Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-09-12
A RACE FOR BLOOD.
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not push his horse dowE the stretch. The
announcement was grel5ed with cheers.
The time was really 2:12A.
Third heat-The book odds were 10
on Scribner and 3 TO 2 on Russell.
The others ran up to Is to 2. JIM Carr
went up behind Jewett. Jew5tt broke
his check rein twice in the scoring; then
Russells sully went wrong and there
was more delay. One trouble followed
another, and it was after five O'Clock
when the third heat was actually start
ed. Scribner led Carrie H. TO the quar-
Ter. Jeweut third. Carrie broke; at the
half Scribner was a length in front oil
Tod Crook and Jewett, who was even
for second place. Scr.bner led Crook by
two lengths at the three-quar5er, Jewett
third. Scribner won by four lengths,
Crook second, Jewett a good third and
Mary Russell fourth. Time 2:13A. Mu-
tuals paid S1.70.
Fourth heat-Scribner led to the quar-
ter and half by length and half, Tod
Crook q length and a half in front Of
Jewett. Carrie fourth. AT the three
quarters ii was the same. Ted Crook
pulled up on the stretch and finished
first. Scribner second. Jewett third and
Bacillus fourth. Time PISA. 10 mu-
tuals were sold.
Fifth Heat-Even money was asked
by the bookies on Tod, the rest being
various odds up to 20 TO ,. Beflca the
heat B. Horkheimer's Gray Wilkes,
twelve years old, with record OF 2:3Oh
on the old track. was offered for SAFE,
with harness and rig, Starter Lehman
being the auctioneer. The ou.Ii; Went
to Morris Horkheimer at $140 A sec
ond horse, Charley Hancher's Tony,
with a record of 2:2S,, went at sac, 10
James Smith, Of Steubenviile.
At the quarter the horses were bunch
ed. and at the half Crook was first,
Scribner a close second, Jewett a ciose
third and Russell fourth. Crook held
his lead to the three-Quarters and home,
Russell second and Jewett third, the
three leaders coming down the stretch
under the whip. Syrena was a fair
fourth. Time, 2:16H
Sixth Heat-1t was twelve minutes
of seven when the fifth heat was over,
and fast growing dark The books ask
ed even money on Tod Crook and Rus
sell, with odds up to Is to on the 9TH
ers. The horses were called out al 1902.
Scribner, Russell and Crook were the
only starters. 1t was 1872 when the
horses were ready to score, and under
the rule, 1t being too dark to tel the
gait of the horses, the heat was post
poned until 10 a. m. to-day.
There was a good deal of apparently
unnecessary delay in the third heat OF
this race, and after the fourth heat went
10 Crook it dawned upon a whole lot of
people that the hackers of Scribn5r real
lied that the horse could not win until he
had been given tine to rest up, and this
impression was despened after the fifth
heat. People who had money against
SCribner asserted on the grounds last
evening and on the streets last night
that it wasn't a square deal to throw the
deciding heat over until morning, when
Scribner was pumped cut and a beaten
horse. and some pretty strong allega-
tons were made. What foundation
there is for the assertions made, the
Register reporter will MOI undertake to
decide, but ne will say that there was
entirely too much delay In getting the
horses off FOR the third neat, and with
the time lost there saved, the sixth heat
could easily have been run last night.
A good many people thought it might
have been run anyhow.
SUMMARY.
West Virginia State Fair and Exposition
Races-Fall Meeting, 1S96-Fourth Day
Second Race-214 Class Pace; purse 500,
divided:
VIM. Wallace Scribner. -, d.
Null, South Brooklyn. OIL 1
Molie McCauley br, m. ]. +.
Roberts. Moundsville, w. Na.3 S Or
Mary Russell, $. m, Fred Jamb.
son. Butler. Pa. ................2 :
Tod Crook. b. g.. II. S. Jamison.
Greenville ...... 80. .........S l
Bacillus. CHI. g.. J. B. Lowry
Ravenna. O. ........ .....:.....t b
!. =, .Trv'e-- -. 4. J. Hans
Komoka, o. ......... ..........4 3 3
S,leua. o.. m. A r.. Richardson,
saginaw ........- 49,. I'D
Carrie H. b. m. J. T. Windom..G Z
Quarter. Half. Three-quarters. Mile.
:$23s l:G9 l:$Sh S S:Ii8lH
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