The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-10-11
Old Man Still Talks to the
Editor of His Home
Paper.
He Has No Love for the Man
ayers of the Bismarck
Association,
And Thinks Cricket Would Have
Won Here Had She Been
Treated Right.


/. has Just had an interview with Mr.. Henri
: Still, father of Cricket, and the followin
' Is what he has Ia say in regard Ia the tw
: races hi> daughter had with Miss Nclii
Archer of this city:
4 1T il not strange that there l. genera
: Misrepresentation in the public mind In re-
: gard La the twenty mile race at Bismarck
Tor the facts I'm the case have never beei
| given Ia the public There seems To- hav,
, been an agreement amongst the reporter
on that occasion Ia sustain the decision o
; The judges. | have read AMI compareC
seven or eight different accounts and N,
two agree in the particulars Only tw,
ont oi the lot agree IN their scores and vel
they say unanimously that their ialiies
are exactly like those of the Judges Well
guess they are. Ny Own opinion i that
the Jolly vouths who occupied the report
ers' stand were like the majority OF the
spectators, 81 carried away 10y excitement
that they neglected their notes and after
wards patched up their several accounts "i
the race from memory and hearsav. ~ Ia
the Judges, their reasons are brSt known
To themselves. The public can only sur
mise, and their surmises are anything bu,
charitable. A great deal of blame has
| been thrown upon Crickets managers
/ 1t is true that she Was not handled IL
she should have been. but Major
Shreve did the best hc could under the cir
cumstances. He took charge of the mat
ter less than w.ek bcfor. the race. He
had great odds 10 contend against, and If
! he had no: at the last moment insisted
upon procuring thee new horses the race
would have been a miserable farce instead
of the brilliant affair that II was. We pro-
cured al Lawrence, within twelve hours
alter the race, some seventy names of par
tics who kept tally and they all agree that
upon the fortieth round Cricket was from
eighty 10 one hundred yards ahead. They
all agree that she ran foriy-twu rounds
| We ate constantly receiving letters To the
same effect. Ii does not seem probable
that these people can all Toe mistaken and
only the Judges and reporters right. But
even admitting that all these disinter-
ested witnesses are incorrect and that Mis-
souri, was ahead three and one-half feet on
the ioriieth round, still Cricket won the
race. How is that? I'll tell you. Some
where about the middle of the race Cork
( Boy carried her 4 two and one-half mile
heat, During that heat Miss Archer
.
nearly half a mile on her. When | saw
that sprang from the carriage where !
WAS sitting and ran To- her, crying
The race is ours-Missouri will never
make up that haif-mile :" and she never
did till after the race was finally called
and Cricket had dismounted when her
trainer sent her another round. This fact
has been overlooked by must of the spec
tators. None of those astute REPORTERS
seem To have noticed it But the tour GEN
tlemen who occupied the timers stand, Mr..
Smeed, CHIEF engineer OF the Kansas
Pacific railroad, &. A. Smith.
superintendent OF the speed ring
al Bismarck q. " Grover, superin-
tendent of the horse and cattle department.
all agree that Cricket rode fortytwo rounds
and that she Was nearly half a mile ahead
AT the end Of the race.
"IIow about the Sedalia race"
Everything upon the part of the Soda
dalia association was done with the ut
most fairness In fact we were treated
by everybody with the greatest kindness
and consideration. Cricket WAS almost a,
great a favorite there as at Bismarck. Ii
the Bismarck association had kept faith
with us, she would have son there without
a donb;. They sent but four Of the hors,s
That they promised-the rest were lame.
halt and vicious One hor~e was procured
from a chariot team on the ground and We
never saw him ill Cricket mounted him
for the race. While riding Mollie Moore
the siirrup strap broke and Cricket lost an
even mile by this mishap."
Gould she not have galloped her horse !
without stirrup?"
Some horses she could, but not this one |
Mollie was fresh and keen and pulling |
very hard away from the pole-the field
being full Of people who leaned over the l
fence yelling in,the horses very ears. Our /.
horses were not used la IL and some of them 4
would pull To the outside because they !
were afraid.
Wasn't she discouraged by this delay ," /
Not at all. She seemed only la be- |
moved Ia desperation by il. She was dis
couraged before she began. She had no
faith in her horses. and was grieving So
much about the death OF the president.
that she had eaten nothing that day. Alter
the accident she rode like mad and had re-
trievcd one half al her lost mile when the
second accident befell her. The chariot
horse, GRAY Alien. bOlted through a gap
in the fence and a. he bounded into the
crowd some coward struck him with an
causing him to- take sidewise
leap which un.eated her. She struck
upon her head and shoulders but with the
exception of being slightly stunned was
not hurt at all. She was the recipient of
much sympathy and attention and We were
told bv Missourians that at
east two-thirds OF the great crowd would
have been glad To see her win Is she most
would if all had been we'll, for
Miss Archer and her horses were nearly
worn ont, and her friends had given up
Inc race when Cricket's mishap occurred"
Stocking yarns only 65c a pound. nj
no tll Reliable S..d.lia lyn,l.,, N;ii.