Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1892 — HAL POINTER’S GREAT MILE. [ARTICLE]

HAL POINTER’S GREAT MILE.

• * He Cower* the Facing Record to 2:05 1-4 , »t Chicago.. H ‘ : The world’s pacing record went to smash lit Chicago on tho 19th. Old Johnston, who paced his mile in 2:06M, Oct. 3,1884, at the Chicago West Side driving park, <hos been dethroned, and Ual Pointer reigns in his stead. The game son of Tom Hall went around the Washington Park track Thursday in making the fastest mile eve's gone in harness. As in the case of Nancy Hanks, who on Wednesday beat the universe os a trotter, Friday’s record-breaker was hitched to a sulky with low wheels, pneumatic tires and ball bearings. Its weight was the same as that used by Dobleln driving |4ancy Hanks—(expounds. As on Wednesday the running horse Abe Lincoln was used -as a pacC-maker, but his services apparently were* not needed. Hal Pointer, with Geers driving, went to the, quarter in :3154, half 1:02?*; threequarters !.;34, mile 2:0334. I