HANNIS IN '79. 47 



Murphy, by winning the first heat with Lady Pritch- 

 ard, saved the race for Turner. 



Dan Mace had a bit of sweet revenge the same 

 season when he met Turner and Hannis at Pough- 

 keepsie with Prospero. Before reaching that point 

 Hannis won his engagements at Buffalo, Rochester, 

 and Utica, where he cut his record to 2:21 in a race 

 with Sheridan, Lady Pritchard, Roman Chief and W. 

 H. Arnold. At the Hudson River Driving Park, May 

 Bird, Frank, Lady Pritchard and Lady Snell were 

 named to start against the Messenger Duroc gelding 

 and Hannis. Frank picked up the first heat in 2 :20, 

 after which Mace scored twice with Prospero in 

 2:21^2, 2:20. The next heat went to May Bird in 

 2 :22^ and the deciding mile to Prospero in 2 .22. 

 Hannis saved his entrance, but at Hartford the fol- 

 lowing week he turned the tables on the same pair 

 and won in 2 :ig}i. 



After a skip in 1878, his only start that season be- 

 ing in a race with Nettie at Woodbury, N. J., on the 

 Fourth of July, Hannis was in 1879 dropped into the 

 Michigan circuit, where he trotted second to Proteine 

 at Jackson, Saginaw and Toledo. After winning at 

 Cincinnati and Louisville he was pointed for the "big 

 ring" but failed to make good as on the trip down 

 the line he was third to Bonesetter at Chicago, un- 

 placed to Darby at Buffalo, third to Bonesetter at 

 Rochester and third to Darby at Utica. After a 

 month's let-up Hannis won over Steve Maxwell and 

 Emma B. at Mystic Park, Boston, and divided the 

 purse with Driver and Dick Swiveller in an un- 

 finished race at Beacon Park. He also won a stallion 

 race from Thorndale at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, de- 



