| Show CRESCEUS MARk STAND Stallions Alleged Mile 1 In at Wichita to be Re it Has Been Investigated Tm Will WillBe Be Excluded d from the Records Henry Ten Eyck White hite in Tribune x It may be considered as practically settled that the alleged record of 1 1 S made by the champion stallion at Wichita Kan Ken on Oct U 1 will not be accepted by either the American Am rican Trotting association of 1 which bleh the Wichita track is a member or the American Trotting Register as s whose board is zi the tae final arbiter in nil all matters of f records record made or alleged to have hay been I made by l y animals whose performance if accept accepted t ted ed would make them standard or 01 that I are already ar In Ira the register by virtue of previous performances I The T story of the now notorious mile mite I of Cresceus Crt u at Wichita Is Ia an aa interesting one Briefly the facts fa t are aN these Cresceus during d the height of the trotting season had bad net DM n shown the tb ability to trot a silO mile track bette bett r than t OC He had been barnstorming in tD Inthe the west over OYe rings On Oct Get 2 I Cresceus C trotted the Wichita track tra in JU bat but the t course was reported slow from rain Over the rings rt he be was WM not better than a n horse dad and this tA would indicate that about Sift 2101 1 would hold hit hint hi on a mile track On Saturday Oct yi 17 was back at Wichita again agai and aDd started to beat his twomile record He did the distance in but again II the track was wag admittedly slow Right then a trial at one o tails mile was wu arranged for the tat fol following lowing Monday and nail then Creus trotted a mile that was wag announced as no 1 But the tIN entire nUN performance baa a queer look m h School Boy as u Timer TImerA Aside A from trona the incredible speed de do developed eloped by y the tb stallion between Satur Saturday saturday Saturday day and Monday there are an other facts of great reat interest The Tb mn men m who officiated as tuners timera of the t e 1 Ht perform performance performance ance were ere A C Jordan of Lyons Kid Kan who has acted as an starter at various meetings Fred Stearns a resident of Wichita a railroad conductor and H HT HT HT T Barnes Eames a young man attending high blab school at Wichita Not one of these men who were se so selected as timers had bad a stopwatch and th thi Inference Is te inevitable that they were not particularly hUar rai with th use of such a timepiece The watches were handed fo o the tim timers timers timera ers era by officiate of C the race ra track and they timed Cresceus in 10 l 1 iHl Mt But other watches in the of et men la In the Ute crowd who owned them th and Who were presumably more expert ert ertha in la their t use UM than were the official USa tim timers ers era who WAo did sot not have ban any dY stop atop watches did not make the Crescens mile m in mor 1 or anywhere near that figure figaro They TIMy registered alt the way wali front from 04 I Ito to SM Among Amo the outsiders who timed the mile mite George Peels is Ie b quoted by the Chicago Horseman which sent ROt senta sOnta ROtto a man mami to investigate the performance per i as saying that his watch W registered 2054 Charles a jeweler is 11 1 reported AS having timed l tl tid te e mull mile mullIn in 20 Oi Afterwards he M tested his him watch and found it ran correctly co It ItIs ItIs Is III learned from tram persons familiar with the whole matter that plenty pie of or out outside outside side watches wah showed around J L i Fr Fear Business Bum B That But nearly every e ry one of the men en Who Wao timed Umed the mile much slower e than U It was u given veD out has baa declined to make affidavit to the fact tact when asked uke to do 40 doso doso so eo Several of them admit having told what their watches showed but will not flot swear wear to the fact because they said it would hurt them in a business but way In lit Wichita and one ODe man m Is ii un an understood to have already felt the tM effects ef of feats of ot a boycott because he talked too freely treely Local pride stands la ia the way of securing legal proof erf DC what everybody believes to he M true hut hot while this t may 7 work in Wichita it will b bof be beat of at no avail avaU elsewhere and the tile alleged record is certain to be rejected as stated above Secretary William H Knight of the American Trotting Trot o read of the wonderful mile m e on oat Tuesday and that night he started for Wichita to investigate Mr JIb Knight stayed two days in the Kansas town towa but wt what he learned leanse will not be known DOwn until it is revealed to the other officials of the American Amert an Trotting association Cud and ad the American Register Re association Mr I Knight said Iel yesterday that at present I it would be manifestly improper for I him to discuss the matter I Secretary Knight ht Go Goes to Wichita 1 11 I went to tc Wichita mel ta he be continued to investigate the record rd said eald to I have been made by cresceus because I it was waa publicly questioned There was no denying that Doubts as to any I such mile having been trotted were voiced and aDd the sentiment was in the theair theair air Under tinder such circumstances I felt I it was due to the horse horae interests In ere ts of 1 the country that the matter should be I looked into by the American Trotting association and the Trotting Register association as It is 18 to come corne up for tor record I may say that so far as aa the judges book of the tM Wichita track Is Ia concerned it shows that the mile mUe was trotted as sent out oat and Dd to that extent the track is la sponsor P for the t e performance perform ance amace It is III the first Arst duty of the Ameri Amen American American can Trotting association aa to protect and uphold the tracks in tn Its membership mem when they are are right tight and ana the tIle horses are performing over ever those tracks but buton buton buton on the other r hand haDd it is Ia a duty to see Bee that nothing that will reflect 04 og 0 the integrity Inte of the sport aport shall go I longed Warned by Veteran Driver ItY Now that two o separate te tuve o have been made and aDd another one is ta taUD UD to ix be under UDder way wat ws there Is Ia Iano no chance that ut the tAe whole matter will n not DOt be torn up and already of tl the eventful Kansas Kao day are being t told ld b but the men who tell teil them for on one r am son Sod or 01 another do not want t to be n med ced up in what hat they consider a nasty i e of 04 o business One stor story is Ia that a pr n nent driver known all over oer the coun country ti try was In the grand grund stand w when hen b n C trotted and timed him in a about abot 2 06 When he saw ea the time h hug bU out as 15 4 he celled called attention t to the discrepancy and remarked that U It would have left been n better to give gip the th h horse hor credit cradit c t for fer just what hat he be did as aa asla aasa l 1 la sa was a great areat mile anyhow George H Ketcham who owns owr and drives C UtI v Wat viS i In Chicago the theother theother other othet day and called on Secretary Knight to tell teU that om that he h wan was In favor of a full investigation K Ketch Ketcham teh am is l credited bv by the nit Horseman Bornman as assaying assaying saying that he h did not time Crescen Cre t the full mile mite as he hf was ws wa too teG busy catch catching catchIng 1 ing the horse ho after alter a break In the home horn homestretch homeI I stretch to attend to anything else elsei Ii i j Horsemen HI emen will appreciate al re late this explanation Hon tion n res All Ready Beady Another current tal tale is that Cre eu had not gone twenty feet teet past the lr when the board hoard bearing bea rill the futures figures was aa dropped drop into place and the scoffers say uy the board was as all fixed I and ready read to be launched before th thI the I horse ho ever started on Oft his hili mile milt The Horseman says RaY Why was a Cresceus stripped shipped Mj ped all aU the way back from Iowa for r this trial Why W v were eN not certain well known horsemen asked aed Into the stead stand d as timers if it was wa an anticipated that a worlds record re ord was W 8 to tobe tobe be made maM It is not suggested I that hat the officiate of the day w re s se in any different manner than on previous occasions O But the question questions I is s raised Why were they not selected s l dI Two or three who were re asked to act set a u as timers refused one be because because cause caWN his wife was with him In ia the stand and another because he had i t friend tr nd with Mm him Possibly P at the pre previous previous tous meetings prominent men have to act because of similar mo me m tires ives but l ut now say II the doubting l Thom di diet did they refuse because the they J were afraid they would not time as ns fast as some others r |
