The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-07-30
BY PAUL n. eRuskE.

Conceding that beyond the shadow
OF a doubt. there win be something
that will set US all TO tearing our hair
and yelling our tonsils loose at the
State Fair gounds this afternoon, It
remains but for the actual racing 10
settle which event Is going to furnish
the madhouse with more victims.
Was there ever such a race meet
ing In the history OF the harness turf?
They broke worlds record on Mon
day.
They shivered the old c. OF c. mark
tuesday In every heat OF the most
sensational race which the stake has
ever seen. Yesterday they handed us
the most exciting as well as the class
lest M q M. In the long 20 years OF
history with which the event has en-
riched the annals of the harness turf
Today we have 2:12 pace, the 2:11
trotting stake and the 2:04 pace, with
possible match race between Sweet
Marie and Major Delmar, though this
event will be thrown In free cratic
for nothing, II II really takes place.
The trotting event will bring to-
gether the sensational May Earl and
hAhy DtO0hos nc III tIOlltu a
trial mile in 2.05 this spring. The
latter has been the sensation of the
racing that raised the curtain for the
big show now in progress. But Amy
Brooks Is said TO be lame, while May
Earl has done nothing that has much
impressed the railbirds. More than
likely the winner will be found else
where In the exceedingly classy field
The 2:04 pace looks the likely race
In this event the much-touted Cleye-
land stallion Blackjack will score
down In his first start OF the year and
they say that he is up To a mile in
better than two minutes right now
He Will have To travel right there or
Whereabouts TO beat the speedy Cita-
ton which has been winning her ev-
cry start from the best fields that
have raced this year. She Will prob
ably be the favorite In the pools. And
: there are such speedy wigglers as Gal
legher, j. A.. Baron Grattan and Argot
Bog, any one of which is up To a mile
In better than 1903 right now.
The pacing record as they take the
track is 900 IL.
The record OF Secretary Moone. OF
the Detroit Driving club, as an organ
ixer Of high-class race fields Is estab-
ljshed beyond question and was well
known 10 the harness world before
he pulled of this years Detroit meet
ing--his most brilliant success IFS
success as macot in the line of
securing favorable weather hung In
the balance, however, at the start.
But nevermore win be there a shadow
OF doubt over his record. He has CIV
en- the Detroit meeting four of the
most ideal racing days which the long
history OF the sport has ever known.
Hot? OF course, II was but that
Is the sort OF weather in which the
horses do their best and the crowds
-are Historically largest and most en-
thusiatstic. IL Is racing maxim that,
the hotter the day. the bigger the
crowd and the more exciting the
sport.
Yesterdays. NJ. a M. was good
enough to have taken place-reason-
Ing backward--on the hottest day that
torrid ehenna ever boosted.
Not heat slower than 2:0s. three
heat winners before the event was
over, the favorite overthrow and, at
the finish, a comparative outsider,
driven by the man best beloved of all
the harness trailers, developed from a
medium sort of beast into the fast
est and most enduring trotter OF the
bunchl
1t was surely some race.
To be sure there was a certain con.
tingent OF the old.style. died-in.
the-wood. Observation-Disclosures
the-next-day enthusiasts who sighed
for more heat, steadfastly refusing to
regard any three in five race as defin-
iteiy settled until one horse had won
three heats. The fact that Spanish