Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-08-25
MISS PINKERTON
WINNER OF TROT
Missouri Mare Captures Last
Two Heats in Great
Western Classic.
LOWERS FAvoRITE ooLoRs
BY RUSSELL PHELPS.

Miss Pinkerton, fast, but not way
ward, daughter of Mr.. Pinkerton, is
some travelling lady.
She demonstrated the fact in a con-
vincing manner by getting strangle
hold on the victor's wreath in the
classic race in Thursdays Great
Western Circuit card at the Omaha
speedway-the 2:l7 trot, Ak-Sar-Ben
purse OF $1,000.
Heralded as the prime favorite on
the night before the race, but usurped
as the apple of the dopesters' eyes by
the Oklahoma mare, Alice Arion
shortly before the initial heat, Miss
Pinkerton plucked victory from chaos
when she showed wonderful return
of form and romped away with the
last two heats after allowing three
other trotters to proceed her to the
wire in the first one.
Alice Arion the Favorite.
1t was all Alice Arion when the
field got the call for the days big
purse race-a race in which eight star
trotters were to be turned to battle
for the largest prize ever hung up in
Nebraska, with the exception of a
pacing number, Wednesday, when a
like sum was offered.
Besides the offspring of Arion, and
Miss Pinkerton, three other muchly
feared trotters-California B., Great
Northern and Wildwood Boy
donned colors and started scoring
with any number of well-posted turf
men favoring one of them to arrive
home a winner.
His lines wrapped in a confident
way, one Earl Beezley, daring relns-
man, feared by the best OF harness
pilots, urged California B. out in
front; it appeared for time that the
Nebraska gelding was destined to
trot a spectacular mile to a win, but
the animal went up and was soon
hopelessly out of it.
Mare Wins First Heat.
Alice Arion's driver, with the skill
of the old campaigner, got his hope,
full out in the major domo's zone and
the heat was over in 2:l24, with the
California trotter, Great Northern
tearing under the wire less than
short breath later. :,
An Iowa starter, Sir McKerron. LED
Miss Pinkerton in the brush for third
place in the heat
The field figured in royal fight
right at the jump-off of the second
heat, Great Northern breaking, how
ever, about the same time that MISS
Pinkerton showed her known speed
and trotted out of the ranks into the
van of the bunch. j,
Trotting like well-regulated
rrandfather's clock, Miss 'Pinkertonl
made it too tough for the rest OF
them, winning the heat in Z:l4.
Fracas on Lower Turn.
A merry row broke on the lower
turn in the second heat when John
McOuaig, Alice Arion's pilot, and
Reinsman Ward OF Great Northern
got too close to each other to further
maintain dove-like relations: Accord
ing to Ward, McQuaig hit Great
Northern; but when they had both
finally told their troubles to Starting
Judge Oliver Lehman, that august
gentleman nicked Wards bank roll
SIS worth, because the latter used
his whip too freely, and then un-
seated Alice Arion's driver. =.
When the smoke of the TIT had
cleared it was seen that Wildwood
Bow had been awarded second place,
with Great Northern in third position
and California B, fourth. Alice Arion
was relegated to the cellar tor toul
driving. ,r
Henry Thomas crawled into Alice
Arion's sulky-and at first glance the
fight for honors in the third and de-
Gliding heat was on.
Unable to Score.
But Alice Arion, with Al Thomas
son driving her, couldn't score; after
few attempts the powers that be
in the judges stand got their heads
together and decided that Ward
would have to decorate himself with
the mares colors again.
The announcement to this effect
precipitated an outburst of applause
and wave of cheering from the
large crowd, for, despite the fracas,
it wanted the drivers that started the
race to finish it.
Miss Pinkerton tucked her royal
nose into the air, dived out in front
and led the front ranks division in
a sensational finish, Alice Arion close
at her heels and Great Northern third,
with California B, fourth.
Nip and Tuck Finish.
The nip and tuck dash under the
wire was as exciting as any finish of
the local Great Western circuit meet
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