Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-24
DAILY WAS TWINS.
HOW HE WON THE SIX DAY WALK
 ING MATCH IN DENVER.

ey by Pair of DrOmios-The Managers,
 However, Were No SIouches.
 ''Talking about real sport remarked a pink shirted westerner at the National the other evening to a crowd of loungers, 'do any of you fellows happen to remem- Der the great six day go as you please walking match out in Denver in 1880? That was a real good old walking match. It was the hot stuff. Let me tell you about it. Well, two men out.in Denver caught tho idea that there would be money in good match there. Mark Thall and J. H. Love were the men. You've heard of theinp No? Well, they're hustlers, tell you. They're in the theatrical busi- ness out on the coast now and making money right and left. So these two fel- lows get up walking match. Denver WAS booming then, and the merchants all clipped in on the purses. Why, in no time Mark Thall and his partner bad over $3, GOO raised for the first prize. Then they built great wigwam with track around the inside edge and raised seats in the middle. About 15 or 16 men started out for the big purse-Rocky Mountain Sam and Blacky Davis and Old Sport Campana and Pete Williams and whole lot of them. There was also little fellow nam- ed Bill Daly, but nobody figured him in it because he didn't look very strong.
 Well, as said, the match started. It cost money to get in the door, for. Mark Thall and his partner were out for the dust, but everybody went. That walking match was the hit of the town, and tenderfoots money was as good to old Mark as anybody's. The pedestrians just hoofed it around that old track, tell you. Day and night they kept going trottin on the oalzum, ain't that what the sports say? Of course they had to go in their tents to sleep O little and to eat and rest Rocky Mountain Sam took the lead. My, what a stride that man hadl He wore moc- casins, and tho way he walked was a eau tion. Old Sport Campana hustled right along, too, but toward the last he lay down and wasn't in it. All the others kept well up to Rocky Mountain Sam for two or threo days, and among them was this young Bill Daly.
 "The fourth day Daly commenced to pull out and soon passed Rocky Mountain Sam. The latter was getting mighty stiff, and young Daly was just as fresh as could be. All that day the two raced with each other, and about II o'clock that night they went to their tents, dead played out, Itell you. Well, sir. by gum, it wasn't more than three hours until young Daly was out on the track again, looking as fresh as daisy and going like a race horse. Rocky Mountain Sam's trainer saw tho young fellow, and so he gets Sam right out on tho track. Tho pace had been so swift that day that Sam was all used up. His feet were swollen, and he was sick. But he was the ganest man I ever saw. He just trots off on that oakum and keeps right after Bill Daly. They kept it up all night, and about o'clock in the morning Billy Daly goes into his tent. Sam was only too glad to follow suit, you can bet, for his feet were as heavy as lead. All the other fellows in the race saw that ltlfrS YfcS, were not in it and corf'inonced dropping l. out.
 Lwould be on the track much the fifth dan ,',i but after they had bcefNin about two E Bill comes out and godS skipping ,,5yund, whistling Yankee Daodle' Everybody remarked how fresh De looked. Sam's friends gets him right 4 ,\Ftoo, and pushes him along. Poor SanH Heas tho worst bro ken down stage horse you ever saw, but game-there never was gamer man! All the boys wanted him to win because they had their money on him, so they brought a brass band up that day to march with
 
 him whisky in the arm and all that.
 "Daly went into his tent that night and staid all night, and Sam did tho same, you can bet your life The next day was the sixth and the last day, and the match was to come to an end at 10 o'clock that night. Neither Jim nor Sam did much until about 5 o'clock that evening, and then they went on tho track, one to outspurt tho other Tho whole town was there, and excitement was hot. Everybody in Denver was for Rocky Mountain Sam be- cause he looked so dead tired and was so game Young Daly didn't want any ap- plause. All he wanted was that big stake, so he trots along easy, looking like race horse just out for exercise. ItFgot down to the last hour. Bill Daily was running easy and was gaining one lap in five on poor old Sam. The young fellow was al ready 40 miles ahead of tho Rockies pride, but Sam was hoping all along that he could como up and pass the little fellow. But when the last hour came old Sam saw that the jig was up, and he just falls down in the sawdust, clean gone, played out. The Daly boy didn't seem to notice that his competitor was out of it, but runs right along, trying to beat the worlds rec ord. He didn't quite go under the record, but he won the big Denver go as you please and Mark Thall and his partner put c check for SB,O00 in his fist.
 When old Sam got well-it took him two weoks-he made an investigation, and it didn't take him long to. find out that that was fixed race. You see, that d-d Bill Daily was twins Yes, that's what he was. His twin brother Jim looked just like him to dot So when Mark Thall and his partner gets up the match they goes up in Oregon and gets these twins to walk the match for half the first money. Bill would walk until he got tired, and then ho would go in the tent, and in m hour or so Jim would como out Nei- ther one of them could walk much, or they would have beat the world's s record.