The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-21
BADLY TAKEN IN.
How Two FicetFooted strangers
Played IL On Sons sports.
lFrom tlle penyar Nn,r,

From tile Denver News
A News reporter met Pueblolte
yesterday who knew all about the foot.
race that took place In his town day
or two since. The meagre data given
The affair have only served TO whet
curiosity 10 know all about IL.
Many will remember the race which
occurred mt the Colorado Springs dur.
Ing the holidays, between stone and
Crandal, stones fleetness of foot was
the pride and boast OF his fellow.
lownsmen OF Colorado Springs. They
were ready and anxious TO stake their
all on his running, He published a
challenge to anybody and everyb body.
Crandall, II Michigan runner with n
talented pair Of legs, and fame AZ
wide rs the continent itself, heard the
challenge. Hecame to Colorado, hired
out as q wood-chopper on the Divide,
ana In due time accepted Stones chal.
lenge. The sports OF Colorado Springs
said II didn't lay In any wood.clop.
per's legs to out run their man Stone.
II was said that 200 changed hands
OH the result. Well, the wood. chopper
ran right away from his competitor,
ana the discontinue of the sports was
something fearful to contemplate.
Crandall gave up his job of wood.chop.
ping and has been travelling about the
Territory enjoying himself.
Last week Il man calling himself
Slade turned up In Pueblo. lie ar
rived with bull-train from Trinidad,
aud claimed TO have come from New
Mexico. He commenced boasting
about his lleetness, aud said he could
run away from anybody IN the terri
tories. This boast, Of course, reached
the ears Of the Corado Springs sports,
who, seeing their opportunity to get
even on late losses, hunted up Gran.
dali and pitted him against Slade
The race, as already known, came Off
at Puebloa day or two since, aud was
witnessed by thousands ofpeople. Gran
dali was backed by big delegation of
the sporting mea of Colorado Springs.
They shook their money in the faces
of the Pueloites and covered bets of
any sort. They told few persons
conlidentially that Crandall could
beat aDybody-that he was the cham
pion of the world. The sports OF Pue-
bio, not liking the bantering aud tan
manner of the Colorado
Springs delegation, put up thousand
or two on Slade, just for luck and the
credit of town, Meanwhile the run
ners were quietly working up an
excitement, which, when the time
for the race arrived, bad be-
come intense, Crandall's hackers
putting up money and jewelry
by the hatfnl. The Colorado Springs
stakel all the greenbacks,
and then put up several gold Watches,
one or two breastpins and several
The race was ruu--seven-
ty-five yards-and Crandall came out
two feet behind!
The runners were scarcely seen again
during the afternoon. That evening
they boarded train on the A. L. d 5.
+. road, dropped into u seat together,
and went away eastward chuckling in
their sleeves over the trick they had
played on the gudgeons of Southern
Colorado. The man Slade was not
Slade at all, but Johnny Casal, cele.
Drated French Canadion runner, and
IN old friend of CrandalPs, The two
lad put up the job and divided the
some $1,000 in money and a
lalf bushel or so of watches, breast.
bins and fnger-rings. Casual, alias
5lade, had come in by the a. 4. rs.
+. road and crossed over TO Trinidad,
and thence to Pueblo, to give plausi-
bility to his claim of being New
He is an odd-looking man.
with bumped shoulders and crooked
EGGS, and about forty-fve years of age.
He is wonderful athlete. AS he fin-
shed the race he threw a sQmersauit
md bounded off like an elastic ball.
is a much younger man, and
s made of equally springy end elastic