Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-06-24

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Lucky Baldwin, were first under the
wire.
His bay colt, Rey Ell Santa Anita, 40
to l, in the betting, won the race easily
by six lengths in 2:36 fat, equalling
the best time ever made in the race
Senator Grady finished second, and
Domino, favorite in the betting, was
absolutely lost.
Forty.fve thousand people Swarmed
into Washington Park to see the run
ming of the American Derby, the great
est horse race on the western CONT
nent. 1t was crowd smaller in num-
bers than that which watched
the race OF last year, when
Boundless won his greatest and
last victory, and made his owners
independently rich. However, what
the crowd lacked in numbers as COM
pared with that of a year ago, 1t more
than made up in enthusiasm, for the
majority Of those present to-day were
natives OF Chicago, who look upon at
tendance at the Derby as matter not
TO be put aside and who, upon this day
at least, form themselves into society
for the relief of INDECENT bookmakers
with cheerfulhess, and with pocket
books practically without bottom.
THE WEATHER WAS PERFECT
for horse racing up TO 2:3O o'clock,
which is another way Of saying that 1t
was practically unbearable for man
kind. Why a race horse can always do
better, feel better, run longer and run
faster when the sun sizzles through an
atmosphere little short OF red hot, and
when pavements are so warm that
they burn through the soles Of shoes is
a matter yet to be explained, but they
do like il; il suits them, brings delight
to the man who has a working capital
invested in a supply Of beer and pleases
nobody else. To-day was one OF those
days made to order for race horses
and the saloon business and the
vast crowd which packed the grassy
slope in front Of the grand stand, and
filled to the last inch every available
portion OF the stand itself painted, per-
spired and waited in more or less
patience for the calling Of the Derby
candidates to the post,
The betting ring was sight TO man
outside Of 1t, and bitter experience to
him on the inside Of it. 1t was jammed
TO suffication by pushing, struggling
mass of men
ANXIOUS TO PLACE THEIR MONEY
on the horse OF their choice. When
after a struggle Of many minutes a man
emerged carrying the little yellow card
which told of the amount Of his prOba-
BILE losing, he came in many instances
in a mode and manner Of dress, or
rather undres, whish entitled him more
to an arrest for disorderly conduct than
an entire into geod society. Coats
were torn, toes mashed and hats galore
had become sweepings for the janitor
before the Derby bugle blew. The
bookmakers could hardly take in money
fast enough, and many OF them found
so much Derby money TO handle that
theV practically ignored the first two
races on the card and confined them
selves to handling dollars offered on the
great race Of the day.
The space inside the track was
iammed with vehicles of all sizes, styles,
shapes and conditions, from the tally
ho of the rich man, who had worried
himself foolish over the color OF the
wheels and the style OF the harness,
down to sulkies, go-carts and grocery
wagons. The stream OF vehicles
began pouring into the park at 10
o'clock in the morning, fully six hours
before there was any probability Of the
DERBY horses being called TO the post.
For time they were few in nun ber,
merely indications Of the crush soon to
follow. BY l2 o'clock Michigan avenue
and Grand Boulevard were thronged
with carriages
SPEEDING RAPIDLY TOWARD THE PARK,
and an hour later the crush around the
carriage gates was something dreadful.
The line of carriages waiting for admis-
sion to the park stretched across Sixty
third street and as far north through
Washington Park as the eye could see,
and the race track had been ploughed
into deep burrows by the many wheels
which had passed over 1t to the enclos-
ure beyond.
In the popular mind Senator Grady
was the favorite, although Domino
pushed him closely for first place. The
thing which kept money of Domino
was the fact that he bad reached the
trsck en- Iata that many betters had 4
strong suspicion that the unbeaten son
Of Himyar had not been given sufficient
time to round to, after his journey.
Sill his great record and the
look OF a race horse which Is to be seen
in every muscle of his black-coated
frame, held his friends to him and
gained him more thront the day.
Grady's odds, which two days ago were
even with those on Domino, were lower
to-day, be selling st 2 TO l, while
Keene's horse was held at 3 to l when
the books opened.
Grady's ODDS were unaffected By the
report that on Thursday he had done
the Derby distance with Dorian and
finished
FIVE LENGTHS BEHIND him.
This little thing cid not worry Trainer
Rvrnes. and as one of the stablemen
declared The SenstorknoW~a as much
as any man and q mig V sight
more than most snators."
Prince Carl, the brown G Of the
Kendall stables. was fanciec q few.
bat carried little money. i pot. Cor