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Show Old! I BEATS old m urn Pop Geers Drives Napoleon Direct to Fast Win; Does Mile in 1:59 3-4. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 16. Free-for-all pacing of the Columbus Grand circuit meeting this afternoon produced the fastest fast-est racing time of the year. In the first heat Napoleon Direct won in l:5f)34, with Peter Stevens, the becond horse, doing his mile in li:00 flat. It was the first time in a driving career of forty-five years that Hdward Ccrs ever rode a mile in better than two minutes. In the next beat tiie pace was slower through the first half and Napoleon Direct was four lengths back at the far turn. He closed with a wonderful rush and finished a head in front, of Single G. Separate timing tim-ing caught Napoleon Direct the last half in :56. In, a time trial Directum I became! the world's champion pacer for one and one-sixteenth miles. The old reenrd was , ' 2:143i, made in J'H by Oeery Lass. Or'f to a slow start. Directum 1 did the dis-I dis-I tance in 2:0y-f.i. The last mile was paced in 2:00i.i. Miss Harris M., t lie ihampion four-year-old pacing mare, failed in an effort to lower her mark of L':uJ :4. She was tired when the final quarter was commenced com-menced and finished tiie mile in '2:02. Napoleon Direct was one of three wln-i wln-i ning favorites. In the 2:01) pace the sec- ond choice, Deth Clarke, won the first t two heats. Thereafter Baby Bert ha, 1 highest in public favor, was in command com-mand and took the next three heats. The Kno, as expected, won the trot in straight heats. li the first one he was but a head in front of McOloskey an.l cut his record to 2:Mi in keeping ; clear of the field in 1 lie second mile. Early Don, Valentine's first winner of the -meeting, captured all three heats of the Devereaux stake, tor which Brisac of the Murphy stable was favored. Early Don equaled his record of 2 :0t '4 in the first heat a nd was not so hard pressed in ei titer of the next two. Devereaux Blake, 2:15 trotters, throe heats, P'jrse I20i'0: I Early Don, sorrel gelding, by Don Cole (Valentine) (Val-entine) j j j Brisac, brown stallion (Murphy) 2 2 2 Lu Princeton, bay tmr.-c (Cos) 3 4 3 Regardless, bay s: itiion ( Hendrick) 4 3 4 Time. 2:0fi 1-1; .MC; 2:07 1-4. 1 Free-for-all clai-y pauug, two In three, purse Sir.M; Napoleon Direct, chestnut horse, by Walter Direct (Clears) 1 Peter Stevens, buy horse (Murphy) 2 3 Single G., bay house ((ioiumI) 4 2 Hal Roy. hay gelding (McMahon) 3 4 . Time, I :.S 3-4; 2:01 1-2. 2:09 class, pacing, three in five, purse J1000; Baby Bei-ilia, bay mare, by Silk Cord (tiarrison) $ 2 111 Bi-th Clark, black mare, by Joe Patch-en Patch-en (Iledrlrk) 1 14 7 2 Bingen Pointer, bay gelding (Snow). .5 4 5 2 3 Also started : Black Bell, black horse (Valen- toue); Van Burn, chesfmit gilding (Van Atta) ; Hal Plex E.. brown sralllon (fieers). Time, 2:05 1-4; 2:04 1-4; 2:04 1-4; 2:07 1-4; 2:03 3-4. 2:11 class, trotting, (hree in five, purse S1000: The Eno, chestnut horse, by The Native (Valentine) 1 1 1 Hum fast, bay mare f Murphy) 3 2 2 McCioskey. brown geMini; (McDonald) 2 3 3 Also started: San Fllipe, bay gelding (Daniels); Harry Hamilton, bay horse (Whitehead). Time. 2:09 1-4: 2:06 3-4; 2:08 1-2. To beat 2:14 3-4, pacing, at ono and one-sixteenth miles: Directum I. chestnut stallion, by Directum Kelly (Murphy), won. Time. 2:09 3-4. To beat 2:01 1-4. pacing: Miss Hnrris M. , bay mare, by Peter The Great (McDonald), lost. Time. 2:02. j |