The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-29
MARVELS
OF SPEED
Coney and Ores.
ceus Make New
Records.

In free-for-ail pace at the Crosse
Pointe track, Detroit, Coney went the
fastest mile ever travelled in a contest
in Detroit, going the distance in 200
which is three-fourths of second bet
ter than the gelding's previous record.
The time by quarters was 2sA. LOO.
1:S1A, 2:02. In the second heat Coney
and Anaconda raced to the quarter in
2s seconds fat. Then Coney broke and
Anaconda shot ahead alone. Five
lengths to the good he paced the half
in 59A seconds, one of the best per-
formances ever seen, and duplicated
Conveys time to the three-quarters
1:31A. The mile was 2:02A Anaeon-
da took the third heat in 2:0311 and
with it the race.
Dan Patch won the Wayne Hotel
purse, PA class pace, at Detroit, in
three straight heats. Best time 2:0S
Creseeus won the free-for-all trot at
Detroit and incidentally trotted the
fastest heat and won the fastest race
record ever made. Charlie Herr, Cres-
ceus' only opponent in the race, was a
slow second. Cresceus won the first
heat in 2:O6A. breaking the racing rec
ord for this year on any track. He won
the second heat easily in 2:05, breaking
the worlds racing record.
Abe Frank. the crack 2-year-old. was
beaten by Sir Oliver and Memmon in
the $4,000 Hyde Park stakes run in
Chicago. Sir Oliver at 10 to 1 won. Abe
Franks price was / to 10.
Anaconda and Joe Patchen meet in a
match race next month over the
Brighton Beach track.
The Abbott recently stepped an
eighth of mile in OLA
Lord Rosebery's Epson Lad won the
English EIipse stakes of $4,000 Ep-
som Lad is a bay colt by Ladas out of
Disorder Sir Waldie Griffith's 3-year-
old colt Ian Oh MARTINI ran second,
while J. R Keene's 4-year-old bay colt.
Disguise II (Henry). was third. Thir-
teen horses ran. Gomez. the South
American jockey, riding splendid fin
ish, just managed to land EPSON Lad
by a head Diamond Jubilee was a
close fourth.
Captain Eustace LADDERS FLY. Game
Chick (L. ReifD, by Gahinule out OF
Tierce, won the National Breeders
Produce stakes of $4,000 run in Eng
land
Jockey Ross, who rode in Honolulu
this year, is now in Chicago.
| W. X Vanderbilt is going into rae
| ing on a large scale. T. c. Mcdowell
will train for him. Vanderbilt pur-
chased the noted stallion Halma from
julius F1eishman for $4,000
Rea P. Harting, once famous race
track plunger, died in Freeport, ILL.,, OF
consumption
In the great National Bund shooting
festival at San Francisco Adolph
Strecker practically cinched his claim
to the shooting kngship with a score
of 1874, which experts predict is no'
likely to be surpassed for century To
come In Strecker's 200 shots 146 were
within three inches of the needle point
The shooting was at the King target
| at 500 yards, which has black center
twelve inches in diameter.
| At the great national shooting con-
tests in San Francisco, young Sar
Francisco woman, Mrs. A. ii. rape
with a heavy target rifle, in three
shots established an unprecedentec
record for her sex. She fired at the
Eureka target, which is an 1S-inch CIR
Gle with 12-inch black bulls eye, SCI
up at 600 yards. Her total was % ou'
of possible rs. The performance
ranks her with the experts.
In the rifle shooting contests held al
Bisley, England, the st. Georges vase
was won by Private Manly OF Guern-
sey with a score of 49, Sergeant BOD
Hey of Canada, with a score of l0S, wof
the National Rifle Association oaoge
Corporal Ommunsen of the queens HI
| file Volunteer Brigade of Edinburg WoE
| the Kings prize. He tied with ser
lgeant Major Burr of the First Hamp'
shire Volunteers and won the SHOOT OIL
The Kings silver medal, shot for a.
Bisley under the auspices of the Natlon
al Rife Association. was won by com
Der of the Surrey Volunteers, with
score of 1ss. The Kolapore cup was wor
Eby England with a total score OF 100
The Colonial prize in connection VIII
the Kolapore cup was won by Canaos
with a sore of 733.
Eugene C. Griffiths of Pascoag, r. l.
winner of the Grand American Handl
leap at live birds last April, won th'
Grand American Handicap at mani
Innate targets from field of Is contest
Iants.
Fifteen of the crew of Shamrock L
have struck for more wages. me hiei
were to have had a bonus OF S4o an'
now demand SIS.
Thomas w. Lawson has refused q
iappoint Captain B. Crowninshfeld rae
ling master of the independence, wh1cf
yacht he designed. c. c. Clapp, Law
sor's private secretary, has oeen ap
pointed master.
In the amateur rowing champion
ships at Philadelphia the St Louis toul
defeated the vespers of Philadelphia II
the senior pair-oared event. .The re
suit was a great surprise, for the los
ling boat was composed of members o
the worlds champion crew. Ten Eye
and Lewis won the senior doubles with
out difficulty.
On a Salt Lake saucer track Charie
Turville of Philadelphia, paced oy
motor, broke the worlds record LOT on
mile. going the distance in 1:31 20.
Stinson won the 25-mile motor-pace'
bicycle race at Providence. X. l., ue