Show tIe turf MATCH HORSE E RAGE t May Be Run For Quarter Mil Championsbip I LOCAL RUNNER ASPIRES U DINA WATTS IS BACKED TO BEAT THE RECORD + J Her Owners Will Wager 81000 That She Can Beat Big Dutch and Lu Watkins the Fastest Two Quarter Hors In the West May Take Place In Salt Lake 4 I the owners of three fast horses which will be at the meet of the Sal Lake association next week can be got asociation together a match race that will likely decide which is the fastest quartermil horse in the world may be arranged These three animals Dina Watts Big Dutch and Lu Watkins are undoubtedly undoubted-ly as fast for the distance as any other three in the country The Evans Bros owners of Dina Watts declared yesterday that they would match their mare against the other two for side bets of 1000 and probably more They seem to have the utmost confidence that their animal can reach the worlds record for a quarter or threeeighths of a mile and they said that they would back her and secure more heavy backing against Big Dutch and Lu Watkins If there is any chance for this race said George Evans yesterday afternoon I will put up a forfeit with The Herald Her-ald to bind a match for 1000 I the owners of Big Dutch and Lu Watkins arrive tomorrow and want to have suqh a race Ill post 100 forfeit I both cannot be found Im willing to mak4 the match with either one of them Fast Ones Coming Big Dutch and Lu Watkins are expected ex-pected toddy They have been racing in Montana Oregon Washington and Idaho and have carried off many purses for they are very swift animals ani-mals They will race at the meet at Agricultural park during next week and they will likely be favorites inmost in-most races in which they enter Both of them are campaigners and have won many races in all parts of the country Big Dutch 7 years Old is an Oregon Ore-gon horse and is a phenomenon for he weighs over 1300 pounds and looks more like a dray horse than a short distance racer He was not bred for racing and he has no long pedigree pedige No one knows his sire or his dam But the story is told of him that one day in Oregon he ran away with a plow and he ran s fast that real racers could not catch him in a cross country chase After that he was put on the track His most famous exploit was the time he ran a quarter in twentytwo seconds on a frozen track in eastern Oregon last December He fias been all though the northwest during the past spring where he has done some won derful work He made three and one half furlongs in 40M > seconds in July of 1898 and the record for four furlongs Is 46 seconds His time for three I eighths of a mile at Anaconda last August was 341 seconds a half second less than the worlds record Lu Watkins Record Lu Watkins 7 years old made a half hal mile In 4915 at Boise City some days ag beating Sea Queen which raced here during the last meet She was I beat by Big Dutch on Friday at Boise in a halfmile but the time was not I given She has made threeeighths of a mile in 3H seconds which is one fourth of a second lower than the record rec-ord Dma Watts is of course well known I for she has been seen on Salt Lake I tracks The Evans Bros who own her maintain that she can step the quarter in 22 seconds though they give no instance in-stance of her having done so On the first day of the recent meet at Agricultural Agri-cultural park she beat Bluesign Ethel Otto Antlmeer and Phil Ward In a quartermile race her time being given I at 24 seconds in each of two heats What Record Is The record for a quarter of a mile is 2114 seconds made by Bob Wade at Butte on Aug 20 1S90 But the time tme has been approached very closely by I Lu Watkins and Big Dutch under un favorable conditions and heavy weights Dma Watts is out to pasture just now said Mr Evans and I would hardly like to put her in such an important im-portant race under two weeks train ing But if we can make a match I I shall have her rpady in that time |