The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-27
BROKE TRACK RECORD
Best Time in the PIC Trot
Yesterday Was 2:13 IA.
ALVERDERE ATKINS WON
Weather Fine and Nearly
1000 Gate Admissions.

The race meeting opened yesterday
most exciting contests probably ever seer
on Kansas track. The statement that
this years entries for the Wichita meet.
ing closed with the finest field Of horse.
ever gotten together In the state was full.
~ proven. Starters Frank James and A
c. Jordan, said last night and the opin.
ion was backed by all the horsemen thai
the trotting and pacing races of yesterday
afternoon were as good all round and
more exciting than the average in this
class seen at Detroit, Indianapolis, Spring.
field. No. or Dallas.
The horses came to the wire equally
trained and well classed, the entries be-
ing closed only a few weeks prior to the
opening of races. Fifteen hundred to two
thousand people were admitted at the
gates, and nearly every body stayed till
the program was closed. There was a
bubble Of enthusiasm and excited antici-
patton from the very first heat Of the
trot for It was very plain that the after
noon would be a sweep of neck and neck
finishes, and it turned out that way. II
took six heats to decide the trot and this
included a strong dip Of the track record
by Jenny v, who finished out first in
the second heat at 2:13A Myron McHenry
held the record on this track up to yes
terday. The race was finished at about
Alverdere Atkins. won; Jenny ", second
Escobar, third Myron NcHenry, fourth
st. Justice, fifth. Purse $780,
2:1s TROT BY HEATS.
The men scored viciously at the begin
ming Of the first heat and to an initiated
visitor it looked as If the horses would
ooze into a foam and evaporate before
they could get started. When at last
Frank James leaned out frof the stand
and yelled go" in that shriIl nervous
voice, the horses surged forward like a
drop curtain with quick jerk Myron
McHenry shot ahead for full fifteen
lengths and caught the whole field for
the quarter. At the half post there was
nothing but Myron McHenry though Es-
cobar was slipping up on him. They were
a team at the three-quarters post but
Escobar led out from the seven-eighths
mark and shot under the wire less than
a length ahead Myron McHenry came
in a sharp second, followed at a lengths
distance by Alverdere Atkins. Jenny V.
was fourth, ST. Justice fifth The time
in his heat was 2:151a.
In the second heat Jenny v. jumped
from fourth to first IN the finish and was
tagged head by Escobar closing out a hot
second with Myron McHenry third and
and game as a young goat. Myron Nc
Henry is the last horse in the world that
would quit. He hadn't been worked for
three weeks when he steamed in on the
first heat yesterday. Alverdere drop
ped back from third to fourth and St.
Justice followed the field. The announce
ment of results in this heat was followed
by the statement that Jenny V. who fin
ished in 2:13h had the track record.
Jenny V. held the lead in the third heat
but was pushed by Myron McHenry again.
They finished, Jenny V, first; Myron
McHenry, second; Escobar, third; Aver
dere Atkins, fourth; St Justice, fifth.
The fourth heat was the one of the
prettiest and most exciting contests ever
seen in the west. It was a hot pull at
the last quarter. Alverdere Atkins and
Jenny V. coming down the track Ike a
chariot team but. each pulled out like
string diving for the wire. Men rushed
out to the center of the track to see them.
Everybody stood up in the grand stand.
Two or three young fellows who had
favorite of the two or who had money
up on the heat, jerked off their hats and
slammed them on the ground. SQuatting
down they eyed the horses and went
through all the swapping, shaking gym
nastios OF shooting craps, splitting out Vi
ciously between tight teeth. Hot down.
''Come on there!'
The two came under the wire with bare
" a nose between them and the crowd
cheered and and yelled dead heat" The
announcement Of the judges gave the I'm
ish in the following order: Alverdere AK
ms, first; Jenny V. second; Escobar.
third; st. Justice, fourth; Myron Nc
Henry, fifth.
In the fifth heat Jenny V. had tired
some and dropped back to fifth place in
the finish. AIvendere Atkins won easily,
Escobar following we'll back for second
though it was plain that he was getting
better every heat or rather was superior
in holding his own. Time 2:15.
This made two heats for Alverdere AK
ing and two for Jenny V. and one for
Escobar. The sixth heat was pulled of
after six and it was a little dark. l. was
playing for Alverdere Atkins this time
though. and she came under the wire with
room enough to spell out big smile be-
tween her and the other two, Escobar and
Jenny V. these three being the heat win
ners in the regulation five rounds. It was
over and the word ran through the crowd
that Alverdere Atkins had started seven
teen races this season and had won them
all.
''Alverdere Atkins is a bird" said Frank
James. as he eyed the winner with plea
sure.
Three heats were paced IN the second
race, the 2:14 pace. and Ii went over un-