The sun., 1900-07-25
CONEY'S WONDERFUL MILE.
TIE BLACK PAGER JOGs HOME AT
CLEVELAND IN 9.O9 80

And Lowers His Last Years Record Five
Seconds-Prince Alert wins the First Heat
and in the Ne1t One Goes to the Half Mile
At 7,Ol Gait-sistsr AlioeS Trot.
CLEVELAND, July 2A--Coney. the East View
Farm geldng from New York. driven by Myron
Z. McHenry to-day at the Grand Circuit meet
Ing made an impressive showing among the
PAGERS OF the first rank. The coming together
Of Coney and Prince Alert the Provi-
denco gelding, who had paced In such great
form at Detroit, was the feature Of the
day. Fully 5000 persons were present. The
track was In prime condition. and the
weather hot and sultry. The betting was
heavy throughout opening on the 200 pace as
follows: Prince Alert. $500; Coney. S?iO the
field. $500 McHenry went easy with Coney In
the first heat. while Prince Alert. who was
acting well. got away In front. with William
Nc The Maid and Free Bond trailing along
couple OF lengths back. They passed the quar-
ter In o;30at. half In lOix and the three-quar-
ters In i:s2A. Alert won the heat. with Walker
pulling him up a couple Of lengths ahead OF
William Nc, in 2.O4X.
William Nc was q tribe better than even
money against the field before the second heat.
parent that McHenry did not try hard for the
first heat. II was thought BY the wise. ones that
as Alert was acting SO well Coney did not have
ended in ons Of the most sensational finishes
ever paced In regular contest. walker again
got the Crown Prince horse away In front, but
They thus passed the quarter In soh and the
@ three quarters az IN SIX Free % Bond droppsd out
side in re rounding the home turn. and soon had
the latter beaten going through the stretch.
At the distance Stand McHenry had It safe
t,fvl % hAu 10 eStA AA IN fnpA
and when he passed UNI der the wire In the sen.
sationaI time vi 2.02a<, the fastest mile in har-
ness this year and the fastest ever paced on
almost slow Jog, and, as many said. walked IN.
Coney now was big fayorite and won the
next heat ea'ily enough In 2O4h The fractional
Prince Alert and Bllv Andrews led to t6'e
three-quarter post and there MoHenry. began to
drive Coney, having been we'll UP In th'r place.
Beat them then % before % they re, reached one u lhs ed distance
stand.
The 2:l4 trot brought out large field Of well.
Der Der OF them selling out we'll in the auction,
sample pool was: Edwin B.. $500: Merrment.
s25o: Sister Alice, sss Dainty, Daffo, $50; Rus:
Plot Evans Enrana yers
The race was splendid one for the spectators,
the finishes being very close and all under the
whip. Sister Alice won out at the end OF four
heats and gained new record Of 2lO1S in the
second heat.
After one heat In the AIS pace and the 22S
trot rain put a stop TO the brilliant days sport
Sidney Pointer, the Canadian wonder and son
OF the champion PAGER, Star Pointer. 1894 was
2to / favorite over the field Of PAGERS, He had
all he could do, however, TO land the opening
heat in 2l0. being we'll under the whip and then
did not beat Lady Rpes and Annie Thornton
more than q short head For the trot the, fay-
orite. Ben Kinney's Mount Marique. led all the
wav, but was beaten out by Geers with Lord
Derby, green trotter by Mambrino King, that
was second choice in the betting, In 2i3H by a
good neck. The summarize: