The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-01-14

st. Louis to California for the winter
racing season and stopped at Chey-
enne Ell route. There was some kind
Of celebraton in progress in that
city and the race men had been
asked to nnload their best jumpers
and give the Wyoming residents a
touch OF the genuine sport.
Had Close Call in Cheyenne.
/ Chappell was one OF the jockeys
with the shipment and he drew for
4 ms mount that afternoon in Cheyenne
a little mare known as "Mollie Nc
| tarty, an animal that had cleaned
! up several purses in the more eastern
cities. IT happened that all the COW
Toys in the Cheyenne country were
IN town for the race meet, ana as J,
was during the days of border
saloons and gambling halls, the cow
hoys were celebrating properly. II
happened, too, as Chappell was soon
TO learn that majority of the cow
pnnchers Were irish. and when they
learned that Molly McCarty was on.
Of the entries they made up a purse
Of several thousand dollars and placed
It all on Chappelps mount
While the horses were being
jockeyed for the start a big cowbov
evidently leader in the ranch
country, presented two sixshooters
when Ne called Chappell to the rail
ing and said:
'Repember. boy. Mollie McCarty
mas got to win this race"
There was no mistaking what the
speaker meant, and Chappel dc
termined to win if the little mare had
It in her She was out of form for
some reason that afternoon-perhap
the long trip on the cars had affected
her-and before the horses were half
way around the race course Chan.
pell realized that Mollie Mcrarty
would not even be second in the race
He did not dare return and face th I,
sixshooters of not only the leader
nut of the hundred other COWBOYS "a
we'll, so he chose the wiser course
that of making Mollie McCartv bolt
over the fence and across pasture TO
the stables. Then Chappell conceal
cd himself unit, the strings were
started on westward to San Francisco,
Found Run Down Organization.
IN becoming Baptist it was nc.
considered necessary by Chappell that
ne forget his political training and
MS knowledge Of organization nor
even that it frequently took whip and
spur to win race in the old days.
It was not long until he discovered
that the Baptist Young Peoples Union
of the Guthrie district was a run
down organization and that it needed !
money and organization the same as |
the political game and that its mem
bers frequently needed squirting the |
same as horses on a race course. He |
began operations among the Guthrie |
church young people that proYed sue
cessful, and when the annual election |
Of district officers came around |
Chappell was chosen president The
result has teen that during the past
year the Baptist Young Peoples I'm
ion Of that district has accomplished
more than during all its former years
OF existence.
All the schemes and plans that
Chappell learned during his political
days have been put to use whenever
possible, in getting money for his
church and his district organization.
Ii soon became known that Chappell
was making a liberal contribution
each sunday, and when inquiry was
made, it developed that he was put
ting in one-tenth of his income week
ly into the cofers. He says noIninA
about his personal contributions, and ,
there are not a dozen persons, even {
II. Guthrie, outside the Baptist church {
who know that he is :
following the Biblical requirement =,
The district young peoples union has a
three missionary preachers in the c
ield in Oklahoma, where last year
here was none. and there Is some
noney in the treasury to continu. the )
york. Chappell has $50 men pledged
o donate 81 each monthly to this y
FORK, and some Of them live as far
way as Chicago
'iIIie Grey Was Wonder. (
The racing world has never seen
ut one Billie Grey" says Chappell. 1
he horse was one OF a shipment OF
nbroken halfbreeds, bronchos, from
RECON TO Omaha. A man w-o loved
icing sport saw the young horse
inning in the Union Pacific stock
ards thought he saw speed, and
'ught him for $50. The horse was
oxen. given a preliminary training