The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-09-13
DASHING HORSEPOWER.
A Hippodroming Performance in
Iowa Remarkable Endur-
ance.

ance.
Council Bluffs special To Chicago Tribune
| The ten-mile running race between Mis-.
Pinneo, Of Colorado, and Mrs. Burke, Ol
Nebraska, came of to-day on the ground.
, of the Council Bluffs driving association.
The day was beautiful, and the fine one.
mile track in splendid condition. and the
event itself was the object Of The creates,
interest To the 10000 people gathered t.
Wilkes il. Al some periods the excite.
ment became intense, and the enthusiasm
which greeted the girls a. they made each
mile al the race was unbOnnded. Mrs
Burke had never before ridden i'm race
outside her own state, bnt her endurance
and skill IA IN equestriennc had been al
often proved there that she recently chal-
lcnged Miss Minnie PinneO, who h.,, ridden
successfully i'm such contests in Chicago,
~. Louis and number of different states,
tn ride ten miles Tor S5.VON. One thing
which added To the excitement III the race.
. to-day was the manner i'm which the Omaha
and Council Bluffs sporting men ranged
themselves on the issue of the contest
Sporting men and even business aud pro-
iessiOnal men came over from Omaha IN
large numbers, aud la man backed Mrs.
Burke, while the Bluffs became the cham
pions at the pool ROOMS, - we'll IL On the
streets. of Miss Pinneo.
\ fcw moments before the commence
n,cnt Of the race Mr.. Pinneo. the father oi
the eIuestrienne, announced that his
daughter Was not we'll enough To endure
the race, but he was willing that younger
daughter. Miss Lizzie Pinneo, should Ia
substituted for he race with Mrs. Burke.
The latter protested against this arrange.
mcnt. and riding up to the judges stand,
she denounced Miss Pinneo aud her father
AS towards, declaring that she would not
ride with Lizzie Pinneo, who had no REP
utatiOn on record as an equcstriennc, un-
less her father would admi; before the
whole crowd that he was afraid to let Min
ME Pinneo ride the race. Ms. Burke is
slight-bnilt, rather pretty, blue-eyed
little woman, and the crowd chccred her
angry manifestations oi defiance. Finally
all bets were declared off, and, after
old man Pinneo had made speevl. hall
apologetic and half explanatory, Mrs.
Burke consented to ride with Lizzie Fin
Den.
1t is said that these eqnes.riennc
matches originated in Minneapolis. There
is Just enough of the daneeroi. aud even
harbarous in them to attract immense
crowds, and the interest they excite i ri !
the most intense and Lramalic::naiure. To- !
day the contestants were nearly the same
weight. Mrs. Burke weighing ll7:pounds !
and Miss Pinneo l30 pounds. Roth had !.
live swift running horses, and AT the end "f
each mile they were To spring from the !,
one horse they had ridden To another, :
which three men were hardly able To hold !
Mrs. Burke rode five horsss. we'll known |
Is running stock in Nebraska, and Miss |
Pinneo rode five wild and almost unman-
ageable brutes. which she brought from /
Colorado. At the word go" which was
given ai 800, the horses were started and !
plunged wildly down the course. The !
crowd became almost wild with excite |
ment rs the girls rode nearly ABREAST thu. |
first mile around, Pinneo stopping Just |
by the judges stand, sprang from
one horse to another. which three !
men were holding, and made the change
in ten seconds. while Burke. passing
Inc stand, made the change in eigh, seconds, |
and both dashed down the course again. !
Burke had gained ON the change and gained .
also in the heat. She came laundering down
the home stretch at least quarter Of length
ahead amid wild cheering. and, already
lasting the sweets Oi victory. she shook
ler fists in old man Pinneo's face ~ she
went by and shouted. you coward ="
she made her second change from her
morse to fresh one in six and three
ourths seconds, while Pinneo consumed
wclve seconds. Both girls rode splendid
y. Miss Wright, the famous hurdle
'ider Of England, who has but recently
anded in this country. WAS in the Judges
tand, and could not reprcss her cxclama-
ions of admiration. Pinnec lost from in
experience ON making her changes As the
iris went flying around the track. Burke
.ained steadily on Pinnco. and As she rotl.
y the grand stand, her face flushed with
she hardly ever forgot to
hake her fist in old man Pinneo'S face
md tamni him with his defeat Miss Pin
'co lost heart. and her face became the
picture Of miserable disappointment when
he fourth mile was run and Burke came
n nearly a hali-head the hest On the fifth
nile. PinneO seemed Ia Lose strength with
Ter courage, and her limbs seemed hardly I
BILE Ia support her. As she tried to change
% q fresh horse, she sank to the ground. :
ut her father. with an assistant, lifted her
n the horse. and the brute. springing aside. ;
ashed in BY the judges stand, crushing
through a mass of flowers with which her
riends had prepared to crown her victory.
'hirty-One seconds were lost before old
ian PinneO got the horse on To the
curse and with a wicked blow sent him '
numbering down the track Miss Pin /:
eos face was white with fatigue, suffer-
,g, and disappointment. but the
rOwd cheered with the widest
eight, with which the people in less |
ivilized countries greet the bull-ight. (:
lrs. Burke continued 10 gain steadily,
MI Miss PinneO came around each time |
lore discouraged. until finally, despairing {
together and nearly fainting at the end I
the ninth mile, she begged her father,
) she was beaten, 10 let her of from run
ing the last mile "NO; Won must ride