WAGON FASTER THAN SULKY Speed Tccts of Season Show This to Bo the Truth NothIng could have better shown theo the-o ltnce that amntcurctlrlvlns has made In the last year1 than the contests that have been put up thin Benson by thc three trotter which have competed for the valuable cuts offered for the free forall trotlcrfvwhon driven bynon Zirofcsslonal I relnsmeii i The Cleveland victory of lV A Mc Kcrron which was signalized by two heals In L07li and 203 ovr n irnpir that wax at least a second slow I and i the further fact that he beat two of the best wagon performers nf the year lip to that time In Lord Derby and The Monk wan a brilliant one but his performance was fully oqilalcd over the fast Empire City track when The Monk and Derby fought a throeheat duel In COG 1L 1 LOG 2W u0 naL named borne winning the opening bent by u slight margin only These heats arc the fast cat three consecutive mlk ever trotted trot-ted to wugon and would be topnotch ers 1C I done lo sulky with professional drivers Derby for the third time this season beat his tuif record of last year 2OG 12 when Gccrs was at the helm The Monks mile 20012 dilven by Mr 1 Billings Is but thricrimrterfs of a second slower than Geers has been able to accomplish with the ix > n of Chimes to sulky All Ibis goes to show two things that for nearly all horses the pneumatic pneu-matic lire nOim IK us fast uij hc sulky often faster and that lie nnmlpur drivers oC the best class have nothing to learn from the professional when It comes lo negotiating a fast and well rated mile Mr Smathi has taken Lord Darby to the halfmile pole In 10112 In one of his wngon races while the best Goers could do with till horse In his harness contests lust your was a half In about 103 12 and his fastest quarter In a lace up to the close of 1901 was 033 Mr Billings takes 1 The Monk right from the Geers stable I and steps him In 20012 In n winning heat while Mr Devercux had McKcr ron In shape to go a couple of miles around the same notch sU Cleveland had thai rate of speed been necessary to the winning ol the cup I That the wagon Is faster than the sulky for the average trotter is I now pretty well recognized by horsemen although al-though It WItH hard to cionvlncn some of them that such could be the case their argument beIng that It wan certainly cer-tainly a handicap to pull a fourwheel vehicle rather than one with but two wheels JoI On the face of things that would seem lo be true but certain condlllona existing when a trotter Is I hitched to a sulky and that have a tendency lo diminish di-minish his freedom of acjlou and consequently his speed arc eliminated when the wagon 13 used With the modern turf haniess which him 1 minus tugs a greatly Increased pr ssure in of necessity used on the girth ihd 1 the horse Is I practically cinched to the uulky Any one who will watch the harnessing of a trollcr for a nice or workout will see that thin Is true The result IP I that In addition to having the whole rlr strapped 19 him in nn uncomfortably un-comfortably tight manner the horse once he Is I In action receives all the motion of tIme man and the sulky and wllh every stride he Is compelled lo In some way overcome this Anolher chI netcrlstlc of the sulky hllch h J Hint with the advent of the pneumatic Ijre cnmc the practice of tilting the shafts of Iho bulky to such an angle as will offer Hie least iefllslancc lo lie forward progress of the vehicle and Its human load The man silting In a sulky tilled lo this angle would were jie not hangIng hang-Ing lo the lines fall out the mlnule the horse started and It Is only by bending his body far forward Unit he lan alt In the sulky when the horse Is at rest I It Is therefore a certainty that with the t ordinary modern liarmsp hllch for racing the man takes much more bold of the horse than as a rule Is good for the animal That his freedom of movement move-ment IH lrasenod Is 1 certain and this must mean a decreased speed from that which would he attained were his action ac-tion unrestrained When the milky Js exchanged for the wagon the first benefit ben-efit Is 1 llmt lie wind nnMstance In materially ma-terially lessened by the fact that the driver Ir much lower than when mounted mount-ed In tho sulky Then romep the still more Important act that with the wago nhltcb tho driver IH onabled to sit In a natural position and In not obliged to take hold of till horse In order to manila his equilibrium Also be Is I In a nosllion to assist bin hors at all times and this means a lot loa lo-a tIred trotter at the end of a fast mile Tbo distribution of the combined weight of the vehicle and driver Is also a matter mat-ter of vital Importance Win the sulky ihi I weight I IH lied In a hunch HO to apeak and then strnpnoil lo the horse In about the worst yowlhle manner for him So far ns speed making is concerned con-cerned In the cane of the wagon It I Is to begin distributed much more I evenly an dcqultably by means of the 1 I our wheels than could be possibly bp done with only two The result of hid Is especially notIceable when it como to drlvjng a horse at top speed arounl a turn In the track When he wnp trained exclusively to sulky Lord Derby was practically certain to innkf a break If I an effort to drive him the fIrst quarter hotter than 33 seconds was made whereas ns oon as he was worked to a wagon and had become ne I uustoniud to the new hitch ho could 1 step to the quarter In 111 seconds and I has not made a break In that part of I the mile this year I The fact that during the Inst three yearn hundreds of trotters and pacers that had nuule the best records of which they were capable when hitched to a sulky and raced professionally reduced re-duced those records materially after they were purchased by amateur reins men for matinee purposes and were I driven only to wagon wns the strongest strong-est argument that I could be made as showing that the wagon Is factor than the utility Two years ago Tho Abbot pulled a wagon one day In 2031i over a track not npclaly prepared for speed work and with twenty other horses and a couple of harrows which be pulled out for at work That The Abbot Ab-bot could have done a mile that day In 20311 If bitched to sulky no on familiar with the horse believes Like other trotters ho found that with the wagon behind him the resistance was not nearly So gveat as with a sulky and the driver knew hint the horse could be turned loose with far loss chance of a break than If lie had been in front of a twowheel vehicle Nothing In the light harness world this neason has created and maintained the Interest that has been shown regarding re-garding the cup races with amateur drivers up of the three great Irottorfl The Monk Lord Derby and 3 A Mc TCerron To begin with It la a fact that even In professional racing no such trio of trotters was over on the turf In one season taking part In I clasii races Soar So-ar as the professional trotting turf of 1002 Is conccrned thorn was not another I an-other liotter thai compared with The Monk l or Lord Derby In the ability togo to-go cither < i race of heals or one mile at a high rate of speed Cresceus not being considered an he Is purely an exhibition ex-hibition borpo and not Eligible to class races Without going Inlo a resume of what each of those boiscs has done since the campaign opened It may he said that Lord Derby driven by an am alour has trotted u mile In 205i and repealed In 20C1 On another occa I slon and under like circumstances he I stepped a heat In 206 all of these performances per-formances being bet or than his track recoid In the handy of a piofesslonnl which Is 206A The Monk ban trotted In 2oiJi and 0611 In u race to sulky bealfng Lord Derby while lo wagon driven by I his owner his mark Is 2OGl ll J 1 A McKrrron won the Boston trophy from The Monk and Derby In 207 nnd 2OS but it Is only fair to the first mentioned men-tioned horse to state that he wns Car from his true form on the t day of the race as he vas Just pu loft the cars after a tiresome shipment of seventy hours and manifestly unlit to do himself him-self Justice Since lie Clcvoland race McKurron has trotted A milo against time I over the same track in 201 so that technically his record to agon driven by an amateur Is the same as that of Tho Monk and half a second slower than the heft mile of Lord Derby Der-by under like conditions Ills mile against time however cannot be ad mlllcd as equal lo those made by the other horses In a race hut the fact that he defeated The Monk and Derby on thc only occasion when the trio met off ltf Ibis lo a degree and leaves the quesllon oC which Is really the best trotter of the three all the conditions being equal a puzzling and unsettled onto ontoIt It was hoped that a final elllemcnt of the matter would be had In the race for the splendid gold cup given by the Memphis track to he trolled for at the meeting there the last week In October but after giving the matter a good deal of consideration Mr Devereiix the I owner of MeKcrron has decided not to start his horse again this season Mc Kcrron present turf record Is only 210 and were he to win a heal In time race for the Memphis cup he would be penalized with a mark equal lo whatever what-ever time the mile was trotted In on account of the fact that the race will take place during It regular meeting gale money being taken In whereas at Cleveland where he trolled In 207U admission to the grounds was free The Monk and Derby on the contrary have turf records of 2053i and 2OGU respectively re-spectively so thai they arc already in about the fastest class that is made frvr trotters on the grand circuit while McKerron will be eligible In 1003 lo all the 210 and under slakes and It Is the present intention to enter him cx lenslvoly next year But even with McKerron in the barn the Memphis cup race will be the feature fea-ture of the year In amateur trotting circles The trophy Is by far the most valuable of its kind ever offered for competition for trotters driven by amateurs ama-teurs and should The Monk and Derby come to the post In perfect form there Is every chance Unit the winner will beat the I present wagon record for amateurs ama-teurs of 2OFi31 In the recent races over the Empire City track between these two horses The Monk won the opening heat In 2 OG and then was just beaten by Lord Derby In 20G In the third heat both homes were going at a faster clip tliau had previously been I attained when The Monk lost a shoe Ihls caused him to break but after falling so far behind Unit the loss of the heat and race was evident he again struck a trot and according to the evidence of some of the best posted men on the trolling turf showed more speed for the remainder of the mile than they had ever seen a trotter exhibit ex-hibit to wagon Lord Derbys lead at the finish was only three lengths I and the fad that the mile was In 20G shows what a phenomena rate of speed The Monk must have struck and maintained after his accident and resultant break C W Markf who has owned Joe Palchen 2 OHi and plenty of other fast horses said In refeirlnij to the race I I estimate that after he struck a trot for the last ttiiie The Monk made up close to a sixteenth of a mile of the distance that had heen lost by the break and had the accldcnl of the shoe coming off not have occurred I am positive that whatever horw won that heat would have made a new mark The whole occurrence made me think more of The Monk than ever and had i owned him the way he trolled after losing the shoe would bavu added IL lotto lot-to his value There were a number of biirprlscs In the harness horse world last oek not the least of which was the LofHi performance per-formance of Dan Patch over the Read vlllc track as his effort nt New York the previous week I when he was barely able to go In 2024 did nol presage a brilliant exhibition at lie Hub The fad Is hat Dan Patch had hlu only off clay of the year at the time be was scheduled to negotiate the Empire Em-pire City track and like most stallions of real merll ho Is a horse that recovers recov-ers form quickly That ho will heat the present championship record now that lie has tied It seems more than proba tile but there is always In the way of such achievements the fact that to be successful In tIme attempt against LImo not only that the horse must be on edge but the day and track munt he perfect Memphis during the lost days of October Is an Ideal course for trials against time Lou Houseman on Corbett and Jeff Ties I had a long chat with Jim Corbull yesterday In the course of which tIme ocbamplon dwelt nol a little on hIs promised match with Jim Jeffries JIxl May The match Is clinched as far a a match can be In the absence of signed articles of agreement nnd posted fort It s Corbett was originally down to bor Jeffries this month In San Fran clfico but the champion who was bound only conditionally by hie word asked that the match be deferred This was principally because of a broken nose sustained by Jeffries In hIs fight with 1Mtznlininons bul VnM also due In part at IfAHt to the cry of fake raised lifter the Fltzslmmons fight Corbett has been working methodically all summer sum-mer < it hisj country honu Bay SideLong Side-Long Island The Callfornian bus a benullful place on tin north shore of Long Icland overlooking the Bound The roads arc good and hlllcllmblng In I at hand If he elects that port of work He has an excellentlyequipped gymnasium gym-nasium and handball court and all in all has built for himself an Ideal con dltlonlng place Ills woik has not bet n of the rigorous kind leaning Instead to light oercl > and outdoor work Oorbott feelu confident that he can whip Jeffries He figures and those who sat the fight agree wi Eli him that brv vould have whipped JoffrloM In heir hist battle but for nn accident which came up In lie twentythird round at a stage where ho had Jeffries completely smothered Forced to lho mopes with Jeffries blindly swinging away Corbett was humped back by lie recoil of the upper lope Into Jeffrless swinging right and knocked out This after twentythree rounds of fighting In whlqh Corbett led all the way It Speaking of Corbelt and In connection connec-tion with his fight against Jim Jet fries Joe Cawthoni the comedian tell a rather good story Corhett had been struggling for days with Jim Thornton the monologue arllst In an effort lo get the latter to sign the pledge Thornton was In a pretty bad way and Insisted on Just a few more rounds Jim before he signed the document doc-ument I l I A few more rounds Thornton pro testid Corbott Is what keeps you on these foal Comu along Yes1 relumed Thornton tlryhyltit for those few more rounds you might today be champion of the world Chicago Inter Ocean