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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of September 3, 1904 Racing at Coney Island, Harlem, Highland Park, Detroit, and Fair Grounds at St. Louis. Carroll Reid said Tuesday at Shcepshead Bay that the reason he did not put up the name of The Picket as a starter in the Twin City Handicap is that the Falsetto colt has a bad foot again. ! Big Ben, the partially bl.nd son of Ben I Strome and Mint Julep, which was purchased by C. E. Durnell for S4,250 at tho dispersal sale of S. W. Streets string two months ago, won the Speed Stakes, the feature of the card at Harlem, this afternoon. Claude, the much-traveled Derby colt o 1903, is slated for another trip westward tonight. M. J. Daly has his eye on the Twentieth Century Handicap and unless there is and sudden change of plans Claude will carry his. colors at Harlem Monday. At the present time Claude is at Buffalo, N. Y. E. R. Thomas Stalwart got up in the last stride and defeated John A. Drakes Ort Welb for the rich Century Stakes at Coney Island today. The race was worth 4,650 to Mr-Thomas. Five started, Ort Wells, Stalwart,. Major Daingerfield, Shorthose and Delhi making up the field that paraded to the post. Delhi failed to stay the one mile and a half, although, showing the way for the first mile, where Ort Wells took command and drew out into a clear lead, only to succumb right at the end to the rush of Stalwart. The latter trailed for the first mile and was well served by the fast pace that Delhi set and which was the deciding factor in the defeat of Ort Wells. The latter tired in the stretch from following the pacemaker.
