St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-03

high building for quart of beer, when the
foot of the latter slipped on the top round
OF the ladder. Mr.. Straus remarked: at
makes $1,000 or $4,000 difference to me
whether Majoiica wins this, but / would
cheerfully give up the money if l could have
the triumph" The first heat settled his
hopes as completely as the last one did. and
then people began to summon their COM
mon sense to the front and say, why did
he have the temerity to match horse that
never went a mile in public or private bet
ter than 2:17 against one with a
record OF 2:13% in fourth heat,
with ten heats to his credit
better than 2:17, and who had already
shown himself this season to be on the
keenest OF edges? However, he did have
the temerity, and took his medicine with
good grace, and we must admire his pluck,
II not his discretion, for he rejected all
propositions to make the match any differ
ent from the conditions of his challenge,
VIZ; Winner take all. Back of Mr.. Straus,
to his left, sat Mr.. Case. and his hardware
countenance betrayed little of the state of
his feelings as his grand horse, in view of
THAT grand crowd of spectators, strobe on
proudly 10 assured victory. By his side sat
Mi. Harrison DGrkee, cOntempatively
sucking the end of his cane, and rejecting
what he lost when he parted with Dictator;
whlle Mr.. Robert Bonner, owner of Ma
JOllcaS sire and former owner of Maioliea.
enscOnced in an arm chair on the piazza.
could easily be philosophical over the
event, because his fayorite Hambletonian-
Star cross was bound to win i'm either case.
Yet the MambrinOites had equal cause for
clarifying, Phallas having double cross of
their favOrite blood, his dam being Betsy
TrOtwOOd, by Clark Chief, son of Mann
brine Chief, and grandam of Ericsson.
another son of Mambrino Chief A friend
of mine writes me that ne has marked I'D
the price of mare of his $500 since the
race, because she has double Mambrino
Chief cross.
The details of the fiasco will be found
elsewhere. L do not think, outside of the
wonderful capabilities developed by Phal-
las, it interested me as much as did re-
mark made to me by Mr.. w. c. France. |
had asked him what he thought of Phallas,
and he replied: Il think just this: Il had
been ready to make match with Harry
W; lkeS against him, but now l do not wish
to do anything of the kind. l have seen
en- ough to convince me that he can beat
my horse. Yet l believe that Harry can
give him better race than any other trot-
ter on the turf can, and would be glad to
make races with him for a certain proper
ton of purse or gate money" The frank
ness OF this statement from the owner of a
great crack is almost beyond belief.
Said the veteran Alden Goldsmith to me
last Friday:
You ought to have been out West with
US this year. never saw anything like ii. >"
In what reSpect?" L asked.
why, the new trOtterS and the new
drivers" said he. ''You couldn't calculate
on anything. These horses would come
down from the backwoods that nobody
knew anything about, and with drivers that
nobody ever heard Of; but the trotters would
have 50 much speed that the hayseeds be-
hind them had nothing to do but hold the
lines. and the old drivers couldn't make any
combination that would be at them. Maybe
the old guard can get the best of them on
the Grand Circuit tracks, but l tell you the
countrymen dOwned them out West" Mr.
Goldsmith was campaigning with Walnut
and UnOlala, and two new volunteers
named Domestic and Tracy.