St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-03

Largest Crowd That Ever Gath.
cred at Fleetwood Park Sadly
Disappointed at the Tameness
of the Affair-The Pacing
Champion Mascot Not Himself
Purse OF $4,000.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-The trotting
match between Directum and Mascot,
which it had been said was going to be
the most sensational event that ever
took place between harnessed horses,
proved to be no sensation at all, so far as
the race itself was concerned. There
was but one horse in it. The only SEN
sation OH the days programme and ar
rangements was the enormous crowd
that gathered at the Fleetwood track to
see the sport. There were between 5000
and 1000 present. 1t was perhaps as
large an assemblage as ever collected at
that track.
There were visitors present from De-
troit, Chicago. st. Louis, Indiana, and
even from places as far away as Denver
and Califordia.
After the first heat, during which
Mascot broke badly twice. and when
the sports began to see, or thought they
saw, that the pacing champion was not
himself, it was hard to get even money
on the black horse. After Mascot had
again shown decided breaking proclivi-
ties in the second heat, the odds turned
to 100 to 60 on Directum'S winning three
straight heats.
Directum Won the toss for the pole,
and when they were sent away in the
first heat. on the second scoring. Direc
tum got pretty nearly half length ad-
vantage. Kelly was holding Directum's
reins and Andrews drove Mascot. The
horses had not made over 100 yards
when Mascot threw up his heels in a
shameful break and lost five or six
lengths by it. Kelly at once took Direc-
tum back, and held him close until Mas
cot recovered and got within length
of him. Mascot broke again and lost
more ground, and Directum had things
his own way to the finish, which he
passed at least five lengths in front of
his opponent. Time was 2:104.
Directum got little the best of the
| start in the second heat, too. and held it
easily. Kelly was taking things easy
with Directum, knowing that his adver-
| sary could never overhaul him. and
while Andrews tried his best, Directum
| passed under the wire four lengths
ahead. Time, 2:O7sl.
| The third heat was the only one that
contained tinge of interest. In this.
as in the others, Directum was from a
neck to half a length in advance when
! the word ''go" was given, and that ad-
vantage he increased to good length
| before the first turn had been rounded.
| Mascot hung ON like a good game
| horse; he would not be shaken off.
| Andrews drove him cautiously, but at
the same time urged his charge to keep
| his head forward until he was told to
| do more. The pair ran for. half-mlle.
with Mascot's nose well onto the wheels
| of Directum's sulky, and then the pair
was called upon to move up. Mas
| cot showed good heart and
| steady movement. He tried to do
| his best and do what was bidden
but as he attempted to improve his po-
| sition Kelly made slight demand on
| the black horse, whose movement had
been simply perfect from the time that
he first made scoring under the wire,
and the black fellow shot ahead like a
| bullet, and within the next hundred
feet left plenty of daylight between his
drivers back and the horse that was
| trying to win $1,000 from him. Going
up the hill on the off side of the track,
| Directum increased bis lead, always
going easily and smoothly, more like a
/ machine in his perfect motion than a
living thing, and when Kelly had Sc
| cured three lengths advantage he let up
little bit on his charge. Mascot, how
ever, kept going all the time, and when
they came into the stretch Mascot
had again Tapped the leader. kelly
gave another little push to his horse,
but Mascot continued to cling. Kelly
then saw that he would have to drive
| fn win ond fnr q irSt tiDna ri lr q
match he compelled Directum to exert
himself. The horse responded splen-
didly and opened gap of perhaps half
a length to clear light between the sulky
and MaScot's nose. This was at point
within a hundred yards of the finish.
Andrews, although he knew he was
beaten, kept his gelding moving, but
could not decrease the lead, and it was
in those positions that the contestants
passed under the wire in the third heat.
The time was 2:0Ss4, a second slower
than that on the second heat.
| Another interesting event that took
| place today was the ten-mile trot OF
| Pascal, the holder of the record for that
| instance, made at Stockton, Cal, Of
27:234.
Today Pascal made the distance in
26:15. thus knocking off 1:0S14 from the
| worlds record, and that, be it remem-
bered, on the usually slow Fleetwood
track. He trotted off the miles as fol-
lows: First, 2:321a; second. 5:041a
third, 7:3S; fourth, 1918; fifth, 12:51I
sixth, 15:31Z; seventh, 1S:10A: eighth,
2l:4914; ninth, 23:9211a; tenth. 26:15.
Another record that was beaten on
the finely prepared track was that fol
the Members cup, to be taken by any
members team that would beat the
record of 2:191z. Matthew Riley's team
Clayton and Reference, made the mile
in 2:ISH.