People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1894 — Robert J's New Record. [ARTICLE]

Robert J's New Record.

Terre Haute, Ind., Sept. 18.—Friday was the greatest record-breaking day ever recorded for any track. Robert J. paced a mile in 2:olX,smashing the world’s record, which he made himself at Indianapolis. Carbonate lowered the 2-year-old pacing record from 2:10 to 2:09. John R. Gentry made the stallion record for pacers 2:o3>i, making the mark in a race. Directly tied Carbonate’s record of 2:10 for 2-year-old pacers made earlier in the week. Joe Patchen paced the mile in 2:04, beating the stallion record of 2:Cs’i, which had been held good until earlier in the day, when Gentry set the new mark, and "Sweet Little” Alix trotted a mile in 2:04b,. William Schrader, treasurer of the Liedertafel, of Akron, 0., was arrested on a charge of embezzling several hundred dollars of the society's funds.