. The driving clubs of greater Boston .. . GENERAL, 2:31 1-4 Defeated Major Dillard at Combination Park" and a Star Field of Trotters at Rockdale Park in Interclub Meet. Owned and Driven by Levi S. Lord ters. General, owned and driven by Levi Lord, defeated a crack field of starters, while an- other race that kept the crowd on tiptoes un- til the winner was announced was Croesus de- feating Crown Prince, the third and final heat being in the fast time of i '.oy. The interclub series now moved to the Wakefield-Reading track, the home of the Quannapowitt Club, the meeting being held on Augu
. The driving clubs of greater Boston .. . GENERAL, 2:31 1-4 Defeated Major Dillard at Combination Park" and a Star Field of Trotters at Rockdale Park in Interclub Meet. Owned and Driven by Levi S. Lord ters. General, owned and driven by Levi Lord, defeated a crack field of starters, while an- other race that kept the crowd on tiptoes un- til the winner was announced was Croesus de- feating Crown Prince, the third and final heat being in the fast time of i '.oy. The interclub series now moved to the Wakefield-Reading track, the home of the Quannapowitt Club, the meeting being held on August 21. A peculiar feature of this occa- sion was that thirty minutes before the first race was called there was a mere handful of people in the grandstand, and when the word was given for the first heat of the afternoon, not a seat could be found for those who were tardy in arriving, so quickly had the grandstand filled to overflowing. Showing how evenly matched the horses were, Dor- chester scored the most points of the after- noon by three points over Fellsway, while the latter was only two ahead of Lynn, thus only five points between these three clubs. The big race was between Reliance and Directumwood. The meeting between the two at Lynn had aroused a lot of feeling between the admirers of each of the fast pacers. The first heat both raced head and head the entire half-mile, and were so closely aligned at the wire that the judges could not separate them and were obliged to announce a dead heat, the time being 1104 3-4. The second heat looked like a repetition of the first to the quarter, but at this point Reliance moved out in front and won by a couple of lengths in the same time as the first heat. The last trip Reliance led all the way, winning handily in I :o3 1-2, which lowered the track record i 3-4 seconds, held by Al Ray. Dorchester was successful in Class H, for trotters, Harry C. Thayer taking the event with Altro L., the first heat in 1109 1-2, while another intere
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