The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-03-31
Badly Taken In.

a NSDS reporter Wet q ueoaOna0A CS'
terday who knew all about the foot-raoe
that took place in his town day Or two
since. The meager details given of the af-
fair have only served to whet curiosity &C
know about it.
Many will remember the race which oc-
CURED at Colorado Springs during the holi-
days, between Stone and Crandall. Stones
fieetness of foot was the pride and boast Of
his fellow -townsmen of Colorado Springs.
They were ready and anxious to stake their
all on his running. He published chal-
lenge to anybody and everybody. Gran
dali, Michigan runner, with talented
pair of legs, and fame as wide as the con-
tinent itself, heard of the challenge. He
came to Colorado, hired out as . wood
chopper on the Divide, and in due time &C
cepted Stones challenge. The sports Of
Colorado Springs said it didn't lay in any
wood-chopper's legs to outrun this man
Stone. Tt is said that 5000 changed
hands ON the result. Well, the wood-chop-
per ran right away from his competitor,
and the discontinue of the sports was
something fearful TO contemplate. Gran
dali gave up his job of wood chopping, and
has been travelling about the Territory en-
joying himself.
Last week man calling himself Slade
turned up in Pueblo. He arrived with a
bull train from Trinidad, aud claimed to
have come from New Mexico. He COM
menced boasting about his feetness, and
said he could run away from anybody in
the Territories. This boast, of course,
reached the ears of the Colorado Springs
sports, who, seeing their opportunity to get
even on the late losses, hunted up Crandall
and pitted him against Slade. The race, as
already known, came off at Pueblo day or
two since, and was witnessed by thousand
people. Crandall was backed by big del
egation of the sporting men of Colorado
Springs. They shook their money in the
faces of the Pueblonians and covered bets
of any sort. They told few persons con-
fidently that Crandan could beat anybody
that he was the champion of the world.
The sports Of Pueblo, not liking the BAN
tering and tantalizing manner of the Color
ado Springs delegation, put up thousand
or two on Slade, just for luck and the cred
it of the town. Meanwhile the runners
were quietly working up an excitement,
which, when the time for the race arrived,
had become intense, Crandall's hackers
putting up money and jewelry by the hat
full. The Colorado Springs delegation
staked all their greenbacks, and then put
up several gold watches, one or two breast
pins and several fnger-rings. The race
was run-seventy live yards-and Crandall
came out two feet behind.
The runners were scarcely seen again
during the afternoon. That evening they
boarded train on the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe Road, dropped into seat TO-
gether, and went away eastward, chuck
ling in their sleeves over the trick they had
played on the gudgeons of Southern Color
ado. The man Slade was not Slade at all,
but Johnny Casal, a celebrated French Cam
adian runner, and an old friend Of Gran
dall's. The two had put up the job, and
divided the winnings, some $1,000 in
money and half bushel or SO of watches,
breast-pins and finger-rings. Casal, alias
Slade, had come in by the Atchison, Tope-
ka and Santa Fe Road and crossed over to
Trinidad, and thence to Pueblo, to give
plausibility to his claim of being a New
Mexican. He is an odd-looking man, with
bumped shoulders and crooked legs, and
about 45 years Of age. He is a wonderful
athlete. AS he finished the race he threw
a somersault and bounded off like an elas-
tic ball. Crandall is a younger man, and
is made of equally spriugy and elastic ma
terial.-Denver Neaos.