The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-07-30

The above cut represents Miss May
White, IF St. Louis, who will ride
for Missouri in the great twenty mile
interstate race between Missouri and
Kansas, at the State Fair in this
city, Wednesday, August II, 1889.
This race, the most interesting, eX-
citing and novel race that will occur
In the West this year, will be begun
at2 clock in the afternoon, Wednes-
day, the second day of the great State
Fair, and will be run On the half
mile race track of the fair grounds.
1t will be a speed race of twenty
miles between Missouri and Kansas.
Miss May White will represent Mis-
souri, and Miss Lizzie Williams, of
Topeka, Kansas, will represent Kan
sas. Each lady will have the privi-
iege of changing horses as often as
she chooses. The entire race of
twenty miles will be run at dead
run-full speed. As both ladies are
elegant and trained riders of long ex-
perience and are in the best of condi-
ton and will have the best of horses,
the race cannot fail to be intensely
exciting. 1t has already begun TO
create considerable interest in this
city, and is a general topic of con-
versatiun. 1t will attract a large at
tendance from all over Central Mis-
souri,. 1t will afford rare
opportunity to those who are sportive-
Nv inclined and large sum of money
will undoubtedly be up on the result.
Sedalians generally feel confidence in
the Missouri lady, and the bulk of
their money Will be bet on her. She
already has the sympathies of the peo-
pie here, as is natural. The race,
though, will be bona fide and impair
tial, and, if the Kansas lady has the
best hors S, or proves the best rider,
she will win. 1t is safe to say she
will have her hackers, and some know.
ing ones will wait to take iii the entire
situation before putting up any
money.
Miss May Whites home is In st.
Louis, where her parents reside. She
is twenty years old and was born on a
stock farm 10 Douglass county. Hi
nois, where her father was farmer
and dealt largely in live stock. He is
now a contractor in st. Louis. Miss
Whites father is skilltul horseback
rider, and her mother, In her younger
wears, was a fearless and rapid rider,
90 that she fairly inherits her eques-
trian propensities.
As related by herself, her first ex-
perience at riding was on her fathers
farm, when FIVE years old. At this
age she would wander alone out into
her fathers pasture, where there was
gentle mare. When the mare was
lying down, little May would climb
UP her side and perch herself on the
mares back. When the mare would
get up and 60 to the water, Nav
would cling to her name; and thus
she took her first horseback rides, at
five years of age. Once, while thus
riding around the pasture, in which
there were quite number of horses,
the horses took frolicsome stampede
and a wild dash around the pasture.
The mare went around with the rest
of them, at full speed, with little May,
without saddle or bride, clinging on
by the mares name. Her mother
saw her in this perllous position and
was nearly frightened to death, ex.
pecting every moment to see her girl
dashed to the ground. She staid on,
however, until the horses stopped and
then slid down to the ground. In
all her wonderful career of riding and
many daring equestrian feats, Miss
White, while she has had many hair.
breadth escapes, has never received
an accident or an injury of any kind.
While she is magnificent rider, she
also seems to have a streak of good
fortune attending her.
After learning to ride docile mare
bareback, she next taught the mare
to kneel by tapping her on the fore
knees with q switch, so she could