Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-08-31
A GREAT RACE PROBABLE.
Dlreclum and AliI 10 DO PItted
Against Each Other.
These Great riysrs stand n FaIr
chance Of Cutting Down Nancy
Gianks's Record.

Nancy Hanks now stands at the
head Of the worlds troltefs, with
record Of 2:0i made last year. The
California mare AK has made q
reoord-the fastest this year--on the
same track Of 2'O5,. Last year she
was beaten by Directum, who made
record Of 2:O6l The mare having
come up TO this point, arrangements
are In progress to put Alix and Direc.
tum Ia great race, and In
all probability this will come oil soon.
orrlu Hiokok, who had charge OF
Dlrcctum since this spring, has chal.
longed Monroe Salisbury, half owner
Of Alix, to match race any way from
g., 800 to $4,000. Its very likely that
Salisbury will accept Hickoks chal.
lenge, ssys the San Francisco Chronicle,
and then tho sporting fraternity will bo
able TO decide as TO the relative merits
OF each animal.
Dlrecium, rs we'll as Allx, has a
third hoa, record Of 2:Os!. Last year
these two formidable rivals met in a
match race at Fleetwood Driving park,
New York, on November 9TH. ID.
rectum won In three straight heats.
Time, 2:lb. -2;l8I -2:07. Monroe sails.
bury hau Difectum for two seasons
ana he should have n good line on him.
Dlrectum Ia owned by John Green, of
Dublin, California, n place about HiI
miles IRON Salisbury stock farm.
Failing 10 make satisfactory arrange.
ments with the owner OF Direotum for
mis- season, salisbury hsd his eyes
open looking for n good fTee.f1r.gli
uampAignef, 20 In June oi the present
year he took trip 10 soc Mr.Jonef, the
owner Of AK, aud finally they made
deal by when the fieetiootsd dAugh.
ter OF Patronage passed into Sallsbufy's
hands. IL was freely stated that the
eI-owner Of Director had purchased n
half interest IN her.
Alix has been trolting some this pna-
son. Morris Jones drove her n public
mile Ia 2.lll ut Council Bluffs inJunr.
Those who witnessed this performance
say II was ~ easy as riding mile Ia
three minnteA Ia buggy. On July Z AT
tho same place she beat Robbie P.(who
Ia now In MoniAnal in n match race,
jourucyed east, ami Monroe Salisbury
took her In his static. At Saginaw,
Mich, ON July lilh, she defeated
Hamlin'a Nightingale In straight
meats, the fastest heat being 2:O0l suu
the average for the three heats 2:lll.
At Detroit, Mich, the next werk,
sho was third to Lord Clinton ana Pix.
ley. The fastest heat In this Tace was
g:lO i-5.
Toe next starting place for the queen
Of the turf this year was at CleN Gland.
She won u lace there with tue re-
mark able average OF a shade better than
.:0s 3-5, which was the average record
then. She never did seem ~ like the
track at Buffalo, New York, IL was
there that Pamllco made It Interesting
for tue little mare. AK won the
race, two Of the heats being botIer
than 2;l0. Tue iour heats averaged
300 40.
The Terre Haute track, where Nancy
Hanks trotted her unpfecedenIol mile
OF 2.OI, furnished the climax. IL was
there that Ryland T., Pixley anu
Waiter h. went down before tho
Patronage mare. She tTOlted the three
greatest heals ever trotled NJ pace !.
| 1ut was HtNeI utAhNi III @sHpi stNW 10
2:0tl By the latter heat she tquale !
the thIrd-heat record made by Di-
Iectum last year.
Its very true that Alix did not beat
the third heat record, Tor Dlfectum
trOttod last October at Nashville In tho
same time. 2:O5l. But the two races
compared SNOW that tue mare very
distinctly oulola'ses the stallion. He
had only two entries TO compete with,
viz, Nightingale ana Hazel Wilkes,
white Alix had four entries TO beat.
| Dirsclum also had two easy heats In
| 2!l3l and 2:li. Then he was cut loose
anu nAd "A runner at the half to bring
him nome. On tue CONTRARY tue mare's
tirst heat was In 2.Od, her second In
2:ntl Then when she stepped home
tne ,niri beat IN 2:O5l II wa, on nor
own courage ana wIthuut u pacemaker
to help her. Dlrrutum came the lsst
half In l;Oll with MS pacrmaRer,
while AliH cAme homo IN l:Ol Nloue.
Ia Nancy Hanks's mile u 2:ui, made
at Terre Haute, Ind, size came home
ia l:Dll. bot sho trotiod the third
quarter "A m29i. rsEing everything
into consideration, II Direclum and