New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-27
THE SPEEDWAY.
Footing Too Slippery for Lou
Dillon to 90 Quarter.

muddy road caused by frost coming out OF
the ground. marrel Thanksgiving Day sport on
the Speedway and prevented Lou Dillon, 15Sia.
from making a trial against time the soft
earth road c K c. Billings. owner OF the trot-
ting queen. had intended TO drive her quarter
OF mile yesterday the limit Of her speed under
the watch. TO how fast she could go the dis
tance But when the brought out for
rhe trial the footing was so slippery that Mr..
Billings decided not 10 take the risk Of injuring
her by driving her fast on such a course
The horses that were started il the brushes
performed rather inconsistentiy. Charles Weand's
chestnut trotter Lorna McGregor. with record
10 faster than %. surprised the knowing ones
by defeating Samuel NfcMfllan's crack PAGER Onoto
2-5 The latter appeared 10 be tired. She had
taken part in three or four earlier brushes but
so had Mr. We.land's mare. Lorna McGregor fin
ishe5 in front OF every trotter and PAGER she en-
conte7e6, and was quite the star Of the day In
her first brush she defeated S ". Boynton's bav
trotter Nighthawk and T. B. Leahy's black mare
Princess Pique, neither Of which. however could
be considered in her class. In another trial she
stepped away from the big shapely BAY trotter
Lewis R. newcomer on the Speedway, driven
by George A. Coleman.
Onoto. looking so fat that few horsemen recog-
nized her won a spirited brush with W c. Floyd
Jones's bay pacing mare Berdina- 2IOl4 and Samuel
BlOch's gray mare Bicycle Girl 2.zo. showing q
rare turn Of speed at the hnisN Berdtna +, 4b-a.
twice defeated the bay trotter Swift 2.O7 carving
him 20 break at the finish the first time and out
stepping him Dy length when he stuck to his gait
ting mare Precision 20 finished with SVift and
Berdins in this brush. beating them both by a
length more.
c. " Marks. Of Chicago. who purchased Tom
keene, Z:e414 from z E. Smathers on "wednesday
drove the chestnut PAGER yesterday. but failed 10
win brush, though the horse showed all his speed
and behaved faultlessly Mr. Marks started him
against two Of the fastest PAGERS ever seen on the
Speedway. one Of them was Nathan Straus 2:O51a
now owned by Joseph E Never. OF Newark. and
the other was James A Murphy's feet chestnut
Don DERBY. 2:o4A- Fast as he is, Tom Keene was
! p nrh Of ~haEz
flyers Owing 10 the condition Of the drive the
brushes hardly afforded fair test OF the speed Of
Alcadine, a quiet gated high melted little bay
mare, owned by G. c. Dapham crowded Nathan
StraUs quite hard Tom Keene had done She
was not classed with the first flight OF Speedway
PAGERS until q few weeks ago, when Mr. Iapham
greatly increased her speed by rigging stick from
the bit 70 the addle of the harness. as a means
Of keeping her head straight A similar device Is
used on 4. B. Gwathmey's bay trotter Tiverton
2.12i-. and with the same effect He was accounted
a commonplace horse before the stick was broIIg
INTO play, but there are few, if any, the road
that beat him now.
The closest contest Of the day brought together
Andrew Cones bloOdlike black Alice Drake.
2.l4<. and Christopher Hacketts pony PAGER. Helen
H The big mare going past the little one in a
brilliant burst OF speed at the finish. but on
lockers who stood right AT the haf-mie post agreed
that The nose OF Helen n was stl IN front they
crossed the line Another exciting contest was
between Ben Lichtenbergs chestnut PAGER Billy
Palmer. Z-z5-2 and Marcus Bruckheimer's bay
trorter Bow Rene. 2:l91e, the former winning BY a
short head Thomas F. RUsselfs chestnut trotter
FoSslblity was beaten a neck oy NJ 9 Boynton' $
black PAGER Tony N. 2144. in another trial Of
speed which remained in doubt until the winning
An attempt was made 70 have a brush between
King Chimes and West Wilkes. driven a pair
by Luke A. Burke and Patrick Ryans trotting
pretty race Of three furlongs, first one team and
then the other broke, and both finished on the
c F7oyd-Jones. King Chimes and West Wilkes de-
feated Bendna IN another brush.