The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-19
SPEEDWAY BUSY AGAIN.


IN ~. ~. 1IAMINbH ObCAh.
Lively Brush Between the Bay and Ghost
nut. with Honors Almost Even-Glenmere
Boy Too Much for the Pacers-Oid San
Pedro In Fine Form-BiR Day ON Road.
The driving rain which swept over the north
end OF this city yetterday morning only inn
proved the footing for the harness horses at
Speedway Park, So rapidly does the colt
earth road dry out that Superintendent John
Quinn had to order his sprinkling wagons into
service shortly after 3 O'Clock In the after
noon. Although the leaden sky was all the
while threatening TO leak. hundreds OF road
riders took the chance OF getting wet and
logged their trotters away up to the popular
stretch Of road above Washington Bridge for
the sake Of an afternoon spin. Smilax. 2:2lh;
Belle g.. 2:10il. and Cuprum. 2:12at. the
horses that had furnished most OF the sport on
the day before. were not in evidence. but there
we're other good ones to take their places and
the snort waxed fast and furious for two hours
or more. beginning about O'Clock.
The good gray trotter Glenmere Boy 2:14S.
and the shapely big bay pacing mare Gretchen.
2:2Sls. got together early in the afternoon. and
they gave sort OF continuous performance.
lasting until nearly G O'Clock. The chestn ut
pacing gelding Brooks. 215. and the likely
green sidewheelers Almond. a black geldng
by Ambassador. 2:2l%. hooked In with the
other two before the sport ended. putting IN a
series OF splendid brushes. Early In the after
noon. Gretchen appeared to be mistress OF the
road. for she out-footed Glenmere Boy
in their first brush. carrying him along at such
speed that the usually steady-going geding
made disastrous break John Danley. the
owner Of the bloodlike gray trotter. was not
satisfied with the result. He invited Gretchen's
owner. Charles Massoth. to try It again. so the
fvp ri In hoo Oh , nvoly
man street. Ten minutes later they were at
1t once more. hammer and tonRs. over the
same stretch OF road as before. j. G. Stack
with the goose rumped. black PAGER Almond.
Joined in the fray this time. but neither OF the
PAGERS could GO the clip with the gallant gray
trotter. who laid back his ears and stepped it
off with as clean and square q stroke as ever
was seen on the Speedway.
"Glenmere Boy is good to-day" was the
word that passed along the line OF spectators
as the gray fellow rubbed it into the pacers.
Nearing the bridge. Stack drew his whip and
sashed the shaft with a loud report to
rouse the black Ambassador horse to his
best effort. Almond was overmatched for
that trip at least. and the best he could do was
to beat Gretchen down to the bridge In JUS
tice to him it should be said that he pulled a
high-wheel wagon. while the other two were
hooked to the lightest pneumaticS.
The next time down Glenmere Boy had q
new antagonist in the black PAGER Piedmont.
2:13A, driven by L. B. Phillips Again the en-
during trotter. from Orange county came out
to ns tSe Ss tSe bred
the same ns rs9, h Sna b.oN
Sish: Wheel wagon. tie ~, speedy ,.,. green
cord OF 2:2SI. beating her neatly, though
rot easily. Almond. broke his cheek reln
IL Weahd 1 is s1de
Win his big bs Sme
carrying him to break before, they had gone
going to the end Of the route, but he could not
close the gap OF SIX or Sight eight lengths length which
das ta By snrnns SnVnS nls
The bay mare was tired and could not strike
ns5 81 brushes of the day wa.
the farewell bout between Glenmere Boy and
and stub6ornIy fought that the drivers Of d the
roaS Kept going clean the
was s an even N ateh, but DonIey got there first
saw Sy aS Ss heT wh1
%ss rpn.na oae for hh or.ss %ps s
doing their best. with not more than hall a
Length separating the two PaceES At any point
Of before she had fairly $50 got T a,ro N:
the road behind q high. gaited little black trot-
ter whose turn Of speed set everybody talking.
aka can Other An d hS fSEad oSs4 ss
THAT'S Monroe Salisbury's old campaigner.
and a pacing record OF 2;f0I. He was about
the best green PAGER in the business IN 1892.
In purses. stakes and pools"
The old fellow proved to be in fine form. but
time and again when sent along at speed. May
nard set him going against the track pacing
soms ss Sn ff PeGpo ssRs band and
only to hit himself once more and make an
By odds the most notable brush OF the after
noon took PLACE, when Nathan straus turned
Ss; oss Sa Via Boy
To the surprise Of every body the bay stuck to
the Chestnut like snsasd leeSh and ,s
sSt,5s length ls e the upper sss.IoR Close
straus sent the Speedway champion over the
aep ossa
issas sasF Bs bsRa ns shF
AmpnS the new hors s on the rHnd Yesterday
by Walter Fitzpatrick. The horse Is twelve
years old. and was bred by the distingulshe,d
statesman whose name he hears. Kilpatrick's
fast young trotter Ante Dawn. 2,14h. by. Guy
wilkes. Is laid up with sore back and has
lion W. ". Seamans was out yes
terday with another Ipewcomsr ~ in the
the reins over the racy black pacing mare
BIacksie, 2:l5is. by Petchen Wilkes. the sire OF
tenhnm and Elmo Maid. A, L. Kerker, back on
the road after month on the water drove the
honest little chestnut PAGER Atateka,