The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-20
OF
THE WORLD

William c. Whitney has purchased
the FLY, Blue Girl.
Commando has been retired to the
stud
Boralma was beaten by Lord Derby
in a sensational five-heat race at
Charter Oak Park.
Eleata captured the Charter Oak
stakes of $4,000 for 2:1S class trotters.
Frank McClathy, jockey, was killed
in a race at Jacksonville, III.
Blue Girl, poorly ridden, was beaten
by a short head in the $4,000 Great
Filly stake, by Lenora Loring. Water
Color won the $4,000 Century stake
Both races Were run in New York.
The Abbot was recently driven to
beat the Hartford, Conn, track rec
ord of 2:04A. He went in 2:05.
Senator w. A. Clark will buy the
Bitter Root stock farm.
The racehorse Mefford was injured
at the Sacramento meeting and had to
be killed. Jockeys Hoar, /. Brown and
III. Brown were hurt by Mefford's fall
ing.
William c. Whitney's $4,000 colt,
Nasturtium, Won the Flatbush stakes
of $4,000, at Sheepshead Bay. The time
for the distance, seven furlongs, was
1:25 3-5, a track record
Jockey Willie Hennessy was fatally
injured by the boiling of Foray at the
Harlem track.
Prince Albert beat Anaconda and
Conner at the Charter Oak meeting.
Sir Hampton won the Sacramento
State Fair stake.
At the Harlem track Jiminez ran
mile and seventy yards in 1:42 3-5,
breaking the worlds record
Cresceus and the Abbot will race for
purse of $4,000 at Readville, Septem-
Der 10Th.
Charles Mckenzie, the well known
st. Louis turf writer, is dead
Jockey Jimmy Logue is making a
name for himself on California tracks.
He is well known in Honolulu.
Neva Simmons won the $1,000 Wood
ruff stakes, 2:24 class trot, at SYRIA
cuse.
Anaconda defeated Joe Patchen in a
match race for $1,000 at Bethlehem, Pa.
Doricles, a rank outsider at 40 to l,
captured the classic English st. Leger
stakes at Doncaster, defeating Volody-
ovski, the Derby winner, by a neck.
Revenue was third. Volodyovski was
a hot favorite.
Canadian riflemen won the famous
Palma trophy from an American team
The Ulster Club defeated the New
Jersey Rifle Association team in
challenge match.
AT Buffalo, II. Arnold. of the Union
settlement Athletic Club, broke the
worlds record for the 440-yard hurdle
race, running the distance in Sc is
Roy w. Ewey, of the New York Ath-
Ietic Club, beat the worlds record for
the standing high jump, by clearing 5
feet 81 inches.
The events in the international ath-
etic meeting, to be held in New York
On the 25th, are: One hundred yard |
lash, quarter mile run, half mile run, |
1ne mile run, two miles run, 120 yards |
IN cinders, running high jump, run
hing broad jump and throwing the
oxford, Cambridge, Yale and |
Harvard will compete.
The Olympic Club of San Francisco
will have an athletic ground
In half mile swimming race against
Kyle, H. F. Brewer, of San Francis
%, cut the American record from 14:42
o 1881.
In a. three quarter OF mile race
Brewer again defeated Kyle. Brewer
made the distance in Is minutes l Sec
md, a worlds record. Kyle's time, 20
minutes, seconds, was inside the
worlds amateur record. The old
worlds record was q minutes fiat.
Brewer made the first quarter of mile
n 5 minutes IL seconds, breaking both
he worlds amateur and professional
ecords for open water.