Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-10

and it is doubtful if his feats in that di-
rection will be paralleled in the lives of this
generation or in the lives of many genera
lions to come. His reputation as a trainer
and driver began along in the middle sew
entities. when he converted the pacing stall
lion Smuggler to the trot with crude meth
DDS. met and defeated some of the greatest
race horses of that day and drove him to
worlds stallion record of 2.15A.
Great as were his triumphs with the son
of Blanco. still greater triumphs were in
st0Ge for him when he attached himself to
Palo Alto and applied his craft on the Elec-
tioneers. His business connection with the
late Senator Leland Stanford began in
April, 1873, and terminated in 1891. With
in that period he gave worlds trotting rec
ords to the following: Yearling. Bell Bird,
2.26A; two-year-old, Arion, 21O&; three
year-old Sunol, 2.101a; four-year-old, Sunol
2.1012; five-year-old, Sunol 2.OSA; all
aged, Sunol, 2.GSA; stallion. Palo Alto.
2,OSa4 In 1892 Marvin entered the employ
of Miller & Sibley, at Franklin. Pa Els
most conspicuous work while with this
firm, which had upward of S1oOOOO in
vested in the sons, grandsons and daugh-
tiers and granddaughters of Electioneer,
was the placing of the firms leading sire,
ST. Bel, at the head of the sires' column for
1894. he being for that year credited with
twenty-five new standard performers.
Here, too, he developed and drove to a
worlds record the son OF Cecilian, 9. %; En-
dow co. 2.1i&. record still unbeaten by a
two-year-old gelding. Later, when he had
severed his connection with Miller & Sib-
ley and had removed to Lexington, KY, he
developed and drove to record of 1854
the great Eeldng Captor, by Electric Bell,
son of Electioneer and Beautiful Bells.
About this period he gave the world s
pacing record of 21012 for two-year-old I'LL
lies to Extasy, mark still unbeaten.
AS three-year-old he converted her to
the trot and drove her to record of 2111A
Ohe best of that season for the age, and
won with her the Kentuck stake and sec
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worth S2O.O0O and the Kentucky futurties.
He had already won with her the year pre-
vious the pacing divisions of the Kentucky
and Stock Farm futurities. During all of
Marv:n's long and eventful career his life
unsullied by the breath of scandal. He
was always square with owner and public
and when one considers the temptations of
the turf this is one of the highest tributes
that can be paid to the great trainers
memory.
The recent passing of Charles Marvin at
the age of sixtyeight at Lexington, KY,
takes from the ranks of American reinsmen
and trainers all but three of the "old
guard who SO ably dominated the Ameri-
can trotting turf from the late sixties until
very recent years. Those still alive are
Budd Doble, now a resident of California;
John Splan of Chicago. ILL.,. and John
Turner of Amber Park, Pa. w. H. Craw-
ford. the wise counsellor in action, and Or
rim Hckok, the subtle and crafty match
maker. preceded Marvin to eternal r&st
some five or six years ago. Crawford and
hickok died of paresis in a Kentucky hos
pital while Marvin succumbed to old age
and the hard and strenuous life he was
compelled to lead from the day Smugger
flashed, meteor-like, across the horizon Of
the trotting turf and became the champion
stallion to high wheels. Cleverer men than
the seXtet named never held rein nor pluck
ed victory from the jaws of defeat, and it
was the irony of fate that of the hundreds