The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04
TURF WINNERS.


SPECIAL Dispatch TO the DAILY Ede2lt
WINFIELD, Kan, Sept. 3-The fair was
postponed yesterday on account OF ram
but made MP for il today, as the attend
auce WAS close TO eight tn 'usand people.
p. H. Chaplin won the 2:30 trot, Myron
AlcHenrv second, Bob Wiley third. Best
time, 2:351< Harry Lloyd won the FAC
trot, Bessie Allen second Altherleto Rex
third and Champion Wilkes fourth.
Best time 2.31$l. The mile and repeat
was won by the Carlton mare. Best time
1881.
The grandest balloon ascension was
made here today ever witnessed. Wichita
is well represented here, the whole
country is awaiting the coming great fair
ut Wichita.
IHuADELPHIA. Sept Strand circuit
races. 2:35 class diminished from yester-
dag), purse 81 000-Alfred s Wilkes won.
Capt LYONS second Best time. 2:20%
Guaranteed stakes 50 500 for foals OF 1886
Olivia won, Queen Of Upland second.
Best time 2:24 Guaranteed stakes
(S2 500 for foais of 1SSS-pOsition won,
Lizzie Bell second. Best time, 2:241
Guaranteed stakes IS 000) for foals of 1889
-Eermuda Bow won, Captain second.
Best time. 2:39L !:iS class, trotting,
purse 81 0O0-AIis5 Alice won, Walter 5
second. Best time, 2:Ell
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Sept. Sat the
the Kansas City Jockey club the large
crowd present saw some of the best races
that have ever been seen in the west
Every heat was holly contested. The
track was fast and the weather beautiful
S:26 class. trotting, purse SSO0-Audrew
Allison won. Bonnie Mack second. Mlkea
gar third Best time 2.2l15. 2:15 class,
pacing, purse 81. 000-GGy won, Telegram
second. Malfor Wonder third. Best time
2:l5. 2:30 class, trotting, purse $600-Snow-
der won. Maud 4 second. Maud third.
Best time 2:23
SHEEPSHEAD BAY, y. Y, Sept 3--Win-
ners today: Gee JAY Jay, King Cadmus
La Tosca. Demuth. Longford, Watterson.
CHICAGO, Sept 3.-Hawthorne winners
Marine, Qneerie- Tr0w bridge, Maggie +,
Gil ord. longshot
CINCINNATI. sept. 3.-Latonia winners:
Alfred X. Tenor Eli, Lillian, Beatrice,
Title s. John Wiukie.
CHICAGO, Sept. Garfield park win
ners; Carmen. st. Adams, Aloha, Addie,
Ada Pickwick. Governor Ross.
DECATUR, i'll. Sept 3.-The worlds re-
cord for speed by pacing stations on
half-mile track was broken by Roy Wilkes
tod iy at the meeting of the Decatur trot-
ing association. The time by quarters
wa :32L :;2 :341L and mile 2:l4K.
The Exhibition was made with a running
maze
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Sept 3-The races at
the track OF the Kansas City Jockey club
scheduled for tomorrow have been decar-
ed I'll on acc0unC of meagre entries.
BROKEN BooKMAKERs.
New YORK, Sept. S.-George f. Smith,
the well known plunger, who is known
throughout the country as "PittSburg
PHI, gave the betting ring at Sleeps
heaA Bay today a scoop" that will long
be remembered by the bookmakers. as it
was the heaviest blow dealt that fraterni-
ty q many "a day. "Pittsburg Phil" had
his ;colt. King Cadmus. entered in the
sapphire stakes race which was the second
event on the card and was for two-year-
oldS. with twelve starters, In the betting
Lew WieT. from the stables of Ed CORR
gan was popular selection. while King
CadmUs; who opened at 20 TO I receded to
70 To !. Then it was that Smiths com
missloners got in their work
Every one of the ninteg-seven
booEmakers on the line was handed sums
ranging from So to $500, ana so much was
the colt deSpised that many of the
"bonkies" whose limit is known 10 be but
$50 bet took hundreds of dollars. So
well was the money put on By the almost
ubiquitous commissioners that few peo-
Die sad their suspicion aroused
" hen within a few jumps from the
wire, Jockey Taral. by almost super
huns riding got King Cadmus' head in
tronf and accordingly got the decision
Right after the race the scene in the bet
lingering was all connection, the only per-
sons perhaps in the wEoie gathering 70 re
tain Their senses icing "pIUtsburg Phil" 1
and ms gallant lieutenant L is estima- /
ted that Smith is from $40 600 to $4,000 !
winner bT hIS colts victory.