New-York tribune., 1882-03-05
syv UryDPrD MILES IN SLY Days.

Rowcil is beaten and disgraccd. Iazael is
now the champion of the world in siX-dayS
races And what a champion! Nature Ill her
unllindest mood has rarely put together less
inviting specimen of her handiwork. Rcpul-
sive in form and face, with his dull, british
features never lightened by gleam Of intel
ligence. his lack-lustre eye, his loose,
lop-sded, shambling figure his wavering,
awkward gait, he is, perhaps, the least
heroic figure that ever bore OFF a
championship Of any kind. There is abso-
lutclv nothing in the man to dwell on with
satisfaction. More animal than human, there
is no touch Of the thoroughbred in this racer.
IN the look, in the bearing, in every step Of
hgl-bred creature like FOXhall OF lroqaois,
there is something Of dignity. The winner OF
The Derby seems TO be conscious of and TO cNult
in his matchlcss powers and IN his
lofty lineage. There is nothing that Is
not low and grovclling in this new
Champion His uncouth appearance and
ungainly strides have made him an object OF
ridicule in every match in which he has en-
tered, although his extraordinary flcctness has
made him formidable. He gets over the
ground wonderfully fast it is true, although
he seemingly has the cunsiost method POS
sible of doing it.
The triumph Of Udzacl is n step downward
in a rivalry that was low enough al
ready. The defeated champion had little
10 recommend him except stout heart and
legs of uncommon size; but he was
CHEEKY. amiable little fellow, who if his
ambition did not rise higher than the
keeping of an alehCuse on the proceeds of
his races, at least had few vicious qualities,
and with his compact, sturdy figure and
bright, rcsOlute face, was not an unpleasant
object TO look at while he was on the track.
His successor is morOse and sullen, with no
single redceming trait in mind or person. lie
has no friends, and never had any. lie was
put in tins match by a speculative gambler,
who bad no more personal interest III HIM
than he might have IN a gamecock on which
he had laid wager. This gambler paid all
Hazael's expenses, furnished him with trainer
was responsible for everything, and of course
will take nearly all the profits the poor crea-
ture who has done the work getting only money
enough to support himself until another match is
arranged. Before this walk was begun it was
known everywhere among persons interested
in such matters that Hazael was wholly with
ont means and that if he failed to get a share
IL
forced to take to some honest labor, like
shovelling dirt or sweeping the streets He has
no brain for anything higher. But now that
be has reached the highest score on record he
will be able to live Oh his backer until he gets
beaten.
His performance was marvellous one as
showing what a terrible strain can be put on
the human machine without destroying it ut
terly. He has suffered torments during no
small part of the last six days than which those
of the rack could hardly be more severe What
a procession of wan and weary ghosts was
that which staggered around the track yester-
day. The leaders face was distorted by pain,
pinchcd and worn by the killing work of six
days and nights, scanned and fuuOwcd by the
agony which he was undergoing. Fitzgerald,
the second man in the race, blundered on, so
stupid and dull from lack of sleep and ex-
cessive exertOn that he was almost iDScnsibe
to what was going on around him. His face
at the best is uglyj it was now sickening.
More pitiable wretches than the two last men
in the race Hughes and Sullivan, it would
be hardly possible to conceive. To look at
them was to feel shudder of disgust and
horror. For such an exhibition as this
thousands of men gathered i'll the foul and
smoky air o. Madison Square Garden day
after day and night after night 1t
was gathering in which the lowest
elements were most conspicuous. Every
every sneak-thief every gambler,
every criminal Of any class in the city whom
fear Of the police did not keep away, was
present. The rulians who crowd around the
pit at every cock-Gght and dog-fght, The fellows
to whom Sullivan and Ryan are heroes, the heel
ers and bruiscIs and swindlers Of every grade
and every sort, were out in force. few women
were there, but they were chiefly OF the class
that consumes peanuts in public. Some club
men with an idle hour stepped in occasionally
and louuged about for short time. In the
main the attendance at the match, trom the