Show CHARLES CHARIES TAYLOR OLDEST DRIVER R IN h 5 COUNTRY WANTS TO HANDLE LOU DILLON An A 11 nd remarkable lc figure fi 1 on New Nev N w England trotting tracKs this I 1 season is i Charles Taylor a veteran of I the sulky milky who will soon be bo old He Ho has hag been b cl driving races not ex exactly C Cachy I achy ac lb slime since because bee there were I 10 trotting raco ln which widel to drive Jre drive in I Y s but ever wr since names rac racing I lug ing became an c sport mort lie has bun boe Un 11 on oj tIme the courses i 1 0 New Nei West Western t ern Massachusetts M Ho to is certainly Cf Il the tho driver in native Q orv 1 ive lye and is doubtless the oldest that ever livid U hIv tL Born on o lIce Pec 28 1806 Taylor Tayl r was liv living j ing lag when whon three minutes was first beat beaten en cn by the trotter on ni the old k near r Mount Morris in lii I and he le has ha survived to so Lou ou Dillon n I with wiLl the aid of a wind shield set the time II trotting record below the tw mark Though now within a 0 few Cew months o of being a centenarian he says aaY I he would like to drive th the queen of or trotters to beat hc her record and those who know the tho wonderful horseman believe bellec he could make malta her or stop ste about as fast as anybody an bod I Who When 1 89 years old Taylor Ia lol campaigned cump i ithe the gray trotter Factory Boy BO and und j drove him him to a record of or 4 At 07 97 he Ite made an extended d campaign n with I Ithe Ithe the tho bay pacer Robert B n on Ver Ter VerI j I mont moat and New Hampshire tracks start starting j jing ing him in the fre class elas and j I I asking no odds ot or anybody 1 At Bradford N H IL Hoo on onU Aug 2 20 r rho l f ho won the tue cra a U nt rn t in h straight heats beating the Lh noted pacer Reid Roli f Patchen and md several others Ten da day a later he was at nt tt Windsor Vt wh lC S Robert B R had to o be content with sr se amid ond money motley in the race won ao aoby 0 by b Kitty KU Wilkes In Iii September he won uon WOI second con t mony mon again in tim tho at Woodstock tock Vf y und amid ut d t l VU Vt he won on first money monc in the thin race beating three other pacers of or iv nut Tho The race that Taylor likes lIko to t I about howver r took place at Greet field N 11 H II on Sept 10 ID in this cam earn campaign pal n It was ono one of or tile me hardest fought contests of o the your yonI on omi Nei Ke England tracks lasting two days and tuu requiring seven heats houts to decide th award of the money monE Taylor drove to tl win from first to last Jast and und In eClY heat but one Robert B was either first nr t or m second ond At the tha end ond of ot the second da du day s i battle the indomitable old man tuna and I 1 Ic s horse vre w re declared the tho winners great excitement B having taken the thc seventh heat boat in faster factor tim than was made m d In imi tho the first heat when th horses wore fresh on the first day of the race This campaign was waa the lust last In which Taylor risked his driving again pacers p cers on the roughest loughe t of at half hal mile track Since Sineo 1902 1002 ho has been con content content content tent to rest real ost on his laurels as the oldest race driver in the world and start Rob nob Robert Robert ert crt B n against time at the county fair Ilir |