Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-07
THE MONMOUTH CUP.
The Worlds Account Of the L8ng.Talked
Of Race Between the Kings
Of the Turf.
Bassctt Badly Beaten-Details Of the
Marvellous Race.

H. Marvellous Race. -
7 Immense Crowds OF Spectators from
all Parts Of the Country.
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Judqes-JohnC G. Breckinridge,of Ken
tuekyi Mr.. Ioler, Of New jersey; +. w.
boswell, of Virginia.
&eWdrds-W. b. Dinsmore, r. +.
Stockton, 5. VanV liet Il. B0udinot Colt,
Francis Morris, l.. Il. jerome, aud Car
rol Livingston. rag
/, Eq'erS1R. w. Cameron, HIP Nc
Grath.
Clerk Of Course and Starter-B. G..
Bruce. sra3 f- b
The shout that shook the sea-shore
when LOngfellow came in foremost at
the end Of the struggle for the Non
mouth Cup was thought to represent the
powers of fifteen thousand lungs. So
great amultitudea as that which gathered
10 see this horse-race has seldom before
been collected in this country in the
Iopen air, and certainly all former Amer
lean race meetings must dwindle in the
memory when compared to the pageant
that surrounded yesterdays battle of
equine giants, I.sE r
bor ones the barrier that bans the race
course from the presence and even the
liberation of many conscientious people
seemed to be broken through. And on
this occasion that other barrier, which,
since the elevation of running races
into a fashionable American sport, has
gradually hedgedin the ~Taee-course from
the encroachments of the vulgar, was
compelled to give way before the onset
OF popular enthusiasm. Everybody who
could spare the money and the time
went TO Long Branch, and, being at
Long Branch, went to the great race.
The mere fact that Uncle John Harper
had sent his favorite to try for life with
the favorite of the East drew a host of
Kentuckians and men from all over the
Western country. And since the DAYS
when Longfellow's car rolled through
to New Jersey, labelled "LOngfellow, on
his way to Monmouth Park to meet his
friend Harry Bsssett," the racing fever
mad induced hundreds of men in the mid
lie tier of States to take a railroad trip
for Just this once to witness the greatest
event of its kind ON the American con-
tinent.
So the trains We're 0veTcrowded from
North, West and South. Virginia and
Maryland sent many friends of Harry
Bassett-frieHds as full of faith in thai
rhestHut colt as even the crazy New
Workers were. The boats that left for
ne scene We're cruelty jammed full. 1t
is not o much to say that they We're
Trunk with passengers, iuasmuch asthey
reeled from side to side as the whims OF
the crowd led them to beset one or an
1ther beam of a boat. The Plymouth
/ y ..I- er,p1 N,,r~ N,rl- MO-, cV,,,1- It,
4 10 her guards. The suns heat drove the
passengers to starbOard, and all the
threats and pleading of the captain and
other officers did not avail to correct the
frightful lurch of the steamer. Boat
after boat landed atSandy Hook, whence !
the passengers We're taken by the cars
TO Long Branch or the r-ace-cOurse. The
last trains did not reach the course until
the fun vas over.
AWFULLY HOT.
It was a day ugly with heat. The
shore, the roads, the fields simmered. |
The sunbeams smote like %scalping-
knives. Had il not been for the expec-
tatiOns raised in regard to the great
race; the fashionable fear of everybody
to miss it; the idea that it would be
absurd to be in the neighbOrhUOd of
flOilLllOulA L l. anu AlOl ~ " ste LOllE~ /
fellow and Harry Bassett run-had it
not been for such considerations, no.
body but a sporting man or a lunatic
would have stirred from the shelter of
his hotel at Long Branch before five
O'Clock in the afternoon. 1t was misery
for men to quit that shelter, it was
Indebtedness indeed for women.
TIE FAR wOMEE.
The huge caravanserais, into whose
doorways train-lOads Of people had been
dumped by intervening omnibuses since
Friday last, now sent the same guests
forth in stages gay with banners, and in
carriages and road wagons drawn by an
finals tit to grace the day. Matrons and
daughters, who had been cooling of
with nothing on to speak of all the fore
noon, appeared arrayed in that deceptive
muslin and lace, which too thinly yelled
the fortunes of crinoline and cOrsets.
Bevies of young women, whom the late
iy-risen bacchanalian had heard patter-
ing their feet on chamber floors and
playing antics in bathrooms on
his way down stairs in pursuit of his
morning cocktail, now emerged with
polished shoulders, frightened eyes, and
guickened wits. Even that singular
~ ~ VI NCtOAA AA ~ GAO1UE1 lAEI huEtE 4
and hands in the parIorand reads novels |
in her night-dress from ten in the morn
ing until two in the afternoon, rose a
couple of hours befOge her time and de-
<eended to the not piazza in front Of
which the carriages were waiting.
In fact, the gay, the stately pro-
,essiOn of American vehicles
which took the roads from Long Branch
20 Monmouth Park this memorable day
bore so many characters-interestingan ans
odd-sO many celebrities, that to tell
much more about them would be to dull /
the edge of the readers appetite for the
story Of the races. The grand stand and
the adjacent clubhouse, and their neigh-l
b~orhoods-the objective points of the ar
irving loads of people were as pictur-
esque and exciting places about one or
two O'clOck asracing men have ever seen. I
The grand stand at Monmouth Park is
the prettiest we have IN this country.
From its pinnacle lOated the national
flags and gaia streamers, and under its
roof and on its handsome balconies were
assembled and clustered what a Ken
tuckian called Z" ten thOusandhumans."
The quarter-stretch held more; the club
house more. Altogether there must
have been fifteen thousandpersons there
to look at the races-Or rather TO see the
race between Longfellow and Harry
BaSsett.
Fl ARABS.
Those who had not got the Bassett
fever were secretly sure that LongfellowI
was going to be the victor. A human,
an almost poetic feeling, induced this
conviction among a very large number
of gentlemen who are not used To bet
their money on horse races. HomeIy
and tender tales of old John Harper and
his horses were told around the course.
II is well known that the good old gen
tleman loves his horses as truly as a good
man can love brutes; and it came to De
known that it was his habit to sleep in
the same box with his loved horse Long
fellow, just as the ArabSheiks aTesaid TO
sleep alongside of their fleet steeds. The
old MANS age, hispride as a breeder and
trainer of fast horses, his honesty, and
his reputed mortal anxiety as to the re-
suit of this great impending race, COM
bined to induce a sympathy in his be-
half and in behalf of his horse, that the
cold-bloOded betters of the day took no
note OF. Alittle while before the race al
gentleman recommended to Uncle John
by long acquaintance, but who never
bets on horses, asked him: "NXell,
Uncle John, is the horse all right? Is he
just what you want him to be-" Harper
answered slowly, az think ne is Sol
thought Mr.. McDaniels possibly Of his
horse.
In the Judges stand stood General
John c. Breckenridge. The Kentuckians
were there ia great force-a splendid set
of fellows. NObody-parson, preacher,
philosOpher-can geteVen a glimpse into
the heart of a real, true, honest "sport-
ing man. until he studies q Kentlckian