, 1877-10-26
The Great Race OF Wednesday
at Baltimore.
How Ten Brock Was Beaten and
tllo Kc1ltlicifauB Bitten.
The Great Horse Sadly "0f"--.Ru
mors Of Foul PLAY.
Yesaerdar's Raccs'at baltimore, In En-.
g1and, and Elsewhere.

soitth sup n'rtow With spoon. Though thetr |
icarta arc heavy tlieir wallets arc light, fur |
heir shrkcls Jingle In the pockets Of the wise |
ncn of tho East. Ten Erocrk, the grcat,-1en
,r0cck. wh0 Was 10 hnye electrified the whole !
tur!.worla,-t,as tcen dIsgracefulty beaten by
horse that was hardly taken account III before |
lite rare.
AMI thereby hangs tae that will unfold
further along. 4 prctttcr day fur racing routl
not hare been obtained ilati ono been male to
order for The purpose. BY O'Clock the exodus
for rl1nlftD esaf, and an hour later the streets
leading to tho druid Till Park. which is right
on the way to tho course, were alive with Tcht-
cfcs Ut every ,lcsrrEp.ion, from, the Snowy tan
item and fourth hand trans ard st tS3'sh private
carriages down to barouctles, buggcs. express
wagons, furniture carts, and cvcn slrays, for Mt
lcact dt,zen of tho latter wcEc prcssed into
service by the moro democratic ot the crowd,
w1lo wjslIcl u visit tho course on the cheap. At
noun there were fully 1O,09o people or the
course. And tho crowd kept swelling every
tnotlcnt. 4 special train furnished by
Col. Tom Scott brought large nuu,.
ter of distinguished visitors from
Washington, prominent among whom were
Senators RayaFtl. Cameron. Mcdonald. Thurman.
.fuhiso1I, lsank,in, Heck, aud Bruce, anh Cut,-
ercssfHen Harris. HlaeksluTn Clarke, EtaIc, and
ex-senator Lewis. and ssouk!-tIeScnator litcl1-
the scpre, but onu might a. wcl try to count
tho sau!s Of tue scasliose IS to get list Of une-
tenth of them. At ! o'clock, the huur set for
tin beginning Of the days sport, there were
FnCRrREN THOUSAND rEnsoNs III ISATrENnANcR.
tlFii1lg each icl, of the stands an1 crowlng the
grounds SO TINT II wns only with difficulty that
person. could move nbuut In seasel, .: inor1na.
tfon. Tho view from. tho grand stand at this
n,umc,ucnt waB one Of slirpassIng grandeur,
ntld ylyiilyralleu to the ln{nls OF those wi,ti
iayu travelled fl England Derby Day. Fully
unc.fourth Ut those In attendance were
latIlcs, aid they seemed to take As much
Interest in the blg cycnt as did their fathers,
brothers husbands, or lovers; md tie war they
bct Ioxrs Of gloves on tue result rannt>t but
mike their mnle relatives wincc when tt:y come
to foot the bills. :. :.
ruE EVENT or THE DAT
nrceeIImr race wos oycr there WIS n
rush oi thousands to tho puo-stanI, aii
eager to bet or TO sec how tic betting was
g1,jnE, lu fact, siurin. Tic salcs oi tila pouis
81, Tic other rnccs, eonu Impatient oncs lad
tic pool-sellcr auction ID number III toots o.,
tho big event. The betting was very spirited,
oysr @ III iI,e bIs,s In few moments Ten Drocrk
sold for s1,2()U to $40l on Tom Och{Itrcr. nt,d
SY2i On I'arolc. Pierre I.orillard Darketl llls
i,vrse heavily. and bought Parole in every mol
that VIA at.iti On tl,c truck but two. But, of
course, ilelought, throug!, . athlrlpa! koworda
to tecl that Tcn brock WIS sure 10 VII, tcyonl
peralycaturc, and yut by far tho largest mum
her wanted tu double thctr belief. ~ do wish
thiug,n sail d fair Indy behind inc, "for
wuuh1 80 tlnta to sec lin beat our Eastern
iiprscn.'' Tits sentllncnt found hearty u1,-
rSy" a te assts Of ,hy e,st .at
tiu first horse to leave ils stable. lie was