Evening journal., 1892-05-28
MAPLE VALLEY TRACK.
New, Beautiful and Kite
Shape.
FASTEST TRACK BAsTOP MISSISSIPPI

The Maple valley Association Has Estab-
Iished a Kite-shape Track at ISirkwood.
which win Lower the Trotting Records
I'm the East.
About fifty newspaper men from New
York, Philadelphia. Baltimore and VIII
mington were invited to a private view
of a new kite-shape racing track at
kirkwood, Delaware. fourteen miles
from Wilmington. on the p, w q b. r.
II. The track was built by the Maple
Valley Trotting Association, of which J.
| w. Cooper is president and j. G. Mccoy
secretary and treasurer The associa
tion, which is a member of the American
and National Trotting Association, has
for its motto Honest Racing The
visitors reached Kirl1wood at ll.40 yes.
/ terday morning in charge of President
Cooper, who was formerly newspaper
man, and who therefore knows how TO
/ treat the fraternity AT the station car
riages We're in waiting to convey the
party to Dr. MeCoy's homestead near the
] track. The stables on the association
l grounds, the huge water tank and other
buildings can be seen plainly from the
/ station
After a delicious lunch accompanied by
champagne at the fine old residence,
/ beautiful in its cleanliness and simplicity,
the entire party was taken to the race
/ track, which is one of the finest in the
country and intended to be the fastest in
the East
II is located on farm Of 200 acres and
the track itself takes I'm seventy acres
| Several of the many fine horses were
brought out and given a turn on the
course every newspaper man acting as
! Judge The track grounds proper EN-
brace ~ acres of land which viii be sepa-
rated, by high paling fence, from the
surrounding farm.
Exhibition Races.
There were three exhibition races yes
terday TO show what the horses could do
on the kite-shape track.
Fascination, a chestnut gelding, was
the first horse TO go around the kite shape
track yesterday He was driven by
Barnes and trotted the mile in 226f His
sire was Flatbush and his dam Abdallah.
II is expected that he will lower his
record considerably during this season,
as he is only years old and made 2. 26 3
on a round track last year.
The next race was between the brown
mare Minnie Dale, sire Hero of
Thorndal, dam Maggie Fred; the gray
mare Happy May, sire Happy Russell,
dam sherman; and the black gelding
Dynamite, who has no pedigree Dyna-
mite came in first, trOtting the mile il
BOZ He was driven by Nash Minnie
Dale was driven by Hewitt and Happy
May by Barnes.
The next event was n trial of speed By
the 3-year-old pacing mare Comet, b.
Leopard Rose She was driven by Barne
and made the mile in 30 49, 10 Is cx
pected that the mare win create q sensa
tiOn this coming season. as she paceC
below 2 30 several days ago. When coming
in on the home stretch she got scared a
a woman and broke three times, whicl
put her away behind her best time
There are between 12j and 100 horse
on the farm attached to the race track
Of these there are about forty brOOl
mares and about seventy-fve colts.
After the races a novel and efficien
apparatus for sprinlSling the track wa
, exhibited. The dust on the track can b.
I laid in few minutes This watering
apparatus makes the associations tract
the peer of all other tracks, kite or asso
! citation shape The water is Furnished
= from a large well. fifty feet in depth an,
. is pumped into into a l5,000-gallon tank
a which stands ON a derrick sixty feet il
p the air, by a Worthington steam pump
e The Visitors.
r The visiting party included the follow
b ing: From New York-Robert S. Ford
Sun: Washington De c. Smith; Turf
:. Field and Farm Henry C. Terry. Recorder
? George Devery World John Bodm. Jr.
4 Press; L. c. Underhill, Spirit of TIA
s Times and the Sportsman. Phil,
4 delphia-H. G. Crowhurst, Press
/. Frank Richter, Sporting Life; Elme
n Schlichter Item; c. w. Everett, Times
a W. H. Antrim, Record; Frank p. Greer
n Inquirer. Baltimore-H b. kinei
u American; II. Lee Clark sun; Joseph N
l. Kelley, News. Wilmington-Edgar n
Hopes. William II. Hill and j. Albel
Curry, The Morning News; Charles "
Edwards. Theodore Stuart, EvEl
! ING JOURNAL; Charles Scheu, Ere
4 presse; w. Scott Vernon, Republican,
y I. Jones. Every Evening; William
y Kurtz, Sunday Star; Philip r. Clark,
James Jr.. l.. s. Pritchard, W. S. Sin
5. mons. f. d. Gould and Harry f. Buche
Middletown-S. A. Buchanan, transcript
w. R Reynolds, New Era; Pierce Bigl
ID and William Biggs. Delaware City
H. Dilworth, News; T. c. Reeves. DR.. v
ID II. Jacobs and Frank Philips. st. Georg
\, William Stuckert, Edward Jester al
J. H. s. Gam.
'o The track is kite shaped and is exact
IS one mile long ON the inside and 13O fe
I'd longer on the outside. T. g. Sommer
= who made the track at Gloucester, n. j
u made the track of the Maple Valley Tro
- ting Association, and it cost $4,000
The most important feature connect'
- with the track is the watering apparatu
IN which was constructed under the pc
." sonal supervision Of ]. c. Mccoy i
ventor of it and the secretary Of the a
. sOciation.
Robbed of Clothing.
IN Henry Turner. colored, of No POI We
Ia. Fifth street. an employe of McElwe
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