The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-26
RACES CUT SHORT
RAIN SPOILED CARD AT BUTCHERS
ASSOCIATION CUE.
THREE WERE PULLED OFF
ONE A GOOD HALF-MILE DASH, IN
WHICH WERE FOUR ENTRIES.

Was Won by IxingfuI in 53 Seconds.
First Event, Motorcycle Race,
Won by j. e. Misrepresentation
bile Race, With Four Entries,
Won by Henry Meinhard, With r..
". COnnerat secOnd-Other Two
Machines Went TO the Bad-Race
Run in n Heavy shOwer-Traclx
Became Stretch of Mud, So other
Events Were Cut Out-These May
BE Rum Monday Afternoon.
The Butchers Association offered a
fine card of races at their cue yester-
day but, unfortunately, before more
than three could be run, the rain came
down in such torrents that the track
went all to the bad and the remainder
of the programme had to be left out.
1t is probable, though, that the events
left off yesterday will be run Monday
afternoon, when one or two other
events may be added to the card.
The first of the events that was sue
cessfully pulled off was the motorcycle
race, but instead of five entries as had
been slated there was but two, Charles
O'Neil and ]. E. Thompson. The race
was for five miles and was fairly excit-
ing, for the men stuck close together
first one and then the other being in
the lead. Thompson finally won, not a
length ahead of O'NeiL in 1914. The
time was not bad, considering the
sandy condition of the track
The automobiles were next on the
track, four of them, driven by Henry
Meinhard, 1. U. Kinsey, T. o. Bryson
and R. V. Connerat. With the excep-
ton of Connerat's machine, all were of
four-horse power. Connerat's was six
horse power, and because of this he
was Handicapped three-quarters of a
mile. The race was five miles.
The machines lined up for the start
and hummed, buzzed, and jerked in d
way 4hat promised an exceedingly
lively race when it was once started
but(with the perversity that seems to
be the guiding principle of all me-
chanical things, when they are want
ed to do their best, no sooner was the
starting word given than Kinsey's
then stopped still. The trouble with
it was .remedied, it was thought, and
another start was made, but with the
same result: Kinsey's machine baked
and wouldn't bulge.
The others spun around the track in
good shape, however for the first two
miles, then Bryson's machine went to
the bad after it had been driven two
miles and a half, and the race was
Hof h4 f,a1, 70
start again. Only Meinhard and Con-
nerat were left. Connerat made up the
handicap distance by the end of the
fourth mile and the fifth was ridden
with the machines practically togeth
err. Everybody thought Connerat would
win, and really he ought To have won,
but somehow he didn't; he finished
just behind Meinhard.
The rain had begun just about the
time of the start of this race. and con-
tinued to fall until it was finished. The
autos had been stripped for the race,
that is with the exception of Mem
hard's, and. with all their machinery
exposed. presented anything but the
trim appearance they have ordinarily.
The stripping was done to secure less
resistance from the wind.
After this race the rain came down
SO heavily that it looked for a time
as JnOuSn the ponies WOuiQn <WdVe a
show at all, but during a let-up in the
downpour the first of the. running
events was run with the following en-
triesl Kingful and Imperator, entered
by E. A. Massart; Jesse Y, entered
by Henry Black, and Ben Roy, by j.
Mehrtens. The distance was half a
mile.
The horses got away in good shape
with Imperator in the lead and King
full a little to the rear and they held
this position around the turn. In the
stretch, however, Jesse Y. went to the
front and held that place the greater
part of the remainder of the race, but
Kingful. who had been nursed around
the curve and in the first part of the
stretch, came up fast, passed the two
rear horses and beat out Jesse Y. by
half q length. Jesse Y. was second
and Ben Roy third. Time, SO seconds.
This ended the races, for before any
other events could be run the rain be-
gan hard again. The officers of the
track were determined to give the peo-
pie their moneys worth if possible but
the shower was so heavy that the track
soon became a stretch of slippery mud
in which no horse could have run, and
so the remainder of the programme
was called off