Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-07-28
THE EVENING STAR.
WEDNESDAY JuIv % rSSO
Maud 8.
ECHOES OF THE GREAT rRoT-How SHE DID IT AND


ECHOES OF THE GREAT rRoT-How SHE DID 1T AND
-r,o GOSSIP ABOUT IT.
,, nne sleat Ieat mo pun Intended OF matches
tior = sun the constant theme OF converse
s ~ a %niiIons horSemen. Ii was ACCOMPLISHED
10 easily and under circumstances So Surprising
1ida. II Is doubtful IL Captain Stone was 70 an
9.IS b.oinorrow that she would trot a mile In
IN Oli Father Time among the betfinC mon IN
" Ina g. MN the tayorfte In the pools When II
,ha he,ils ana Col John W. Conley. on behalf of
ne, Iti1Cdso Jockey and Trotting Club seeing
nnat There was not the ghost Of n show fnS
dlnlkel ana being DESTROYS of giving tba
r race ,e VINO had assembled TO witness the
excitemEent, 'he e,,, worth OF their money In
oA'Slsutehll. approached Captain Stone and
asked hlIn TO instruct his driver. Bair. TO send
MAUD al the top OF her speed that gentleman
be apr ha mat ne was perfectly willing TO have
Ner peat her four year old record. provided that
maJcr Mcdowell would accept the second
i ,Lhome3 onered by the Club from him. as he
nnoughi nm TOO nice and too square gentle
thS ois'anGe penalty replied the Chicago gen
s senan. wen. see what Major Mcdowell mas 70
N nay aDUuI IL, answered Captain Stone Major
mCDoWel was interviewed, and he MAS
pefleetly willing TO see Maui spaeied
dS Ne was anxious 10 know Won
hnDw ;esg Just t. what kind OF piece OF
Span wanted Captain Stone TO send WsuS Sor
lhat was In her but the captain wonid NOT
f bad win the request, saying .She has NOT
her and n III p WORK yet to thoroughly harden
any one. ''She is In as good Condition a. any
totse can oe, responded Splan. II know her
.! e9agI man you do answered the captain
20, ana i while am perfectly willing TO have her
w Lu tMo,sAleen. Will not have her worn ont
vi VI, IN 60 Tor the world" Captain Stone then
end SaiS ~ ep 10 Where Barr and the lilly were
HiLu sac, Billy, take her around carefully ana
uii , her mere in about sixteen"
pau ,, then started TO score with Trinket. who
va Vas 81 tHoio roughly demoralized and could not
pe got 10 the wire on her reet AT faster tban n
lhlrty gait. 1t was at this gait and while Rair
MAS Mas nan turned around In his sulky. Watching
I III t that The word "go" was given. Awag
s sc }saanI chestnut sped, but Balr did not
@,Geielate ner speed much until well into the
nISL IuIh, sui she reached the Quarter-poe I'M
III ~ -tHtee seconds-a two-twelye gait Going
o op - oLe uack-slretch she fairly seemed TO n.y.
oT 10 quote the words OF a profane kenIucSian'
by 600, sab, she's going away from Trinkef
FASTER than Trinket Is passing de fence " A
snG uaaotu by tAe half mile pole a score OF
seli-appolnted timers calculated: "O6e fonr
ahd half." lone four and three quarters =,
linen tnen tnere was excitement. IF she DOM
s OlGak Snel be here faster than two twelve.
sau Nhlte, OF the Chicago Tribune as cnod a
Judge or trotting horse as ever wrote abo,t
one. Round the lower turn she went as
tnougn me wind lent her speed. her com
pe'ltor ~, poor TriDket. even then heinz trinIo
distaneed She was past the threeonarteru npie
III one thlrty-SeYen and three-quarterS and
NOW watch her come down the home
stietcn, exclaimed scribe almost wild with
excitement just then Bair looked around 10
see where trinket was, and, Judging by the
distance he was ahead of her, Thai he was VAS
going faster than Captain Stone required he
eased up little on the glorious My. .WhaT's
he pulling her for?' hastily inquired a dozen
men, While hundred others yelled to him
Cone on, come on" Bair paid no attention
10 these shouts until within a furlong of
the WIRE when he touched her With the
CAD. She responded instantly, showing
that she was as fresh as a daisy and
went under the string the acknowledged queen
OF the American Turf. Had Batr known at the
nall nile the time he had made he couId have
slowed up little going around the turn, and
struck the home stretch with Maud compare
lively rested. 1t would have been no hardship
10 her then TO have trotted her last quarter in
thirty seconds, In which event the record would
nave been 2:lO instead OF 213E. No one was
more aStOn1shed at the result than the Ctncin-
natlans. True, they backed her pretty well, but
not one-quarter as heavily as they would have
Gone had they the fainteSt idea OF the kind OF a
morse she was. Even Captain Stones winnings.
includlng his thousand dollar bet With Major
McDoWell, Old not amount to $1,000. Jake Aug
won about $1,000, but few others won tn the
thousands at alL-Cin. RtaquiYer.