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JOHN R. GENTRY--Pacing Champion—2:o3 3 4.
Owners, Holt & Scott, Burlington, N. C. Driver, M. E. McHenry.
KINGS OF THE TURF
THE GREAT PACING RICE BE
TWEES JOHN it. GENTRY
AND JOE PATCIIEN.
ON THE CHICAGO TRACK TO-DAY.
The North Carolina Pacer from the
Alamance Farm will Take the Meas
ure ot the Stout Black Son of"l’atchen
\\ ilkee--Both the Tar Heel aud the
Kansas Horse are in Good Shape, and
it will be a Race Such as the World
has Never Before Seen.
Saturday at Sheepshead track in New
York the great Futurity race will be
pulled off with about thirty entries; but
to-day will be perhaps the greatest day
in turf circles. The Northwestern Breed
ers' association of Chicago have slated for
to day a race between the world’s two
greatest pacing stallions, Jonn R. Gentry
and Joe Patchen, and the drivers of the
two horses promise that it will be a great
race and that the pacing record will be
f cratched.
On the track at Washington Park,
races which have attracted the atten
tion of the whole racing world have
been pulled off, but yet the track is Dot i
one on which low records have been
made, and is, when in its best condition,
considered several seconds slow when
compared to the Freeport and Terre
Haute tracks.
John K. Gentry.
John R. Gentry, 2:03 3 4, the king of
all the pacing stallions of the world, has
his home at L. Banks Holt’s Alamance
farm,in North Carolina,and is owned by
L. Banks Holt and J. F. Scott. He is
a handsome bay stallion, perfectly
formed, gentle and kind, every inch an
aristocrat, with the courage of a lion
and the speed of a cyclone. At three
years old, in the campaign of’92, he ;
won every race in which he started—all
except one against aged horses. He re-!
tired with a record of 2:13.
Last year, 1894, he went into the
grand circuit. At Detroit he won three j
straight heats against Vassar 2:07, j
Moonstone 2:09 12, Seal 2:08 34, and
nine others At Terre Haute he jogged
out a three straight heat victory. At
Indianapolis he w ju a great race, and at
Terre Haute met aud conquered the great
Hal Bradin, pacing the third heat in
2:08 3-4 the fastest mile ever paced by a
stallion.
At Nashville he met Robt. J , the
whirl-wind of pacing geldings in the now
famous dead heat of 2:04, which five
thousand people who were present de
clared should have been given to the
famous North Carolina stallion.
Gentry is entered on the grand circuit
thisyear, and his campaigner and driver,
Mr M. H. McHenry, and about one half
the balance of the world are looking for
a two minute mark if such a record be
necessary to make him king of all pacers.
On July 24 h, at Freeport, 111 , he met
Joe Patchen in his first arid only race of
the season, and carried away the scalp
of his antagonist, making the first half
of the first heat in 59 1 2 sec >nds the
fastest half-mile ever paced in put lie.
He has not been against his record this
year, but McHenry has him in as fine
condition as the stallion has ever known.
Gentry is the head of the Alamance
L BANKS HOLT.
farm and is an honor not only to North
Carolina, but to the world.
Joe Patchen’s Record.
Joe Patchen, the big black Kansas
pacing stallion, owned by Col. J. Taylor,
of St. Louis, that has twice beaten Rob
ert J., has Jhad a remarkable career. His
first race, in 1893, he won over a big
field and made a record of 2:19 1-4 in a
third heat. Then catarrhal fever at
tacked him and practically laid him up
for the balance of the season. June Ist,
1894, he was taken out of the stud and
on July 12th won the 2:15 pace at Dav
enport, la., in straight heats,- cutting
his record to 2:12. Five days after he
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JOE PATCHEN—Pacer-.2:04.
Owner, J. G. Taylor, Chebanse, 111 Driver, Jack Curry.
defeated a field ot sixteen in the 2:18
class at Detroit, pacing his fastest heat
in 2:13 1 4 He was next at Cleveland,
where he won the 2:20 class in straight
heats, twelve others starting, and his
time was 2:11 34, 2:10 14, 2:10. At
Buffalo, August 1, he won the2:2o class,
also in straight heats, in 2:12, 2:12,
2:11 3-4, and had a good field to beau
August 11th, at the same meeting, be
beat John R. Gentry, Moonstone and
Lucile 11. in straight heats in 2:09 3-4,
2:09 14, 2:09 14. Maybe that was not
a race! Over a track hammered for
years and years by horses’ feet and not
a-* fast as a great many, either. At
Terre Haute, August Hitb, he bowled
over Rubinstein and four others in
ihe 3:20 class in 2:06 1-4, 2:(6,
2:09 14. At Chicago he had tne
ii:s‘ of his series of duels with the
gelding Robert J., and wr.s beattn.
August 30, at Fort Wayne, he laid ou t
Direction, Nydia, Morelia arid
in the 2:18 class, going the last heat, to
give the people a sample of his quality,
The News and Observer. Thursdav. Aug. 22, *O-;.
in 2:06. He was next at Indianapolis,
where he paced the second match with
Robert J. The geldine won again, but
had no walkover. In the first heat Joe
was beaten a nose in 2:03 3 4, coming
the last half in 1:0114 The second
heat was won by Robert in 2:02 1-2,
with Joe right on him. In the third
heat Joe was beaten a neck in 2:4 34.
In these three heats, the fastest on rec
ord, Joe Patchen kept at his work
steadily, while the gelding made a few
jumps. At Terre Haute, in an easy
mile to beat 2:05 1-4, he paced 2:04.
Joe’s next race was at Galesburg, in the
2:16 class, where he beat Frank Agan
and three others in hollow style. At
Davenport and Sioux City he came out
second best in his contests with Robert
J., and beat Strathherry at Dcs Moines.
He then went to Texas. At Dallas he
paced in 2:11, beating the State record
of 2:12 3 4 made in 1893 by Lena Hill.
At Taylor he turned the half mile track
in 2:09. At San Antonio, the next
week, he lowered the world’s half mile
track record for pacers to 2:08. At
Houston he beat Kansas in a best-two
in-three match in 2:11 3 4, 2:07, and at
Dallas, December 8 defeated Ryland T.
in a match in 2:12 12, 2:16, 3:09.
Patchen has been in four races this
season, defeating Robert J, 2:01 1-2, the
champion gelding pacer, in three races,
but July 24th Using his scalp to John R.
Gentry at Freefort in the fourth race.
Betting is even with an occasional 5
to 4 in favor of Patchen, and every man
thinks he can name the winner, but “it
is always the unexpected that happens.”
What the outcome of the contest will be
it is idle to predict or even guess. But
certain it is, that in all the senses of the
word it will be a race for the champion
ship, and a race such as the world has
never before seen.
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A HITCH IN TIIE APPOINTMENT.
Bui Ransoms Friends Expect That
it Will Be Made This Week.
Special to tlie News and Observer.
Washington, D. 0., Aug. 21.
Senator Ransom's friends here expect
that he will receive his re appointment
as Minister to Mexico this week, proba
bly tomorrow. To day’s papers spoke of
a hitch in the way of the appointment,
s»ill Senator Ransom’s friends are con
fident.
The memorial addresses on the late
S nitor |V*nce will be out next
week.lf They will te in one volt.me,
nicely bound.
Mrs. W. (\ Randall, who has been on
a three months’visit to her husband in
Paris, has returned to Washington. Mr.
Randall has in his studio a life size por
trait of the late Senator Vance.
The President to day appointed J. S.
Hunt postmaster at Oxford. *
Hon. Kerr Craig has gone to North
Carolina to spend a few days with his
family. He will then go to Atlanta to
attend a meetiig of the government
board that have departmental exhibits
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Arrivals.
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