The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12
MACS SLOW IN MUD
Heavy Track Makes Records
Look Good at Fair.
Autoists Worked an Hour to
Make Races Possible.
ROSE EQUITY WINS RACE
Ruthyen's Mare Shows Fine
Speed in 2:14 Pace.
TOday's Race List Largest of
the Week.
ROSE EQUITY WINS Rae

There were two features to We'd
nesday's races. One of them was the
Equity, A. F. Ruthven's mare. The
other was the willing work of so Topeka
autoists whose work on the track made
it possible to hold the races.
Right here a word of praise is due
the management and the wild west
show. When the muddy condition of
the track made it evident the races
would be late in starting the wild west
people put on their entire afternoon
performance in bunch to entertain the
crowd during the wait And they made
it a stronger program than usual
Fifty Topeka autoists burned gaso-
line as they raced around the track,
trying to get it in shape. Then a cou-
pie of big motor trucks answered the
appeal for help. One of them dragged
a three section iron harrow around the
track and the second truck pulled a
drag covered with men. Then a steam
roller was put on the first turn and
there was a track for the races.
The Running Races First.
The running races were put on first
to give more time for the track to
dry. st. Joe, the Irwin horse which
won the five furlong races Monday,
cleaned UP in the half mile dash.
There wasn't any difficulty in picking
the winner after the horses started. st.
Joe took the lead and kept it, finishing
six lengths ahead in 53H seconds.
Lady Tuck finished second. Lady Ham
burg third, Judge Tom Smith fourth
and Hunneweu fifth
Night Mist, the horse to whom the
judges gave the derby decision, was
the easy winner fve-eighths mile run
ming race. Her time was Iii. Night
Mist was an added starter. KIaska was
second and valencia third. Gee Gone
finished fourth and Miss Mate fifth.
But it was Rose Equity who brought
the crowd to its feet, yelling and |
cheering, three times in the 2:14 pace.
The Ruthven mare got a poor start in |
both the first and second heats. Both |
times she passed three horses on the |
last quarter of the mile and came in |
well away to the good. There hasn't /,
where the winner put on such |
a finish in two of the three heats. In |
the third heat she got away better ana |
made the mile in the lead although |
pressed by May E. Pick in the last /
heat. But the driver held her as she |
came under the wire. May E. Pick
was second, August Elenor third, ana |
Mayor Roe, fourth. The time was
2:17 II, 2:15A and 2:14A.
Big Field in TrOt.
The 2:15 trot drew eight starters /
and they were hard to handle. Tommy |
Horn took the race in straight heats
Leon finished the race in second mon-
ey while Rosita and Bell of Diamond |
Creek divided third and fourth money.
The time was 2:20 ATTN and 2:171z
Dock Gentry had his own way with
the 3-year-OId pace. This was a
pretty race there being but three
starters and they were fairly evenly
Elsie Dillon and AIDA |,
May Bee divided the other two ends
IF the purse. The time was 2:22A
and 2:181a.
The 1922 pace was postponed and
will be the first race today. Today'S
To- CT he
w R. Mummert, one of the track
officials at Oklahoma City, is visiting
n Topeka and attending the races this
week.