The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-07-12
NINETY MILES FOR $1,000.
A Curious Race Between o Horse and
Catomsrnn.

NEW YORK, July Ia stceI-gray
horse and a skeleton wagon, in which sat
o notwithstanding man, wearing
linen duster and straw hat tied under
his chin, sped away from the corner of
Madison avenue and Twenty.seyenth
street at o'clock this morning. Stimuli
taneousiy catamaran sail.boat scudded
into the East River from the foot of
Twenty-fOurth street. The race between
Ezra Daggett's horse "Boston" and
Frederick nughes's catamaran Jessie to
Stoney Creek, Connecticut, ninety miles
away, for one thousand dollars a side.
had begun. Trainer Charley Schurck
.nd reporter followed after the raca
horse in square.boxed buggy.
On Fifth avenue, at the Polo grounds,
Mr.. Daggett pulled over to Mr.. Schurck
to give him bundle of bandages. AS
the trainer reached for them his horse
swerved and the hind wheels of the
vehicles came in collision. A spoke
cracked in Mr.. Daggett's spider.web
wheel. The wheel wabbled. Gfr.
Schurck's heart sank. Mr.. Daggett saiG
nothing. OFF Morrisania the boat was
seen going through He'll Gate. Her
white sails glistened in the bright morn
ing sunlight. The horse was long way
ahead, trotting rs he pleased, with his
braided tail over tho dashboard. The
followers caught occasional giimpses of
tbs cstamarau. which seemed 10 be max
ing little headway in the strong north
west wind. OFF Pelham bridge the cata.
maran was seen tacking. Her escort
could not be seen.
When the trainer pulled rein on his
tired nag in front of the Huguenot Ho-
tel in New Rochelle at 7.3O o'clock in
the morning he had the pleasure of see-
ing Mr.. Daggett hop nimbly up behind
Boston and whirl away. The owner had
in half an hour rested his horse and re.
freshed himself. The groom said that
Boston had not turned hair in his jaunt
of eighteen miles. AT 1853 o'clock q
crowd OIL the shore of the sound saw the
Jessie sail by. Two minutes later Mr..
Schurck, with fresh horse, was pursu.
ing Boston. New Rochelle was excited.
1t had bet $4,000 variously on the race.
AT LOB p. m. the reporter, who had gone
to BridgeporS by rail, saw Boston ap-
preaching Charles N. Ruggles's stable in
cloud of dust. Half of the dust
belonged to Mr.. Schurck' horse. Boston
had come the forty-four miles from New
Rochelle in six hours and three minutes.
A half hour or so was lost at Stamford
In relieving Mr.. Schurck's horse Of
collie. The distance of twenty-three
miles between Stamford and Bridgeport
was trotted in two and quarter hours.
1t was q race nearly all the way. A
great crowd gathered at the stable. The
wind had shifted to the South since 10
o'clock and was now favoring the boat.
No one knew positively that the boat
had gone by. The lighthouse keeper
hadn't seen it; the travellers thought
they saw it five miles below Bridgeport.
MIR: Daggetts sulky was by this time
considered unsafe, and was replaced by
fresh one. Mr.. Schurck got fresh
horse to lighter buggy, aud took the
San reporter aboard again. At 1.46
o'clock the horses turned their heads
toward New HI IN. The sun was blaz.
ing down. Tb were soon covered with
foam, but the road was fine and they got
over eight ni;lea 70 Milford in thirty
eight minutes. City folks in their su.n-
mer residences, who knew the New York
horse was to pass their way, were out
looking for him. Before the travellers
reached New Haven they were almost
certain that the boat was ahead Of tilein.
A steady southerly breeze had been
blowing for five hours and must have
carried the boat beyond New Haven,
barring an accident, but they urged the
horses on. They reached Stoney Creek
at 8 o'clock. The catamaran reached
there at 1926.