The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-23
LIT CRUM WON.
Drove Winning Race With Cy
Leland's PAGER.
He Is Judge So Was Eligible
In Lawyers Race.
OLD TRACK HORSES.
They Are Used to a Good Ad-
vantage.
John Nolan Lowers the Track
TrOtting Record.
Went the Mile In 2:14 IA
Without Skip.
OLD TRACK HORSES
Horse Show Brings Out Many
Fancy TurnOutS.

Cy Leland has added one of those
very loud plaid Scotch oats vests to his
wardrobe since yesterday and Lit Crum
will eat at restaurant on $40 meal
ticket for a couple of weeks, and it all
came about this way.
Among the horse show events on
Thursdays programme was the law
yers' race. 1t was to be a half mile
dash, open to lawyers living in Shaw
nee county. Considerable interest was
manifested over this event. All sorts
of stories and rumors We're af1oat. One
of the rumors is that Cy Leland called
his right bower, Lit Crum, over behind
the hop tea stand and said: Look
here, Lit, L can stand new vest and
you can shoot a lunch ticket full of
holes in a week Now I'll tell you what
Wen do: You take my driving horse
there and enter in this race"
why don't your asked Lit Crum,
judge of the court of visitation.
I'm not lawyer
Neither am 1, but all right, I'll do
it, said Crum. THE boys call me
squire since L am judge and I guess
1 would pass for a lawyer"
Now don't work him out too much
and take him round steady. When the
judges ask for the name of the horse
say it is Golden Rod
Crum weighs 250 but he commenced
the work of warming up the horse.
1t was wonderful how owners of fast
horses suddenly became lawyers and
lawyers suddenly became possessed of
fast horses. They were ready to score.
"Cy'S horse against the field. The
field against Cy's horse" yelled the
bookie in the quarter stretch and all
the time Cyrus Leland was standing on
the top of the drivers seat of a hack
not 20 feet away, but he was utterly
oblivious.
The horses were driven onto the track.
Lawyer Brannerman entered Amy
Evans, D. w. Kent registered Emily,
Frank Foster drove Roxy and Lit Crum
gave in the name of his horse as Golden
Rod.
Before the race started Kent went up
to the judges stand to protest. That
sorrel pacing horse there doesn't belong
to a. lawyer he said.
WHO does it belong TOP" inquired
the judge.
1T belongs to a groceryman up here
at Troy"
I'VE will rule him out them said the
judge. BY the way, what is the gro
ceryman's name?"
Leland. Cy Leland"
'Oh, UNI, ah, well er perhaps we had
better let the horse start"
But the driver isn't a lawyer
What is he?"'
''He is judge of the court of vista
''Wen if he is a judge he must be a
lawyer
mo, he is a horseman. 1t doesn't
take a lawyer to be a judge here"
I'VE had better let him start" said
the judge who wants to be a county
commissioner out west.
The horses came down the stretch for
the word. They went under the wire
in a zig gag line.
Come up steady with the rest or
I'll fine you 81 shouted the starter to
Crum.
They went back, circled round, lined
up and came down the second time
Come racing" shouted the starter
at Mr.. Foster. This is no buggy ride,
Iii &c 1,nr <T~
After several attempts they got away
we'll They're off, shouted the crowd
and the bookies did a rushing business
before the horses reached the eighth.
It's the boss against the field and at
two to one" yelled the pool sellers.
Amy Evans took the lead round the
first turn and down the back stretch.
Emily broke badly and Roxy forgot all
about the race and ambled along on the
back stretch. 1t was a close race down
the back stretch between Golden Rod
and Amy Evans. At the quarter Amy
Evans broke but settled down. Around
the turn they went. Amy Evans had
the pole and as they came into the home
stretch Crum pulled Golden Rod out
around the pole horse and the little pac-
err went past Amy Evans with a rush
and down the stretch like a whirlwind,
and under the wire in 1:17H.
Cyrus Leland was standing the
drivers seat of a hack. He was excited.
He yelled and jabbed his umbrella into
the seat cushion.
Inc great lawyers race was over.
Several things have been found out
since Lelands horse was entered I'M
der the name of Golden Rod. The pac-
er's real name is Sol Miller and he holds
a record of 2:19A. He is an old cam
paigner and six or eight years ago was
one of the best race horses in this part
of the country. Tracks in Kansas, Mis-
souri,, Nebraska, Illinois and adjoining
states have seen him as Sol Miller,
go under the wire a winner in many a
big event. Sol Miller was the first three
year old to beat the record of 2:30 for
that age and it was several years ago
that he clipped a second off that mark.
Amy Evans, driven by Lawyer Bran
nirman, was in reality Amy Adams,
a track horse, with a record of 2:24A,
and owned by NJ w. James of Willard
who also owns the great Pilot Evans.
An old time jockey was in the stand.
Everybody thinks horse racing is bad
enough and that jockeys are awful"
he said, but what will it be now that
politics and political bosses have broken
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