Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-02

as he looked when he defeated Dorothy Worty, dam of Chestnut Peter, in the two-year- division of the ken6 lucky Futurity in 1907, Peter Volo, the champion two, three and four-year- old whose record of 2:02 was made in a race, the black coated Anna Bradford that came within three quarters of second of entering the two minute list in her three -year-oid form, and Dassie McGregor, a winner of the M. & M. at Detroit and which broke down while being warmed up for the Charter Oak Purse at Hartford in 1914. The 1915 campaign brought two champions to the gallery. one of the pair being Peter Scott. the largest money win ningtrotter in the history of light har- ness racing, and the other Directum l., the worlds record pacer in the open.
 At that time it looked as if there no more worlds left for Murphy to
 conquer. Still during the past two years he brought out The Real Lady and reduced the two and three-year- old records of Peter Volo. She has a place of honor over the piano on which Murphy was drumming out a snatch from an opera while I was looking at the paintings. These are, however, only few of the performers that dec crate the walls of Murphy's home. At every turn some celebrity which he
 has driven peeps out from a frame many of them being snapshots in ac- ton. On the porch near a door George
 Gano, winner of the Chamber of Com
 merce, is looking over his drivers shoulder while Baroness Virginia, his first Kentucky Futurity winner, has | has been assigned a place near Inner
 guard, Don Derby, Leland Onward, | Copa de Gro. the sire of Gro Fino now
 making b:s presence felt Oil the Cir
 cult, Pan Michael, one of Dr. Mccoy s products, the old standby Brace Girdle, and Locanda slipping through at the pole at Lexington when he defeated Nathan straus in 2:02. These with scores of photographs of racing scenes
 On may trancks where the Murphy col ors have appeared in front form the
 warp and wool of this remarkable reinsman's surroundings when he is al home preparing his stable for another
 campaign and which also make an ap-
 propriate setting for the cups and
 trophies that were won by his
 mounts.
 In this respect Directum I. appears
 to have been the most fortunate. His | Pittsburgh admirers presented Murphy
 with a gold. cup to remind him of the mile in 1:59A over the Brunot Island . i
 he was awarded a cup at Hartford fol
 cutting the track record to 1:5Sh: an other at Syracuse when he made hi:
 record of 1:56A, while the New Yorl . State Fair Commission went still fur ther and presented him with silve tea service. Directum 1. was als' awarded still another trophy when h. , defeated Peter Stevens over the half
 mile track at Allentown, Pa.
 The annual visits of the Muprph.
 stable to Cleveland are recalled by tn cup awarded Independence Boy fo f iswnning the fastest heat paced at tn l meeting in 1911 as well as the trophies . which went with the races won b. Longworthy B. and Marigold in 1915
 Peter Scott in 1915, Expressive Lol , and Maple Tree in 1915, and Roya , Mac last year. Peter Volo's victory il
 the Horseman and Spirit of the Time stake is recalled by one of the splen 5 did trophies which D. J. Campau al ways presented to the winner. It ha been assigned a place near the on l awarded J. Malcolm Forbes, the half . brother of his sire, at the Nationa 7 Horse Show the preceding year.
 A Walnut Hall Cup bears silent tes timony of R. T. C.'s last victory. 3 stands near the massive piece of plat
 which the Pastime Stable gay 7 Murphy in 1916 for his assistance I r connection with the speed trials of Le l Axworthy but none of them are value as highly by their owner as tn
 trophy which the citizens of Pough l keepsie gave him in 1911 when he re l turned from one of his most successfr s campaigns or the sup awarded Hett ] G. after she won at Island Park Al
 bany, N. Y, away back in 1904 whe !, his star was beginning to be seen o :, l thahorizon