The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-13
1oUDILLON DEHHRONES MAUD 5
,gOT> 1 NILE TO HIGH WHEEL
NLKI IN POS.
AIDED h, Wind shield the New Trotting
queen clips 3 ID Seconds on Long.
standing RecOrd-BillinEs Drives Tho
Monh and Equity 10 Pole In 400 "a.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 12-Iou Dillon,
90 tho champion trotter Of the world,
has ADDED another record to her already
hing Isl made during the past summer,
ir to-day on the Chenille tr ack she de-
,trored the old queen of the trotting turf.
For eighteen years the mile made in 2OSs@
m the Uenville track has withstood all
srorrs 10 lower it but nothing seems i'm
possbc for Lou Dillon, and with track nd
day thai were ideal for the purpose, she
simply smashed the long standing
record and 40 one who saw the perform
s,ce doubted for a moment that she
couli aven have clipped off another frac-
ton Of second, and Willard Sa 1ders,
who probably knows the champion better
thai auvo ., believes she will do it in 203
Six thousand people were on hand to see
the performances and cheer the game little
mare when she finished her record -brea king
Performance and c. X. G Billings was the
taptssr man in the crowd, for this record
10 high-wheel sulky he has wanted
all summer and not content with getting
that ha accomplished another record
Equity to pole in 2:09A breaking the record
held by Belle Hamlin and Honest George
Of ?12i.
It was certainly Billings day, and the
big crowd the largest that has attended
a matinee this year, cheered him to the
echo a. he drove back up the stretch after
his great performance.
It WAS 5 o clock and after long afternoon
of matinee racing that Lou Dillon came
out hltched to high wheel sulky to 60 a
workout mile. The track was in ideal
condition for the event and Sanders was
confident that the record would be broken.
The queer looking high wheel sulky.
a Ctfery built vehicle Of the regulation
type, seemed not 10 impede the new trotting
queen. and she stepped out fast for her
first tryin g-out mile. The isst h, If Of this
was caught in 1905. with the last quarter
in O32 Then the drags care around for
a list preparation Of The track
will she break the old record?" was the
universal question in the stand-which was
parked--across the track and among the
horsemen.
Many were there who remembered the
July day in 1885 when Maud s., paced by
runner, negotiated her great mile in 2:OsI.
That was great race" said John Splan,
who drove the runner, land there isn't
the enthusiasm to-day there was then
But Lon Dillon will beat it. Nothing is
impossible for her"
At $50 Doc. Tanner came out with rum
ner with wind shield on the sulky. Mil
lard Sanders, with Lou Dillon, turned
around at the drawgae. and with Tanner
ton lengths ahead, they nodded for the
word Straight and true, the veritable
little machine that she is, the trotting queen
went under the wire on the start of another
wonderful journey.
Tanner kept just ahead and at the turn
Sanders went in right behind tho runners
sulky. They kept this position to the half
with Mccoy and another runner back fifty
lengths.
To the half Sanders kept Lou Dillon in,
but when the half was reached he let her
out and she fairly flew over the ground
coming around the turn into the stretch
Mccoy closed up, and with n runner on each
side the race down the stretch commenced
She's beaten it! She's beaten III" was
the cry as the little champion neared the
draw gate and with Tanner yelling and
Sanders urging her along she came on
faster and faster, increasing her speed
aJ every stride and passing under the wire
n the remarkable time of 2O5, going the
asst half mile in 1Ol and the last-quarter in
40 seconds