The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-14
Lou DILLON A DIFFER.
Little Mare Hitched to High sulky
Goes Mile in 2:o5.


Cleveland, o., Sept. A.-Lou Dillon, 200,
the fastest trotter in the world, added an
other record Saturday afternoon to her al
ready long list made during the past sum-
mer- On the Chenille track she eclipsed
the record OF the old queen Of the trotting
TURF Maud s., and lowered the record to
by "a seconds.
2:OS% recorded on the Chenille track.
has Withstood all efforts to lower it, but
and with track and day that were ideal
Tor the purpose she simply smashed the
long standing record, and no one who saw
the performance doubted for moment
but that she could have clipped off an
other fraction of a second Willard Saun-
ders, who probably knows the champion
better than anyone else, believes she will
do it in 2:03.
Six thousand people were present to see
mare when she finished her record-break-
ing performance c. X G. Billings was
record to a high wheel sulky he has want
ed all summer. Not content with getting
mai ne acc acetomphsn:sd ann6oaneT rscord
Equity to the pole in 2:09s4, breaking tho
record held by Belle Hamlin and Honest
1t was Certainly a Billings day and the
crowd, the largest that has attended a
matinee this year, cheered him to the echo
as he drove back up the stretch after his
great performance. 1t was 5 o'clock, af-
ter long afternoon of matinee racing,
tHdL Lou JAllOn came out, n1lCncu 10 d
The track was siri ideal condition for the
event and Saunders was confident that the
record would be broken The queer look
ing high wheel sulky, a Gaffrey built We.
hicle of the regulation type seemed not
to impede the new trotting queen. and she
stepped out fast fer her first trying out
mile. The last half of this was caught
in 1:05. with the last quarter in 0:S2.
Then the drags came around for last
preparation of the track
''WiIl she break the old record?" was the
universal question in the stand, which was
packed. Many were there who remem
bered the July day in 1885 when Maud s.,
paced by a runner, negotiated her great
THAT was a great race" said John
Splan. and there is not the enthusiasm
today there was then. But Lou Dillon
will beat it. Nothing is impossible for
her.
At $50 Doc Tanner came out with rum
ner, with a wind shield on the sulky. Mill
lard Saunders, with Lou Dillon, turned
around at the draw gate. and with Tanner
ten lengths ahead, nodded for the word.
Straight and true, like the veritable little
went under the wire on the start of ans
other wonderful journey. Tanner kept
right in behind the runners sulky. They
kept this position to the half, with Me-
Coy and another runner back 50 lengths.
To the half Saunders 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 a runner on
each side, the race down the stretch COM
menced.
, little champion neared the draw gate, and
with Tanner and Saunders yelling. she
came on faster and faster, increasing her
t the wire in the remarkable time of 2:O5.
going the last half in l :01, and the last
quarter in 80 seconds.
The high sulky drawn by Lou Dillon
was not ban-bearing. but of the old axle
type. -r