New-York tribune., 1918-12-01

frequently tried and made good on
more occasions than any of the others.
Miss Bertha Dillon did not race up to
expectations, her victories being linn
tied, while those OF Ante Guy were
numerous and achieved in some mighty
hard struggles.
Another Of the age that gave a flash
of her real form is Bertha Mcclure,
that won q heat in the gruelling scon-
test that landed Esperanza winner of
the Fort Miami stake at Toledo. Ber-
tina Mcclure stepped in 2:04A on this
occasion, lowering the standing record
of 2:04A, held jointly by Joan and
Mary Putney.
Three-Year-Olds Reign
Time was when four-year-oId events
were in higher favor than those for
three-year-ol which now dominate
the tracks. In the days when d. J..
Campau was running The Horseman he
had a stake for four olds which
was worth around $4,000, and perhaps
the greatest renewal of this was fought
out on the old Crosse Pointe track, at
Detroit, when Dancourt headed one Of
the most peculiar summaries extant.
Dancourt was bred by the Kalamazoo
farm, whence came Santos, dam Of
Peter the Great, Sorrento, another
great broodmare, and several turf nota
assembled a lot of trotters, and Dan
court won two heats, then was beaten
in as many, and looked to be out of it,
but came back and trotted them to
standstill in the fifth.
Not discounting the speed necessary
for a trotter to get into the 2:10 list,
SO many made the grade this year
that the goal is moving up to the 205
list, which assemblies those of super
OF oto rl,%
trotters entered the 2:O5 list and
twenty-three PAGERS stepped into their
division, which is a loss of one trotter
when compared with 1917 activities
and gain of six PAGERS. Four trot-
ters and as many PAGERS that were in
this charmed circle reduced their rec
ords during the year.
Newcomers in the 2:O5 trotting list
are Ante Guy, Binland, Bertha Nc
Guire, Chilcoot, Ina Jaw. Hollywood
Bob. Gentry c. and Royal Mac, three
2:05 PAGERS include Directum J., O. U.
c., Un, Sanardo, Verlie Patchen, A.
Game Of Chance, Flo Stately, Lee
Grand, Orc Fino, Frank Dewey, John
a. Hal. Lizzie March, Belle Alcantara,
Billy Jackson. Mary Rosaline Parr,
Minor Hal, Omonde, The Problem,
Baron Chan, Baronwood, Budlight,
Harvey K. and Captain Mack. Murphy
drove six of these.
Reference recently was made to the
tight fit between the Bingen and the
Peter the Great tribes for racing SUI
premacy, the Bingens having won S7O.-
091, as against s69857 by the Peter
the Greats. However, these families
had very little on the Axworthys, which
won S67 ,691, with just half as many
starters as the Bngens, hence, the
individual showing was superior to
that of any of them.
On the heels of the Axworthys come
the Mckinneys with S59,595, won on the
grand circuit. To this can be added
thousands won by descendants of this
number of years and left wonderful
influence
East Shades West
The East has a shade on the West
when the four families are considered.
as Blngen spent nearly all of his life
close to New York. Axworthy and Guv
AXworthy we're owned there. while Nc
klnney's recent fame mas come during
his years at the Empire state farms
The success of Peter the Great came
during his stay in Kentucky. Climate
does not cut much figure after all.
Golng over the summaries along the
e'aAu CiIculI IN 1918 reveals the fact
mat Thomas W. Murphy, the pride of
Poughkeepsie, won no fewer than 26
per cent of the races, which is in it.
self worlds record. Starting out
with dependable PAGERS, but trotters
that were beaten, Murphy wound up
with his trotters at the top and one
OF his side-wheelers still gathering
first moneys.
Murphy started in 261 races and won
sixty-nine of them. In all, 172 drivers
got piece of the money, Murphy an
nexing more than % per cent Of the
stakes and purses. The discrepancy
between his race winning and his
money winning percentages lies in the
fact that the richest of futurities Went
to rival. In all, Murphy won with
eighteen trotters and PAGERS as fol-
lows:
Directum j., eleven races: Ante Guv,
seven; Miss Harris NJ, six; Chestnut
Peter, The Problem, Orc Fino. five
apiece; David Guy, Chilcoot, Petrex.
Selah Baird and Bill Jackson, four
apiece; Kelly De Forest, Allen Watts
and Budllght, two each; Royal Mac,
Dark Flower, Dorothy Day and Dag
hastan, one apiece.
Murphy's pace was rather an even
one, as he kept it up through the
season, winning seven at the first North
Randall meeting, three at Kalamazoo,
eight at Toledo, six at the first Colum-
BUS meeting, four at the second North |
randall meeting, nine at Philadelphia,
three at Poughkeepsie, two at Read
vile, eight at Syracuse, eight at the /
second Columbus meeting, seven at
Lexington and FIVE at Atlanta.
Meanwhile he captured a number of
lesser monies, in all, forty seconds. fif- /
teen thirds and twenty fourths. and /
of the 261 starts he was outside of
the money but twenty-three times
Murphys champion money winning
PAGER, Dlrectum j., is to desert the
grand circuit as his new owner. F. D. /
Weeks, of Shirley, Mass, will turn
nam over to Will Crozier, of Hart
1ord, to race in the free for-alls on the /
Eastern half-mile tracks
Among the new members of the
Ieers stable for the 1919 season is the I
mare Golden Spier, attention to which
wa; was called IN these columns last June
Hne IS full sister to the old cham
pion Joan, 2:04A, and was a very
promising three-year- but went
wrong, was bred to Peter the Great and
turned out.
Her retirement appears to be just
what was needed, for she came back
last spring and started by winning on
one of the Cleveland half-mile tracks,
drove out Worthy Peter at couple of
other meetings, and then tackled the
big game at North Randall, being sep
arately timed in 2:06h in the event
won by Binland.