The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-11-03

were between 5000 and 1000 people pres
ent. 1t was, perhaps, as large an assem-
blage as ever collected at that track. There
were visitors present from Detroit, Chi
cago, st. Lous, indianapolis, and even
from places as far away as Denver and
California.
Directum won the toss for the pole, and
when they were sent away in the first heat
on the second scoring Directum got pretty
nearly half a length the advantage. Kelly
was holding Directum's reins and An
drews drove Mascot. The horses had not
made over 100 yards when Mascot threw
up his heels In shameful break and lost
five or six lengths by so doing. Kelly at
once took Directum back and held him
close until Mascot recovered and got
within length of him. Mascot broke
again and lost more GROUND, and Direotum
had things his own way to the finish,
which he passed at least five lengths in
front of his opponent, The time for that
mile was 2l0k.
Directum got little the best of the start
in the second heat, too, and held il easily
Kelly was taking things easy with Direc-
tum, knowing that his adversary could
never overhaul him, and while Andrews
tried his best Directum passed under the
time for the second heat was 2.0Tsl.
The third heat was the only one that
contained n tinge of interest. In this, us
in the other heats, Directum was from a
neck to half n length in advance when the
racers were told to go, and that advant-
age he increased to good length before
the first turn had been rounded. The pair
ran for half mile with Mascot's nose
well on to the wheels of Directum's sulky,
and then the PAGER was called upon TO
move up.
Mascot showed good hear and steady
movement. He tried his best to do what
he was hidden, but as he attempted to
improve his position Kelly made slight
demand upon 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 q bullet, and within the next
hundred feet left plenty of daylight be-
tween his drivers back and the horse that
was trying to win $50 from him. Going
up the hill on the off side of the track
Directum increased his lead, going
smoothly more like a machine in his per-
feet motion than living thing, and when
Kelly had secured three lengths advan-
tage he let up little bit on his charge.
T. Mascot, however, 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 TO win,
and for the first time during the match he
compelled Direetum to exert himself. The
horse responded splendidly, and opened a
gap of perhaps half length between his
sulky and Mascot's nose. This was at a
point within a hundred yards of the finish.
Andrews, although he knew that he was
beaten, kept his gelding moving, but could
not decrease the lend, and it was in those
positions that the contestants passed I'M
der the wire in the third heat. The time
of the last heat was 2,0s21.
The match was for Sc 800 side.
Another interesting event was the ten
mile trot Of Pascal, the holder of the rec
ord for that distance, made at Stockton,
Cal, of 27.294. Yesterday Pascal made
the distance In 26.15, thus knocking off /
min. 81 secs, from the worlds record.