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Cleveland, where he lost a heat to Voltaire, at Hart- 

 ford, where he lost a heat and trotted a dead heat with 

 Bonesetter, and at Beacon Park, Boston, where he 

 went to the front after Bonesetter had had two heats 

 placed to his credit. On the last day of the Beacon 

 Park meeting Driver also started against Hannis and 

 Dick Swiveller in what proved one of the most 

 peculiar races on record. At the finish of the sixth 

 heat, when it went over on account of darkness, the 

 three horses stood equal in the summary, and as the 

 track was in poor condition when they were called 

 on the following day for the deciding mile, the money 

 was divided. The following is the summary, which 

 is a curiosity: 



Boston, Mass., Beacon Park, Sept. 6, 1879. Purse $3,000 — 

 2:18 class trotting. 



A. Goldsmith's b. g. Driver, by Volunteer 22331 1 

 J. E. Turner's ch. s. Hannis, by Mambrino 



Pilot 3 3 1 1 2 2 



J. Golden 's b. g. Dick Swiveller, by Wal- 



kill Chief 1 1 2 2 3 3 



Time — 2:20^, 2:20%, 2:20, 2:22, 2:23^, 2:23^. 



JAMES GOLDSMITH EXPELLED. 



We gentlemen whose chariots roll only upon the four aces 

 are apt to have a wheel out of order. — Cibber. 



After winning the 2 .24 class at Chicago and mak- 

 ing his record of 2:19, Alley was unplaced to Lida 

 Bassett at Cleveland and Rochester. He won again 

 at Hartford from Emma B., Steve Maxwell, Star and 



