Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-29
PROTEST Lot DTbLoN's a:o5.
Bonners Say Ball Bearings and Wind
 Shield Were Used

Shield Were Used
 Robert E. and Frederic Bonner, sons of the late Robert Bonner, have lodged with the secretary of the American Trotting Register association protest against the official recognition of the record made by c. K. G. Billings's mare, Lou Dillon, which, at the Glen vile track at Cleveland, last Soptem- Der, started to beat the record of 20saa made by Robert Bonner's great mare, s, Maud S., eighteen years before. Lou Dillon trotted the mile in 2:0o.
 As all those interested in the trotung horse knows, Maud S. made her record hitched to an old fashioned, high wheel sulky, and was not aided in her per formaIee by any such new fangled ar rangeinerts as ball bearing axles and wind shields. Efforts had been made before by kings and queens of the trotting turf to duplicate the cond1- tions under which the peerless daugh- ter of Harold and Miss Russell per formed and to lower her record. Lou Dillon alone sTecaed~d n beating Naud S's time. but the Billings mare did not +rot under the same conditions as did Maud s.
 Lou Dillon was also helped along in her perfornnanea by a running horse
 driven by Doc Tanner and attached to a suIky fitted with wind shield, Be sidas th+s. when she strrek the head Of the stretch. she was followed to the finish bv another runner driven nv Nc Gov. Of lco-rse the wind shield was not known ir1 the days Of Maud $ and no such contrfvarca helped her along in bar wondorfrI journey.
 Willard Saunders. who drove Lon Dillon in her trial aoainst the record of NaTd s. as d1ofe9 in the, Ros+on Journal of narenof1es. 20 as saying that TO wind shield shield was used to he'p Lou Dillon along. Here is what Saun- ders sneaEine at Memphis, Tenn. on December 19. said:
 t+I. could not say. to save my fife whether the s1,1kv Lou Dillon p--11@d fn 2:n5 on the Cleveland track had hall bearing hrbs or not. do know that no wind shield was used and, do say l that am willing to bet ss.Onn and pHt ur Ina money now that Lor Dillon can ! pull that same silky, which, by the ! way weighed fifry-five pounds, twelve I pounds more fFe+ the Maud s. suIky. in 1sss than 2.n5"
 Then rather diverting from the priu cfpaI points at issue, Saunders con | tipTrad: t. Members of the Bonner estate have offered for years $S.o10 to any driver l that broke the record Of Naud s. I l broke it fair with T1or Dillon, bvt I have never seen the color Of the money 1 that the Bonners have Dronnised. Now. l ff they mean business ahout that S5 600 ! offer. let them offer it in earnest and 1 I'll bet them or any anyone else that can take the same s1Ilky that Maud I $. pul1e7-and 1t is still in good order l and drive T1o1 DtI1on in lass tfan 2.o5 over the Glenvirn track. which was the l track over which both records were l made"
 l Robert E. Bonner is authority for the 1 statement that ATr Billings never made I sny attempt so far as he knows. to get
 Maud S.'s s1IIkv for Lou Di1Ion's use. l At least. MT Billings or no one rapre-
 sertin9 him ftaadA any applieat'o1 to 1 MT Bonner or anybody connected with
 Robert Bonnerss es+ate for the Use of
 the sulzy. The vehicle was then Where
 1t Is now. in the, barn on the Ronne' l farm at Tarrytown, and MT Bonney
 said yesterday that MT Billings could ] have had it for the asking. and. fur l ther than that. he can have it next
 year if he will agree to sand his won 1 derful mare against Maud SIS record
 under exactlv the conditions in wbie> 1 Maud S. worked.
 .- Tn the New York Evening Post of
 Decerrber 1s Mfr Billings was quoted l in indirect discourse as saving that ha
 tried fo eat the silky drawn by Maui
 S.. but that 1t h"d 50 many engaee- 1 men+s +hat-he could not secure it. Rnh- i er+ E. Fonner- says that he can hardly
 believe that Nr Rillfnas n5ada any such 1 statement. If hA lid MT Bonner IS l at loss to know what he meant Tie old Ma11d $. su1tv is no+ trave'ing l circus, CT B side show thereto. and. 50 far as Nr Bonner knows. 1t hasn't he'd
 any "engagen ents'' since it wac
 7,s ckad away in the Bonner barn at TarTytoWr.