
never saw qualiru.
kthan's sait was really spieudid more even
easY aud unchal gt"g nan any h. st ever
showed batore, We lhiok. Sam yeied al Flo
ia all The WAY down tne stretch as 4 he mad
escaped from Bedlam, bat she did not b e;.k
uhtIi luSt rs she nFtrrn TIE score, when,
purpose beng a>coiG plish,d, sam turned
cOmpidcenLly 70 r in IL his own fty'ng i-tm
The half IDIia Gf this heat was III III IL !,
The NILE IN 22-still "etter ih.n tue rIecr
ding enc. Tie Team Won this EeaJ By ABOUT &
length, and 1t was IS clear rs could be that
ticra had no chance OF saving the raca. 50
apparent was it, that the betting virtually
ceastd, although there Were very taW in
vestments at more reasons biz rates than be
fore ne commencement ot the race.
There was po scorirg for he third heat, the
horses getting of a. Ihe rstattempt. Flora
broke a. the urn as before, nut Caught soon,
ard ths double team gained All acy at g.
Wb ch they kept throughout The quarter
was made In 81 spcouds the hai1 l2b and
thr mile IN 233 Ethan Ellen and his mat
500 Ks winning he race, afIer Il contes It Wh ca
will be memorable III sporting circles for AL
time, not only AS he fastest OF the kind thus
tar nude bu one Of the mNst pretuiy 'on
Quoted throughout. No one has not
seen a Russian droschky drawn By its ripple
team OF TWO rum i.g horses and one tro tier
yoked together, can imagine how exciting il
is to such race that of yes Uerday
Socks, the run err d w over the ground like
tboroughbI, in lne Del by stretching out
h 8 head in front, and ieal < Ike q grey
hound, " hiis Ethan Alien, u. q stu b Il bv
his companions gait, kept up his tgni tlce Mt
trot from score 10 score, his legs moving
sQuarelY under hiia and bis long tail al d
M ane streaming like black banners IN the air
Since his great doubs team race with Ian
tern, Ethan has dole nothing, al his fame
,vsS in fair way of being forgotten white
Patchen had been king the cream of the
/ stud business at his b prices. But yesterdays
| + ce has redeemed the past, al d ma,ie him
the time the most csle bra ted trOt ing horse IN
America. 1t is said tlat the prelimiuaries OF
another ms tch between Flora 10 haruess and
T. han aud his mate as before, have been ar
ranged. and that the race will be trotted on
Union Course next Mordry In case IL
she uId be- announcei, We advise all I'M nterested
i'll rrOtting horses TO attend, for, undoubted.
", it will be the most remarkable trotLing-
match on record
KEcAPIrULATIoN.
UNION COURSE, l. l July Is Match for
81 600, mile hedls, best three in five, to wag-
ons:
Sam MCLAUGHLIN names b Ethan al.
len ard rum ing mate ScCk s..........l l
Jas. McMann names b m Flor. t-mpie.2 2
Time 2:22! 2:22 222S
A GREAT -GRASDMoIH.R BEHAVES WITH