The sun., 1899-08-24
GREAT BATTLE OF PAGERS.
JOE PlTCHEN DEFEATS JOHN n.
GENTRY At GOSHEN.

Gentry Makes . Dead Heat OF the First
Brush-FailinG in tho Second Heat He
Goes to Pieces in the Third and Last.
GOSHEN. Aug. 23.-Ten thousand persons
saw Joe Patchen turn the tables on John r.
Gentry to-day. in race for blood. over Go
shen's historic half-mil track. The result OF
tha contest was big surprise to nearly every
body. excepting Henry Haws. the owner and
driver OF Patchen. In the auction pools. before
the FIRST heat. Gentry sold for $50 against $29
for Patchen, and the short end was drag on
the market at those figures. It was two o'clock
when the lordy. big. black stallion and the
beautiful. satin-coated bay logged up the
stretch past the grand stand tu score for the
frat heat. The track was as smooth as the
bed Of q billiard table and the footing was firm
and fast. In drawing for positions Patchen
had won tho pole q big advantage on any half
mile track. Haws turned his horse q little
above the drawgate. while Andrews took
Gentry four or i've lengths further up the
stretch to score. Contrary to usual Gus
tom. Haws did not wait for his
opponent. but got the black horse under way.
we'll In the lead. and kept him going as fast as
he could all the way to the wire. Haws EVIL
IDENTIFY feared that IL he waited. Gentry would
come up with ono Of those electric rushes OF
his. get flying start and snatch the coveted
inside position on tho FIRST turn.
Seven or eight times both drivers spared for
the advantage in this way beforeStarte George
Hayt finally caught them In line at the wire
and shouted: Col" Everybody could see by
this time that It was to be war to the knife and
the knife to the hlt. between the rival stations.
Gentry paced by the side OF Patchen's outside
wheel around the turn and up the back-stretch
where Andrews suddenly shook up the bay stall
lion and began furious drive to take
the pole away. The bay closed on his
biU hlaok apfaOnniat Down fhrouph ha
multitude that lined the home-stretch
| on either side the two PAGERS fairly
few. Gentry got his head in front as
the wire was reached on the first round but
he couldn't shake on the black horse or take
res.ns dF1e qs''f ana they R0n s anS
With fSmst ba9st Of sns .pesd and carried
the uphill hght clear 70 the wire. gaining at
sono 6ns MILE ~ nss has h he
From an open length back , he came NEW, with "a rush
s.y the anna the cheers Of
the ten thousand spectators
-, .He won I'll Geptry gets the heat % sh9ntSd
earnest in eIclalming: Joe beat him a head.
n The o hor.ss ss had had aHished like two PAGERS in
double harness, and ths judGes we'll as the
had % or SadS' tN xot his nose in front at the
wire. David Bonner and Hapt!ton Busbey
II Sssd Th %Ss they
~ tAndreMs and nd Hay haws repeasd theiE & tHstcf IN
o The Sn
failed to get together at the wire AndrewS
finally called out TO Hsws as the Ptnnsyi, ,,,
Wat; you're not afraid, aroyou?".
| Haws's eyes snapped as he turned his head
| and shouted back over his shoulder: 4 amt
afraid Of 10Y. in the splsy Ky or ont Of it." o.,-
os: ydsr T'' ntSST Il they WS
towasd the wire on almost AIM even terms at
word. With % rush that wa. % iikt ' olo I Of MS MS
homestrstch finishes Gentry set the pace fast
'9 aras sa Andrsw. AL snss .s. G7ne on 10
9d JGs eight ir9m 20 the h ,rst star, tbs tbs
tried ths other way and failed, this was all that
bss ds.; sas 5P tsr dssry
flashed past the cheering grand stand the iirst
strides carried b m around the lower turn on
Of the % inside trscf As As tho PAGERS struck The
backstrotsh. both sweIysd apd S,S wobbled under
pray an hs to
man who stood near the upper turn as he saw
the PAGERS coming toward him.
the bay horse coud not take the mole from tho
| black. and that Gentry was heaten In the heat
fH fans to head % Joe Pat"hen 'oS' on the turn and nd
bsns hs mile sS S
2:O9,, Patchen won as he liked by two or three
Everybody now conceded that with the
advantage q the pole Joe Pa!chen was in;
shs lara no
than q iormallty. All hands save Apdrews
Ard Gentry gave i rgSx gR i in .,a ad,Sancs;
sure defeat. and aeain the bay horse forced the
black one to hump himssIf all the way TO the
asntry al \ ,stsI.d; b s5G.: H. ss,,ifd .S 5ssk
III ssa55ss l. is'? i: !9s e R? 25$:
s again st the turn. str.tchsd. miIs%. struck
sss tss. tss z;. fb: 15S
pToSsbi .aS S:v.T s!,is 4. M y: is,:rSi Tsis
He won By hall the length OF the h9me.tre,eh;
most psouliar conteeta ever seen, At times the
II: '.ss sRsass sssa anfa SLOW
enough to BE- common place, everything turn
e: :ss POI. st
r. ssss lsv: vaS f ss liza
started with the pole.
| by ex Ben ator John McCarty for trotters OF the
2;28 class, fell into the lap Of y. R, Bovine. who
clever race. Bownes sulky was struck on
the nrst turn Of tho third heat: causing his
laid up for the beat, Flrswood out-footing the
rest Of ths aeld and wlnSipS in n,u. brilliant
| r. n Hartmann Lady Wellington, Bowne's
horse was a faVorits before the start.
Teresa B, was thought to be the good thing
the Newark trotter Elprod. Tsresa B. Is z
fldTtar mAe Nn9 nacep peow and I6o
ohangOa her gait IL the fourth hsat, W;t, f9r rSonG
game Speedway trotter Ivandorf was the con-
tending horse in the last two heats. Sum-
| mariSs:
a:as GLASS, trottng; 81. 900; Parkway Farm stake,
| FArris b. z. AntsO dam by Beaumont
| tBOVne) u
Firewood b. e. (Kline(. ! 2
| Maid Thorne br m. lockwood, ..........2 g
| RablO Alcyonor (blk, m. (HalstsAd). 3
EAnona b, N. Murray: ..,.....-..t I