Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-20

Records smashed to smithereens, fiu-
ishes that sizzled, stretch drives that
shot your pulse up to 100 in the shade,
marked the third days Grand Circuit
racing over the Belmont oval yesterday
afternoon at Narberth. Four races on
the card, three of the kind you hear
about but seldom see, were pulled off
before. n crowd of 10000 bowling turf
fans. They stood up in their seats,
pulled, pushed, wriggled and cheered as
their favorites tore madly under the
wire, sometimes an inch, sometimes
only by hair in front of the desperate.
fight to the finish kings and.queens Of
the light harness racing world.
Grey Worthy, that speedy. fashy,
whale of n trotter, was on his stride
yesterday and the majority of the wise
birds who have been calling him
false alarm got a jolt that knocked 'em
for row of Peruvian buggies. Walter
Cox, the top jock In the Big Loop this
season, jiggled n nasty rein over the
son of Axworthy in the Winoga dashes
for 2 :0S trottcrs. the feature event Of
the day, and when the dust of the
battle had died away the gray gelding
had three heats and the lions share Of
5000 berries hung up as II purse. In
stepping the second and third heats,
each in 2:05H. Cox's mount knocked
the record of 2:05h, made by June Red
in 1918, into n cooked hat.
Helen Dlllon's Race
Helen. Dillon, the two year -old flly
piloted by Joe Serrill. smothered the
field in the William Penn $4,000 stake
for two-year old trotters, stepping the
first heat in 2:12H, the fastest time
for a two year old this year. and com
ing back and grabbing off the second
heat from Edith Worthy In g:12%
Some travelling for n two year old
The Holmes $1,000 stake. for 2:O5
PAGERS, went to Lillian S., owned and
driven by Marvin Thornton. of Akron.
o. The mare won the second heat from
Fred Edman's Julia Direct by nose
in 2:04H, the fastest time thus far
at the meeting.
The trotting dash for nags of the
2:10 class was a walkover for Princess
Nadena, teamed by Tommy Murphy.
Geers drew the pole with Wiki Wiki
in the first heat of the . :OS trot. The
eighth time down they went away
Wiki Wiki took the track the first
crack out of the box and gave Por
Geers a ride to the quarter. Selka wa.
at the veterans wheel. with Grey Wor.
thy lying in third. Walnut Frisco went
into the air higher than kite at th,
one eighth pole, and before Flemming
could get the gelding down he was
way back. Geers led to within 100
yards of the wire and then Cox turned
on the gas and nipped the mount driven
by the gent from Sunny Tennessee by
half length in 2:0IA.
Geers Gets Flying Start
In the draw for places in the second
heat Geers again landed pole position.
Pop was away with the son of Anvil
like streak of blue lightning, with
Billy Flemming's Selka poking a mean
nose In his back On the back stretch
Grey Worthy. who had been in third
place, jumped, caught before he had
gone fifty feet, and by a sensational
burst of speed climbed to even terms
with Geers at the three quarters. At
the seven eighths no lie the gray flyer
grabbed the lead. Walnut Frisco, which
finished no better than sixth in the first
heat. got through the bunch in the
middle of the stretch and w. r. Flem-
ming made Cox's mount step under in
:O512. a record for this stake.
In the third heat Grey Worthy drew
the pole and got away on the fourth
score and was never headed. Earl Pit
man tried to refch with Emma IIar-
vester, but gave up 10 yards in front
of the wire.
Helen Dillon, owned and bred by A.
r. Coke, of Paoli. Pa, showed light
ming speed on the drives to the wire
and won the two-year- old trot. with
Edith Worthy fighting gamely to the
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