The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-24
A GREAT RACE.
Long Cavalry Run In Which Baron
Erlanger Participated.
Baltimore SUM-

Baron Franz Won Erlanger, formerly
a first lieutenant in the Nineteenth
Uhlans, one of the SWEETEST cavalry
regiments in the German army, is in
Baltimore. He travels with his wife,
who has been giving the leading spec
ialty al one Of the vaudeville theatres
this week.
The baron is small and why in stat
ure. weighing but lis pounds. He wears
q typical Teuton muStache and speaks
with a German accent. He was born IN
Nieder-Igelheim, on the Rhine, be-
tween Mainz and Binshen, thirty-nine
years ago. His family is one of the
most prominent in Germany, and is
said to be wealthy. For fourteen years
he was an officer in the army, n he
fore he would have been made a can
tam.
In the autumn of 1892, Baron En-
LANCER took part in the famous cavalry
race between officers in the German
and Austrian armies from Berlin TO
Vienna, which excited much interest
in military circles at the time. This
ride was the outcome of shorter rides
which had been instituted at the sug-
sestion of General POdbielsky some
eight or nine years ago. At first rides
of only 100 or 200 miles long were taken,
the two things to be considered in
awarding the prizes being the time con-
sumed and the condition in which the
man and the horse were when the
journey was completed.
1T is about $50 miles between Berlin
and Vienna" said the baron yester-
day. and nothing like a ride of that
length had been taken before. There
were leo competitors on each side-all
of them officers-and the Germans were
to start from Berlin and the Austrians
from Vienna. The winner of h ride
received a prize Of 20, 900 marks, and
there were several smaller prizes. The
only object was to win, no matter what
the condition of man or animal at the
finish. The race vas won by Count
Stahremburg, an Austrian, who made
the distance in siXty-eight hours, with
his horse in fair condition. Rtttmeis-
ter Won Reitzenstein was the first Ger
mar to reach Vienna, his time being a
little over seventy-tWo hours.
Il don't want to appear egotistical,"
he continued, but l was the favorite
in the race, over $4,000 marks having
been lost on me in Berlin. 1 could ride
fairly well and was very light. | had
trained down so that with my saddle
and equipment, 1 weighed 112 pounds.
Five pounds of this was due to the
saddle. The odds against me were I
to l and there were 200 men entered.
The general odds against the other rid
ers were from 20 to so to l.
Il had a splendid horse-Normandie,
by Robert the Devil, which 1 bought in
England, and he was in fine mettle. I
had zone 200 miles and was we'll UP
in the bunch, when the horse got a
rusty nail in his foot and 1 had to drop
out. He went along until his leg was
swelled to twice its natural size. AZ
terward he recovered and won several
races for me on the track"
Baron Erlanger has ridden in many
gentleman's races in the west since he
came to this country. His home is now
in New York. He was married -four
years g at Magdeburg, Prussia. His
family is quite well known in the west,
especially about Cincinnati, where he
has some relatives. Some of his rela-
tives were instrumental in building the
Alabama Great Southern railroad,
whoch was part of the so-called Err
LANCER system.