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V ADOPTION OF ONE WHEEL SULKY MAY REVOLUTIONIZE RACING AND . SEE NEW WORLD’S RECORDS SETLi^ht Harness Horsemen of Opinion That Pacing and Trotting Marks Will Go by Boards; New Sulky Farther Back Than Present Wheelsand Driver Sits Uprightj With ftie BowlersV ✓THE SUN TAKE LEADBy grabbing two out of the* three games from the imperial Oil last night, the Hun Gleams forged to the top of *‘B“ division of the Commercial howling #laague. XV club won two from the Ketiauc* Machine team. Chapman .provided the best howling of the evening with 526, while PCorrie came through with a nice ^519.The scores were as follows:Sun Gleams—Trudeau ........ 164Chapman ...... 150Carpenter 165Jackson ........ 160Woodman ..... xl21Handicap .. .344181xlll147148144 —195—145 -452526421202— 509xl333235324029964165571S—2409Low score dropped. Imperial Oil Kit son .......... 120Greet ham ..... 180August ...... tf3Quinn .......... isoHandicap . . 13154172147208131281741241339748045451239026 694 562 18.82XY Club -Clark #.......... 160Paterson ........ 168Cooper ......... 148Bal.sdou ........ 158Nome ......... 194I landicap .... 38187151■'1361563s\17016712417616938.175 486 421470619114866Reliance Machine-81844ILight harness horseman are of the ^pinion that the new one-wheel sulky, if generally adopted, is not unlikely to result in the wholesale reduction of trotting and pacing records. A similar result followed the introduction of the bicycle sulky in 1892. At that time there was a drop of four op Jive seconds and the rate of speed has been getting fast***- every season since. The latest innovation also seems destined to make light harness racing safer, since it will do away with locked wheels ami the possihil* ity of a horso putting his foot through the wheel of a competitor.The one-wheel sulky is the invention of If. W. Hannan, owner of Etta Druien and Hope Frisco. One morning last June, whiie Murphy was training his two mares at Syracuse, Mr. Hannan exhibited a rough sketch of this new style of racing vehicle, letter on he made a trip to Marion. Ohio, and placed an order for a sulky to be made from his drawings.Features of WheelIn the new sulky the single wheel is placed ton inches further hack than the two wheels now in use. driver’s seat is over the wheel,.stead of having Ins feet in the rups alongside of the shafts, driver sits erect like a man in a die. The girth and the wheel balance the sulky. It is also impossible for a horse to put his foot in the wheel, while locked wheels will he a tiling of the past if this striking innovation stands the acid test of utility.In tlie evolution of the racing sulky the one-wheel Vehicle premises to he the most interesting development. InTheIn-stir-thesad-
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Brandon Daily Sun
Brandon, Manitoba, CA
Tue, Dec 16, 1924
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