St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-21
BIG DAY FOR MORRIS
Strathmeath Was First at Tie
Wire in the Rich Chi
eago Event.
After Many Trials the Morris
Stable Chalks Up a
Derby Won.
Large Gathering and a Good
Raee--High Tariff Died on
the Track.
High Tariff, After a Noble
Effort, Falls Dead on the
Course.
Fifty Thousand People See
the Contest of Turf
Monarchs.
The Winner Carried Most of
the Money Bet by the
Public.

CHICAGO, June 20.-Death to one
horse. $4,000 to another-that was the
American Derby of 1891. A scarlet
flash on the horizon, half a hundred
thousand people breathless, the CLEAN
or white beneath wire, and the richest
stake race ever run in the West was at
an end. 1t was by Strathmeath. New
York's favorite son, the battle royal
was won. Half mile off. where had
been the thick Of the fight, lay motion
less on the track the corpse of his foe to
the death, High Tariff. Tom Kiley, the
gallant beasts rider, twice a Derby vic
tor on that very course, had this time
pushed the limit of equine endurance.
There was sudden plunge upward, a
queer stagger of twenty yards and High
Tariff sunk down in the mud lifeless.
Whether in point of great horses,
famous jockeys, magnifcence of fash
ionable display and marvellous outpour-
ing of people, as we'll as in the
Sensational Incidents
and bulky purse, probably no such race
was ever witnessed this side of the AL
misunderstanding not III Chicago. No
one of the seven Derbies that in preced-
ing years have made Washington parks
celebrity more than fringed in interest
the classic event of to-day. Just
enough brilliance shone through the
partly overcast sky to light up the hun
dredS of gay bonnetS and bright hued
parasol that peeped out everywhere from
club house to gate. Such a multitude
of the fair sex as put in appearance was
something wholly unprecedented here,
and so great was the crush that hun
dreds of them were wedged helplessly
in the enormous mob of heterogeneous
male sports that packed the lawn solid
in front OF the betting
ring. But for the jam of human
lty, the day would have been
the perfection of temperature for the
spectators. Once within the confines of
the park, however. faces speedily
flushed and persplration dripped, as the
eager thousands pushed each other
backward and forward in huge waves.
No aisle or stairway in the grand stand
afforded an inch of unused standing
room. Its galleries and roof were
Black With People,
while the approaches from end to end
of the stretch, including even the club
house grounds reserved for members
and friends, were full almost to suffON
cation. The infield showed line after
line of vehicles-tallyhos, victorias.
cabs, what not-lOaded down with peo-
pie, stretching in bewildering succession
far beyond the point to the rear where
by any possibility glimpse of the
course could be had. Stable 1Ops.
telegraph poles and fences to each point
of the compass seemed literally feS-
TONED with wOuld-be lookers-on, hang
ing to pickets or other points of vantage
as if life depended on the result. Ey-
erybody agreed that, despite the Yield
ing, duStlesS con dition of the soil that
recent rains had left, the race, with the.
array of powerful animals entered. was
to be struggle fit for kings to see, or,
for that matter. worthy spectacle for
the vast throng of American sovereigns
that had gathered on the course. OF
the ten noble brutes that were to make
the contest, the unbeaten Kingman, not
to mention High Tariff, Forerunner.
Valera aid Michael, had in MANY a
hard Western race under similar track
conditions given evidence of remarka-
Bile form. On Eastern tracks Pessara
and SNOWFALL were no less notable.
Ludowic was looked upon by Califor-
mans, who were supposedly best able
to judge him, as almost certain to prove
surprise, while Strathmeath, regard
ed as
The AlI-Round Best
of last years two-year-olds, had been
reserved all the present season solely
for this race. Snapper" Garrison. Ia
raj, CoYington and Fitzpatrick, proba-
bly, four as crack Jockeys as almost any
equal number now on the turf-had
been brought specially for the race from
New York, and it was current gossip
that Garrlson's pet ambition was to ride
an American Derby winner. Tom Kiley,
too, the winning jockey of the two latest
of the Chicago contests, was to have a
mount. and with il chance, if success
full, to equal the record of the ideal rider.
Isaac Murphy. So intent was the huge
concourse of people on the real event of
the day that the first two races
passed almost unnoticed, except
when Isaac Lewis, who was
to ride the formidable Kingman in the
Derby, appeared in the second race
astride of Santiago. The friends of the
Blue Grass Derby favorIte gave volley
of encouraging cheers as they noticed
how deity he handled himself in the
saddle. Again the Kingmau admirers
applauded when Lewis forged in front
with Santiago in the back stretch and
the enthusiasm became general as
Lewis, taking the dryer grouud near
the outside fence. jumped in winner.
Many Misguided Kentuckians
and other we'll meaning persons now
straightway went to the betting booths
and pinned beautiful long green bills on
Kingman in the faith that Lewis could
repeat the trick in the Derby. The CON
fusion in the bookmakers' quarters as
the time for the big race approached
was by long odds the worst ever wit
messed in Washington park. and the
bedlam, scarcely mitigated, spread TO
the other portions of the grounds.
So many thousand wild steers at the
stockyards could hardly have made such
a believing or more maddening jostle.
The roof over the heads of the book
makers and the thousands of eager
gamesters had by this time become thick
with other thousands unable to gain adj