Los Angeles herald., 1891-08-31
WORLD OF SPORT.
A WONDERFUL PERFORMANCE OF
A TwO-YEAR-OLD PAGER.
Charley Durfee Sweeping Everything
Before Him in Northern California
The California Mare Vic.

The telegraphic reports Of the grand
circuit meetings have been very meagre.
The HERALD has daily supplemented
the reports with full particulars, thus
making the accounts as published in the
HERALD more complete than any paper
west of the Rocky mountains. The
HERALD was the first paper in Califor-
MIA to state that the record OF 2 :12 made
by Nancy Hanks at Independence was
the fastest mile ever trotted in race by
any trotter living or dead. Nancy
Hanks can beat any trotter in America
in a race. She may not be able to beat
Nelson, Sunol or one or two others
in trial against the watch,
but in contest she can
beat any trotter ever hitched
to sulky. Last year Palo Alto was the
champion free for all horse, but the fast
est mile made by the son OF Electioneer
in race was 2:13, while Nancy Hanks
is credited with making two miles, both
in 2:12 fat-a most remarkable per-
formance to say the least. Nancy Hanks
has won every race she ever started in,
and has only lost one heat in the whole
course of her career.
Vic H. got good slice of the money
at Independence on Friday. She is now
moving up to the form shown by this
mare in California last season. Here is
what the New York Spirit of the Times
man had to say about the California
mare last week:
"Vic H., the winner of the 2:17 trot
in three straight heats, performed a
phenomenal feat. She not only reduced
her record from 2 :l8 to 2 :1614, but beat
her old record in each of the three heats.
They were the three fastest miles trot-
ted in heat race this year. This is the
mares first visit to the east, her previ-
GUS work haying been confined to the
west. Her old record was made at
Chico, CAL, August 80, $780,"
OF course the above was written be-
fore the Independence meeting began.
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Quite sensational performance took
place at the second day OF the Chico
fair. Monroe s., two-year-old by Mon
for for ali ages. The first heat
was paced in 2:2O, and was taken
by Monroe S. st. Clair won
the second and third heat in 2 :23 and
2:2714. Before the horses were called
out for the fourth heat, Mr.. johnson,
the owner and driver, consented to the
substitution of Charles Durfee, of Los
Angeles, as driver of his horse. This
piece of wisdom won the race for Mon
roe S., Durfee experiencing NO trouble
in winning the fourth and fifth heats,
the last heat being made In :2414. This
is a wonderful record for 2-year-old
PAGER, especially as he made the first
mile in 2:20.
By the way, Durfee is winning every
thing on the Northern California cir
cult. The Breeder and Sportsman says ::
&C. A. Durfee's Mckinney, by Alcy-
one, that did such good work on the last
day at San Jose, is keeping up his good
lick on the northern circuit. He had
such picnic to beat Our Jack and LIE
Grand at Red. Bluff recently that they
gave him first money not to start"
The writer evidently refers to the 2 :26
class, in which Mckinney was entered.
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The Oakland fair begins today. Seven
OF the trotting events failed to fill, and
several other races are announced 1.-THE
last minute to take their place. The
re-classifcation scheme can hardly be
termed success. The innovation was
too sweeping.