The record-union., 1897-01-25
GLEASON'S HARD AFTERNOON.
4 Lively Wrestling Match With a Tough
Mare.
The Brighton Terror, Though Hard
Fighter, Was Forced to
Surrender.


fessor Gleason put in three hours OF
hard work at the Pavilion yesterday
afternoon in his efforts to bring under.
subsection some of the toughest specl-
mems of horsefesh that any man ever
undertook to handle.
The first animal taken into the ring
was a fine-1ooking bay mare owned IN
this city, which recently developed a
mania for kicking. The Professor pun
her through the usual course OF
sprouts and when she appeared TO
have forgotten all about kicking he had
her harnessed to his little wagon
| He drove the mare a couple Of times
| about the ring, and then had the rear
| half of the harness, containing the
breeching, removed. He started the mare
| up again, but instantly her heels hasned
in the air. and then began tattoo on
| the front Of the wagon that made the
drummer Of the band green with envy.
The mare didn't do thing but demonsh
the front axle of that wagon, and 1t had
to be carried out Of the ring in pieces.
But Gleason did not quit at that. He
had two of his helpers dangle pair Of
whiffie about the mares hind legs and
kept her in the ring until she trotteo
around as smoothly as any livery AMI
| NAL.
The Professors next subject was
gritty little gray mare and STUBBORN
fighter. The first thing Gleason o1o
was to get a bride and surcingle on her.
Then he tied up one foreleg and under
| took to throw her. The result was one
Of the prettiest Graeco- Roman Wrest-
ling matches ever seen in local arena.
| The mare acted on the defensive all the
time, but after a long and hard struggle
| the Professor-Who is considerable OF an
| athlete-forced her over upon her SIDE
in the sawdust and held her there de-
spite her vigorous struggles to throw
him off.
While in that position drums were
beaten about her head and tin pans
ratified around her until she got SO that
she lay quietly On the floor and PAID no
attention to the racket.
| Having no vehicle In which to drive
her. the Professor leaped upon her back,
although it was said she had never been
ridden, and after riding her about the
ring several times she was taken out
Then came the piece de resistance"
SO to speak. 1t was renewal OF the
struggle begun on Saturday night 10
subdue the Brighton Terror" a White
horse that embodies more Of the devil to
the square-inch than probably any
horse in the State. She is "a fighter from
away back" and fought in a way that
no other horse Gleason has handled In
this city had ever thought Of. Her
favorite method was to get on her hind
legs and saw the air with her front ones,
for all the world like a novice in box
ing bout, and several times she came
near landing on the Professors assis-
| tantS.
After a while the white demon was
| harnessed and the way she did kick
around the ring was a caution In the
meantime a common express wagon had
been procured, and to this the Brighton
fighter was harnessed. AS soon as
Gleason mounted the seat, however, she
reared up straight and threw herself
over on her side. This performance was
repeated again and again until finally
the equine gave up and acknowledged
that the plucky Professor was her mas
ter by trotting smoothly about the ring,
turning short corners with the heavy We
hicle and acting like fairly well broken
animal.
It was now nearly O'Clock, and
though Gleason had worked harder for
two hours than ever a. prize fighter IN
training had worked in a whole day, he
did not quit. All three of the fighting
mares were then hitched uD abreast,
and he staid with them till they sub
mitted to being driven about the ring.
Professor Gleason announced that by
next Thursday he would have pen con-
structed in which he would face vic
ious stallion and give the public an il
Iustration of his methods in overcoming
one of these fierce and hardfghting
| Ir>Jitoc