The Washington herald., 1912-10-13
4 the Latest ens sn oss Interest 3 he lIorseman
TRO7TER And PAGER
AIcyne Eo,yevs Her Record Three Times II Her
4 Race 1T icAmond. and Wins the
Bic $4,000 Stake

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Especially h nSkt hssaes hse.s psr-
The star psrfosmAAcs ~ ~ week.
and one which svssukaeeus an other
events In the VOID of s6s< WAS that
Of the black gelding uhlaA .at Lsxingtsn.
|cn Tuesday. when be loversd by . second
and . haH the record ~ Eo9 Dillon. 1:sDk
made over tho aame 11Ack seven syeaxs.
ago Uhlan trotted Nh ME IN la1 hAt s
Naturalists. the Nos1d oyer. have de-
ciared the Hon 70 bs ths king Of beasts.
Tho lord Of the Africom junsies have-ss.
tained bis proud tiels long enough he
was uncrowned Tuesday, last at Lexins-
ton BY IN American beed trotteS. born
amid TIE bleak hills Of New England.
the highest and trissst Upe Of hi breed.
Il 10 hard for one 70 reslises the flight
Of speed this peerless trokter posse1eess
and especially, 10 it hard to understand
the mysterious power With which he b
endowed to carry his marvellous night OF
speed At an artificial gait fun miiA 8
II 10 only when one makes Q close anal
ysis Of Uhlan's ord-breaking mile on
Tuesday that one comes anywhere near
an appreciation Of his greatness. He
thirty seconds nat. He trotfed the first
half Of his mile in fifty-nine seconds nat.
. second less than minute. and was at
the three-quarters mile pole In La. With
out a falter In his stride he swung into
the stretch and came home. a. no tr0tter
ever yet came home. In 1ss9. Time was
when such an accomplishment would
have electrified the civiIised world; but
SO used has the civilized world become
to the marvellous feats Of the American
light harness horse that scarcely q thrill
10 felt nowadays as he marches day by
day to still greater achievements. Dur
ing the past week. between 1a000 and
q. 900 people have daily assembled to sec
the worlds series played. and hundreds
Of thousands have assembled to get the
results as they. came hot from the wire
Possibly 1000 people were present to
witness this latest champion Of the light
harness breed-a breed purely American
set . worlds record. Compared with
the achievement OF Uhlau. In import
ance. the worlds series and its results
II seems to US. sink into insignihcance.
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We have drifted into new customs. new
forms Of sport. and as q people We
mature new ideals. In 1859. when Flora
Temple trotted 4 mile in s:19x at Kala-
mazoo. the nation was electrified. We
have q distinct remembrance Of the
event. For weeks II oyershadowed all
other events, although the entire coun-
try was in a state Of ferment over an
approaching civil tragedy the like Of
which never before affiicted a free people
Baseball. at this period. was the sport
Of schoolboys. and he who would have
predicted that in q half a century hence
II would dominate al! other national
sports, attract middle aged and aged
people. as well as the young. and excite
them to the point Of frenzy; II one had
said nifty years ago that the day would
come when a President and a Vice Pres
ident would honor a game Of baseball
with their presence. that q President
would open the seasons series by for
mally pitching the first ball: that thou
sands OF American citizens would act
like candidates for the iunatic asylum
over a lot OF husky NUTS playing pro-
fessional baseball that person would
have been unanimously voted a chat
tering idiot.
Even sporting editors nowadays. are
selected almost solely because Of their
technical knowledge Of baseball: and. in
too many cases. they profess no other
knowledge and desire none. The expense
accounts Of the sporting departments Of
daily newspapers have been quadrupled
within the past ten years on account of
baseball. and the managers Of baseball
clubs. who are winning money as easily
as IL they were running a government
mint. cunningly work the daily press
to the limit without the expenditure
of a single dollar. No other money
making sport invented by man gets az
much free advertising as does baseball.
And managing editors curse. but bear
II. and owners Of newspapers swear be-
cause Of It. but still order the bills
o. KID. We tip our hat to the base
ball magnates: they are the genuine and
only Napoleonic fnanciers in the entire
realm Of finance. They milk the COW
while the newspaper publishers hold the
pail. They skim the cream from the milk
and get the butter. and the newspaper
publishers get what In left-one or two
cents per copy for their paper.
High class turf writers-men who can.
without being told-distinguish the DIFF
ference between q horse and q goat.
and who know B from bulls foot
have almost disappeared from the daily
press Of the "efrete" East. Callow
young men. graduates Of the high school.
are detailed to do turf reporting-a busi-
ness requiring far more technical knowi-
edge than the game Of baseball-with the
result that the reporter and his paper
are made to appear ridiculousiy light In
the eyes Of horsemen. We venture to
state that u either Uhlan, who broke
a worlds record at Lexington on Tues
day. or Sotemia. who lowered the four
mile running record Monday. at Louis
vile. to 7:10 IS. had performed their mar
yelous feat at Washington. some local
sporting editor would have grudgingiy
given It possibly . $50 word description.
and . one-line head. as . columa or
two Of space was needed for a story as
to how the Brightwood team chased the
Podunk nine on the face Of the West
ern Hemisphere.
We seek no quarrel with lovers Of
baseball or With lover Of any other
clean. manly. sport. But We do maintain
that baseball receives more than It's
share Of attention from the press: and
all really sane sporte.aen hope that. In
due time the patiant-the American peo-
ple-will have passed the CRISIS of the
disease with which they are now sorefy
afBicted-hasehallttis-A soon return 70
. more normal stAtS Of mind. To re-
turn to uhlan. Tho >bA I gelding 10 Q
horse OF medium aise. and is. We believe,
eight yeats Of aga The present 10 his
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