The Portland daily press., 1895-10-02

behind the pole horse at the start and az
the first turn Sterling seemed to turn
Annie Shedd away from the pole little
and gave Billy Mac chance to take the
lead and the pole He could only hold it
to the half, however, and the contest was
again between Annie Shedd and Elton,
the former being just little too fast and
winning as usual Billy Macs chance at
the beginning resulted in his getting
third place in the last heat, and conse
quently third money. Following Is the
summary:
Annie Shedd, +, by J. R. Shedd,
R.H. Sturtevant, Boston, driver,
Sterling, 1
Elton, b 8, by Chastilard. W, A.
Boggs Springfield Mass, driver O
Billy Mac, Oh g, by G. F. Clay, W.
S. Mcleod, Boston, driver. Titus.3 8
Elwood b G, by Nutright, ~. +.
driver Mills, 8 4
Reginald, b g, by Greenwood, J.
H. Mathes & Co., Eliot, Me-.
driver, Livingston, 3
Marion, b f, by Dictator Chief, W.
d. Haley, South Gardiner,
driver, Pinkham, dis
TWO YEAR OLD TROTTING.
In the two year old trotting race, the
final event of the day, there were six
starters out of twenty-six emit ries.
They drew positions as follows: Bingen,
Conquest Star Lady Del Mar, Woven
Wind, Adwild and Julia. Bingen is the
remarkable two year old, recently pur-
chased for $4,000 by J. Malcalm Forbes
from r. II. Greeley of Ellsworth. There
was some difficulty in getting start for
the young horses were difficult to
manage. They drew pl aces in the order
above mentioned. Itwas expected OF
course that the fight would be between
Bing9n and Nelson's Conquest Star.
Bingen had made 2. soA in a trial heat at
Lewiston and at Mystic had stepped in
2. ID, SO it was said. Conquest Star at
Pennington, the other day, equalled the
state record of 2. 29A for two year olds
made by Secretary Barrett Emma Vest
land, last year.
These two colts did some wonderful
urotting considering the strong winds.
Bingen was clearly the fastest horse, yet
Nelson's colt surprised everybody.
1t was the best two out of three and
Bingen won two straight, with Conquest
Star close second. In the second heat
the Nelson colt forced the feet Binigen
under the wire in 2. 1917, which is almost
ten seconds below the state record. Con
quest Star is now owned by Mr.. Darling
of New York. Following is the summary
Bingen, b C, by May King, E. H
Greedy, Ellsworth, driver, Titus, 1
Conquest Star, b Q, by Nelson, G. HI
Nelson, Waterville, driver. Nelson. 2
Adwild, b T, by Advertiser. M: A.
Nevins, Claremont N. H., driver: .
Nevens, .
Julia, br f, by Haley, W. D. Haley.
South Gardiner, driver, Pinkhanl.
Woven Wind, Q, by Sphinx, W. Ell.
Marrett, Boston, driver, Delano, 5 8
Lady Del Mar ch t, by Del Mar,
Suburban Stock Farm, Glen Falls,
N. Y, driver, Baldwin, + dis
Time-2 2314. 2 1914.
THE BICYCLE RACES.
Between the heats the bicycle races
under the auspices of the Portland Wheel
club, took place. There were two races
the one mile and the five mile. They ex-
cited a good deal of interest because
Otto H. Grimmer of the Portland Wheel
Club had issued a challenge for the one
mile race and several of the Portland
boys had promptly shown willingness
to accept it, and stood ready to nrove if
possible, that Mr.. Grimmer was not the
champion of Portland. Besides Grimmer,
the other entries for the one mile
challenge races were John r. johnson,
L. w. Thompson, w. B. Trickey, and W.
r. Huston.
AT the start Huston broke his pedal
and had to drop out. The track was
rather rough for bicycling riding, but the
pace was pretty hot on the back stretch
despite the wind and Thompson fell so.far
behind that he dropped out leaving
johnson, Trickey and GriInmer to squirt
N the home stretch alone. Johnson's
squirt caused a great deal Of enthusiasm.
1t easily defeated Tricky, who has a
good record for squirting, and it left
Grimmer, the challenger, SO far behind,
that he gave up entirely and came in over
the wire at jog trot, SO to speak, and in
third place.
Young Johnson's easy victory was a
surprise to all the wheelmen. The time
was 2 4614.
The racers were paced by W. M.
Haggett and E. J. Daniels OIL tandem.
The same men entered in the five mile
race. The track was SO hard and there
was so much wind, that the five racers
did little more than jog around for the
first mile or two, in bunch close to-
gether. The tandem paced them the first,
third and fifth miles.
Thompson gave out at the first quarter
of the third mile, and at the third quarter
Grimmer spurted ahead OF the tandem,
but soon fell behind it. Then they all
looped to the home stretch when they
spurted under the wire, Grimmer leading
the squirt. Tricky kept in the rear all
the time Huston led ON the back stretch
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