Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-08-18

CAICAGo, August 17--Maud s Is no
longer queen of the trotting turf.
The proud position which the daugh-
ter of Harold has held so long has been
wrested from her and Nancy Hanks
reignS in her stead.
This afternoon at Washington Park,
In the presence Of 10000 spectators,
Budd Dnbe drove his beautiful mare to
beat her record Of 2:O9. She not only
beat her own record, but lowered the
worlds trotting record from 2:0S$l, the
time Of Maud S., TO 2.074,
The day was an ideal day for trotting.
At 1 o'clock she was out and went por-
tions Of the track at 2:20 clip. She
was warmly greeted, and after jogging
a mile she went to the stable and was
rubbed down preparatory to her trial
heat at o'clock.
Punctual to the minute, Doble drove
her out. She was without boots or
trappings of any sort and was hitched
to one of the new sulkies with ball
bearings and pneumatic tires.
Doble drove here back to the sixteenth
pole and then came down at a smashing
gait. Starr, behind Abe Lincoln, the
running mate, was waiting for him.
Starter Walker had his eyes on Dooie's
face, watching to see if he wanted the
word. Just as the mare shot beneath
the wire, Doble shook his head.
Back to the distance flag this time,
and at gentle trot, which Increased
rapidly as she drew near the wire, nod
from Doble and Ego" flashed from
Walkers lips as the mare shot like an
arrow toward the turn. There was work
for Abe Lincoln now, and for the first
sixteenth of a mile he lost ground stead
lily. Then Starr urged him on and he
was on Nancy's wheel at the quarter
There was not sound in the deRsely
packed grand stand as the mareN1ew
past the quarter pole in 31l2; a 200
gait. She started along the back
stretch, trotting as true as die, head
well up, her feet striking the ground
with the regularity of pendulum, the
crowd began to murmur "she'Ii never
90 it; never in the world" but the old
timers outlined Dobie's gray jacket
against the picket fence beyond him,
and as he passed them so rapidly that
they seemed to be going backward they
held their breath and said nothing.
As the mare, still keeping up her
beautiful gait, went by the half mile
pole In 1.O354, man in front OF the
grand stand called, "1:04 at the half.
A mighty yell went up from the crowd.
Not sound was heard as she moved
past the three-quarter pole and moved
into the home-stretCh.
Abe Lincoln, under the whip, moved
up to Nancy's throat-latch. Doble
spoke gently TO her, and her feet flew
faster than the eye could distinguish
them.
"SheTl do it, she'll do It, by God"
yelled an irrepressble, and there was
faint yell as the fastest quartette of pat
tering hoofs ever heard on trotting
track swept under the wire. There was
a moments pause, hasty consulting OF
watches and then an umbrella went
sailing into the air from near the grand
stand. 1t was accompanied by loud
lunged howls and then bedlam broke
loose.
The loud cheers which went up told
Doble, even before he had slowed up,
that the rebord was broken, and as h e
came back to the judges stand his race
was covered with a smile as wide as the
visor Of his cap.
The official time for the mile was as
honest mile as was ever trotted, and
is: BIZ, I:O3}{, 1868, 2:074.
The last quarter was trotted In 3O&l
seconds.
Nancy Hanks. the queen of the trot-
ting turf, is bay mare, six years old,
152i hands high. She was sired by
Happy Medium out of a Dictator mare
over the gateway OF the Cleveland, Ohio,
Driving Park hangs one Of the shoes won
by Maud S. when she made her record
there in 1885.
Tonight President Wheeler, Of the
Washington Park CLUB, wired President
Edwards, of the Cleveland Driving Park;
'Take down your shoe. We head the
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