The sun., 1900-12-14

Mr.. Gwsthm-y's Mae and fivsrton SHOW
Great speed IN Brushr-.


Teams furnished great dcal II tie sport
on the speedway Yesterday Or" of u"
most exciting team brushes ever seen on
t'c great drive took place ring tho early
part of tho afternoon between 4 u Gwath-
n"y' fI-t trotters Louise Mac, 2oa',. and
1iycrtou, 2i,'., and " & Floyd-Joncs's
speedy Iair, knoxonn. 22s'. and Plppinc
For their nrrt brush down the, turned above
~" bend almost head and head but Mr.
Gwathmoy'- pair got away 80 fast that he
was u length ahead before the other team
was fairly under way Mr Gwalhmcy took
them IN and few strides brought knoXena
and Pappine on even terms and they went
down toward the bridge at n merry clip
Roun ing the bend Mr. Gwathncy lod by more
than length and increased the distance
at every stride Half way 10 the point Of
rocks Mr. Floyd-joncs pulled hs team up.
seeing that Il was impossible 10 catch up
They logged back for another 60 and again
got away To "A good start ih" ll"yd-Jones
pair acted better and mad" % race Of II to
the finishing pole. but Louise Mae and liver
ton passed 1t three or four lengths in the
lead, winning easily
quite IA sensation was caused by John +.
'oCkerall's Swift flashing past the post IA
good length In front OF Cobwebs. few
Dark Secret. driven by Thomas Lynch. Jr..
a warm chase, beating them by length or
so. and 1t was deemed an impossipiity for
Swift TO have so quickly turned the tables.
The apparent reversal OF form was explained
when II was learned that Swift was on his
stride and almost half block away when
Cobwebs and Dark Secret set sail for him.
Before Swift was more than half way To the
point OF rocks. Cobwebs had closed up
great deal of the gap between them and was
gaining on Swift at every stride. Al the
point OF rocks IL looked TO the spectators like
a regular brush. Cobwebs having closed the
spnlo spaTel between them Hn,i he vas was within
As they passed the ilnish swift was but
length ahead and Dark Secret was not more
than that far behind Cobweb Mr.. Cockerill
and Swift were in two or three interesting
brushes before the dash down In front of
Cobwebs
c. c. Lloyd's chestnut trotter Richard B..
and Hattie Walters, driven by George Cole
man p,ap, i was a race race from start 70 finish and and
George Mcbride. driving Robbie P. Mr.
% 'b behnd H"psfa msds Very nter
the post with Robbie P. a neck ahead Of Com
IN mGaoe s1on p91eT nf Ard the latter not over neck
boy. which he purchased from Mr.. Pluckinger
on Wednesday. He got into brush with
g. r. Jarvis, who drove The Dude: The
tho COED a iAn2;ther good brush was be-
driven bv Mr. Riley and Glenmere Boy, with
John Donnelv at the lines Commodore
Porter began to draw away as they neared
the post, but he could not shake the game
Grav .Felding. which finished right at his
..Dr .havid Randell drove his roam pace
Moth Miller He came. down with The Dude
once or twice and finished in front BY half n
length. II. v Wilbur with his trotter. !
Kennedy behind n. T and George Coleman
with little black four-y ear-old trotter made
rather an exciting finish. all close MP with
Wilbur in the lead
James Murphy. drove his fast pacing mare
Amy wilkes. and his team Tom and LOTUS.
r Zahn sc,illed Oscar over the stretch several
times and the hiC bay gelding appeared to
be going well He showed the way to Com
modore Porter very handy in one OF his
Fire Commissioner John ! scannell went
over the upper stretch In a low surrey hooked
to q very fast pair driven by coachman.
o, II, .Armour,s team had n very close finish
with the pair driven by George Huber Jack
Curry did some very fast work with D. Lanar's
team. Edward y. and Meta r.. going down
Reid drove William F. and was very much
Spear went several heats with Sphinx s..
and afterward with bay PAGER. James
W, Cornish logged David b. Mr. Riley drove
Mahlon. Edgar BROOK drove a coodAookinR
and fast bay trotter. fun brother 70 George
-Ss 9d ssd Sa Leland took a'Ro.sS 2 sssS
behind his team. J. P Batter Yesterday
bought Little Coaster from John Simmons