The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-15
SPORTING NEWS.
A Great Special Race Match at
Chicago Tracks
Is Billed for This Afternoon Be-
tween Two Rivals.
EAST AND WEST FIGHT.
Result viii Straighten Out B.
Year-Old Tangle.
McChesney and SombrerO in
Form for Contest.
AND WEST FIGHT.

Chicago, Oct. ia new light will be
thrown on the much disputed 3-year-old
championship at Worth this afternoon,
when McCheSney and Sombrero viii
meet in a special match race, eaci
carrying 122 pounds. Durnell & Herr
awe made no secret Of their wish 10
run McChesney against whichever colt
Green B. Morris considered the best IL
his string. The veteran turfman aftez
Witnessing McChesney'S race at a mile
and furlong Saturday, in 1:54 I-5 on
a fast track, with 123 pounds up, ex-
pressed willingness to enter SOmbrerO
against the local colt at the same dis
lance with weight up. Another horse,
Lucien Appleby, was looked upon earlier
in the week as an entry in this race
but Hildreths selling Appleby with The
Lady to DurneH & Herr, owners of Nc
Chesney, make this~out of the question
Should the Morris colt prove success
full, on a fast track, the result would be
a hard blow to western turf followers,
VINO generally believe McChesney is not
only superior to Sombrero, but better
than any 3year-Old in the country.
Many firmly believe that McChesney is
the best race horse in training since the
retirement of Gold Heels.
So widely have the lines on the good
3-year-olds in the east and west di-
Verted since the day of the American
Derby, that there is not much material
for satisfactory comparison. The aver
age superiority of eastern thoqoughbreds
over western is not strongly denied, and
it is natural that metropolitan track
followers should look no further than
their own section for the champion
horse Accordingly, when HerrniS comes
along toward the latter part of the sea-
son and demonstrates himself to be the
best 3-year-old in the east, he is accept
ed as the best in the country.
But those who saw the American Derby
run cannot be blamed for refusing to be-
lieve that Hermis has the class of Nc
Chesney. In the Derby. Hermis was so
decisively outclassed in every way that
not even his trip west and a concession
that he has vastly improved warrants as
accepting him better than McChesney or
Lucien Appleby. Not only did AppIeby
beat Hermis in the Derby, but he too,
has weathered the season finely, and seems
to be a better race horse today than he
was June %.
McChesney's career this season has been
peculiar one. The main feature of it
has been his i'll luck. which kept him out
of the Derby. which. judging by later
events, he should have won easily. His
success has also been dimmed in many
other ways by this hoodoo.
1t is hard to compare eastern and west
ern horses, for just as good eastern colts
have been beaten in the Derby as have
good western horses almost invariably
been beaten in the east especially when
they have gone to New York the same
season of their success here.
But the interest in sectional races will
never cease, and that is why a meeting
between McChesney and SOmbrero is at
tracing so much attention.
Kenilworth broke in front in the feature
race of the Worth card. had all his speed
and was never headed, finishing the seven
and one-half furlong journey half length
in front of La Goleta. with Automatom
third. Nitrate was made favorite for this
race. the third on the card, but he had
none of his usual speed, and finished out
side the money after being backed from
II to to to 3.