The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-10
GREAT PENNSYLVANIA
BIG RACE WILL GO AT LIKING
 TON TODAY.
About Twelve of Best of This Years Trotters Will Start in Event That Boralma Took
 Last Year.

After the Futurity of Tuesday the | Pennsylvania is the great attraction or the Lexington meeting. This celebrated fixture for PIP class trotters and worth
 $6 900 this season. is now in its thirteenth year. To enumerate its past winners is
 almost like calling the roll of the trotting
 stars of recent years-Jack McDoel, Che yenne, Kremlin, Harrietta, Azote, Boun- cer, Senator A, Dilma, John Nolan, Lord
 Vincent and Boralma. It is always a great race in all the expression implies,
 being. as it Is, the richest late class event for aged horses of the season. It Will De decided this afternoon and there are an even dozen named to start. as follows: Dolly Dillon (2:0O. Onward Silver t2:S)
 All Right (2:o9 1-2), Dolly Bidwell (2;oS l2l'
 Susie J. C2:12 1-2), J. T. l2:l2 1-4l. volo (2:12 1-0 and Newton A. 2:l3) The first two named. if at their best. should have
 been of late. Onward Silver. after a se-
 ries of splendid races, culminating with his sensational victory in the. $lo0oO Mas. sachusetts purse at Readville. went on
 badly and has been In the dry dock TOT two weeks being specially fitted for the | Pennsylvania. It is reported that he | showed better in his work at Terre Haute last week than since midsummer, so he may be good again.
 Among the sensationally fast miles over | the "four-cornered track at Terre Haute last week, was that of the Canadian pa
 
 | of his race in 2:04, the last half mile be- | ing done in a minute flat, and the third | quarter-which is a straight anair-ln 2S
 seconds. This is at the rato of mile in | l 52 and is the fastest quarter ever otti- | cially timed. The Terre Haute track Is a
 fast one. Nancy Hanks got the world s | trotting championship there when she
 stepped the mile in 2:04, and last year
 The Abbot went in 2:03 IA at Terre | Haute. another worlds record. It Is cer- | tain that the timing at Terre Haute Is
 not fast. so that the performance Of liar | old H. will be accepted by horsemen. Last | fall when The Abbot went against the | 2:05 3-4 record of Allx a majority of the 1 outside timers made the mile 2:03 or bet | ter, and there was considerable surprise | when 2:03 IA was hung out Not few
 who were directly in line with the wire made the mile 2:02 3-4, and Geers. who drove the horse also had that time re-
 corded with his split-second. He was a
 good deal put out that the judges had
 made the mile half a second slower, and
 to this day claims the correct time was
 2:02 S-4. President Hams of the Terre
 Haute track, who was one of the timers,
 said that the official time of the slowest
 watch was 2:03 1-5, but that as the Amer
 ican Association rules do not recognize
 tifths of seconds in records. the judges
 were compelled to announce 2;OS l-4.
 Harold H., who now has the fastest
 quarter ever paced to his credit, has
 made a long campaign, starting in the
 Grand Circuit at Detroit, has not missed
 a week. He was thought to be high-class
 early in the season, but after bad race
 at Brighton Beach, it was the general opinion that he was more lucky than any thing else. This view of the matter however, will have to be revised in tn g. light of the Terre Haute race. where his | three winning heats were 2:O4 1-4, 2:O6 l-2, | 2:04, although it Is true the third heat | was not paced on the same day the race was begun. darkness having compelled a | postponement after two heats had been
 won. But as showing how fast the track | was for paCers that day, 1t may be men
 tioned that Audubon Boy won his race in | In the 2:09 pace, stepped the necessary
 three miles in POT. 2:09 1-4, 206.
 l When the winners of the three different pacing races on the same day can all go | last heat in from 2:04 to 2:O6 IA it | shows that the track has a good deal l to do with the performances, and how | much faster miles could have been paced | had it been necessary to increase the l speed in order to win will never be 1 known. as all the races were finished In | straight heats, which would indicate that | not all three winners were pushed to | their greatest speed.
 | When Dan Patch. the speedy son of | Old Black Joe paced his mile in 2:05 in | the Tennessee pace at Lexington Tues | day it proved that he was a little speedy | himself Conner. the black pacer. who af- | forwards performed so sensationally at | New York. won that same race last year l in 2:o5 l-4. and in 1899 Eyelet won il in | 2:o6 flat, Dan Patch then holds the rec
 ord with his mark Tuesday and what d | great race it would be if Harold II and | Dan Patch could be matched. They both
 are in form for a free-for-all pace
 l Ed Gee"s is to drive The Abbot against
 the worlds record today and while thu | friends of ''The Silent Man wish him l success it is doubtful proposition if he | can do anything as long as the Chimes | gelding persists in going up in the afr l The M9ptSemery friends of Ed acers