The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-08
X'CHESNEY BEATS HERMIS.
amid MAC" TAKES TWIN CITl
HiNDICAP EASILY.
xousIs waterboy's Track Record OF
1O4 3.S-O~ner Smathers VIM $780,
nm Inducements for Meeting BE.
tween the Champions Tomorrow

che pride of the Western turf. met the $50 900
Hernis and other good horses III the Twin
INV Handicap. one mile and a quarter. run
aver fast track at Sheepshead Bay yester-
dsr afternoon, and McChesney. displaying
slofthe qualities that have made him famous.
won magnificent victory. After great
niece Of sprinting for a mile by Herms, that
distance being covered Ill is 80 McChesuey.
xho had made up ground after u game run
nm the bdckstretCh with FoXhall keenc
Injunction pmcky contender. collared
Mr. Thomas's horse and had the great race
a, his mercy when he reached the last fur
long pole He finished. eased up. a length
and half in front of Hermis. The time
was en4 3-5. equallng the track record es-
tsbIished by Waterboy. when he won the
Suburban Renewal with only III pounds
on his back The last quarter was covered
in the comparatively slow time Of % seconds.
! length behind lierms came +, Gerhard 5
HIS Eminence. who had big pull at the
| weights and was the extreme outsider in
the betting, the terrific pace having killed
of the others early in the race. The absence
Of Waterboy, who WAS asked to take i3i
hounds, was a disappointment. The Water
cress horse had not completely recovered
from the effects of his race for the $40. 900
Century Stakes on Saturday. 80 Trainer
,Ioyncr decided early in the afternoon not
10 let him go to the post. After McChesney
victory, John A. Drake turned to Joyner
md said
" Waterboy had been in that race there
would have been "a hot time in the stretch
with Big Macl"
"McChcsney would have had to run the last
quarter in better than twenty-s, seconds to
beat my horse" was Joyner'- cool reply.
The question Of supremacy between Water
hoy and McChesney the acknowledged cham
plons Of the East and the West. respectively.
while still a matter Of conjecture. bids fair
10 be settled tomorrow in the Omniu IN
Handicap at mile and an eighth.
After the running Of the Twin City the
Coney Island Jockey Club officials announced
that II both horses should 20 to the post id
the Omnium S., 900 would be added to the
amount already named in the stake book
Mclhesney will take up tivc-pound penalty
for Yesterday triumph, which will make
his impost l3l pounds, the same weight al
ready allotted by W. s. Vosburgh to Water
boy According to last nights indications
both will start together with llermis and 4
good field.
H. L. Smathers. owner of McChesney
fairly burned up the ring. At the last moment
many OF the "sure-thing" layers became
of the well-known trotting horse man money.
On the best Of authority THE SrN was in
formed after the race that Mr.. Smathers
Wagered s25, 900 on McChesney and got an
average OF to for his commission, takin &
more than $4,000 from the bookmak-rs.
John A. Drake. John W Gates and Joe
ieaser plunged on Big Mac" Yeager placin &
5000 with Billy Cowan and 1900 each with
Sol l.ichtenstein. George Wheelock and
Matte T.ooram. There was such an over
whelming food of McChesney money at the
last moment that in half the books in the rim
the odds had been rubbed to to 5. When
the horses were in the middle Of the back
stretch. with Herms three lengths in front
Of McChesney and Injunction. who were
practically side by side. John w, Gates. who
was watching the race from the clubhouse
balcony, shouted to the bystanders
4 IN bet 100, 600 to 100 that McChesney
7 sior But nobody took the short end for
Y n,,no;son that nearly everybody was aboard
r smathers's great horse
tho such demonstration was ever seen on
metropolitan racetrack when McChesney
flashed past the judges. The largest crowd
TINT ever passed through the gates of Sleeps
head Bay was present. 1t was estimated
that nearly $4,000 men and women saw the
Macduff colt sweep down the broad, brown
stretch in his victorious flight, At first theirs
was ripple. then roar Hundreds Of
straw hats were thrown in the air.
Mr.. Thomas decided to add his game little
Iongstreet four year-old. Hunter Raine and
with Hermis he was coupled in the betting
The layers cautiously laid TO against both
Mc(hesney and the Thomas entry. but the
price against the latter receded n point. while
Injunction. Shorthose and Douro attracted
the rest Of the educated money.
Fully 5000 men had been allowed to eros:
The track to the infeld when the horses were
summoned to the post. McChesney. with
Fuller up. had the rail. Starter Fitzgerald
sent them away with precision and despatch
and the crowd sent up cheer as they saw
first McChesney and then Hermis in the lead
before the first eighth pole had been reached
0dom, following instructions. did not pu
Fermis under choking pull, but let hin
run free The Hermence colt quickly opened
upa lead. which was increased to three lengths
as he entered the backstretch, with Injunc-
tlon length In front OF McChesney.. The
others We're strung out behind. hopelessly
beaten thus early. SO far as first place was
concerned 1t was n hcart-breaking pac,
set by Hermis. who ran the quarter in o2i
70 -. But McChesney. evidently regard
ing Injunction as easy. proceeded with ma
lestIc stride and never,ending gaIneness
until the keene colt was done to n turn. As
they reached the turn, McChesney had Gu,
ilermis's lead down to less than a length
ana TO Keen observers the race was over
odom went TO the whip as soon us McChesney +
was up McChesnpy took the lend before
I he head Of the stretch WAS reached and then
the great ovation for him began. HermiS
was game under the terrific togging he re-
ceIved and hung Oh for several rods, but
bls Mac showing his remarkable stretch
run in al its brilliancy. drew away in triumph
Tie pulled up as sound IA gold Gag e and an
hour later was munching his oats in serene
coInplacency.
Tony" Aste, the King of the Bootblacks.
nhbol'Ied good thing in the Sapphire Stakes
for two-year olds at Ave and "a half ,furlongS
futurity course. when his Loyalist colt
luxembourg. 30 TO l shot, won in a drlv,
by three parts Of length from fia2elwood
to |, f., K. Thomas's Dimple, iavorite
The keene colt Ryerdal-. an added starter
who was heavily played at 3 to l. stumbled
At the post and meyer had IA look in after
mat The time was l07
the cefea, Of I. Hitchcock Jr.'s Foxhunter.
not iav9rte in the steeptechnse Green
rode him all over the course inside and out
eide OF the small field and was then heater
II drive by ]. +. Wideners illuminate
second choice at J to ., by hall n length,
J " Colts Woodpig eon. who had not beef
,2 the races for three years. finished third
The time was Az
W. C. Whltney's feet Splinter. Leonor;
orlng. TO s tayorite, galloped on with thu
worth home by four lengths. with FoNhnl
keene = Olympian. who got away poorly
,hlrd, i've lengths away I.eonora's time
vas l.i2 t-5
Al thIees, took the fifth event. for two-ycar
60 piles at Ave and half furlongs with case
nhe led most OF the way and beat Funny Side
~ 10 ! by three lengths. Toi san J to !