The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-22
WYETH WINS THE
 AMERICAN DERBY Clearly 0utclaSsed All Competi-
 tors in Great Race EAVORITES BADLY BEATEN John A. Drake's Colt Ran Steadily All the Way and at the Finish Had
 the Strength Left for
 the Final Rush.
.EAVORITES BADLY BEATEN

| first derby and upheld the traditions of 1 the race by inc overthrow of the favor 1 ties and by the western horses beating i the best that could be sent from the east. There IS no room for argument about the best horse winning The race was free from rough riding or anything like a foul.
 was cleanly and truly run. and Wyeth
 was the best of the twelve tnree-year old
 colts that lined up at the barrier today
 before Starter Dwyer. Jockey Lucien Lyme rode a sensible race on MT. Drake s cclt. Heno, the heavily played eastern colt who went to the post the favorite at 21z to 1, failed to finish inside the money, and that he did so was not alto gether his own fault. He ran gamely and fast.
 It looked as though Jockey Pullman made a mistake by using heno so much in the early part of the race. For fur long after furlopg he fought for the lead with Barney Screibers Otis. and they set pace, which Jn the slow and dead ! track told on both ot the horses in the struggle in the home stretch Singleton on Otis was censured by many good 1 JdAStS OL ltSlHS lOT utlIlB WHdl to be singularly poor judgment in talk 1 ing to the front a colt carrying 127 pounds and trying to tip-toe such large and high-class field
 Pentecost and Arsenal Did Poorly.
 Pentecost and Arsenal ran q terribly l disappointing rece. Neither ever reached q position. sufficiently near the front to be regarded as e serious contender and | tr11it f,snF, fha as4- 44,.r, +l-- 1 satisfactory performances of these colts to their unusually lo,.g and trying rail- | road journey or the eve or such an im- portanu contest.
 Aladdin Ran Steadily.
 No sooner did 1t become plain that the favorite was in distress than Otis also began to cry enough. With furlong still to run, both were straight as a l string and 1t was plain neitf tr could sray in front to the wire. Tn Il it was
 that Lyme made his move up on Wyeth
 He set the colt down and the son oi
 Wadsworth and Fonso came away pas' the leaders with little effort and a hun l dred yards from the wire was hailed as J the winner. Lyme kept him going and at the same time had a little in reserve in case some of the others should come up l from behind with rush. He was watch | ing for this and saw Lucien Appleby and l Aladdin coming fast to finish, but all he had to do was to keep his horse going to stall off their furious rush. Woods and Coburn were driving hard enough 1 through the last sixteenth of a mile and l they certainly got the most out of their | respective mounts. but 1t was not in Lu- | cien Appleby and Aladdin to beat Wy l eth, and he passed under the wire a com l fortable winner by almost two lengths. Otis finished fourt.L depriving Heno of that barren honor. b.: hGving the satis- fatcion of winning the desperate strug- gle between the two colts. who were beaten by their own tremendous efforts. Today's American Derby was the fin- est contest in the eyes of horsemen that has been seen since Boundless beat an equally large and high class field in 1S93
 Round the club house turn went the fly ing leaders, ard by this time Aladdin had taken third place. closely attended by Bells Commoner. Wyeth had moved up from last place and had passed Prowl. Pentecost, Lord Quex, Lucien Appleby. Hermis and Arsenal. When half the dis tance of the race had been completed Heno still held a commanding lead and ] showed no sign of tiring Bells Commoner and Wyeth were the nearest attendants, though Aladdin was still up and on the rail, Coburn apparently preferring 10 uTOp DdCh lO HUI pldCt TdtneT lnan nus tie his horse with half the race yet to be run. There was no change in the order down the back stretch. but when a full mile had been completed Bullman seemed to think the time had come for him to make his ruin with Heno Heno when let down drew away from Otis and went round the far turn, increasing hls lead | until fully three lengths in advance. Otis | hung on gamely and it was not long bc 1 fOra Hann haRan fn qhOW QiCnG nf tru e l back. As the rushed round the last turn | into the straight run for home Heno still had the honor of holding first place. bat the effort was costing him dearly and all ready his stride was beginning to shorten percepubly. He ran on with bulldog | courage but could not shake of Otis, l who had closed up much of the gap the Eastern colt had opened around the turn. Bells Commoner, Wyeth and Alad- l din now appeared to be running more sti ongly than the two leaders.
 Perhaps the greatest disappointment in the race to those who decided at tho last moment to pin their faith to a western horse, was the race run by Bells Com moner. He failed to finish within the first three.
 The real surprises of tho race were Lu- cien Appleby and Aladdin. who finished l second and 1hrd respectively, though Iucien Appleoy would have been conced- ed good cnance had the track been heavy
 Corrisan and Lord Quex ran just about such O race as was expected While the going was as good as 1t could be expect cd Prowl had no chance. The Cincin- rau colt IIcrmis broke down after run ming about s mile.
 One of the best features of the race run by Wyeth was that he got off last 1 at the fall of tho flag, and wore the field down one by one, striding along in an | irresistible style without any apparent 1 effort.
 He appeared at all stages of the race | 10 be running well within himself. al- 1 though travelling the fastest of all They l never had him 'straieit". and his neck was not stretched until the final six 1 teenth. ETcn then he was far from being all out, and he clearly won with some thing in res srve.
 s4 Otis Had Enough.
 Coburn rode patient race on Aladdin. and he was rewarded by finding ct the 1 finish yhst his horse had enough left to :nake a grand run through the stretch. where he came from behind and made a desperate bid for third honors. There was but littis delay at tho post 1 and Starter Dwyer got them away with q good send-off. Otis and Heno at once (colntinued on Eighth Pass.)