The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-18
DAILY WAS TWINS
HOW HE WON THE SIX DAY WALK
ING MATCH IN DENVER.

A Sporting Event In Which Rocky Noun
tain Sam Was swindIed Out OF First Mon
ey by Pair of Dromios-The Managers,
However, Were No SIOuches.
Talking about real sport, " remarked
pink shirted westerner at the National
the other evening TO crowd OF loungers,
''do any of YOU fellows happen TO remem-
Der the great six day 90 as you please
walking match out in Denver in 1880?
That was real good old walking match.
1t was the hot stuff. Let me tell you
about it, Well, two men out in Denver
caught the idea that there would be money
In good match there. Mark Thall and
J. II. Love were the men. You've heard
of them? No? Well, they're hustlers, I
tell you. They're in the theatrical bust
ness out on the coast now and making
money right and left. So these two fell
lows get up a walking match. Denver
was booming then, and the merchants all
Clipped in on the purses. Why, in no
time Mark Thall and his partner had over
SO, 600 raised for the first prize. Then they
built great wigwam, with track around
the inside edge and raised seats in the
middle. About ID or Is men started out
for the big purse-Rocb,y Mountain Sam
and Blacky Davis and Old Sport Campana
and Pete Williams and whole lot of
them. There was also little follow nam
ed Bill DAILY, but nobody figured him in
it because he didn't look very strong.
''Well, as l said the match started. tt
cost money TO get in the door, for Mark
Thal and his partner were out for the
dust, but everybody went. That walking
match was the hit OF the town, and a
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 oakum, amt that what the sports
say? OF course they had to 90 in their
tents to sleep a little and to eat and rest.
Rocky Mountain Sam took the lead. My,
what q stride that man had! He wore moe
casins, and the way he walked was eau
ton 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
three days, and among them was this
young Bill DAILY.
1.-The fourth day DAILY commenced to
pull out and soon passed Rocky Mountain
Sam. The latter was getting mighty stiff,
snd young DAILY 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,
/ tell you. Well, sir, by gum, it wasn't
more than three hours until young DAILY
was out on the track again, looking as
fresh as daisy and going like a race
horse. Rocky Mountain Sans trainer
saw the young fellow, and so he gets Sam
right out on the track. The pace had been
SO swift that day that Sam was all used
10 foot TIARA swollen and he WAS sick
But he was the gamest man ever saw.
He Just trots off on that oakum and keeps
right after Bill DAILY. They kept it up all
night and about l O'Clock in the morning
Billy DAILY 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 they
were not in it and commenced dropping
out
Nobody thought that Bill and Sam
would be on the track much the fifth day,
but after they had been in about two hours
Bill comes out and goes skipping around,
whistling Yankee Doodle Everybody
remarked how fresh he looked. Sans
friends gets him right out, too, and pushes
him along. Poor Sam was the worst bro
ken down stage horse you ever saw, but
game-there never was a gamer man! All
the boys wanted him to win because they
had their money on him, so they brought
q brass band up that day TO march with
Sam and help him along, and they gave
him whisky in the arm and all that.
''DaIy went into his tent that night and
staid Ill night, and Sam did the 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 the track, one 10 outspurt
the 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 DAILY 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. 1t got 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 the Rockies pride,
but Sam was hoping all along that he
could come 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 DAILY boy didn't seem TO notice that
his competitor was out OF II, bub Iuils
right along. trying 10 beat the world S rec
ord He didn't quite go under the record
but he won the big Denver go as YOU
please, and Mark Tha1 and his partner
put a check for So, 600 in his fist.
when old sam got well-it took him
two weeks-he made an investigation
and it didn't take him long to find out
that that was a fixed race. You see, thai
id Bill DAILY was twins Yes, that
what he was. His twin brother Jim looked
lust like him to a dot. So when MARI
Thall and his partner gets up the mattel
they goes up in Oregon and gets thes'
twins TO walk the match for half the frs
money. Bill would walk until he got tired
and then he would go in the tent and II
an hour or so Jim would come out. Nei
Their one of them could walk much. or the!
wouId have beat the worlds record
But the twins got beat out Of TIL
purse. after all That check that Mari
Thall and his partner gave them turne'
out to be no good, and when the twin
kicked Mark Thal says What's eaJii
~tkemf' They said they'd give the thins
away. and Mark SAYS. Then Rocky Noun
fsin sam will get the prize Oh. Mari
THAI and Jim Love were no sloucheS. -
Washington Post.
Short History of New York.
At one of the annual dinners of the New
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