The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-07
THE RECORD BEATEN.

<;lU AT NafrAsansett tarks ana -. n.
Winship Reduces the "with Running
Mate" Time to 2:06-A Scene OF Enthusi.
asm-The Little Black Decorated With
Flowers by Mrs. Case.
PORTSMOUTH, N. H, August.
Yesterday was the grandest day ever
| seen atthe NarragansettT rottiug Park, and
/ its equal may never be seen again Mar.
ragansett Park has once more come to
the front, and now leads the world fol
speed. 1t seemed when the day broke
! that sold Sol'' was not a friend
Of the owners of trotting
horses, but a few hours later
/ POSSIBLY because Mr.. Case wired the
clerk of the weather. he sent some of his
warmest beams upon the town OF
Cranston, and the track fairly seemed to
drink in speed from the rays. By ten
o'clock it was an assured fact that the
track would be in perfect condition, and
when at two O'Clock the crowd began to
pour through the gate, Mr.. Griffin threw
up both hands and said he had done his
best and the track was perfect.
This was seconded by Bither, Murphy,
Golden, Crawford, and in fact all the ex-
perts, and it was a hundred dollars to a
lead nickel that if the horses were in even
fair condition they would show figures
! that, to use wild expression, would be
paralyzing. Soon after noon Providence
began to wake up and there
was an exodus as it were. Long lines Of
carriages extended along the streets lead
Ing to Narragansett Park, and in short
sime the city was almost deserted. The
crowd was the greatest that has been
seen at the Park since American Girl, on
July 26, 1869, in the palmy
days of the Sprague dynasty, showed
the fastest mile then seen at the track
2:l9-against Lucy, Lady Thorn and
Goldsmith Maid.
Long before the time for starting the
races every seat in the grand stand was
filed, and five hundred carriages lined
the fences on either side of the track.
The Judges of the afternoon were John
Shepherd, of Boston; Frank Stearns, of
Swansea, and E. G. Windsor, of Provi-
dence.
The events were as follows: $4,000 to
Jay-Eye-See to beat his record 2:1O 3 A,
and 81 900 additional to beat Maud S.'s
time of 2:I0 IA; $1,000 to Phallas to
beat his record of 2:l3 3-4 and $500 adj
dItional to beat 2:1S; $1,000 to H. B.
Winship and running mate to break
Frank and mates record of 2:0S 1-2, and
$500 additional if 2:07 is beaten; 81, 00t
to Maxey Cobb to beat Phallas' record.
The betting was: On Jay-Eye-See
S25 that he would not beat 2:ll, against
SlI that he would make 2:l0; on Win
ship, S25 that he would not beat 2:08,
against SIG that he would show 2:07 oil
better; on Phallas, $50 that he would
not go in 2:l3, against $50 that 2:l4
would be made.
There were plenty of takers on both
sides, but as will be seen the short
enders won handsomely
Shortly after three O'Clock Ed. Bither
drove Jay-Eye-See on the track, and the
applause ran along the grand stand like
artillery. He was followed by Johnny
Murphy behind. Maxey Cobb, Mr.. Isidore
Cohnfeld's fast and handsome bay stall
lion and again the applause broke out.
Alter the warming-up heats, in which
no very fast time was made, came the
wonder of the afternoon, the little flyer,
the fastest piece of horse flesh that lives,
Jay-Eye-See, champion of the trotting
turf, came out to beat the
time of Maud S. He moved easily by
the grand stand, just getting ready to
go. He looked like a black flash.
Bithers handled him in beautiful style,
while just after him came Murphy with
Mr.. Cases sorrel runner hitched TO a
sulky.
The word was given, and the little
horse went away like rocket. Murphy
came laundering some ten lengths in the
rear. Around the turn the wind caught
him, but he shot to the quarter-pole
in SO 1-2, and then, as
he turned into the back stretch,
he went along like little black demon,
while Murphy handled the runner with
consumate skill, and at the water tank
Just began to crawl UP to the little black
at the half, which Bithers had made with
his horse going easy in :06.
Murphy let 60 of the runner, and he
Tapped the blacks wheel, Bithers began
to send Jay-Eye-See and he rounded
the upper turn and made the
three-fourths in 1889 and then
and not until then did he call on
him to do his best. As he struck into
the home stretch there was GREATNESS
silence in the vast crowd and
Bither's voice calling on his horse
could be plainly heard. 1t was
beautiful sight, one never to be forgot
ten. The black was coming like whirl-
wind, and yet his action was as perfect
as if he was only moving at three min
ute gait. Murphy was urging the run
ner, and the faster he few along, the
faster the little piece of black lightning
came. He was q length and a half from
the wire when Bithers lifted him and d
thousand voices shouted: "He has done
it," The little fellow broke and dashed
by the line on the break in 2:l0, the
CHAMPION OF THE WORLD.
A floral collar was gwen him, J. 1.
Case kissed his wife, and every body
cheered.
II. B. Winship and running mate then
came out on the track, and as both trotter
and runner were in fine feather, they
started off niceyat the word, and went to
the one-9uarter in 2:0l clip, to the half
In | :0l l-2, the three-quarters in :35 l-2,
and home in rafting style in 2:06-the
fastest mile ever trotted. Ii. B. Win
ship, the owner, felt happy enough to
stand on his head.
Phallas went two heats to beat his
Chicago time of 2:IS 34, but only
equaled it, not being in the best con-
dition.
Naxey Cobb, who was billed to beat
Phalias' 2:l3 ga, failed to do it, but
trOtted handsome mile in gals S-4,
beating his own record by II seconds.
Cough Experience OF a Schooner's Crew.
Boston. MASS, August 2.