The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-12
HAL POINTER VICTOR.
The Swift PAGER Defeats the
Great Stallion Direct.
NANCY HANKS TRoTs IN 2:oe.
Prixeaght at Tacoma This Evening
How John l.. Sullivan Trains-Ar.
engagements for His Trip.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Aug. 11.-Fair weather
and slight breezs favored the races at Com
stock park today. Six thousand people wit
messed the first race, but the crowd kept COM
Ing, and 1900 were present at the Hal Pointer
Direct match. 1t was 4:30 before the event
which they came to witness, and for which
they patiently waited through the other events,
was announced. scene OF great enthusiasm
ensued as Direct took the turn down the stretch
to Timber his legs. The betting was &c to in
favor OF Hal Pointer, but Direct captured all
hearts, If not all the pocketbooks. and received
more applause than his swift competitor.
At o'clock the two horses came down the
stretch neck and neck, and as they passed I'M
der the wire Pointer had the pole. They kept
their positions to the turn, when Geers pulled
Pointer a length ahead. At the half Starr
brought Direct close onto the flank of the geld
ing. Direct could not stand the pace and
Pointer steadily drew away until he gained a
length at the last turn Starr fought gamely,
but could not lessen the distance, although it
was evident that Direct gained on the home
stretch. but not being able to win Starr pulled
up little and came in a length and a half be-
hind his rival. Time by quarters: :3211a, 1904,
1877, 200.
Direct at Pointers girth and went as if tied to.
gether for the first quarter, then Pointer drew
away again, but on the back stretch Direct
caught up. At the half Pointer spurted leaving
Direct again at the head of the stretch going
gamely and fast. he could not lessen the dis
lance and the finish was made with Direct q
length behind. Time, 2:l1la.
In the third heat Direct went full tilt to the
first quarter and then very visiby sulked and
followed Pointer around the mile with devil
may-care expression, two lengths behind A
hundred yards from the wire he gave up absO-
lutely in disgust and logged in three lengths
and a half behind the victor. Time. 2:13M.
When Nancy Hanks with her owner, Budd
Doble, as driver. appeared, they were received
with applause, which subsidized into breathess
suspense as the little mare shot under the wire
and was off in race against time TIE track
was fully two seconds slower than when Aller-
ton made a record upon it. Horse and driver
made a game effort and were greeted with
cheers when they started. 1t was announced
that the mare had kept up to the record and
made the mile in 2:O9. Time by Quarters-:333,
los, 1917, 200.
1.-THE time for the three heats-2:0 co. 2:l11a and
2:13i did not equal the time made on the
Buffalo, n. Y, track on August 6, last saturday,
when Hal Pointer beat Direct three straight,
the time being 2:l0l4. 2:0Sl4 and oil, which
were the three fastest heats over a mile course
ever made to harness. The double victory for
Pointer lie great one, as Direct holds the record
for a mile against time. having covered that
distance in 1891 in 2:06.
Nancy Hanks equaled her 5-year-old record,
the best for mares, of 209, made in 1891