The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-15
GREAT RECORD
BREAKING DAY
Robert ] Makes a Mile in The Remarkable
Time Of 2.0i 1-2.
GEERS Receives AN OVATION
The Track at Terre Haute the Scene
of the Greatest of Record Breaking.
Carbonate Lowers the Two-Year-
Old Pacing Record-John r. Gen.
try Makes a Stallion Record of
2.03 3-4-Other Events.
TERRE HAUTE. Ind. Sept. A.
TT WAS the greatest record-breaklng

| w AO Tue RreatebL reCOru-Orehkl0R
day ever seen on track. Tonight
everyone is wearing long ribbon
u with the new record miles printed
on 1t. Robert J. paced o mile in
2.O1t; Carbonate lowered the 2-year-
old pacing record from 2 10
to 200 John R. Gentry made the
stallion record Of 1.02a, and did so in a
race, Directly tied Carbonate's record
of 2 10 for 2-year-old PAGERS made ear
ier in the week. Joe Patehen paced
q mile in 204. beating the stallion rec
ord Of 2054, which held good until
earlier in the day. when Gentry set the
new mark. and "Sweet Little Alix"
trotted second mile in 2.04t
EARLY in the day the weather was
sultry, threatening rain. the track fast
and the horses announced for record
miles in tirst.class condition. In the
unfinished free-for- all pacs in which
Hal Braden had won heat last even
ing the pools were selling, Braden $25
and john R. Gentry and Flying Jib,
the field. at $1S. Reflector having been
distanced yesterday.
Flying Jib was crankisr than usual
and after several bad attempts to got
away the Braden and Gentry horses
were sent away with Jib dancing 100
yards back of the wire. To the quarter
the two contestants were going to-.
gethsr in 81, and at the half Gentry
was o half length behind in 1.01a. At
the three quarters, which was made in
1.31t McHenry drove Gentry to q
lead half length.
They cana around on the streatch so
placed, and 200 feet from the wire
Gsers gave up hope with Braden, see.
ing which McHenry logged in with
Gentry in 2.03f, which could have
been 2 03t or 2.03t.
Then the pool selling changed de-
cidedly back to Gentry as a favorite as
he was before the first heat yesterday.
Gentry won the next two heats in 2 06
and 2 OFT respectively.
ROBERT j APPEARS,
1t was 3.20 when Robert j. started tc
beat his own record of OPT. Ths at
mosphers was yet sultry. but the
clouds had disappeared and the wind
had gone down The king made bad
break in the second scoring but 20,
away we'll in the center of the track or
the third attempt that he might the
better get around the first short turn oi
| the four-cornered track. 1t was seer
shat he was at his best and when the
quarter was caught at 304 the
hope was strong. The runner who was
making the pace came along side near
the half which was made in II and the
six thousand people broke into cheers.
The three quarters was reached in
3Of making the middle half Of the
mile in the phenomenal time Of 50t
seconds. or at the rate Of 1 $50 He
came home strong and went under the
wire with the apparent courage aud
effort of his first quarter. Time, 2:0lt
was put up at once.
| There was no dispute among either
the official timers and the many export
timers among the horssmen gathered
| in line with the wire at either side oil
the track. The cheering which begar
at the sight of the figures had moi
ceased when Geers came back to thC
wire with the Hamlin entry. The
track was covered with people. Some
Of them caught him up on their shoul
ders and carried him to the fence IL
front Of the grand stand. where again
he was received with cheers. Starte
Lopsr announced the mile and tn,
record made, and the people agair
broke into cheers
PRESIDENT IJAMS SPEAKS
Then President Ijams. of the Terre
Haute protting association, got init
the stand and said: 1.-THE Terre Haut,
track does not need cheers, it is al
ways in it." And again the crowt
cheered as it also did when soma one
proposed cheers for Presidents Ijams
Sion afterward Jos Patchen WAS
brought out. He was to be sent tn
beat the stallion pacing record of 2 05l
held until Gentry's mile was mad
earlier today. He went the first quarter
In 1904. the half in / 0l4, the three-quar
ters in 32 aud the mile in 2 o. Ah1
made 2 04 mile. She was not equa
to the task Of lowering it. She acted
badly in starting and the good judge
of horse racing" saw that perhaps th
racing queen was being asked to d
too much. She went to the quarter II
31i, half second faster than Wednes
day when she scared at some dirt, an
to the half in 1.02a She went to th,
third quarter in 33, just as she did Oh
the other occasion, but she could no
come home fast enough.
| When the 2 D4t was shown there wa
not ripple of applause. Directly, th'
black son OF the black whirlwind
Direct, went to beat the 2.10 mile mad
by the two -year-old pacing colt. Car
Donate, the other day, but he could d
no better than tie the new record
Later in the afternoon Carbonate wa
sent to beat his own 10 and he cam
under the wire in 2 90 Joe Patehen
2.04 is the fourth 204 mile over tn
2.04 track, Mascot, Nancy Han ks an
Alix have the others to their credit,