Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-30
He TIED WITH NANCY,
Mascot PAGES a Mile in a
Race i'm 2:04 on Terre
Haute Track,
BUT GUY WINS THE RACE.
The Record Beaten Thrice by the
Three Extraordinary PAGERS.
GOOD SPORT ON GRAVESEND TRACK.
Evangeline, the Famous Trotter, Injuries
Herself and Dies in Her Stable.
BUT GUY WINS THE RACE.
GOOD sPORTON GRAVEsEND TRACK.
a LOCAL CHALLENGE TO J. J. CORBETT
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TERRE HAUTE, IND, Sept. 29.-Less
than "a hours after Nancy Hanks trotted
here in 2:O4 PAGER has touched the same
mark, and that too in a race. This honor
belongs to Mascot, a bay gelding owned in
Buffalo Last Saturday he tied the race
record of 2:O7 made on the kite track, and
to-day he lowered this just three seconds,
with FLYING Jib, who was previously the
champion, only neck behind. This Sec
ond phenomenal mile by quarters was 52H,
BIZ, 291< and 81 seconds, the third being
just one-quarter of a second faster than
Nancy Hanks over the same part of the
course
In the betting Flying Jib was favorite at
S10O; Mascot was worth $40, while Guy
went begging at S25. By the indulgence of
the Judges in permitting the driver of Guy
to go easy for two heats, the outsider man.
aged to win after the geldings were ex-
hausted. In all there were five heats, the
average for which was triAe slower than
2:0615, and three times the former record
was beaten.
Some Wonderful Pacing.
Mascot sported away on the outside on
the first heat and had a clear lead at the
quarter. Starr kept the Californian crack
well up, but did not begin to drive till past
the half From there Flying Jib forced
Mascot to the three-uuarters in 1:33. Com
ing home the favorite got to the leaders
saddle, but Mascot finished as strongly as
he went away, with Guy inside the dis
tance. When the time was announced as
2:04 the crowd did some cheering, but the
excitement soon subsided, as there was now
possibility for faster time.
Starr sent FLYING Jib in the second heat
to the quarter in 3054 and up the hill to the
half in so seconds This was too much of a
brush for Mascot and Jib came home in
2:055l. Guy now had the faster PAGERS at
his mercy. Taking the lead at once in the
third heat he was not headed in the next
two heats, which the gray paced in 2:0634
and 2:0S34. Mascot, after Flying Jib fell
back in the fifth, came after Guy with
rush and looked dangerous, but Guy landed
the race in 2:0SH.
1t Was Big Surprise.
The result of the race was, of course,
tremendous surprise and thousands of dol
lars were lost The two star PAGERS tired
themselves in their efforts to down each
other in the first two heats. Starr tried to
beat or equal the 2:04 in the second heat
but failed and that stettled Flying Jib. 1t
is thought that Mascot can beat the record
made to-day.
The other races were good and the bet
ting on them was heavy.
The Salisbury stable had another reverse
when Vinette was defeated in the 2:13 pace
after getting a heat in 2:09H. She made
tangled breaks in the next three miles, so
that Cleveland S had an easy victory.
Chiquesata and Major proved the best of
the trotters in the 2:2S and 2:22 classes, both
improving their records considerably.
Major pulled his down eight seconds when
he stepped heat in 2141I. He is in
Doble's string, but has been too sick to
start before to-day. After one heat the
2:2O pace goes over and in addition the
2:10, 2:14 and free-ior-all trots with the 2:17
make up another long programme for the
last dav of the eventful meeting Budd
Doble went to Evansville this morning to
drive Martha Wilkes.