The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-06-01
AMERICA AHEAD.

So far, in the international contests
with England in sporting matters.
America is ahead. Rowell's victory in
the six days pedestrian contest is of
small moment compared to the victo-
ries of Parole over England's best run
ming horses. As pedestrian contests
are now conducted, the exhibition, to-
ward the close, is one of the coarsest
character, partaking largely of the bru-
tai. Men are forced to walk when their
limbs and bodies are racked with pain
and their whole system wrung with
cruelty. Each successive pedestrian
contest ruins the health of the pedes-
TRANS, and this fact, too, takes away
much Of the zest of the spectators, un-
til now they have fallen into d%isrepute.
Horse racing, on the other hand, is a
nobler sport. The animals themselves
seem TO enter into the contest with a
fire and zeal that show them to be pos
sessed Of understanding. Their per-
formances demonstrate what may be
accomplished by scientific breeding and
thorough, systematic training. Besides.
horse racing is devoid Of the cruelty
that characterizes the pedestrian On
tests. Here we find O'Leary, the ex-
champion, broken down in body and
untitled for future struggles. Parole,
| who has just won five out of six races,
;s ettII In rood foru, opd xy;u ba alba to
repeat his astonishing performances
next year. The fact that he lost only
one out of six races proves c~onclusively
that his system is not injured. To con-
tinue the comparison with men, we find
that they fail to long hold the champi-
onship of anything that requires such
a sacrifice of health as n walk for six
days. A fresher man FORCES to the lead,
to be in turn succeeded by a still fresh
er contestant.
Horses, on the contrary, generally
surpass their early efforts and keep on
improving until, after many years. ex-
perience on the turf, they reach the re-
NTH Of their power. Hence there is an
ever increasing interest in them and all
classes of people witness their feats
| with pleasure.
There is N point about Paroles ac-
knowledged supremacy In England
that is especially gratifying to Ameri-
cans. The English have been beaten
| at their own game. America Is the
home Of trotters. Nowhere ON earth
are better trotters produced than in the
United States. We stand peerless.
England is the paradise Of running
horses. Thousands of men are engaged
in breeding and training running horses,
and have been in the business from
childhood, inheriting it from their an
cestors of three or four generations
back. They have got their business
down to a perfect science, and have al
ways welcomed foreign competition in
order to demonstrate their great snpe-
riority. Several American horses in
the past went over to come back sorely
defeated. Occasionally a French horse
carried off the palm, but the English
animals remained masters Of the turf.
Parole was entered without any extra
ordinary expectation on the part of any
one except his sanguine owner, and he
has scored 4 list of victories quite un-
precedented. But for n sudden attack
Of something unexplained while on the
course, which caused him to reel and
stagger from the lead in n race, Pa
role would have had a clean score Of
six races. However, he has done nobly,
and great credit is due his owner for
his efforts in placing an American run
ming horse high OF the roll of the cham
pions of the English turf.