The Portland daily press., 1897-09-13
POINTER WON.
Defeated Joe Patchen in Two Heats at
Mystic.

Medford, Mass, September 11.-No new
records were established in the Star
Pointer-Joe Patchen race at Mystic park
track this afternoon and the time made
was rather disappointing to many.
| Pointer won the race in two straight heats,
the time being 2.O3 3-4 and 204 Ia re-
spectively. his fastest quarter being the
last one in the first heat which was at q
| 2 90 minute clip.
| A pacing race in the 2.12 class was
sandwiched in between the heats Of the
| Pointer race and just as the horses were
| called for the first heat of that event a
shower that had been threatening for
nearly an hour broke and for ten minutes
kept the crowd under shelter, but fully
5000 witnessed the races. The rain was
not sufficient to hurt the track in the
least
1t was just 2.45 p. M, when Dave Mo-
Clary mounted his seat behind Star
Pointer in front of tine judges stand and
Ed Gears was up behind Joe Patchen a
second later. In the drawing for positions,
Patchen drew the pole, it being the agree
ment that the horses should alternate at
the pole, irrespective of the result Of the
heats. 1t was also mutually agreed that
the horses should score twice at least be-
fore they were sent off. At the sound of
the bell, the two handsome PAGERS started
for the distance post, then turning came
down the stretch under the wire with
their noses on level and the sulky
wheels SO even that the two vehicles
seemed as one. The horses were sent back
however, for their second trial. This time
Patchen came to the wire good long
length ahead of Pointer and again they
were called back The third time they
came down the stretch in the same rela-
tive position and for third time they
were recalled.
On the fourth trial the pair came to the
wire in splendid style, Patchen's nose be-
ing slightly in front of Pointers and at
the quarter he was leading the king by
length. Pointer gradually pulled up on
him and down the back stretch the two
went nearly neck and neck, and the
crowd gave vent to varied expressions of
delight at the beautiful race. When the
three quarters post was reached Patchen
had worked himself ahead so that his
| bicycle wheels were on a level with Point
ers nose, and they staid there for only a
few seconds, for as the horses rounded
into the home stretch Pointers long
steady strides were seen to be getting in
| some telling work and he was surely and
rapidly drawing away from his rival
Five hundred feet from the finish he had
his nose in front of Patchen and the lat
ter could not overtake him. The result of
the heat was then assured and as Pointer
shot under the wire winner by q neck
the air was filled with the shouts and
plaudits of an admiring throng in the
grand stand and along the stretch. The
time by quarters showed that the last
quarter was the fastest of the entire mile.
the figures being as follows: 80 1-2,
1901 Ia, 1.33 ga, 2.03 3-4.
In the second heat less time was lost in
scoring. The horses cams to the wire
abreast ON the first attempt, but were
sent back to the starting point for their
second trial. This proved sufficient and
they were given the word with Patchen a
neck ahead of Pointer, who had the pole
this heat. 1t was clear at the start that
this heat was cut out for slower time, and
the first quarter was half second slower
than the corresponding quarter in the first
heat. Pointer had gone to the front by
the time he had reached the quarter turn
and was leading by half length. This
lead he gradually increased to nearly
length at the half but by the time the
three-quarter pole was reached Patchen
had closed up the gap and was on even
terms with the pacing king. From that
point the latter began to forge ahead and
around the last turn and down the stretch
Patchen could not do more than keep his
forelegs abreast of Pointers wheels. In
this position they finished, the result
giving Pointer the two heats necessary to
secure the $4,000 purse. The time by
quarters was 80 Ia, 1.0i IA, 1.33, {. 04 IA
In the 2.12 pacing race there was good
field of six starters. Only three heats
were needed to settle it and ali three
heats fell to Miss Finley, who went to
the front in the first quarter of the first
heat and was never again headed dur
ing the three heats
Following are the summarizes:
200 GLASS. PURSE 81, 600, WINNER
TO TAKE ALL, PACING BEST
TWO IN THREE.
Star Pointer, b S, by Brown HAL
dam Sweepstakes (MoClary) L Il
Joe Patchen, blk S, by Patchen
Wilkes, dam Josephine Young
(Geers) 2 q
Time-2o3 3-4, 2.04 II.
2.12 GLASS, PACING, PURSE 5000.
Miss Finley b m, by Theron, dam
Lena (Garrity) Il IL
Peter Turney, 6 6 (Gillis) 3 81
Hal Crago,. b G (Easton) 5 5
Winfield, br g (Gateomb) 3 8 Al
DR.. Wood, CHI h (Riley) 5 3
Monopole, Oh G (Demarest) 8 81
Time-2.12 1-2, gil ga, 212. 81
Trotting at Hartland.
Pittsfield, September 1.-THE races at