Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-06

!'uHhOI, OiduldtOEs Happy AHOugnI, Buzz
Medium, Director, Modoc, Forest Patchen,
Billy Button, Deck Wright, Captain Lewis,
st. Cloud. 81. B. Winship, Josephus. Steve
Maxwell and Phyllis.
W. r. Merriam's new pole team, Prince
Arthur 1.-THE North Branch horse) and Kitty
Clyde, now being handled by E. A. Parker
on the Minneapolis track, were driven a
full mile Friday, without skip, in 2:25115
the time being taken by several gentlemen
who had the pleasure of witnessing the
performance. If not in error this is the
fastest heat made by pole team in the
Northwest, or for thas matter west of the
city Of New York.
John Splan makes push shot in a game
of advertising sulkies, in letter from
Cleveland, which says; 81 see that Jay
Eye See was pushed along by one of
Oaffrey's sulkies the first lime he was
hitched to it in 2:17155, which is quite a
feat. But can now say to you that the
first time I hitched Fanny Witherspoon to
Brown sulky it sent her to the wire in
2:154. Considering the difference in the
size of the horses, think the Brown sulky
entitled to the most credit for pushing.''
Detailed reports of the races at Pitts
burg furnish the explanation of Com.
Kittson's b. m. Minnie R. being distanced
IN the fourth heat of the 2:19 class, by
the statement that she threw a shoe with
toe weight at the start, after which the was
logged. around the track by Splan. The
| performance of the mare at Cleveland,
finishing good third in 2:19, shows she is
rapidly coming to her speed, and justifes
Splan's opinion that she will give horses
in her class lots of trouble before the sea-
son ends.
If Commodore Kittson was not law
abiding citizen he would get shot gun aid
go for the head-liner of the Pioneer Press
who on Saturday perpetrated the follow
ing sensational but stupid lying announce
ment: "Both Minnie r and Gem, of the
Midway stable, were badly beaten again
yesterday" As the law does not provide
| any punishment for man being fool or
a liar, the perpetrator of the above will
be spared to infict some more of his
| lying nonsense on the suffering readers of
the sheet in question.
In speaking of the free for all pacing
race at Pittsburg-one of the fercest bet
ting races ever seen on this continent, won
| byBufalo Girl, beating Richbell, the favorite
after losing to him the first heat in 2:12L
IN the remarkably fast time of 2:1415,
2:14A, 2:12115, the last, the fastest fourth
heat ever trotted or paced, M. T. Grattan
in his report to the Breeders Gazette, says
of Commodore Kittson's b. N. Gem in the
fourth heat: "Gem gave another hint in
| this heat of what she has in store for the
boys one of these days in the way of a
surprise party"
The first day of the Pittsburg meeting,
week before last, was a memorable one,
from the fact that the three events on the
card were all taken by Blue Bulls, viz:
| The 2:23 class by Gladiator, b. G. by Blue
Bull, dam by Jim Monroe, best time
2:22A; the 2:40 class by Matte H., b. NJ,
by Blue Bull, dam by Davy Crockett, in
the three straight heats beating field of
| five, the first heat in 2:3O and the third in
2:2912, and the 2:30 pacing race by Billy
S., b. g., by Blue Bull, dam by Mambrino
Chief, also in straight heats beating field
of four, time 2:224, 2:23A, 2:2315.
The entries for the meetings of the grand
| circuit at Buffalo, Rochester, Utica, Hart
| ford and Providence closed at II o'clock
| the night of the 31st ult, AS yet only the
| names of entries at Buffalo have come to
! hand Here the entries from the Kittson
stable are Fannie Weatherspoon and Min
ME R. in the 2:18 class, Gem in the fre-for-
all pacing and Wilson in the 2:22. Mr..
Woodmansee is also one of the eleven sub
scribers to the special stake race for
horses of the 2:19 class, to come off during
the Springfield meeting, for purse of
$4,000, horses to be named August IA.
correspondent at Faribault calls at
tention to an error that crept into recent
communication of his in giving the pedi-
gree of 5-year-old colt owned by Mr.. o.
Remmey Of Rice county. The pedigree
should have read: "Hambletonian Star,
5-years- old, by Posts Goldsmith, he by
Woburn, 342, by Rysdyk's Hambletonian,
Hambletonian, q; I'd dam by imp. Trustee"
The correspondent will excuse the late
correction, his letter having been mislaid.
We hope to hear from him again, and will
try in the future to do better with the
proof reading.
In describing the free-for-all race won
by Fanny Witherspoon at Cleveland on
Wednesday last the Plain Dealer says:
"The weather was warm, with stiff breeze
blowing up the home stretch, which inter
fered with fast time Rain during the
night before made it necessary to drag the
| track between heats, and the course was
not as fast as heretofore during the week."
All of which adds to the merit of the per-
formance of Witherspoon, she having not
only won the race over a heavy track, but
lowered her record to 2:171a, under unfa-
| favorable circumstances. The GLOBE &C
cords all honor to John Splan and his
grand mare.
The Oldest of the get of W. L, McGrath's
stallion Theseus is grey gelding now three
years old, whose dam is a cold-blooded
| mare. The colt has been lately broken to
harness and driven on the road by Mr..
| McGrath for two weeks past, showing such
| perfect action, together with his speed, that
his owner thinks of having him put into
training for speed development. None of
| the rest of the get of Theseus are more
than two years old, ell out of trotting bred
mares, and the action of this one gives an
increased prospective value to the younger
| and better bred ones, as we'll as indicating
| the value and prospects of the horse as
speed producer.
The new Washington Park club, of Chi
cago, of which Gen. Phil Sheridan is presi-
dent has decided to hold its inaupuraI