Show DAY D Y OF SPEEDY CRESCEUS APPEARS TO HAVE PAST l Hope of the Two Minute Trotters Has Disappeared f for the tile Present Season The grand circuit trotting season just Just closed d has hns brought forth many re reI remarkable re- re I performers In both the trotting and t pa cine divisions notwithstanding ing tho the fact th that t none has appeared with speed peed to wipe out ut the worlds world's records that existed at the beginning of or the season cason Pro Probably abl the greatest speed machine that was wis seen on the turf this season sea sea- son lion Is tho the handsome black pacer Dan Dim Patch who never once suffered defeat deCent and who equalled the worlds world pacing record of oC tO lOVi held by Star Pointer The great flight t of or speed shown b by the black son of ot Joe Patchen In his early trials against time led many to believe bellee that Dan Patch would bo be the champion before beCore the season came to an end nd As It Is h he shares 9 tho the honors with Star Pointer and there Is If still a possible chance for tor him to Improve on this time at MemphIs Memphis Mem tem the latter latte part of ot t the c month where he Is to make his final effort of at the year ear over oyer one of ot the fastest tracks In the world As for tor the trotting record followers of oC lI light ht harm harness racing who have hare figured that the season Reason of ot 1002 would produce the two-minute two trotter are now almost sure of or being disappointed unless some n new W phenomenon In tho the class looms up to view which is g hardly I likely kel Cresceus the greatest trotter the world orld ever er saw w was as one and the last hope of at light-harness light horsemen who pr prophesied the two minute trotter for tor this year ear b t the performances of or the great greM son of or Robert McGregor so 80 far tar this season to s settle In the minds of or class speed observers that he ho has een seen his day and that he will vill never ne again trot In his worlds world's record time It has hos tardy rarely happened that a champion In any class has shown good form torm after the year in which he made his record The great Sunol seemed lIkel likely to clip a a. second two or-two oft off the record of or Maud S. S which stood so man many years calS but I after reducing the mark to 4 over oer n a shaped kite track the game little marc mare retired retired into obscurity I f Anon Arlon the great stallion which clipped some Borne seven se odd seconds off art the two- two year old record was able only to reduce this mark marlc a quarter of or a n second the tle t next se season on What he might have done had he not been retired from the track Is 18 a n Que question Nancy flancy Hanks was never ne heard from after she Rhe reduced the record record rec rec- ord rd to Allx Aix broke down clown BO so far as ns racing purposes es were concerned after clipping a n quarter of a second from Nancy Hanks Hank's figures The Abbot bot went lame the year eal after reducing the record to 2034 Then Then Cresceus lowered the time to 20 and antI then to 4 Now the present ch cham champion m- m pion teems beem to h ha have vc lo lost l hl hI his speed ns nl did his predecessors Last year Cresceus was wag as campaigned front from Ma May 15 11 1901 to January 9 1902 He lIe traveled miles mila over o the country and was worked hard from start to finish He was started lt sixty one times and he Is said ld to have earned over oer for tor his ou ow cr er |