The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-06-10
Something About the Race
Horse Proctor Knott
Sam Bryant's Famous
Futurity Winner and Cos
sip Of the Track.


fruit. Two or three promoters y. have
taken me 10 task, spilling bitter re-
examinations on my head. Lame.
L~itchenstein probably one Of the most
widely known Of the Western fight and
wrestling promoters but, against whom
nothing Of flake" has ever been charg.
ed, throws additional light On the sub.
ject in hand. According to Mr.. Litch.
e%nstein, who Of course offers the explain.
alton in extenuation Of the tactics OF
modus opersndi Of the game, says that,
wrestling on the square, Is u most Ia
interesting sport" As evidence or
rather in support Of his argument ar.
Litchenstein points to the unmteresting
tussle between Gotch and Hacken
schmidt. "For mroe than two hours"
said Mr.. Litchenstein ''tbese I 70 big
moulers pulled and hauled each other
about the ring, without goirs to the
mat or doing any actual wrestling. The
audience made plain their di,approval
of these tactics by boots, cat cnlls and
Kisses. Now IL ever q wrestling match
was on the square, hat ons was.
1.-The trouble is, the publ, demands,
that rolly polly stun. The hippoiroiner,
~emanuates the axiom Of the chief OF
all, p. T. Barnum, and hands it to them
and they-ths ID. o. 2. eat it ul. Ii
the public who certainly pays tho fla.
dler, did not demand the flying falls,
the spinning on the head, leaping over
the adversary's body and what not, too
numerous to mention, they would get
more genuine wrestling. Howc,c or a.
previously stated, and In this / II wage
s~eventy.fve critics out Of every hundred
agree with me, that wrestling on the
square, Is an uninteresting sport Ii
then that is true, what 10 the snswsrf''
From yet another promoter cou,cs the
statement that you must hippodrone
to draw q crowd" In addition to thus
! have II that you can name on one hama
all the wrestling matches that have been
or the square" or wrestling on its mer.
its, during the past year. This deduc.
tion doesn't include the topnotchers
either.
With all that talk anent the chaotic
condition Of the turf, probable winners,
the coming classics, this or that great
equine, II seems that 1t Is quite ap.
propos to mention q Roman-nosed, bald.
faced chestnut horse with white stock.
ings fore and aft that reached almost
to hiL socks. His record is good enough
and If you must have his name, | re.
fer to the first winner Of the Futurity-
America richest turf classic-Proctor
Knott. My, what incidents to con.
jure with. This advisedly, because AT
the time of the browning achievement
Of Proctor Knott il was before The al.
mission fee was raised to meet the
dreams of svsrice promulgated in tho
brains Of the verile race solon. II was
before the racing silks Of his father
had fallen upon the present chairman OF
the Jockey Club. Two decades is a
long time, even when considering the
stake which he has made rich men
poor and poor men ricn, than any classic
Of the turf.
Proctor Knott was bred by General
Jackson at Belle Meade, Tennessee. lie
was old as a yearling to Sam Bryant Of
Louisville. In the sale ring prospec.
tive buyers were not impressed with the
long legged gangling SON of Lunke
Blackburn and T~alliposa. For 4 paltry
few hundred dollars he was knocked
down TO the game chicken turfman, and
as he was led away . prophecy follow
cd him"
"DarM allus be rats In De bin, an
bacon in de kitehen wild dat baby, Z"
said Uncle Bob, tho colored chief Of
staff at Belle Meade, and Uncle Bob
knew q horse like most people know the
road home.
But on the day of the running Of the
hrst Futurity, twenty-five years ago.
there anne into the paddock at Sleeps
head Bay a rangy chestnut, followed by
a stout red.faced man whose stubby
chin.whiskers were shaded by the an.
cient and honorable SLOUGH hat Of the
Sunny South. Sam Bryant was rough
but he was real. He could neither reno
nor write, but for all that he had his
Gods. II n nan ever worshiped an.
other, Il was exempiihed Sam Bryant q
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