The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-20
IN LIGHTNING FINISHES
Kingmond, the Queen, Success,
Royal Baron Each Have a Heat.
THE GREAT NJ. & M. RACE
The Queen Lowers the Race Records by
Sd OF a Second - 5000 Spectators
Watch the Stubborn Contest.
VIII Be Concluded To-Day.

Detroit, Mich, July 19.-The gamest
struggle made to win the Merchants
and Manufacturers $4,000 trotting
stakes since the inception of that an
nual event, 10 years ago, was witnessed
on the Crosse Point track to-day by
more than 5000 enthusiastic spectators.
The sun went down leaving the result
decidedly in doubt, after the four lead
ers had each been credited with one
heat. In the third heat The Queen low
cred Directum Kelly's record of 2:I1A
the best time in the NJ. and NJ. until to-
day, by three-quarters of a second.
If horses names count for anything,
those of the four leaders of the big
event, kingmond, The Queen, Royal
Baron and Success, were appropriate.
So far as it went the race was a splen-
did exhibition Of drivers skill, combined
with the fast young horse flesh. King
mond the strong favorite of the day,
encouraged his hackers by getting a
heat. Then the exciting finiri,es began.
McHenry, in wonderful drive in the
stretch, pushed Success into winning
in an almost dead-heat finish with
kingmond, with The Queen in the third
heat. She tried it again in the fourth
but The Queen failed to carry out her
noted drivers plans, and again went
up in the stretch" and Royal Baron
rushed from the bunch and took the
heat, while another hitherto inconspicu-
Gus member of the aristocracy, Lady
Wellington of Cleveland, followed close
at the Baron's heels and got third
place.
Wiask gave Kingmond a close race
in he fire L irr lao al
most all the way by only a neck. In
the second heat Kingmond, Wilask and
The Queen We're together at the head Of
the stretch, with Success coming, and
he won the heat from Kingmond by
the barest of noses. In third heat Sue
cess and Kingmond approached the
final turn neck and neck, but Beers
came out with The Queen and mani
tested his reputation by the manner in
which he took the heat away from the
favorite. The bunch came up strongly
toward the end of the fourth heat. The
Queen and Kingmond were leading,
when The Queen broke, while Royal
Baron came to the front and got his
nose first beneath the wire.
Lady of the Manor was played as the
favorite in the 2:07 pace, but failed to
satisfy her hackers. The low mark of
the day, 2:06la, was reached by Pearl
Edwards in this event
Sphynx, the favorite, got only second
place in the 2:06 pace. The track was
fast and the day cloudy and rather
threatening.
1927 class, pacing, s1,OOo-Harry o.
won second and third heats: time,
2:10&, 2:10&. Sphynx won the first
heat in 2:11A and was second; Grin B.
third.
2:20 class, trotting, purse $1,000
Owyhee won second and third heats;
time, 2:1312 and 2:13. Dorothy S. won
first heat in 2:l5 and was second: Palm
Leaf third.
The Merchants and Manufacturers
SO, 900 stake for 2:24 class trotters (un-
fnished)-Kingmond won the first heat.
Success took the second, The Queen the
third and Royal Baron the fourth
Wilask, Lady Wellington. StarmOnt,
Escobar. Bertha Lee, Dan Wilkes
Dainty Daffo, Chainshot and Michael
Strogoff also started. Time, 210, 2:11A,
2:1012 and 2:12A.
2:07 class pace, purse $4,000 (unfin-
Clay won second and
third heats; time, 2:07A and 2:06R
Pearl Onward won fourth heat In 2:07k,
and Egosen won first heat in 2:0Sha.
Miss Logan, Charley R., Royal R. Shell
don. Lady of the Manor, William Wal
lace, Scribner and Annals also started.