Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1860-05-02
= Fayette County EuII Race.

Some forty years ago, the managers of
course near Brownsville on the Monangaael;
river, published notice of race, one mil,
heats, on a particular day, for purse o.
SlOO, free for anything with four legs and
hair on" a man in the neighborhood nam
ed Hays had bull that he was in the habit
/ of riding to mill with his bag of corn, aud he
determined to enter him for the race. He
said nothing about it to any one, but he rode
| him around the track number of times, on
several moonlight nights, until the bull had
! got the hang of the ground pretty well aud
would keep the right course. He rode with
spurs, which the bull considered disagreea-
bic; SO much so that he always beloved when
applied to his sides On the morning of the
race Hays came upon the ground on horse
back-on his bull. Instead of saddle be
had dried an OK hide, the head part Of which
with the horns still on. lie had placed on the
bulls rump. He carried a short tin horn in
his hand. He rode to the judges stand, and
offered to enter his bull for the race, bat the
owners of the horses that were entered OBJ
Jected. Hays appealed TO the terms of the
notice; insisting that his bull had ''four legs
and hair on, and that therefore he had a
right to enter him. After good deal of
swearing, the judges declared themselves
compelled to decide that the bull had a right
to run, and was entered accordingly When
the time for starting arrived the bali aud hor-
ses took their places The horse racers were
out OF humor at being bothered with The bull
and at the burlesque, which they supposed
was intended, but thought that it would be
over as soon as they started When the sig
nal was given they did start Hays gave a
blast with his horn. and sank his spurs into
the side Of the bull. who bounded off with a
terrible bawl at no trifing speed, the dried |
OK hide Tapping up and down, rattling at ev-
~ jump, making a combination of noise that |
had never been heard on a race course before !
The horses all few the track, every one seem
ing to be seized with sudden determination |
to take short cut to get out OF the Redstone I
country, and hot one of them could be brought 4
back in time to save their distance A gen 4
eral row epsued; but the fun of the thing nut /
the crowd all on the side of the bull. The 4
horsemen eontended that they we're swindled /
out of their purse, aud that if it had not been /
for Hays horn aud OK hide, which be ought |
not to have been permitted to bring upon the |
ground, the thing would not have turned out
as it did.
Upon this Hays told them that his bull
could beat any of their horses anyhow, and
if thew would put up hundred dollars against
the purse that he had Won, he would take the
Ok hide off and leave his tin horn, and rug a
fair race with them. His offer was accepted
and the money staked. They again took
their places at the starting post, and the sig
lal was given. Hays gave the bull another
touch with his spur, and the bull gave tre-
nendous below. The horses remembering
he dreadful sound, thought all the rest vas
coming as before. Away they went again,
n spite of all the exertions of their riders.
while Hays galiOped the bull around the track
md won the m6ney.