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WORLD Fon, MR,w:Goupo BRoKaw. HE \S BUILDING A BALOoN. ) b44-o->: ERR TTHOmaS CHAU ITER. COLONWL GRLSENT FAST MILE TO-DAY (Special to The Evening World.) GRAVESEND, N. Y., Bept. %.— Bright, bracing and breesy, the weather | conditions were ideal for workouts at Gravesend this morning. | Trainer C. EB. Rowe waa responsible for what the best work of the morning, when he sent bia handica) candidate, Colonial Girl, to a mile gal- Frankie Nell, bantam champion, ts 7 going to England to fight Jem Bow- Beer. the beet little man on the other of the pond. | articles call for 116 pounds) lop in 1 ery eaally accomplished, de, Time was when the ban- te word Ad nar ge tend Others seen on the track aad sent to workouts were the following: AF. atin and an eighth in 2.01, Weir, Wainer, MOOD WINK dhe mile in 1.47, driving; F. Welr, weight championship was won 105, but that was long ago. bly Nell will come back call- himsejf champion of England. If ho holds the title as long as DAL AAAI Ce mite (1.68, handily; | Peter Maher did that of champion of mids JORDAN rive furlongs in 1.05, Areland he will do well. But there mitt LADY. “HOEK Four furlongs “are beveral little American fighters | ba nelly, Durty te _ to be reckoned with. eure trainer, ut four furlongs | By the way, ! aw a trunk belonging . to Peter Maner enon time ago. Acrona | 81K. BRILLARS \uarte a one end of it a printed in big black 1¢ mile in 0.83, Jetters four Inches high: Row oa wag ae HL there Champioh of Ireland.” jan F “Peter Maher, | E One mile (Gus Rublin please write.) ff enalogs, Wal — * |GOLD t furlongs in 1.20, Beating the © | driving; W. Jennings, trainer. Talking abmt Eng! tnt DAINTY—Four furlongs in 0.82, brees W. Jennings, trainer. SR strange how wo deat our friends Proven vote farting in 0,82, brees Across the way In nearly every branch coffin Jonnipes ‘ainer, of sport? It has been many years since | ITAL, OTR ane wie is 1.46 1-4, Begiand has produced a boxer who 7 4 ‘would be even a secqnd-rater in this HAMBURGER~@it Hal tines en country, Jack O'Brien, “Kid” MeCoy, at a jp ‘preening; taking pleasure trips to the other side, | Menned ovwthe crop of British heavy- ts, _ deffries, if he went over, would find Mt gbsolutely impossible to find an op: L. Sullivan, visiting Bnglang, “@Bered to give Jem Smith, best Enso f 4 Men Neavy-woight of the day, the en- b | “tire purse if he failed to score a knock- _ Out in ®-round and Jem refused to ie tigi Mite ruying Bi{tb-<tres-auazces in 1.18, ae W. Cl MERRY PIONE! asl Ww. rainer, She mite in 1.41, u va anft ttt ‘urtonge a breem CHARLES fA. halt-mile in il, trainer, SMILING eg cheee? furlongs. | tn 0,89, feasliy ti Zimmer, STAMPING UND-Six fu 113, handily! a Cornell, traluer. EUGENIA BURCH -Five-elghths in 100 Smith, trainer antet DAYS Six furlongs in 1.29, handily; G, Cornell, trainer, ree (ee, ealthe. on, in enally; | MAR(H Three furlonge tn aa 14 gee Pi Seah age Graves, trainer, it 'H-One mile in 1.4, weston Five-el trast in 1.05, eas- tly; Clay, trainer, | TH aouir RNER-—One mile in 1,47, ! | LADY Qdom, trainer, INTO nally; WA fight. ‘The crack little fellows who have ome over here frém the British Inlea Dave, one qnd alll, furnished less thau @ Mouthful for our Terry McGoverns, \ one thing In which we find our- y es outclassed is in long-distance waning. They bave us there, But of the training the British nation in South Africa « short time ago, ~~ Horse Racing Abroad, Too bad that Newton Bennington has to return Beldame to Mr, Belmont at the end of this racing season, when his Dease of the greatest filly of the decade fs wp. | Otherwise he might possibly take her | HAP over to England and show that me ere ‘Aix have borses in America as well as brecsina men. | etme a mile tn Lat te paliop- i @ great plac ina + gue" ayant area ase Genetn | SAHA, BOF Fie tong 104 Derby—with 230,000 people clustered . [ PALM TREE—Four furlon @round the track. The sound of their breesing; \W. Hurley, tra bog, and the rows | vast ness of their coats overran the | SPARK: @urrounding hills for miles, just as if geome eps, OY saaaaed had cast up a huge | ane ocean 0 That was‘ crowd bag Beldame cannot ‘our furlongs tm O62, nae trainer, hour furlongs tn trainer, G—Five-cighthe "in 194 Welsh, trainer. —Five furlongs 1.04, andily: D. Carter, train run before Too | aiarnene mile In 148. easily; D. Car- have the chance | ter, trainer, "FIELD DAY AND BENEFIT FOR VICTORIOUS GIANTS" is, can still hold a ye 8 jown to segond at ry ory one tp pening extébition edide the ball bis “ there are to be oats, Young ¢ other. has already begun to prepare hi Elmers & gymnasium for is it with Jimmy Britt, will go “Kid” in 4 7 Be tas ante the Giants’ great field WM be held. Two games of ball be played, one # champlonship the other @ burlesque affair, the Giants will divide into 4nd will be groomed in the Motley of the clown. championship tussel Jim ‘an old-time Giant, as every ‘Des 4 thread of gray in his reavember, catch Me- the bat. The younger the tribe fanatic will bere to compare the methods with jumping, athletic pole vaulting A other fie! contests by the stunte with the the th theatrical benefit to lao been checked off on ‘This is to te beld pag time. the New ba ‘Theatre. Every- stage, from fattest to dee ston of, has COLUMBIA ELEV EN’S " j_FAST BACK FIELD. | BACK FIELD. DRIVING YUNDERL ACMILE -A “MINUTE, RAGING FEUER BUBNS I American Nation Nation Is Going § Going Speed Crazy shaker,” | gradually the improving pneumatic-tired “safety” only a millionaire cap efford to buy a big racing car and keep a staff of KaNAJAME other a trifle bigger, with power ehough in it to ram down the fortifica- wal tions at Port Arthur. .|MR, THOMAS'S NEW RACING AUTO. day at Empire track. on the track, Mr. Thomas himself runs his cars than a mile a minute, and he ts an expert driver, ent is to break records. then has been fiying around like a comet, with a dust streak for a tail, fin 0, | ANNIE RUSSELL—Four furlongs in} Oia handily, We Barrick, trainer’ | |there were no otler cars behind bim whi | | | Terry | Ly ol and funny | bas travelled a mile In 55 seconds. AND HID . GIANTS TO GET GET BIG BENEFIT. HE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1904. | SPORTS EDITED BY | AMERICAN AUTO CRANKS a ke WITH A HIGH FEVER FOR HIGH GELEEORSLO9GOEOESD $340 099406606900 6064. “TR: Louis R. ROSS’ Car, a He STRUCK A FENCE IT WOULO GUT OFF AIS HEAD, “BUSTER® IN AMERICA, “Too SLOAN - AIORSES ere ij Fea ster = f/ ROBERT EDGREN ER SPEED - VEINS OF MOTOR CRANKS racers did until after —E. R. Thomas Discards a Sixty- Horse-Power Machine for One of|m Ninety-Horse-Power. the followings BY ROBERT EDGREN. F The American nation Is going speed-~«razy. Only a few years ago every man, woman and child who could get a wheel rode centuries or sprinted around +the streets. The olf “bone- which was the first form of “wheel,” was not fast enough, and | took its place. A fe years of invention brought the bieyele to it» zenith, and riders be; ee PROCER chauffeurs to run It. Winn ‘The racing fever burns In the veins of every motor crank. The smell of gasoline is sweeter to him than the perfiwmes of Araby. First he bas SPRIN! ‘Witness Mr. Thomas, owner of famous race horees. Mr, Thomas has bd ing; Bub Ma been running a sixty-horse Morcedes, Ho has just obtained a ninety. wes R* horse machine, and will rum {t in the International Cup races next Satur- K. AL Mr. Thomas gone into motor-car racing ust as he went into horse racing. His chauffours wear his stable colors while running his cars & speed ter His ambition Psa KE iy; R. “This is a relief from the horee racing,” “T lke the speed.” Charile Gates {s another crank. He {ts never aatisfled with the amount of speed that he can get out of his cars, He has forty-horse machine, usually taking the wheel himself, and using driver for ballast, 4 hort tinie ago Charlie Gates determined to get a) sixty-horse car. “If you try to rum one of those you will kill yourself and us, too,” bie chauffeur sald, Charlie Gates laughed. he sald a day or two a eialen) He bought the giant machine, and since He hasn't killed anybody yet. Then there ds William Wallace, 4 Boeton millionaire, Mr. Wallace has one of those overgrown devil-wagons, He drove St himself in| the Decoration Day races at Boston. As he struck the turn his rear wheels Jumped forward so suddenly that the entire machine whirled about in the opposite direction. There was a groat cloud of dust, and of it came Wallaces machine, full speed, on the back trail, the accident ocourred. L, B ROSS GUES THE LIMI Loule to the I! He cigar, with a bole in the top and four wheels at the sides the driver sticks up through the opening in the top. -He is strapped strapped after the race. If he should rin off the track tence or anything else, the obstacle would slide along the top of the car and slice bis head off defore he could wink. There would be no pos+! yas given | sible escape, Yet Mr. Ross runs his car in every race that be can enter, | wondert Alfred Gwynue Vanderbilt and W. K. Vanderbilt own and rua racing I" cars as powerful as the locomotives of the New York Central Rail- | road, The speed they attain ie almost heyond belief, yet they are always eager to increase it. W. Gould Brokaw has eurpassed them all his own motor cars, out he {is bullding an airship, and with that he hopes to lls first 4 travel far faster than he could in anything that will ever run on wheels | jiinctoen It he succeeds he will be onvied by every speed-mad millionaire in the| or bel country, and the airship will succeed the bicycle and the motor-ear, | gage Millions will be spent to invent airships faster than that of W, Gould | 984, Brokaw. “Tod” Sloan owns his car—a forty-horse French machine, He will) ohamejonsht drive it himeelf in tho races Saturday. Ho has a crack ebautfeur, but {elem | thinks that ha can get more speed with himself at the wheel. His can ike Kari Kiser, “the Dayton Dumpling,” formerly a great bieycle rider, br ww another speed merchant who has become an expert manipulator of the| in pada nyt He will compete against Sloan and the others Motor-car racing is pcos al all of po old bike champions. Eddie Rald is one of the Since his a were worthy of st weluhs about | Measurement yg 4 calf, e's racers were sent bit surface of rincipal work-oute noted were LORD OF ane VALE Or James Blute, tra! JCK-Six furlongs in 1.24 $4, WAS BEST TO-DAY (Special to The Bvening World.) SHEEPSHEAD BAY, N. Y., Bept. 2. There was a fall chill ‘m the alr at the course this morning and the work of the ot wet to going ia full swing he usual hour, sun took command, however, the con- ditiona were quite pleasant and many exercise over the track, i idee ‘furlongs tn 1.04, Joyner, ieuate ris mah fi e—Wus breesing; 4 Tucker, trainer, Four might Guan tl breezing; Enoch Wishard, train- e JOCUND—Six furlongs in 1.19, handil, Enoch Wishard, trainer. A | ROB Li Se Five furlongs in 1.01, brees- Any H. Karrick, trainer, | ie ites furlongs tr H. Hyner, trainer, x FF. over twenty years ago. rainer, CRIOSIe furlongs’ in 1.21,’ brees- T. Patterson, trainer, YIN MARS One mile In 141, handily; EB. Wright, trainer. e mile and @ furlong in 2.01, meeereen, trainer, in 1.06, furlongs KEY YoTe sin furlongs in 1%, bree ner. ha Watkins, trainer PRONTA™Five turlon, naire E. ad gh tre E—Six furlo: na G. Tompk' trainer, BG RECEPTION FR TOM KIEL Thomas F. Kiely, of Carrick-on-Su'r, Ireland, whg won the world’s all-round athletic championship at St. Louls sev- Lt OUT orul weeks ago, wil be the guest of @ HCKUY host of his countrymen aud many Iriah- Americans who have arranged @ re ception in his honor at Sulzer's Harlem . Ross fs another driver who carries his craze for speed River Casino next Saturday evening. has built a racing machine that looks like a tin A massive silver loving eup will be ‘The head of presented to this sturdy athlete on this occasion, Police Commissioner William to his seat, and cannot release himself, but has to stay until he is un- McAdoo will preside at the reception into q 4nd State Senator John J. F make the presentation epee val in this country Kiely veral exhibitions of prowess In ne + of track and feild athletics, | and In every instance ols performances @ man and the repu- which he had earned on other side of the Atlantic, nearly thirty-five years old, but ne He not only is driving | seems to be as spry as when he made nce In athletic eports When ne was va old Kicly gave promise Phenomenal athie! id past fourteen years prominent onehtp contests. He won every one of the all-round ips in Great which he competed, competitions were abandon: sole or age = Kiely winner In When the in 12, brees- in 1.18 1-2, breea- , tralner, E—Ono da ture ‘ose | ia nm Dreeaing: a. C, McDow. ty 104, brees In 18 34 wiey will aa y every de- Columbia will have an armor-plereing backfled thie season, and |. is ecriain that even the heaviest aod strongest defense lines wil hay trouble to keep the Blue and White's football pluy from making thelr distance when it necessary, Coach Morley, who has been of this opinion, yesterday ga’ his ideas @ thorough trial with satia- factory results, The scrub line was presented @ combination that looked quite aa good as the regular team. Wolcott, a sturdy veteran from the in |at Columbia this year, ahd’ Heing, Seriangs * 0.67, | dis freshman, were the tackles, Sedgq- ‘ucker, wick, who served bis apgtenticeahip ELLOR— Five lurlohgs ‘0 } jest fall, and Boyle, of ‘varsity crew, were guards, with*#am Smythe an contre, To break through this combination gains are not usval, Frambach, who fa better at bucking the line than at golng around the ends, was not out ‘on the field, being busied with exem- geta aamalicar. He sees nome one pass him on the road and ouivin CROMWE: Five furlongs | ination, With him at one nalf-back’s longs for something faster. When a modern motorcar crank has a sisty-| trainer’ ee! MH MoCormick, | oiacy ang Duell or Metsenthia ‘et the horee,car he js never eatisfied until he gets rid of it and " aan Px ix Eustonge, in 1.1% hand-|other, Columbia will have men who . oe Fiastknmons, tele, can hit the centre hard or sflde round the wing positions with ease. Metsenthin's great forte is as an end runner, and he has Duell beaten @ bit at thie style of play. Line Was Weak, Probably because of the extra strength = |DONLIN BATTING IN SECOND PLACE in Great is Hans Wagner. burger now | the brary 4 wated batting wernnes of League, ‘and’ Cod | and ip base-ru ta are two points ational in extra bases over the 30) mark MeGinnity is the Me In winniny from ascor! » py as Ey tore SAAR LACagIESSATESESAaRPSRSEP le Britain and id oa for ry few aspir- found to compete him. Irish champion manne 6 feet 4 hebeht, and In condition | He choat thigh, 22) Inches: ‘and from tip ret arms touchts a tee 8 inches, strengthened in every way possible and, University of Coloradd, who 19 wiigibie | BOKWOOO'S TAL COLUMBIA WILL HAVE A STRONG BACK FIELD 0 required a mighty good lot of balf-| against them, and backs, Time and again Fisher, Metzen: | Fe jow at the middle of the line, where bis | to wee the * \openings end forced the first eteven ‘The Pitt! pmRLiny Sept. atten- | Leulaville, Pg an with “Charley’ record, | th while only elght wen WH aa are hitting of the scrub, or possibly through in- herent weakness, the ‘varsity bine yes- tenday was again a disappointment on the defensive. Morley ts making every effort to get the players to “set” low in the line and to get into the defenad work with spirit, Up to this tme all efforts in this direction have been ia vain, Yesterday the scrub was given the pigskin at the centre of the field at the start of play. For twenty-five yards the scrub backs slammed through big back through the mud and the slippery going, apparently bent on @ touchdown. A fumble and « blocked attempt to circle Mulr’s end forced the scrub to "klok, Then the ‘varsity attack made its real strength manifest, The rain poured down and soaked the players to the skin, could not hala the cha Fisher was ‘able, to the leather over bid the ret toner the ‘varsity took the bal > iS "9 ard, and Duell -{utual luncheor to the mem! terted a hospital list in a ick was the first , He Kid jooking about for something faster. |wavhichesimgns Walner.’ 5) | thin, Duell and Putnam were put at Then the automubile, or motor-car, appeared. breeaing: C. H. Hughes, trainer, || the task, and they showed they werw The slow pld bike has been relegated to the attle, ibe yt ib LAD six furlongs i122] equal to the work. have to put all Every man with thirty cents in hie bank account talks about buying NUT F ULANGKiae whe tur turang ge in Lut, Late’ paige ayisks Rigeespho mg. out he or & motor-ear, So far, automobiling is the sport of the millionaire, for| R. Wo JON NBON Five turlegs ta 104 ]is eight successive tries, all directed ee ee! Sedge laced on od had its ¢ the fleld with Putnam got 4 bad and bled Brotisely, 4 gore presen ie teen out for a momen’ nt one jadbed pe in the tor hott * Eoting to for more. * phe ‘a continues to increase in wonderfil way. in Brown, regu: lar eee je last tall, came out y terday old ‘varalty “ine, ana a RULED OFF IN GERMAN rege preeers arr Van Dusen, alap an American jockey, CHICAGO rae = a: Decal || not Oe Oip af \ See is TH THING For, US Now, GREAT RACING AT With Anna Little and Princess Pique ted in the race for the championship ovp at Empire Track, and with the added entry of Wilton Boy, the contest at Toursday afternoon's matinee is exe Pected to be a scorcher h trotter has won in about 2.123, and nf the trie meet Thursday, the winner Will surely lgwer his mark. Ten other races are on the nrogramme or which more than forty horses have been entero. The first race will be called at Lu P.M The final m. tinee of the season will |e held on Ssturday, Oct. 1, when tue and the ARROW QUARTER S/LE Fe Beatties New York's Master Specialist. DesL.R Williams,' 4, 94th Se Dr. GREY Years a Specialist ih as ee CRS ues soning, 8, Vi, Uleers, Reiont or lain pred NervousDebitity, npaire rare gen Vari le Permanently cured wa hia Wasting Weakness ate td om Kidney & Bladder {7ypiginws ures Seatac ere 2 hel, Sore * Sita HITE. 17tha, Newt Won FRED MEDICINE. Bod *"™ —————sS OLD DR. GRINDLE, 0 THARS 1 a ot Sere one Berenrees 171 over “aT St, THE EMPIRE TRACK, ‘ ~