The Detroit times., 1909-07-31
SPEED ORGY At THE
FAIR GROUNDS IS
FINISHED NOW
Annual Blue Ribbon Week Was
Big Success Both From Financial
and Sporting Points
of View.
Detroit. as Usual, Had the First View
of the Stars of the Year and got
the Annual Thrills.
Rx PAUL 4. RRusKE.


In a glory blaze and a speed orgy
he IKE OF which has seldom If ever
been seen on Grand Circuit race
track. the second annual meeting OF
the new Detroit Driving club came &c
an end at the state fair grounds yes
lerday and the long horse trains pull
ed w TO the gates. to be loaded last
evening with their precious freight
and 10 leave for Kalamazoo where the
circuit will race next week.
The world OF trotting heayes Ions
sigh of relief and settles down 10 re
view the events OF Detroit 5 momeut
Gus meeting.
AS usual the first clash OF the Grand
circuiters was the one where the sur
prisss were looked for. They arrived
on schedule and every one OF the toul
stake races had one.
Who would have supposed That old
Country Jay could have taken those
2:ll trotters into camp, crippled as
he had been for years and yet able TO
come back and hang up the fastest
record for the stake?
What 2:1l class trotter can expect
to beat him later on unless the strain
of racing brings back his old ailment?
And There Was Margin.
But. II Country Jays performance
was a surprise, how about Margin that
came from nowhere and won the fast
est NJ 4 NJ in history?
There, according To general belief
is the big money winner OF the year
Staked all the way down the line, she
seemed to be easily capable OF mile
in 2:06. She Is faster and far more
reliable racing tool than was Sonoma
Girl that led the money-winning trot-
ters in her year. In addition, there
seems 10 be no Highball to dispute
the issue with her, as was the case
IN 1907 when the Girl and the Geers
trotter were always able to put up an
interesting duel
As In the case of Country Jay and
with a possibility far less likely of full
filment. the only hope of the other
trotters in Margins class will be that
she goes lame She was perhaps not
perfectly sound at the Detroit meet
ing. She has been lame this season
once and may be lame again. Sound,
she can give anything that has yet APP
reared in her class-and the NJ & NJ.
contained virtually everything in sight
In the first fight-she looks TO be
couple of seconds the best.
The Chamber of Commerce demon
strated that George Gano is similarly
the fastest OF the slow-class PAGERS.
Worlds Mark for Lady Maud7
The Wolverine free-for-all develop
ed the fact that Lady Maud c. is like
ly to give them all beating in her
10 a
that her time at the fair grounds yes
terday--she paced In 1903 "a and
2:O3 1-4-is the worlds record for
two-heat race This is not yet thor
oughIy authenticated. but II is surely
fast enough TO win lot OF races ana
the big mare is as likely to improve
as to go back. Last year her brother
Hedgewood Boy, was the monarch OF
the class. He is just getting into
form now. having worked the fair
grounds track In 2:05 ga yesterday
morning. The pair are both racing for
Dick Wilson this year and. II one isn't
quite right. he has always the other
10 fall back on. Aileen Wilson didn't
seem 10 take to her change OF drivers
Yesterday and broke badly for Hyde In
each heat. II looks like "A lean year
which lost his first race OF the past
four years on a Detroit track. as well
as. for the rest OF the free-for-all per-
formers.
In the class events anything is still!
likely 10 happen. Probably the best
PAGER shown in this department was
the blind Hal Raven. Certainly the
most remarkable performance OF the
meeting was the second and deciding
heat OF her race in which she, Rollins
and Governor Searles finished only
inches apart In 2:03 "a.
Hamburg Belle acted yesterday as
If she was pretty sure 10 give Sweet
Marie's 2:02 a call before the season
vas over, with an excellent chance OF
similarly annihilatIng Lou Dillon's
2.O1. The former IS the recognized
t-otting record. though the latter IS
the fastest bonafde performance
against time, pace-maker at the side.
Well see the Colts Again.
This year an added pleasure was
vouchsafsd he Detroit raco-going pub
llc In getting tho FIRST line not only
on tho regular racing material, but
nlso on the probable winners Of the
hig futuritIes. That the beautiful
daughter OF John A. McKerron and
Nancy Hanks that won the Detroit
event will BIO hot favorite the next
time she starts, goes without saying.
The idea OF racing three-year.olds In
July was revolutionary, hut the time
Of the race was 80 sensational and the
field IN general such n well-behaved
: one that the experiment is regarded
ns such no longer but will undoubted-
~ be a regular affair from now on.
The racing OF yesterday. aside from
fhe terrific speed Of Lady Maud c.
End Hamburg Belle. was remarkable
for the strenuous competition devel
oDe6 In the 1924 pace which was the
second event OF the meeting TO go the
maximum number OF Ave heats. This
event also furnished the one oppor
tunity during the meeting In which
Scott McLane. OF Coldwater. drivinr
one OF the string OF G. w. Moore. OF
Detroit. performed his annual feat oil