The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-30
OLD TIME ROAD RACES.
MIR. FULLER WANTS TO BREAK
THE SIX-IN-HAND RECORD.

The Veteran Reinsman Tells of
brushes with Commodore Wander
bilt and other Famous Drivers-An
Incident of Bonner and Beecher.
How to Throw Runaway Team.
New York, Oct. S-Lawton N. Fuller,
the veteran driver of fast horses, though
seventy-hve years old, believes that he
can break the six-in-hand team record of
2:561k, which he himself established In 1896,
and he is eager to make the attempt. MIR.
Fuller said the other day:
'I believe that six horses can be made
to trot mile in 245 or better, and that 1
own the six horses that can do It, But
since 1t is rather costly, both in time
and In money, to train six horses to do
their best 1 should not be Wiling to make
the attempt entirely without inducement.
Five thousand dollars should be hung up,
and if that Is done 1 will put my horses
into training at once. the entire purse to
go to me if 1 lower the record to $50. If
not, 1 am to receive nothing. Or l will
trot my six horses against any other three
pair team for 5000 a side, the winner to
take all.
1T would take me about month to get
ready. 1 would be willing to trot on any
first-class track-Hartford, Poughkeepsie,
Cleveland, or one of those further soutn'
OF course it is too tate to bring the event
about this fall, but my announcement Is
out in plenty of time to make 1T easy to
arrange for the test early In the season of
1899. Judging from the crowd that witness
ed my record breaking performance OF 1886
at old Fleetwood park, the men who put
ND the s. 900 need not run the slightest FISK
of loss, for they could fully recoup them
selves from the gate money. should pre-
fer to trot my horses against some olher
six-in-hand, because l should be surer OF
winning such a match than trot against
time, but l am quite ready for inc iatter'
and on the shortest notice feasible.
.'The team would be the same as the
record breaking one of 1896 with one eX-
ception. Dexter, the nigh leader OF that
team, is dead l was about ready to pro-
pose an attempt to make z:40 recoro
when he died and have been waiting since
then to find a horse to take his place.
I have now found the horse, and my
team will be made up in this way: Snip
and Wilkes, leaders; Flora and mare
l call Josephine In the middle, and Fleet
wood and Fleetwlng at the wheels. l
haven't the slightest doubt that this team
will be able to better the old record.
When FuIIer Beat Vanderbilt.
Mention of the lamented Dexter, named
for the famous trotter of that name, own
ed by Robert Bonner. always awakens
a train of "reminiscences In Mr.. Fuller
mind.
~ thought a good deal of Dexter" he
said, but 1 thought more of his sire,
Fuller George. I have owned scores OF
good, lively steppers, but Fuller George
was the best one of them all. He was
true as steel. His temper was perfect. He
was never in bad condition. He was pos
itively the prettiest horse l ever saw.
Best of all, he was never beaten on the
road.
Il shall never forget the day he out
trotted Small Hopes. driven on old Har-
lem lane by Commodore Vanderbilt. Any
old-timer will tell you that Small Hopes
was one of the crack steppers of his
| day, his track record being 2:1Ssz. My Full