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VINGUT WINS HIS ENDURANCE WAGER. New York, July 30. Harry K. Vlngut won his wager of ,000 with Edward L. Norton that no local man out. of training could ride 100 miles on horseback in 24 hours. Vlngut had a lot of horses sent down to Belmont Park on Saturday and he followed in the evening with a party of friends. He started on his ride at 4:40 Sunday morning. Norton sat on a veranda of the clubhouse and watched him. Vlngut used four western-bred polo ponies and a horse for the ride. He used an English saddle and mounted and dismounted without assistance. When he retired from the track for breakfast at G:50 he had covered twenty-five and one-half miles. He resumed ridiug at 8:10, and by 12:45 had covered an additional forty-three and one-half miles. He had done this in four hours and twenty-five minutes, or an average of six and one-fifth minutes to the mile. Vlngut was delayed because a thunder storm came up and the rain soaked the track, and it was 3:40 when he. resumed his ride. The horse and ponies showed signs of being tired during the last trip, hut at 0:30 he completed the journey, going an extra half mile. Vlngut had made the journey In twelve hours and forty-eight minutes, including rests. The actual time on tbe track was nine hours and twenty-three minutes. He showed no signs of being exhausted..
