The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-09-19
How Cricket Still Won the
Twenty-Five Race
at st. Paul,
And in so Doing Set the Ma
tives Wild with Old
Time Enthusiasm.
The Excellent Time Made in Sc.
dalia Last Year LAID in
the Shade.

Those who attended Sedalia's Exposition
last year will no doubt call To minc Miss
Cricket Still, the young lady from Beloit,
Kas wkO rode several twenty mile races
with Miss Nellie Archer, Of this city, in
which contests the latter lady MAS nearly
always successful. Since then Cricket u
has been riding i'm different PORTIONS of the
country, and has made for herself gnite a
name, as the following from The ST. Paul
(Minn.) Pioneer Press attests:
THE TwENTY-MILE RACE
But the sharp and exciting twenty mile
race of the day before had whetied The an
ticipstion of the crowd, and it waited i'm
patiently the appearance of the Two petite
misses whose reputation as intrepid riders
had preceded them. The race Was called
shortly after 4 O'clock, Miss Peek making
her appearance first, fron. the Enclosure
Just back of the judges stand, mounted ON
Luhrie. She was dressed in black habit,
trimmed with broad collar OF white lace
Little Cricket appeared shortly after from
the Enclosure in which her horses were
kept, halfway down the first quarter and
around the turn. She was mounted on
Resumption. and entered the contest v it'll
horses which had not participated in the
the race, and which, with one or two ex-
ceptions, had been brought to Minneapolis
by her ior the contest. The riders were
nearly of size, both of them weighing less
than ninety pounds, and both rode with
exceptional grace and
WITHOUT A SIGN OF FEAR
Little Cricket, the Kansas girl. was
dressed in u suit of blue velvet, and as she
passed the grand stand was greeted with
applause, to which she responded with
wave of the whip. She sat almost erect i'm
the saddle, we'll poised and graceful, with
rather more of dash in her styie than her
competitor, the Michigan girl 1t didn't
take long to get them of, Cricket leading
and Peek close after her. A blanket would
have covered both horses the first quarter
of q mile, but the little Michigan girl
gradually went to the front, and led two
lengths at the half mile post, and came
down the heme stretch like the wind, de-
termined to take fresh horse Her mis-
fortune commenced with the change, for it
was slowly made, SO far as hurrying the
horses together was concerned, but once in
the saddle she stuck to it with tenacity
of A. Ia a pane of glass. She mounted
for the second mile Lightning, while
Cricket contented herself with the horse
she rode, and went down the back stretch
fully an eighth of mile in the lead.
Lightning proved a two-hile horse, and
while Cricket was making a lightning
change to the back of Gen. Rowett, she
succeeded In
OvERHAUIING HER ADVERSARY,
and the two went down the track very
nearly together. Cricket took fresh
horse, and the two got off on the third
mile at Cricket's changing place neck and
neck, with the sympathies of the crowd
about equally divided. But while Peek
changed to Ollie Baker for the fourth mile,
Little Cricket stuck tenaciously to the
General, not only sending him for the Sec
Ond, but the third mile, finishing the fifth
mile by her little coup nearly three-eighths
of q mile i'm the lead. Cricket made a
change to her third horse for the sixth
mile with admirable speed, and went away
on fresh horse, while Peek followed a
quarter of a mile behind on a weary horse,
the Kansas girl gradually increasing this
gap, which was widened still more by her
sending her horse for. the second mile,
while Miss Peek took gray horse for her
opponent nearly half a mile i'm front OF
her. For the eighth mile Cricket made a
change-the slowest of her ride, Peek TAX
ing the horse that had narrowed the dis
tanoe down from a half mile to quarter
before the ninth mile was entered, for
which Cricket made no change while the
Michigan girl took fresh horse at the loss
of only a second or two, and was off like
the wind, still
DETERMINED TO WIN
Cricket made a change on the tenth mile,
and Peek chung to her animal, reducing
the distance 10 about a quarter, the fieeier
and fresher animal of her opponent widen |
ing il toward the finish. It.was evident
from the first that the little lady in black |
was not so cleverly handled as her COM
petitor. and never more so than when the |
eleventh mile was entered, both riders |
changing slowly, and Peek losing all she |
had gained by her horse shying to the side /
of the track. But her i'll lqck did not end |
here. While Cricket was fying along for |
her second mile on Gen. Rowett. Peek's /
horse refused to run under the wire; there |
was a rapid leading of an animal down the i
track and a leap to its back, with the horse /
making Tor the quarter stretch. This all !
took time. The sympsthies of the crowd /
went out to her i'm her misfortune, and she !
got a round of applause as she finished the |
the thirteenth mile fully three-eighths of a
mile behind. AS the riders went away on |
the thirteenth mile. after rapid changes,
there was not more than
HALF MILE BETWEEN THEM,
Cricket taking the opportunity on the
fourteenth to change leisnrely, while Peek !
made clever one ihout beirg able TO
cut down that half. MisiortuDes followed
the little girl in black, and as she came in
on the fifteenth mile sudden turn of the
horse, misplaced hand or something,
threw her to the ground under the heels of
her horse. The crowd rose in horror at an
impending calamity, but vented their en-
in cheers as she picked herself
up, ran rod, was thrown into the saddle,
and was off, followed by the cheers of ten
thousand people for her pluck. An in
ventory of stock made later showed that