Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-02
interval Of about an hour, the following pape,
was filed:

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Judges st. Paul Driving Park:
protest Nettie B. in the 1850 race; also j,
the 2:S7 race, for trotting under assumed nam
and having better record. JOHN KArHAN."
During the trotting Of this, the second, heat
queer, and, to the old horsemen present, On
unaccountable delusion seemed to take hold
Of the three judges. While the
horses were passing to the half mile and thence
to tho home stretch and down, these gentlemen
discovered or thought they did, that Nettie's
driver was holding her in, and hence that there
was collusion between him and Mack's driver,
In jidy the delusion spread and the word
went ont that the mare could beat the horse
and that the heat should be declared ssoff.'
long parley ensued and the more ''chin music
there waa the frmer became the conviction
that that wicked driver must be unseated and
the heat driven over again with q new driver
for the mare.
The driver and owner were both called and
badgered to find out what they had to say. The
driver emphatically denied knowing the mare
BY any other name or that he knew of her hay.
ing any record at all. He had been driving he,
since last spring.
The owner, Hardy, was next subjected to ia.
dicial investigation. He denied the record
part of the story and said the mare was ter
years old; that he had owned her two years,
and that he knew nothing of her having any
other name. As to collision on the part of the
driver, he was not aware of it, If any othe,
man could make her trot faster than her reeu.
Lar driver, or fast enough to win first money,
he would like to see it done, az he wanted To
have the swag. He admitted protests had
heretofore been fled against his mare, but said
they had invariably been Withdrawn, and as to
the charges made against him that her time
mad been suppressed at Mankato, he claimed
that such was the fact, but that it was done in
accordance with an understanding with the Sec
rotary and treasurer of that association.
The judges again had a long discussion over
the vexed question, and finally with the aid of
Geo. A. Nash, who assumed the role of mentor
to the disquieted trio, decided tho second to be
mo heal" on the ground that Nettie was not
driven properly-i.e., for all that was in her, -
and that the heat must be trotted over, and a
new driver assigned to drive the mare.
This decision was decidedly what Dick swiv-
eller would call "stunner, ITO the horsemen
and Others who had watched the race attentive
~, and could see no signs of jockeying or col
fusion on the drivers psrt. The action of the
judges was freely commented on, as their de-
cision was avowedly based, not on the protest
hled, but on the assumption of unfair driving,
The further injustice of deposine the driver
and substituting another in his stead, on pre-
text at least very doubtful, was SO glaring that
many dlsinterested persons did not hesitate to
denounce it as g ossly improper.
However, there was no recourse, and one of
the judges, Mr.. Cross, was assigned to drive
the mare. Hardy. the owner, interposing no
objection, Mr. Cross mounted the sulky, and
the heat was trotted-Maok winning, with Care
less second, Nettie third, Smoker fourth, LADY
Hess fifth and Peerless sixth. Time, 2:4O15.
In trotting the heat after passing the first
quarter, Nettie broke badly, and before abe
could be brought down had dropped consid er-
ably to the rear. While on the three-au arter
stretch she recovered and got down to work,
and thence on to the wire behaved nobly, but
could not recover lost time. This heat hardly
justified the confident assertion previously
made by the judges "a to the mares ability to
beat Mack. nor their suspicious as to the Jock.
eyiDg OF the driver. But all this failure was
satisfactorily accounted for by the VT ispered
intimation that after trotting the 'svoid" heat,
the driver had neglected grooming his animal
and had slyly given her pail of water, SO de-
termlned was he that she should not win. Be
this as it may, it is certain that with the able
driving of Mr.: Cross she did not accomplish
what she had done with her own drive. Verify
some things are easily accounted for!