Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-02
BALDWIN'S FOUR
TRAILS CARAVANS
COLORS IN DUST
WEST DRIVES FURIOUSLY TO
VICTORY
ARCADIA .THoRoUGHBREDs VAN.
QUISH NEW YORKER
Thousands Witness Thrilling Chariot
Race Between Eastern Million
aires Horses and Those Owned
by Noted Turfman
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Neck and neck they ran the entire dis
lance, both drivers plying their whips
relentIessly, and as they rounded into
the stretch and dashed past the stands
! for the first circuit of the track the two
tours looked as evenly matched as
horses could be. 1t required two laps
OF the half-mile track to complete the
| mile and the heat, and the second turn
| showed no relative change in their DO
sltlons, West forcing his horses across
the tape, winners by a very scant
length, amid deafening cheers. West
was accorded an ovation as he re-
| turned to the stables, but not a WIFI:
| more enthusiastic than that which
| greeted Hogoboom a moment later a.
he trailed past the stands behind the
| Baldwin car. The time for the heat
was 1884,
In the second heat Hogoboom had
! the pole and the vantage that this
gave him resulted in as desperate 3
hnlsh as the first, with the honors OF
tie heat resting with Carman's fours
| Time, 1:4O
The third heat was the hardest
| fought and fastest run of the three
with horses but heads apart the en-
| tire distance until the stretch, wher
| West, who had the pole for this heat
slowly pulled away from the blue
chariot, winning by nearly two lengths
Time 1:3S 1-2.
Cowboys in QuadriIIe
Between the heats the cowboys re-
| appeared and continued their exhibit
tons Of riding. uuadrille, made IN
| of two sets Of eight horses and riders
each, proved a graceful, though noisy
event, the cowboys whoop-eeing as
| they went through the variations of a
lancers with all the energy and bois-
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boy dance in real borderland.
A holdup Of the Ormonde stage by
masked desperadoes, likewise elected
the plaudits and excited the amuse-
ment of the crowds. An old stage
coach of 40, filed with passengers and
luggage and treasure. and guarded
from the roof by desperate looking
frontiersmen of the Wild Bill type and
others with less modest aspirations, or
perhaps more, came rumbling down the
track, its occupants shooting at
imaginary foes behind whitewashed
fence posts or hiding behind blue
coated patrolmen, and pulled up in the
center of the 200-odd rough riders con-
gregated in front of the stands.
A Whoop-ee was shouted, hands
were shaken all around and the stage
again departed on it's way, the cow
boys scampering off amid a cloud of
dust to the corral. When the track
was clear three or four cut-throat des-
peradoes, heavily masked, f1ourishing
wicked looking Colts, came sneaking
up the track and deposited themselves
in convenient places for the bloody
work to follow. Soon the stage coach
reappeared and the fusillade of bull
let's began in earnest. Rifles cracked
and revolvers pinged and men bit the
dust and stayed there. When the
smoke cleared the treasure box of the
express company was seen safely
gripped by one of the bandits, who
scurried down the track At this ex-
citing moment a young woman, grace
full to a fault in her saddle and riding
handsome black was seen engaging
the desperadoes in q one-sided duel.
After several exchanges of shots she
threaded her way through the out
laws and dashed down the track to
signal relief, which soon appeared in
the shape of the calvacade of rough
riders, who dashed madly into the
imaginary danger perfectly reckless of
life or limb, pulling triggers as fast as
the automatlcs would work and met
by a deadly fire from the desperadoes.
Spill Buckets of Gore
Right finally triumphed, after the
dust settled, and dead outlaws strewed
the track, while handsome young fell
lows in sheepskins stood gloating over
their defeated enemies.
The dead highwaymen were feeling
lessly bundled into the badly 'riddled
stage coach and the entire procession
of horsemen dashed away, followed
by the hearty hand-clapping and cheers
of the amused spectators.
The game of push ball was quick to
rivet the attention of the spectators,
who had not fully appreciated the In
terest that the game possessed.
The game is played much as is foot
ball, with the exception that there are
fewer players, all of whom are mount
ed on horses, while the Rugby is an
immense oval of leather standing fully
six feet high and inflated into perfect
hardness.
Two fifteen minute halves were
played, each side scoring one goal, Ieav-
ing the game a tie. The team known
as the "Circle Stars were much light
er than their opponents, the BLACK
Cross, but they were every bit as
good riders, and the work of the horses
on both sides was almost human. In
the first half, by persistent charges.
the Black Crosses gradually pushed
the ball over the goal for a score, the
last gain being an exciting event IN
which the Black Cross horses, like a
oO110 pllcl1Ct4lAS pQSllSO Tie 1lEcl6 stars
for fully thirty feet. The Circle Stars
reversed this gain in the next half by
a splendid gain of forty feet.
The lineup of the two sides was as
follows:
Good Car Service
Despite the fact that there were
delays that undoubtedly proved annoy
ing to many persons who were anxious
to return to their homes the moment
the days events were over, it is still
worthy of mention that the street rail-
way and the railroad service between
Los Angeles and Pasadena, in moving
the thousands that came and went
during the day, was eminently salts
factory.
So far as was reported, there was not
a single accident to mar this phase Of
the days crowds, which is nothing
short of marvellous, when it is consid-
cred that fully 10000, and perhaps 80 900
persons were transported either way
during the course Of the day At the
conclusion of the program at Tourne-
ment park there was wild scramble
for cars which overtaxed the capacity
of the cars, but inside Of fifteen min
utes the crowds were entirely picked up
and being hurried to their homes