Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-08-19
FAST TROTTIsG At ROCHESTER
The Best Mile Time Beaten by
Two Racers.
A MYSTERIOUS SUIC DE
A Philadelphia Boy Stolen from His
Father--The Tragic Story Of
Mrs. Wetmore's DEATH
4,O00 People Perish.
WHOLESALE RAILROAD SLAUGHTER
A MILE IN 9.IfN.

Tho Fastest Time Ever Recorded
st. Julien and Maud 3. Each TrOt
in the Same Time and Heat the
Fastest Record by IA Full Second
The Greatest Event in the History
of the Turf.
ROCHESTER, August ~ The announce
ment that st. Julien aod Maud $. would
each be trotted, the former to beat his
own best trotting record of 2.12s and the
latter to beat this and Sleepy Toms best
pacing record of 2.12i, was enough to
attract the multitude of spectators who
went in throngs to the driving park to-
day, ard $1,000 people were present to
witness the grand event. At o'clock the
California wonder and king of the
Turf" st. Julien, was driven out upon
the track and past the grand stand by
Owen A. Hickok, who is part owner of
the great trotter, and always handles him
when on the turf. Prolonged applause
and loud cheers rent the air us st. Julien
was trotted around to get heated for
the greatest effort of his life. He went
down past the judges stand several times
before Hickok nodded to the judges to
give the word Then he darted around the
track without running mate or anything
else than his driver to urge him, making
his first quarter in 33, the balf-miie in
10y, the third quarter in l.4l and the
mile in 2.l3s, the fastest trotting ever
done upon the Rochester track. The
crowd oheered, and those who were bet
ting that both horses would lower the best
previous record, now offered TO give their
opponents the odds in the pools at ratio
OF $50 to $50.
1t was forty minutes later when Mr..
Bair, of Cincinnati, drove out the heauti-
full xix year old mare, Maud s. Deafening
cheers eneued Bair nodded to the judges
and Maud y was given a send off the first
time she came down the stretch. The
track, weather and everything was in her
favor no less than in st. Julien's. She
sped away msgniticently and the inyolun.
tary exclamation of the mnpy thousand
witnesses was beautiful y She COM
pleted her first quarter iu 329, second in
LOS, third In 1881 and the milo in 2.l1a,
an entire second lower than the best trot-
ting time on record, and half second
better than the bost PAGER ever went. The
widest enthusiasm prevailed. To describe
it adequately would De utterly impossible.
Everybody knew that the best time on
record had been made b. fore the tune
keepers had made their announcement or
were consulted.
Bets now ranged SOL and $50 on Maud
against $50 and S75 on st. Julien as the
better and faster trotter OF the two. st.
Julien was brought out for his second
heat: there was less enthusiasm than
before, but he got away in fine shape,
trotted to the end of the first quarter in
3l3, second quarter in LOAF, third in
1889, and mile i'll 2, ,lla-precsely the
same time made by Maud s. in her first
heat. The cheers of the crowd this time
were strongly mingled with expressions
of dissatisfaction, for not q single expert
time keeper other than those on the
Judges stand made st. Julien's time less
than 2.12. but the official record had to
stand.
Each horse had now earned the special
purse of $1,000 offered to each, and Mr..
Stone, of Cincinnati, refused to allow the
mare to be speeded again, and Hickok
took the same position. Maud s. was trotted
again. but she made her second mile in
only z.204 and was excused from her third
heat, while st. Julien's third was trotted
in the very ordinary time of 2.24t. Hand
some testimonials were presented to the
drivers of both the king and queen of the
turf, and this terminated the greatest
trotting event the world has ever known.