Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-11
BIG CROWD AT HARTFORD.
Billy Buck Won Big Race in Straight
 Heats.

bluy BUCK won pig hAcc ln SLrdlgnL Heats.
 Hartford, Sept n.-BiIly Buck, the bay gelding owned by E. D Smathers Of New York, and driven by Ed Geers, won the Charter Oak stake yesterday afternoon before $500 persons, anc any harness horse, trotter or pacer, as q money winner. Including yesterday he has won in purses this season over $30,OOO in ten races.
 Then, too, over track rated by ex- perienced horsemen as fully a couple of seconds slow, he equalled the record of the stake, 2:07A, made by Georgena in 1900.
 Lowering clouds kept the crowd in suspense for fear of rain at any mo- ment, but the threatening storm luckily failed to develop; consequently. the privilege of watching the best field of high class trotters that ever faced
 starting judge was realized. Ever since it's inception in 1883, when the
 mighty Director won the stake. the Charter Oak has always furnished ex- cellent expedition for. the victors, hon- ors and all that goes to the owner Of the winner.
 But none of the previous contests ever saw a more sharply contested race than the one of yesterday. While in
 many instances if has taken more heats to find the best horse. yet there. was not the fighting finishes the lead CTS put up for the big end of the purse money.
 On his continued list of victories, the speculators made Billy Buck the ruling ea- s+o Tnxxy a New York Speedway champion. Swift, was plunged so heavily as to hold the place. Tn these tickets he brought $425 to Billy Buck $4O0.
 The heavy. constant stream of money
 going on Billy Buck. however, soon re- placed him in command, and he went 10 the post at nearly even odds with l the field. Hawthorne, the one who has tho only distinction of having beaten MT Smathers's trotter had an even nlay during the selling down. Monte Carlo was favored by those who knew that Monroe Salisbury had an electric battery attached to the horses suIky to use for the effect of making him
 score properly Recently he had been acting hntIlv in field of horses it taking aboHt halt an hour to get hin,
 away at Brightou Res oh. With the electric battery it was reported he was on his good behavior.
 Walnut Hall drew the pole Flaw 1 thorna was third. Billy Buck fourth. and Swift on the outside of the first tier seventh Ed Kenyon took the track with Walnut Hall and opened I'D
 T gap of daylight. going through the hackstretch between his sulkv and
 Maxine. who was second. with Swift l lapped on her all the. way. DuiceF Cor
 was inst mack of the three at the pole.
 with Billy Buck and IdoIita outside of her. On the lower turn Swift made rbeak, Dulce Cor going into second po- sftion. Straightaning for home. Ed
 Geers brought Billy Rnck out of the ruck and challenged Walnut Hall POO yards from the wire.
 It was a terrific finish. Both Benvon and Geers used their whips unsparing- 1 ly. Through the crowd the cry went | I'D when the horses reached the short distance post, Billy Buck is beaten" Walnut Hall wins Buck is fast tir- ing.'' But Geers kept steadily after him. Twice Buck faltered, only to
 rally, and with final desperate lr1nge he passed the wire in the lead by d 1 nose only. Hawthorne had made a
 break beyond the seven-eights pole. l just as she began to look dangerous. The heat winner got to beyond the quarter the second heat. when Baron
 de Shay raced neck in front to the 1 half Jim Ferry was back a length.
 third. with Walnut Hall Iapped to him.
 Hawthorne. lolita and Swift were
 punched back of the four Once in
 the homestretch Benyon took Walnut
 Hall out to catch Billy Buck, then lead
 ing by a half length
 He got to his saddle. where he re- 1 malned to about thirty yards from the l Wire, when Hudson came with a rush
 with Hawthorne and nearly nipped the 1 place. being only a neck back of Wal
 nut Hall. who was the same distance
 behind Billy Buck.
 Geers took no chances the third l heat, but kept his charge in front from .wire to wire. Dulce Cor was second
 at the tfrree-quarters. Swift third and Hawthorne fourth, Walnut Hall having made break at the first turn and was out of the fight. Billy Andrews made
 a strong attempt with Swift throuSh
 the stretch. He apparently had sec
 ond place won eighty yards away but
 HaWthorne finished so strong she land
 ed the coveted position by half a l length
 On. form, it should have been Prom
 fse for the PIP trot. At Providence last week he defeated Belle Kuser
 quite handily. Tn place of this. the
 price in the auction pools of Hudson's black mare steadily advanced till at
 the close she sold over the field. The
 race caused lot of talk. horsemen
 wondering if these horses were cam
 paigned on the checker game plan, as
 Belle Kuser, winning at Readyille two
 weeks since. then Promise last week. l 1t seemed likely that yesterday it was
 Hudson's move and the backed horse
 at each track was to be the winner. James Brodbine, though suffering l from fractured rib he received last
 Tuesday at Readville, by a mare he
 was working falling. and which threw
 him against the fence, gamely drove 1 Locanda to victory in the 2.Os pace
 yesterday afternoon. At that. he should