Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-06-09
TWO NEW RECORDS FOR SPRlNTING
 STRIKE RESULT
Negro Who Overlook Rab- bit Has Nothing on Some
 Men Now in Pine Bluff.


 established in Pine Bluff as sort of side issue in the present strike situa- ton.
 As 8 matter of fact two speed rec ords were established, one to be broken and superseded by the other, with only 8 few hours intervening.
 For many years past, the record for speed has been held by the West Tennessee negro who found rabbit blocking his path, and kicked cotton tail out of the road, shouting:
 "Git outer de road, rabbit, an let somebody run what kin run."
 Never again will, the Tennessee negro's feat be used as clincher for arguments as to the prowess of any individual, in the matter of eating up distance.
 A big, husky strike breaker was taken off the front platform of one of the street cars, at Third and Main Tuesday evening, and was rather roughly manhandled by crowd of ex- cited strike sympathizers.
 Finally, he broke away from them, and started south. Dodging around and about autos, stalled cars, buggies, bicycles and other mpediamentia, he finally struck a clear passageway, in the middle of the street, and turned on "full speed ahead"
 Then Pine Bluff people were given a demonstration of speed such as had never before been seen here. At the very outset, MT. Mans hat was left behind, and as he got under good headway, he lost his coat, the garment actually being left behind in the mad rush of it's owner, who ran clean out of it.
 A man is running some, when he runs out of his coat, as all will admit, and Pine Bluff sportsmen made note of the affair, that they might make all due claim in the future. for such honors as might attach to it. MT. Strike Breakers record, how ever, did not last long.
 Coincidental as it might seem, it is the general belief that local labor representative, though of minor grade is now the happy-or unhappy-pos sessor of the honor of having broken that speed record and established another record, which Bids fair tc stand for some time.
 The Labor Man, according as the story is told in inner circles, did not content himself with merely running out of his coat. No such little thing would suit him. He wanted to dc something really worth while, any one can understand his apparently inordi- nante desire, under the peculiar cir. custances. Urged by the insistent summons for immediate and precipi. tate haste in the very ultimate, the Labor Man simply ran out of his shoes. And when man runs out o1 his shoes, there is no argument about it, he is running sure-enough.
 This is how the latest speed record was made:
 In a local hostelry, 9 number o1 strike breakers were gathered in z room, smoking, chatting and generally discussing such important matters as the weather. the proper kind of bait Roosevelt, the equal suffrage move ment, and other live and thrilling sub. jects.
 Suddenly, one of the strike breakers arose and walked hastily to the dool of the room, turning the knob anc quickly jerking open the door. A human form, crouched by the door eavesdropping, strengthened up dashed madly down the hall, and dis appeared from view, not afterwards being discovered or identified. All that remained was pair of shoes and hat. Any one can understand how the hat happened to be left behind, but the shoes-there' no way of getting around it, that fellow simply ran out !, of his shoes.
 A short, though heavily built and muscular strikebreaker, ran speedily north in Main street. His pursuers found his hat Then they found his coat. Then a few bloodstains on the sidewalk were noted. Finally, after the man had gained safety under cover the pursuers' learned their prey had suffered such beating that he had bled from the nose and mouth, caus- ing some to believe that something had happened to him.
 In trial at Fort Worth, of rail road damage suit, 8 witness was put on the stand and told to tell how the accident happened. i'll his own words. Witness deposed thusly:
 "Well, me and John were walking down the track, and l heard the whistle blow and 1 stepped off the track, and the train went by, and l got on the track again, but I did not see John. I walked little piece, and I saw Johns hat. A little piece further on l saw one of Johns arms, and a little further 1 saw one of Johns legs, and a little further on I saw Johns head, alongside track, and I said to myself, My God, something must have happened to John.'
 s. S CONVENTION.