The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-11-29
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nI-.sie las iE0iter ii.e-iong study,
and are -riectiY Ilmiiisr with
his achievements. fhey know
Wha he has done. bur lIlsy s3,l not
kn ~ ami cau only TIMELY guess Whist
ae do.
he iacl thai 'he ambitious III. geld
ing Frank has just frosted nilie in
, OeStS 'aitisa g.,,5d deal "a iu-I 10 the
flame 81 lhss interesting speculation
ffuts. IiIUs<. figuIUs re nut so wonderful
a. these THAT opened tue gates 4 death
less fame To Mani y. since F.aHk was
Sustained aad Sa1inId9 10y running
niahr, while Maud nsdc 2:10lt Rns.iosu
aad alone. doing bsr owa paiiing as
w il as her owiI tr.,t,lng Al, he same
sO61s goe, upoa tine ree;Jf ExtfatFtil-
nariiy low fignres they arr. II latiEeiY and
absolutely fHty sho~ The best ssiVant-J
age when compared with thuse which
represented tue crack iFItIIng ot Il quar-
ter rf ceniufy ago b lure the war
~ 40 nn. the plank rOad' WIS u familiar
bit ot slang. and went Io indicate that a
trDtier was considered good one if he
was equal to $40 Nowadays horses
that can trot in rs are not uncommon,
while scores of horses can beat 2 30, not
TO speak of such shining opponents
| of rapid transit as Maud s., Frank,
Jay Eye-See, TrInlzet and st. Julien.
| 1t the future is to repeat the past
how many more seconds will be taken
out of the trOtting record by the end of
this century, or say OF the next? Mr..
Robert Bonner lately informed a Tri-'
bune reporter that he believed the day
was coming when 3 two-minute record
would be "A eommon thing. And by way
OF commenting. his belief to whom it
might concern Mr. Bonner stated
that his own stables contained q
Of mile in 30A seconds.
Assuming that MIR. Bonner is
correct, II is 10 be remarked thst when
mile in two MINUTES is II common thing
| the uncommon trotter will of course
lind no difficulty in striking yet more
nimble gait. How many seconds more
nimble? We have said that there is no
solving this problem. Nevertheless, by
| way OF apprOximating to result, it is
not unfair tn take 1t Tor granted that the
uncommon trotter of the golden age
| when u mile in two minutes is TO he
cannon, will he as mnch faster than
his common contemporary rs the
uncommon trotier of to-day is faster
than the common LrOtter of to-day. In
other words, the coming uncommon
trotter will lead the coming common
trotter by from ten to fifteen seconds,
making his mile in 1 ID or 80.
Now it will general be admitted that
| a horse that can trot a mile IN 40 is in
small danger Of getting left. Still it il
| p0ssible that the record will descend To
a still lower figure. A scientist has arisen
who argues in apparent good faith that in
the good trotting time coming the tIotter
will equal the running horse in speed.
Mr.. Bonner is of the opinion that this
| scientist talks nonsense. Probably he
does. But it is just possible he does
not. 1t has lately been shown by Prof.
Bell before the National Academy
OF Sciences that the marriage of deaf
mutes with deaf mutes tends to
the formation of brand-new va
riety of the human race-a deaf va
riety. Who shall say, then, that in the
course of time. as result of an intelli.
gent scheme Of breeding, a new variety of
the equine race may not be produced-a
race TO which troitIng shall be the normal
| gait, and which shall be practically IN
capable of running? Let such race OF
horses appear and be fully developed
and it may come to pass that some Bon
| ner of the future, alert IN the grand
stand with stop watch in hand, shall see
a tf0tter make his mile IN I 80 or there
abouts.
Evidently the trotting horse has great
future before him.