The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-14
FAST WORK ON SPEEDWAY.
LIVELY BRUSHES OF THE TRoTrERS
AND PAGERS TEsTERD4I

| Robert u, Boss OF tho Road, Leaving
Smoke and Dust IN his wake-Sirock q
New Trottor on the Noted Speeding
Ground-Soarchiirhpa Half Brother Fast
Yesterday morning was scorchor In more
| ways than one ut Speedway Park. The
! sweltering weather seemed TO have no terrors
for the men who drive trotters on che road and
they we're out In full force each one apparent
ly bent on giving tho dust to his neighbors
| and friends. Helped by the rains OF last week
, Superintendent Quinn had the surface OF the
road smooth MS the slate bed ofa billiard to Die
| and as RIM and liycly as q rubber cushion.
| All the smart horses knew the footing was
fine. and the way they imbered un and lot
themselves out when they struck the broad
stretch above Washington Bridge. was S sight
| to see. Bloodlikc little Robert j.. :0l 1-2. was
ono OF tho 1rst to arrive and the last to leave,
| and he mndo his presence felt nearly every
minute by taking the conccit out o: some
horse or other that thought hmse a pscor.
| Although the former champion Of pocsrdom
Is so kind and gentle that his ovuor som etime s
leaves him to stand without hitcking on the
| busiest part OF broadway. BOBBY" is q horse
| that 1t takes arcal reinsman to drive at top
| speed. Lewis G. Tewksbury surprised the
/ sidewalk watchers yesterday by guiding the
little chap down the road with rare skill. get
| ting him through the bunch or around II and
| out TO the front In every brush Of the day.
Once. when his competitors were f. F..
Smither SIS King FRbert. 200k: DR.. ellis
Jack. 2:l2h: l.. f.. Hoeriel's Brooks, 2:1J;
Alexander Newburger's Smlnx. 2:21A; the
fast mare Gretchen. 2:2S'r. and some others.
the matchless little campaigncr made break
| aeon after the horses turned COR the brush. and
he was eight or ten lengths behind Smax
when he caught and came on again. New
re- NJ and tad 10,
chestnut daughter OF Sidney in regular Johnny
Goldsmith fashion when he found himself In
the best bunch OF PAGERS on the Speedway.
Smiiax stepped very fast. and it looked as
though not even Robert J. could close tho
gap In .he quarter OF n mile that lay be-
tween her and tho bridge. Tewksbury made
a try for 1t. however. instead OF giving up the
chase, as most OF the others had done Tho
gallant ltttlo GclGrg responded with one OF
his old-time flights OF speed. lessoninG the dis
lance that serarated him from Smtla1 at every
stride. 1t was beautiful brush and every
body along the road craned his neck to see the
outcome. furlong from the bridge Robert
had got TO the chestnut mares wheel and
was apparently eating her up in Klamath
fashion. when she suddenly made break.
Like streak OF lightning the gedinR gave her
the goby and landed in front at the finish.
When the horses logged back up the road.
Newberger said to his friends on the side
walk:
Smilax was boating him until took her
back" but most Of the spectators thought they
saw it the other way. Newburgers mare how
ever. has lately shown herself to be as fast as
the best on the Speedway. 1t was well along
in June before her owner began to cut her
loose. and she was then hard and 1T to 20 fast
while many OF the trotters and PAGERS that had
been set a-going in April and May were laid on
the shelf for repairs. It is said that Smilax
took Cobwebs into camp In short. sharp
brush last week. but the big chestnut trotter
was not at his best. having Just come ont after
slight attack OF pink -eye or something like II.
In another pretty brush yesterday morning
Robert J. outfooted King Eghert and John
Donley's good gray trotter. Glenmere Boy.
2:144 Tusksbury drove him under re-
straining pull until within furlong or so from
the finish. making it look at glance that both
OF his rivals were beating him. But when
Bobby" got the word to 60 to the front he
fairly made the Speedway smoke. putting in
the hoof-be like the rattle OF rapid fire
gun.
Among the crack PAGERS on the speedway
yesterday was Isaac Hoppcr's bay gelding
Lucre. .: ga. by William L.. out OF Nora Mapes.
by Furor This fellow boasts the blood OF
champions on both sides OF the house. as his
sire got inc SlbD,DDD tnrcc-year- Old trOtter
Axtell. PIP and his dam produced the great
e-year-old PAGER Searchlight. 2:O34. that
some folks say can beat any harness horse in
the world at present Lucre beat the crack
trotter Glenmere Boy in neat style yesterday
coming from half dozen lengths back and
sliding past the gray horse with n surprising
turn OF speed. Lucre Is a high-gong PAGER
and when moving at speed. bears quite re-
semblance to his noted half brother
big. strong-going, square gated. bay trot-
ter. hooked to n pneumatic road cart out quite
figure In the speed parade Yesterday and set
everybody guessing as to his identity. In
brush with J, A. Blnnrocks trotter KinGwood
the big bay horse held his own in bulldog
style, the two horses going from the bend to
the bridge in rousing drive with not more
than neck separating them at any time Those
who saw the outcome said that Kingswood's
nose was in front at the finish. but the other
horse gave him one Of the hardest contests
OF the dav Tho newcomer proved TO be Sirock
2;l4A. by Coronet. the son OF George Wilkes.
This horse was bred by Henry c. Jewett OF
Buffalo. and gained his record at Boston in
1895. He was afterward driven on the road
In Cleveland and trotted some good races to
wagon at the matnees Of the Driving Club
there.
j. w Cornish. owner OF two fast trotters. Da-
vid d. 2:09+, and Newcastle. 2:ll'. had new
one between tho shafts OF his speeding wagon
yesterday. This was the racy looking bay gel
ding Cardenas. 2:HA. by Jay Bird out OF
Queen Sweepstakes. The late A. VI. Halves OF
this city bred tho horse and thought no had a
GrandCircuit winner when Cardenas was three
years old, Cornish turned him around yester-
day. in compaIy with the gray mare Star Lily
by Guardian. son OF Pilot Medium. and Will
liam Clark's bay PAGER Everett VI, 2:l9i, Car
denas threw shoe and made a brush as he
did so, but he recovered and came on so fast
that the PAGER with record ten seconds faster
than his own had to take his dust.
Nathan Strauss logged Cobwebs up to the
end OF the Speedway early in the morning. but
did not start him IN. silk Woodruff 2;l5r.
the fast PAGER from Philadelphia that beat q bout
everything he met last spring. put In an ap-
pearance again yesterday after an absence OF
several weeks. He brushed with his old time
speed once or twice, but he did It alone, and
was not in any Of the bouts with Robert j.,
Jack. King Egbert and the other top sawyers