The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-17
THE FHFTY MILE RACE.
How the savages Han Vile Dash and
One Came to Grief.

One Came to Grief.
Yesterday afternoon WAS delightful one for
outdoor sports, the weather being spring like
and balmy, and hardly cloud was 10 be seen In
the sky. Whether IL was the weather, or whether
it was to see whether Prof De Woolf could ride
his fifty miles in two hours and hall, that
brought out the crowd. il ia little difficult to
say; but the fact was that the attendance at the
Fair Grounds was fully as large as on any day Of
the late race meeting. There were quite num-
ber Of private teams ON the course, and sew.
eral ladies adorned the stand. Tbs first
event Of the day was the professors
attempt TO ride fifty miles in two
hours and quarter, and for that purpose some
fifteen horses had been provided. There were
the sorrel, the roam, the gray and the black, some
Of them good looking animals and some OF them
slightly other wise. At little before half past q
O'Clock Prof DeWoof appeared, dressed in tights.
He Is q sinewy, we'll built man, active and quick
OF movement, and looked horseman. At the
word he bounded into the saddle and was off.
A vigorous youth, armed with long whip, ma
terially aided the send off, for several whacks
sdmoDished the horse that business was ahead.
THE FIRST FIVE MILES
we're covered in 15A minutes. Az the Professor
would arrive at the judges stand he would leap
from the saddle and, with running jump. vault
was ridden mile only st q time, and one was
kept startling in the track ready when the Pro-
fessor reached the home stretch.
The second five miles were made in 1GL
minutes.
On the ninth mile The horse gave out and
another was sent out, which met the rider at the
three quarter pole. The third five miles we're
run in 15L minutes, the horse on the fifteenth
mile letting down and losing much time at the
close. There was nothing exciting from this ont
until the thirty-seoond mile was reached On ths
turn, near the quarter post, the horse stumbled
and fell.
THROWING THE PROFESSOR HEAVILY.
The fall disabled his right arm, and he could not
use 1t any more during the race. On The next
mile. DeWoOf looked very pale, and was evil
IDENTITY suffering much pain but he kept on
gamelv being assisted on the horses.
At the thirty-sixth mile, owing to some mis-
take, the rider was informed that he had conn
pleted the fifty miles, and he stopped. The rum
ping time had been just hour 521s minutes.
There was considerable talk in the stand over the
Professors not completing the fifty miles, but the
mistake vas due entirely to the starter.
The equestrian is undoubtedly fine rider, and
WAS ignorant OF the fact that he had not run the
fifty miles.
The next thing on the programme was mile
dash between the Indians. -Four representa-
tivss OF Wild Mexico came out full q bucksklna
rye. One child OF the prairie looked as IL his
name might be Murphy, and some went even 80
far az to cay his bronzsd complexion would not
stand soap and water. He was, to use the ex-
preston oil q cab driver present, "a damn thin
IDjun.'
The race was not what could be called exciting.
The genuine Mexican, with broad sombrero
that he didn't have oD IL having been left on the
Of three minutes. The wild IBjun, with saw
age eye, however, didn't come out as we'll. It is