, 1889-07-10
LARAMIE.

Trainer Collins trotted out the Gramm
hose team of Laramie and everyone list
ened- with bated breath while visitors
from over the hill repeated the declaration
that this aggregation was the best in the
world and could carry double weight,
start ten seconds later and beat anything
on the grounds.
The team is really a splendid one, but
that 1t has been vastly over estimated by
the Laramie people cannot be denied.
Collectively the boys run in grand style
and there are several phenomenal sprinters
in the ranks, but somehow they fail to get
there. For the most part they are big
men who strip like gladiators. They are
modest and gentlemanly.
The Gramm team, it is learned. is
the pick of the Laramie fire department
and the boys have had the advantage of
thorough training by a competent man.
They show it, too. for not a man carried
superfous flesh and each member of the
much praised eleven has developed speed
since Jas. Collins, professional athlete,
was placed in charge. The admirers and
hackers of other teams trembled when the
picturesque Laramie entry took station at
the head of the track.
Their start was the best made by any
team and they did move for n fact,
pounding the earth like quarter horses,
with the distance destroying stride of the
professional. Everybody assisted the
Laramie people at cheering, and no team
received more encouragement from ap-
plause.
The connections were made nicely, but
they were weak in the quarter which de-
stroyed Loveland's chance for the first
money. Collins yelled to the pipeman to
take his time, and there was lots of it.
for the nozzle was in place fully half a
second before the water came. The time
was excellent-really fast-but not up to
the mark in yesterdays rapid company.
1t was 81 . 5. The Laramie people and
not a few Cheyenne men were sadly dis
appointed. This team of reputed air
splitters had been heavily backed.
DURANTs.
Popular people, these Durants. They
had a big faithful following. The team
has never been considered phenominally
fast, but this year good material was
secured and they trained assiduously.
Capt. Hill is a cool, level headed indi-
yiduol ubo ealooto n M ro.bor Co. Ill
around fitness than for one marked quail
f~icatlon. if that attribute is speed; but the
men were speedy, or were brought into
that condition by practice. The men were
OF medium size, lusty, sturdy, ambitious,
ready to make a run for their lives. These
boys seemed to have more personal friends
along the line than members of the other
teams, and each received a kindly final
injunction from some admirer.
A portion of the harness broke at the
start and the team was called back to the
score. They were not superstitious and
nothing daunted again leaned forward for
the word. Now they were off like a can
non ball and the speed seemed to be
accelerated as they skinned over the
smooth track. The man detailed to assist
the plugman was just a trifie slow, but no
one censured him. The nozzle was well
in place when water issued in 81 seconds
fiat, only one-fifth of a second slower than
the remarkable runs of the Mackys of
Boulder and the Alerts. The hackers and
friends of the Durants are we'll satisfied,
and the boys were heartily congratulated.
Ali their work was done quietly and on
the track.
FORT COLLINS.
The Fort Collins nomination was e
hurriedly gathered, pickup team which
found its company altogether too fast.
They made such a run as a rapid team
makes when first organized-good enough
but TOO slow. The assistant to the plug
man was a heavy beef eater who allowed
himself to be pulled past the plug and de.
layed the team a couple of seconds. Their
time was 81.
SUMMARY.
HOOK AND LADDER.
Poudre Valley of Greeley 3 5
Pioneer of Cheyenne....................2S 2-5
First money to Greeley, second to Chey-
enne.
WEI TEST.
Alerts of Cheyenne................ ....30 4 5
Macky of Boulder. 4 8
Durants Of Cheyenne.............3l
Gramm OF Laramie. . 5
Loveland 3 5
Clarks of As
rort Colllns.
Alerts and Mackys are tie for first
money. Team defeated in the run off at
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