The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-11
FAST TEAMS ON SPEEDWAY.
FINE CONTEST BETWEEN THE PAIRS
OFF, y. COCKERILL AND W. n. ROSE.

Swift and Honor Bright Divide the Honors
| with the PAGERS Sir ED and Island
| Beile-Dundess too Fast for Ootsvia
| Moving Pictures of the Many Brushes.
| dozen or more OF the fastest Speed way
fyers had their pictures taken In motion yea
terday, and n all goes well the peo pie OF Lon
J don and Paris will before long see Nathan
Straus come down the road from High Bridge
swshing his whip about the ears OF Aves.
209,S. and driving the gallant son OF Allerton
| at q rate OF speed unknown on the other side
| OF the Atlantic. Strung out In the cloud OF
dust that rises in the wake OF Mr. Strauss 2:10
trotter they will get glimpse OF ]. W. Cornish.
muGled up in sealskin coat. cap and
gloves. hard at work with the reins.
rallying the big gated trottcr David b.. 2:08S /:
OF Melville c. Boynton's little flea bitten gray
mare. Brunhilde. 2:15H; OF George A. Cole
| mans Sirock, PLAN; OF Bernard Zahn's Oscar.
| 2:2OI: OF Alexander Newburgcr's Sminx
2:21A. and G. c. Lloyd's Richard b.. 2:2lS.
| And II Richard Croker should happen to see
the moving pictures while In London he might
recognize his fast three ear-old trotter Elec-
| trio Wilkes stepping down the road In the COM
pany OF the crack-a-jacks. with Jack Curry
| sighting the youngster straight Tor the
| camera.
Not far away from tho last OF the trotters
come tearing down the road on the dead run
with an ashen- faced driver In the lurohing
careenine high wheeled wagon behind him.
| for Just as the moving picture man had
| finished his work the trotting gelding
Christmas got beyond the control OF his driver
and ran all the way from Washington Bridge to
| the macadam pavement before the mounted
mon could atop him. The runaway passed
| OF the instrument for half a mile or more.
After the picture making ended on the
to. The broad stretch above Warrington Bridge
where fine racing was seen, The event oI the
pornips Mns series o. , brushes s, Getgeen 'onS
Honor Bright, 2:29S. and W II. Roses cross
m9tchcd black and che chestnut q. gaeersS Sir J Ela
PAGERS have lately beaten everything they have
met, and haye been classed as the fastest pair
weights q the .nrst trial yesterday. Rose
driving them to sixty; pound one.
.roiters i pRusd Socksr and friend IN much
heavier tull-seat road wagon They got %.
go ,S R the sc len ngd by
rather cautiously, as Il fearing a break. but
that neither GqG'er would in n, into the .E
rnaa sSs aS way 10 The
RR cr H best pacsr. ar from "a Mount
but the fonors were about evenly divided in
visw OF the extra weight behind the ,trotters
fun After turning around IN near pyckman
street the rival teams came back doyp the
sh SSsT Sh he %ns
! terry, and were only a neck behind the PAGERS
as III. four horses ssruck The rising ground
how the brush ended; 6a, Rose, said
he Sir 0H Ed s aGS'f Island py't HSs
had %, held their slight Lead to the iinl.h Cock:
faster W ea %2 40 he e, his rena got GU. o the
Slowly up toward the north end Pss1y @ sss
Sa,ycen i've double teams q, sTeodssy
WAITE aPa t aS 0s N penup on IN ss
q hand:clnnplng all along the line, as
Sr at terrible 1 essd and d.
| 40 gait near the end o. the stone wall. then
many ysexpersnced Judges q pace we're we're much
| his chestnut mare with the whip. twas the
| inst straw, She was reclinE and webbing be-
/ fore and this touch OF the whalebone sent her
There they go' Thetrotters II beat EN- this
at once. for nine out Of ten sidewalk watchcr re-
/ were roofing Tor the CockeTl tam. Almost
! coSkerll drove 10 win OF lose. putting his
above their pacEs and allyng them with voice
and rein. The sporty little son and daughter
/ they wheeled an dartcd away this time. NOV.
ing together Ike hors. in single harness.
The 9 rnr fo 0ofe: % the Trim ,,e ,rot
as the teams .wsrt down the middle :" Of the the
road They stood the driver and stuck TO their
! PAGERS and ing them dccsively be'ore the
point Of rocks was reached,
Grill teams hal ended their last brush the big
rang black and n. shestpn, 7trotters Wyoming.
mniSh9 h,I pair moved back toward ,hH bridge
! which Won the admiration nj all horsemen.
7 Luke 4 Burke drove another true. going and
FAT e F%'r and in len SPnf Esss 6Hs
They ontfnoted everything they met until NJ.
:, Leonard hanpcned along with an !nnocent.
brush \, they went. tooth and mail the team
sr9s!ins hnnd:omsy %nS The speed Of Is9E-
! Leonards hore turned out TO be Sly. 2:l9., a
| winner In the campaign OF lSS, Barney Good
n who n Ta' s %sy to "f f aES.
drove newly matched pair Of BAY trotters
whose speed and beauty caused many com.
He'll Tap. Sy Prodixal' a;ie, and Istte Kav.
2%3S y S both ios, enough 70
HyrqST Hn VII H@ ssG.
| Otner Inst pairs IN cNlIeHC" were tnc ninety
matched fast bay trotters Nibbs. 2:l3h. and
| Ncva Wilke.. 2:l4i4. both by Brlgno Wilkes.
| 2:l+L IN" fastest son Of George Wilkes. These
horses were, formerly owned by Thomas s;
, Harrison Of Philadelphia. the Consul General
a Cairo. and were camnnisned by Capt. " II
Bovc" In 1890 They wero brought here for
| Speedway diving about week ago James
Rowland bought the pair last week after
| seeing them sep last to pole. Thoy cost
| the New York horsoman about $1,000.
Not one of tho men who drove trottcrs yes.
| terday seemed IN banker Tor n trial OF speed
with Alves, 2'g"t. and Nathan straus had to
| turn TO the best OF the PAGERS 10 find any
| thing that could interest him. The on" he
turned Alvcs with was Jack. 2:l2h. the win
| ner Of the Blnurock cup and one Of the fcw
ihat outiooted the CHAMPION wagon horse
Fast aud steady as he wns.. Alves found the
grcnt pncer n lttle too speedy for him.
| benjamin Xnhns big bay trottng mare Dun
| parade Her record Il no faster thnn 2;2SN.
yet the rnk ism daughter Of Dundee can pull ncr
| heavyweight owner over the road at clip TOO
| fast for most Of the trottrrs All. meets. Her
best periormnnce, Yesterday WAS in brush
with Lon Muynnrds handsome brown trotting
mare. Octavn. .2;l1t., by Gold Leaf, q recent
addition 10 the metropolitan road brigade.
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