The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-07-30
Horses Can't Decide $4,000
Stake in Six Heats-Eight
We're Possible
STAKE RECORD EaUALED;
THEN QUICKLY BEATEN
Judges Forget New Rule and Al
low Horse to Win a Heat Only
To Be Disqualified
BY RALPH L. Y0NKER.

The most remarkable Merchants *
Manufacturers stake In history was
started and left unfinished yesterday
at the Blue Ribbon races.
Six heats had been run and two
more we're still possible before the
winner could be decided when the sun
set on NJ. 4 NJ day and forced the
Judges TO announce the -postponement
OF the finish Of the big race until this
afternoon.
AS il stood this morning either
Peter Scott or Lassie McGregor could
win the event by taking a single heat
in which these two and Linda Wrona
were 70 start Linda Wrona. by TAX,
ing the first heat, could prolong the
!. decision and give all three horses a
chance 10 win the eighth and decid.
ing heat.
Such a finish as this has never be.
fore been witnessed in the classic
event.
Nor has such time as was made yes
terday ever been seen before Ryth.
nell started the sensations In the
affair by sprtnging out OF the field and
z taking the first heat in time that
eQuaIled the record for the event,
FRythmell's 2:06 Ia In the AFst heat
seQualled the time made by Sonoma
Girl IN 1907. II was the best time
,ever made on the state fair track IN
THE event. Margin had made 2:06 l-2
Eat the state fair track. Sonoms Girl
f1made her record on the old Crosse
tPointe track.
Sensational az was the first heat It
;was entirely eclpsed by the second
LINDA Wrona. another outsider In the
betting, trotted the heat in the re-
markable time of 1905 l2. setting a
new record for the stake. In this
same heat the winner the first time
out, Rythmell, Jumped to the fence
at the quarter and galloped and gal
loped while Bert Shank tried in vain
to bring her 10 trot again. She was
distanced As il turned out Rythmell
would surely have been in the money
II she had finished the race.
Linda Wronas work in the second
heat looked too good TO last and She
was not figured seriously as win
ner. The dope apparently proved
right for she took seventh place in
the next heat and fourth In the next.
Peter Scott, which had taken two
seconds, figured in the next heat
winning it by showing better staying
powers in the stretch than McClos-
key.
Lassie McGregor then created a
surprise by taking the fourth heat,
having to beat out Mohamet Watts,
1assie McGregor easily took the
fifth heat with only the horses in the
money starting and the crowd figured
that another heat would give her
three straight and the race. Then
Peter Scott returned and won the
sixth heat after a strange decision
by the judges.
A new rule made this past winter
made II necessary that only heat win
ners should start In the sixth heat,
according TO the National code under
which the Blue Ribbon is being raced,
The judges apparently forgot about
this and they let McCloskey start.
McCloskey took the heat and then
the judges decided that he shouldn't
have been allowed 10 start and dis
qualified him. They reversed Mag
gle Kline's Throw EN- down Nc.
Closkey," and threw McCIoskey down
So the sixth heat OF the 1914 NJ &
NJ. goes into history as an untimed
Z heat. McCloskey trotted II in 2:14 IA
but what Peter Scott did II in VIII
never be officially known