Daily globe., 1883-07-30
Il WiId Dan at PittSbltr0.

Owing to the poor telegraph service
resulting from the operators strike, but
very meagre reports of the racing last
week at Pittshurg, at which most of the
equine stars of the country were gathered,
were received here. Bad weather inter
fered with the sport the first two days, and
even at this writing it is not known whether
the programme, including the free-for-all
in which st. Julien, Fanny Witherspoon,
Thorn and Trinket were engaged,
was concluded. By a special
to the Chicago Tribune, however, we learn
that Friday was great day resulting in
the beating of the favorites, in two of the
principal events, the 2:1S and free for all
pacing classes. The Tribune report says:
'Such betting was hardly ever known
before. Chicago was ecipsed in the
magnitude of the sums invested and in the
desperate nerve with which men invested
thousands on the chances of one horse
against formidable field, and $500,
$1,000, $1,000 pools went as fast as the
auctioneer could cry them, and the defeat
nearly $4,000 by his party,
W11lO GAO OO4Odo VI tA0 oup-
posed to-be invincible Overman cost
many man so dearly that long siege at
straight business will be required to re-
coup the loss" In the 2:18 class Buzz
Medium took the first heat in 2:3o4, Phyl-
lis second, and Overman, the favor1te, who
had acted bad, third. Notwithstanding
this defeat of Overman he sold for four
times what the field brought. The strug-
gle for the heat was contested from wire
to wire, Phyllis and Overman making
dead in 2:204. The third heat Phyllis
won by "an eyelash under the whip" in
2:204, the three heats having been trotted
in the same notch. The work was too
much for Overman who finished last in the
remaining two heats, easily taken by Phyl-
lis, time 2:222, 2:211a.
Of the other great surprise, the free for
all, the report says:
The free-for-all pace proved the fastest race
of four heats ever trotted or paced, and few rae
ing events ever had more money invested on
them. 1t was enough to make sane man crazy
to see the thousands roll into the pool box,
Richballs new owners deemed him invincible,
but to defeat the gang required as great PAGER
as Johnson. Positions were drawn as follows:
Flora Belle, Richball, Fuller, Buffalo Girl Sail
or Boy, Lucy and Gem. At the word, Sailor
boy broke, and the flag caught him as it did
Fdller. Flora Belle went away with Richball
close at her. Rounding into the homestretch,
ehe showed ahead and beat the mare home in
21215; and more thousands went into the box
In the second heat Belle had the best of the
start, Buffalo Girl second, Gem third. Richball
broke on the turn, and only beat Lucy home.
Along the strait Buffalo Girl improved her
position, and at the three-quarter both she and
Gem had beaten Belle, and so they finished, Gem
a good second, in 2:1415.
In the third heat Richball made three breaks,
and, in spite of phenomenal pacing which
brought him into the second place, lost it to
Buffalo Girl in 2:14%.
In the fourth heat Richban must now do or
die. The loss of this heat must send the big
money of his hackers to destruction. The
word was given to splendid start, with Gem.
trailing. 1t was a horse race from wire to wire
between the blaze-faced pony and the slim
wasted mare, but it was her day, and she
could actually Outspeed him, winning in
the fast time for fourth heat of fighting race
of 2:1215. Gem finished good third and some
day will turn up victor when least expected.