Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-04-24

From the Sportsman
In 1880 we organized O Roman chariot racing
company, and fulfilled quite q number of
engagements; and the following spring, 1881,
we gathered together eight horses that could
run half-mile under saddle with weight up,
from SIS. to 1:O4, and as the color, size and
general appearance as well as speed, had to be
considered, we found that we had taken no
sinai TASK; However, four bay horses and the
oai a nun per OF gray ones were gotten together
anu ,ho put into condition for a campaign through
90 a halfmile in 1:O6.
we were, happily, surprised to find that we
nao run the first heat in 1.O2, and as the meet
ing ing progressed our horses steadily improved,
Teams passing under the wire at the same time,
nead ana head, making almost q dead heat
s Many thought that the bay team could have
gone raster, and speculation was rife as to how
last That team could run in four-in-hand har-
ne ness. Arrangements were made for o pubic
oIlai and pools sold, spectators laying two to
one on 81 against the team and 100 to nothing
On 90. Inc team started, pulling a $50 pound
G Seaf ana aoopound man, and finished the
greatest ease. None of these horses had ever
SHOWN s1 their ability to run a halfmile SO fast
ny several seconds under saddle. We next APP
peared in Michigan, where the teams scored q
dead heat in Sc seconds. and no heat was run
slower SLOW than 90 seconds during the meeting.
The following week the Intelligent ones
cropped q few hundred, backing Sc seconds
against the teams, the time being IS seconds.
A slow track at Cincinnati prevented q reduc-
ton OF the record, but at Pittsburg the follow
ing week, on the occasion Of the great maud
SIS wonderful, and at that time un-
equaled 2.1Ol2 these teams actually ran q half
mile as officially timed in 81 seconds
AT Chicago 541a seconds was the best shown
three months, during which time these teams
ran 40 heats in 90 seconds or better, and on
November 10, at Columbia, s. c., they actually
ran three-quarters of mile in the remarkable
time OF 1 minute and 21 seconds When the
last time Is taken into consideration that these
horses were only la!f-bred, and none of them
mi 10 in, lass k,oy, O
ohds, under the saddle, it must be admitted
mat the vast amount of speed shown and OBJ
tributed to the wsy of soinn % must pc at
entirely removed from the back accounts tor
the the great rate of speed attained by these slow
norses such has been our experience that
there is no doubt i'll our minds about horse
nelng able to run faster and stay longer in har-
ness than to saddle.
we are OF the opinion that first-class horse
Say - race,horse that can go mile under sad
Die In l:43 or 1:44-could as easily go over the
better. We might go still further and argue in
support of this proposition that by breaking
shhoroughbreds to harness, giving them a great
share OF this preparatory work in harness
would not only save the legs of the youngsters
ana crlpples, but would transfer their handling
20 the hands OF men OF mature judgment and
experience: In the foregoing article we have
endeavored to show that the speed of the run.
n ne. mas not, nor, in our opinion, never will be
tuiiy developed until the breeder and trainer
for thoroughbreds.
Ingenuity Rewarded.
He had a back load of feather busters as he
rang the door bell on Montcalm street east YES
terday, and when woman opened the door
about two inches and said that nothing was
wanted. he inquired:
Madam, will you kindly inform me who
lives next door,"
Next door," she queried, coming out on the
soep. why, It's a new family and don't re-
member the NAME"
Lodi
she?' "a S'' i'' "oosn
"Rather."
u thought so. That's the way with those sort
vi people; they put it a IL on their backs l
asked her II she didn't want a buster to dust
on on ner upholstered furniture and bric-a-brac,
ana an she Slammed the door in my face She
hian have any to dust, you see. People who
nave push furniture and articles of virtu and
madam?' ~ "''''
~ -e-s. What did you say the price wasp
oeVenty-nve cents, madam, and the woman
next door Is peering through the parlor blinds
is she? Well, I'll take one, and If there
should De any other invention to dust brio a
1 1 ana Oil paintings you might call around.
LOU may also bring me box of polish tor M v
siVefWare. "-DetrOH Free Press