, 1876-11-11
BALE PEYToN.
PEN PORTRAIT OF A FAMO US
DIPLOMATIST.
AMERICAS LORD GEORGE BENTINc K.

AMERICAS LORD GEORGE EENIiNcK.
Six feet high and of rare physical
symmetry. unbroken even by thirty
years of generous living, the gallant
Tennesseean whose name heads this ar
ticle. was one Of the conspicuous men
of San Francisco, twenty years ago. He
and'Edward D. Baker, the "Grey Eagle
of Liberty" were contemporaries and
rivals on the stump and ut the bar.
They wea direct antipodes of each
other in everything. yet the most cor
dial of friends, each secretly loving the
other for his high honor and faultless
courage. Baker was genius slipshod,
while Peyton was talent in the royal
purple. Baker wore an old blue dress
his lapel, while the other was up above
his ear.
BALE PEYToN,
On the contrary, was dressed with fault
less neatness. though never in gaudy
or conspicuous attire for te was one Of
the songre dzul; and your e-bred aris-
tocrat always dresses so that no one. an
hour later, could remember what he
wore. Everything about him bespoke
the man of ripe culture and lofty pride.
He was dignified but never arrogant;
witty, but never vulgar for the sake of a
lauGh; brave, bnt modest and despising
bully as m 1ch as he did a coward;
scholarly. but never pedsntic; convivial.
but never one to tarry at the wine till
reason gave way TO passion: all these
trnits went to make up the sum total OF
representative American gentleman,-
the Alcibiades of Nashville, then the
Queen City of the South. His fond
ness of the turf and the great efforts he
made to purge it of its Impurities earn
ed for him the name of
THE AMERICAN BEN1IsCK.
The comparison was an apt one, for
like the great English sportsman who
carried the ''Rnnning Rein" fraud into
the House of Lords and Liade the Bish-
ops of the Church of England vote upon
the punishment of race course black
leg; like him we'say, Bale Peyton was
athletic and had a goodly share of pug
nacity. But he must have handled his
fins with considerable dexterity at
school, for none Of his school-felows
had destroyed the arch of his unmistak-
ably Roman nose. The short upper lip.
causing his mouth to curve upward
grace fully. As he smiled the long point-
ed chin. WItE lis massive ja"bone indi-
eating untilnchins l,snlution; the clear
blue eye. calm as II sur''ner evening sea,
all spoke the man of G. .r1ge uibruken
and pride untnmed.
HIS LOVE OF TIL. 1oI:sE
Was inherent from the proud Virginia
stock whence he sprang. For cer-
tury his ancestors had come to the turf
in their top-boots and powdered wigs
He had held the fatal red flag at the
pole while the Father oil his
had been the presiding Judge
of the main result; and was man who
loved the faithful servant of man" for |
his nobility. He frowned on the de-
moralized sentiment that regards the
higL-bred racer as Il mere ersine Tor
making money. In 1889. after the me-
race for the Southern Stake of |
$500 each eighteen su5scribers) at
Louisville. which was won by Wagner
beating Grey Eagle. Hawkeye and
Queen Mary, Col. Peyton conceived the
dea of getting up race that should |
'urpass anything ever run; he therefore
,rnnoSe6 n |
PRODUCE STAKE.
If $1,000 each, $500 forfeit for all
lorses and mares four years old in 1874,
o be run at Nashville in October, 1914.
Distance four miles and repeat The
ace closed january 1st. 1910, with
entries. Thus it will be
cen that these horses were entered on
deposit of $4,000 before they came
nto the world. but the rules of the turf
o not enforce this payment if mare
ails to produce a foal, or if the foal
les before the race. To fill this race.
'ol. Peyton purchased John C. Stevens
lack mare Black Maria. daughter of
.merlcan Eclipse and bred her to the
stallion Lnzhorot sh. The
My starters were toe iiily Great East
IN, bred as above stated, by Col. Pey-
IN; Herald, ch by Plenipotentiary out
+ the imported mare Delphine by
fhisker, entered by Gen. Wade Hamp-
N and Hon. Henry Clay; Eudora, bay
iare by Imp Priam, entered by Gen.
ON Tunstall, of Arkansas; and big
ed tiuy not named, by Glencoe out OF
Iiantess by Leviathan, the property of
hos. Kirkman of Alabama.
THE STAKE
Jas $75. 900, of which $4,000 went to
le second horse and the third got his
Ioney back. The day on which the
zee was run was cold and raw, but the 6
sitting was fearful. Cargoes of cotton,
roves of mules and negroes, broad !
res of plantation and q score of steam- I
pats, were bet on the race. The track
eing muddy, Herald did not Justify the :
.psctations OF the Kentuckians and i
outh Carolinians. The first heat was q
on by Great Eastern, the second by a
erald and the third and fourth by the r
big red COW" as she was called, who
ceived the name after the third heat. of e
''pEYToNA" 81 ksf8 t
Fterwards famed as the conqueress of a
sshion. She was 81 years old when a
e writer saw her at Georgetown, KY, a
ID some idea of her size can be form
when we state that she was 16 hands h
d an inch high; while standing in a
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