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The New York herald., 1922-11-05
Staggering weights in saddle

Staggering weights were carried by
some OF these stout old Norfolk trotters.
ShufIier. a noted stallion mentioned by
Lawrence as one that could not be
whipped or spurred into a gallop when
trotting. was reported IN the Sporting
Magazine for April 1896 TO have won a
race against time for two hundred
guineas side by trotting fourteen
miles on the Downham road in Sc 80
with 252 pounds on his back.
Another searching test OF speed and
endurance which makes our modern
races look like mere sprinting matches
was reported in the STortinO Nd0dsine
for May. 1896. Anenby's Atlas and
Wroots Prctender. two prominent stall
ions. were matched for one hundred
guincas side 20 trot from Huntingdon
10 Cambridge. sixteen miles. each horse
CARRYING 224 pounds. The contest at
tracted widespread attention. and u was
estimated that 10000 or more was
wagered on the result. Pretender won
the race IN 81 90. then deemed TO he re-
markabe time for the distance with such
heavy weight up.
The extent TO which the English trot-
ting horse had crystalized into n breed
at the close Of the. eighteenth century Is
strikipgly exemplified by the two fast.
enduring stations that took part in this
memorable match, each horse having in
herited his speed and transmitted Il 20
succeeding generations. Atlas and Pre-
tender WIRE sons OF the same mare. and
she In turn was from the mare that pro-
duced Old Statesman and Allenby's
Diana, twoOperformers OF note in their
day
Through Dis sire Jcnkinson's Fire
away, andhk grandsire. Driver. Wroot $
Pretender trated In the direct male line
10 the horse how known as Shales, "the
father Of trotters," az Lawrence called
him This horte, OF whom little or noth-
Ing is really known--not even his true
name-was foalcd about 1850. He was
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miles In 20 :8S I'm a match against time.
but no contemporaneous report or these
performances has ever been found In
England. The Norwich Mercury OF No
vember 8. 1906. did, however. report
match race in which Bellfounders DAM
Velocity, defeated a horse called DOUBT
full, trotting fifteen and half miles
within the hour after turning around
sixteen times. as a penalty for her re-
peated breaks
So little was known and such slight
attention was paid to the blood lines or
the sarly trotters that Herbert, one OF
the foremost authorities OF the day, SAID
in his book on "The Horse OF America
SO late as when Hambletonian was seven
years old:
",rhe trotting horse is In no possible
sense a distinct race, breed or tamlly Oh
the horse and his qualities as trotter
cannot be ascribed or traced 10 ms
origin from or connection Win any oiie
blood more than another.
uambIetonian Family Supreme.
such appeared to be the nebulous
character of the breed IN lsoo' hioia
Temple the last OF the haphazard cham-
pions. in that year wrested the record
from Tacony, 2:27, setting 1t at "a "a
and three years later at 2:19A. BEFORE
her dav the breeding of the champion
trotters was such as to almost warrant
Herberts statement. After her no
horse save Rarus, 2:13h. whose sire
was probably a son of Aodaiian anu
Alix. 2:03%, who was closely inbred
TO Hambletonian, ever took the hoiors
away from the Hambletonian famliy III
the male descent Dexter 2:17A, the
gelding that dethroned Little Flora was
a Hambletonian. Goldsmith Mald' -
st. Julien. 2:11H, Jay-Eye-See, z:lo,
Maud s., 2:0S84. Sunol, 2:OS a. anu
Nancy Hanks, :04. among later record
hreakers. were all by sons of the old
horse. The Abbot, 2:o3 ~ was by his
grandson: Cresceus. 2 :02 "a by great
grandson Lou Dillon. 2 :0l. by sr1nt-
great grandson; Uhlan. :5S, by a great
grandson, and Peter Manning again py
a great-great-grands
Tho7lgb Hambletonians descendants
hold undisputed sway, the years Since
this great horse died. In 1870 nave
seen many dynasties within the family
rise and fall There was first the reign
of Alexanders AbGallah and his hne'
which gave us Goldsmith Maid and other
champions. Then came the dynasty OF
George Wilkes, horse that niieu Ihe
country with good race horses and for
time bade fair to relegate all other
branches of the Hambletonian family TO
minor rank. although his great rival
Electioneer long disputed the suprem-
acy and finally took 1t for time when
his grandson Bingen became the most
successful of living sires Both the
Wilkes and the Electoneer tribes were
suddenly and Unexpectedly suppianted
In public favor less than decade ago
by the rising star OF Peter the Great a
great grandson OF Hambletonian through
his unpopular son Happy Medium. ana
now we are in the throes of threatened
return of the Wilkes supremacy through
the wonderful showing made in the last
few seasons by the descendants or AK
worthy and his sons Guy Axworthy and
Dillon Axworthy.
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Personality was the sensational saddle
pony OF 1921. Coming out as novice
-year-old, the dainty little chestnut
mare won every time shown, winding up
the season as champion of the National
Horse Show. She Is owned by o. w.
Lehman of Chicago, who has entered
her in next weeks exhibition at the
armory of Squadron A. She is regis
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tered Kentucky saddle mare. by Rex All
Prince. a son of Rex Peavine. Her dam
was Lena Chief by Montgomery Chief.
The late e. w. Mccormack of Shelby
vile. Ky, who bred her. registered her
as Rose Owens She was 14.11a hands
high as four-year-old but she has
grown out of the pony class since then
and this year is competing with horses
over 142 hands.
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william Durland received a telegram
Yesterday notifying him that Sherry T.
Harhlson has shipped from Lexington
XIV, the carload of Kentucky saHe.e
horses he will sell on Thursday evening
az Durlands Riding Academy. They are
exnected 10 reagh New York tomorrow.
This will be THE last sale AZ Duriano
before the National Horse Show. ana u
NAV be the last chance this year 20 buy
high class saddle horses at auction.
Seasoned work horses OF the better
sor,a continue 10 outsell the ones that
are fresh from the country In the Nom
dav and Thursday auctions at Fiss.
Dnerr & Carrolrs big mart In East
r,venty-fourth street This Is reversal
of normal conditions. and good many
foam owners are taking advantage OF
tho opportunity TO replace some Of their
borses with fresh ones that Will improve
with use and in two or three years bring
more than was paid for them. Hun
dreds Of shrewd users OF horses In New
York and vicinity avoid the Item OF de-
nreciation in this way and not a few
make money by changing teams
The Bergen Horse Company sold an
other good run OF business chunks on
Wednesday. the regular auction day at
the Jersey City mart.
There will be no sale AT Duriand's
Riding Academy during Horse Show
week. but on November 20 consign-
ment Of sixteen polo horses viii be sold
FOR DR.. j. u. Richards. Other consign-
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FOR sALE-Black truck horse, young, sound
reasonable. II Barrow ct.
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Seen and Heard in the Horse Markets

ments OF high class horses are wanted
TO ill out the evening.
Ringing Brothers have consigned
wenty-six OF their baggage wagon
horses TO Thursdays sale at Fiss. Doerr
& Carrolrs These should be about the
best-seasoned workers sold this season
in New York.
Waller & Potters say they arc finding
buyers for upward Of ono hundred fresh
and seasoned horses each week at their
Tuesday auction sales in Brooklyn.
A. NJ. stein. the oldest dealer in Brook
lyn, reports good demand for draft and
delivery horses by way of preparation
for approaching holiday trade.
Heilbrunn e. Kahn are having a salts
factory season at their Sixtieth street
sales stables. Their stock of big horses
is worth seeing.
NJ. B Newcomb Is selling n few we'll
trained saddle horses each week at his
Seventh avenue sales stable.
~. Kaufman & Sons have sold hun
dreds OF army saddles. brides and rid
ing equipment this fan 70 buyers In sll
parts OF the country
NJ y Monheimcrs cozy saddlery shop
in Lexington avenue presents wonder
fully select stock Of imported horse
goods. Tho proprietor is connoisscur
as we'll as a merchant
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the first impressive trotting sire Of
which any record has been found In
England
The little or nothing we know OF him
Is derived from an advertisement. not
of the horse himself but of Scot Shales
one of hts sons, In the Norwich Mercury
OF 1772. This states that 'the noted
Scots or Schales's, horse was
got by a son of Blaze, and Blaze by
Childers; out of a we'll bred Hunter
The "son of Blaze" is supposed to be a
horse advertised in the same year as
"Hopewell; owner Charles Hawkley,
Thedford, got by Old Blaze out of
well bred mare noted for trotting."
Blaze, the son of Childers. is noted in
racing annals as one of the ancestors
Of the first Derby winner, Diomed. and
of American Eclipse.
The popularity of trotting as a sport
seems to have reached climax and run
its course in England in the last quarter
of the eighteenth century and the first
quarter of the nineteenth. There were
matches after this period, as there were
before il, but the fifty years between
1875 and 1926 witnessed the rise and
the beginning OF the decline In the pas
time. Trotting matches-open races
were unknown-came into vogue with
the building of good roads for the royal
mail coaches and the first wheeled
vehicles having steel springs Their
passing was coincldent with the con-
struction of railroads. which in the
fifty or sixty years following 1923 COM
pletely changed the character OF the
English trotter, Transforming him into
the high stepping carriage horse, now
called the hackney.
The old Norfolk trotter was essentially
a saddle horse. 1t was his task to take
UP the country squire or yoeman with
perhaps a pair of heavy saddle bags and
trot away to the market town or 10
York or London. making as good time as
the stage coaches for hours at stretch,
and after a nights rest coming out MT
and fresh to make the journey home
again. IL was essentially long distance
work. and the type of trotting horse II
developed was one whose speed was
measured not by the minutes and sec
onds II took him to trot a mile between
the shafts OF featherweight sulky on
a prepared track but by the number OF
miles he could trot i'm an hour or day
ON the public highway with the weight
Of a heavy man on his back. He was
short legged, truss built. burly. big little
horse. rarely above fifteen hands high. as
strong as a buffalo and OF the make ana
shape which prompted somebody to coin
the term cob to describe him In word
Lawrence said of him in 1895 that he
renresented the original breed OF British
horses. showing little or no admixture OF
foreign blood. but that some Of the fast
performers of that period had at least a
refining and speed sustaining cross 70
the Arab or the English race horse ~
generally believed even by those who rid
icule the plainly manufactured pedigiees
Of many OF the early trotters and their
sires and dams. Lawrence himself
seems TO have modified his views. for IN
1879 he wrote in the Sporting Mdgos osine
mat the sire OF the celebrated mare Phe-
nonena that trotted seventeen miles IN
nfty-three minutes. was "a Friezeland
horse"
Ancestors From Holland.
.-,, -. ...tor,opf fe one of the in-
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Ancestors From Holland.

This last statement Is one OF the m
fragmente Of horse history
which tend to show that tine Origin OF
The New York herald., 1922-11-05
Basketball Dates for Penn.

PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 4.--The Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania's basketball sched-
ule. announced tonight, includes the
following games:
December 20. Wesleyan College. here.
January 1. McGill University. here IL, An
napolls Naval Academy. here. 20. Prince
ton, here "a. Naval Academy. away. u,
Mercer College OF Macon, Ga. here.
February S-Syracuse University, here z,
Penn state, here. 10. Cornell, away. IL,
Yale away II, Columbia, away. March s.
Cornell, here z, Yale. here. 10. Dart
mouth. here. II. Princeton. away.
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Yearling Trotters Not Sold.

Reports from Goshen. n. Y, that w.
II Cane and Walter II. Cox had pur-
chased the thirteen. yearling trotters by
Peter the Great. :07H, recently
shipped there from Indianapolis. turn
out to be premature. The youngsters
are at Goshen and in Cox's training
stable. but they still belong to s. A.
Fletcher. who bred them. Horace Gree
ley Winnings. his superintendent, says
they are for sale. but not for $4,000
around.
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the early trotters OF Norfolk county is
to be sought in the low countries across
the narrow arm of the North Sea. Col.
Hamilton Smith. in his volume on THE
Horse" in the Naturalist's Library
series, has expressed the opinion that
the early Norfolk trotters were derived
from the Dutch or Friezeland breed. 1t
will be news to a good many horsemen
that Holland had a distinct breed or type
of trotting horse hundreds of years ago.
yet such is the testimony of Col. Smith,
Prof William Ridgeway and all OF the
older authorities, including Bishop Hall.
Prof Ridgeway in his Origin and In
fiuence OF the Thoroughbred Horse" tells
us that down to the last century the
Friezeland horse, also known as the
Dutch. was commonly. called the hart
drawer :; that Is, fast trotter." Thomas
Blundeville, the first Englishman who
wrote a book about horses, confirms this
statement about the natural habit of
action of the Dutch horse He says:
"The pace of this horse is good
comely trot" To the same effect is
Markham. who says of the Friezeland
horse in his "Cavalarice," published In
1917: Their pace is short. hard
trot"
In considering the influence OF the
of the present day some of the most in
teresting questions of horse history
arise. One OF these directly concerns
the American potter independent of his
relationship Though the old time trot-
ters of England We know that when
the Dutch settled New York 800 years
ago they brought their horses with them
and also shipped them to Albany. King
ston and many other places In the
colonies where they were apparently
highly priced. judging from the many
references to Dutch horses" in the rec
ords OF that period. 1t has usually been
assumed that these horses were of the
heavy breed from which came the mod
ern draft horse. and that they played no
part in the formation of the breed of
trotting horses in America. In the light
Of the authorities above quoted this
looks like a colossal error. The draft
horses of the low countries came from
Flanders and by all the old writers
were called Flemish horses. or Flanders
horses, and never Dutch horses. This
latter term referred to the lighter and
more active horse of the north OF Hol-
land and was synonymous with F'rieze-
land or Freisian horse, which, as Prof.
Ridgeway and Col. Smith have said, was
commonly called 'hart-draver," mean
ing fast trotter.
Justin Morgan n Dutch Horse.
Right here It Is worthy Of note that
the first and best evidence ever brought
TO light concerning the mysterious
origin of the breed OF Morgan horses in
New England. which played no small
part in the evolution OF the American
tiotter was that it's founder was a
Dutch horse. The original Morgan horse
Figure. better known to-day as Justin
Morgan. was foaled In 1898. II was not
until 1S41. wnen his descendants had
overspread half the United states and
were the most popular horses In the
country. that any inquiry was made as
to his ancestry The country school
master. Justin Morgan, who had taken
him from Springfield Mass, TO Ran
dolph. VT in 1895, had then been dead
/ almost half century. and all that could
he learned from his son was the clean
cut declaration. II know that my father
The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-01-12
State Completes
Testimony Taking

Spartanburg, Jan. 1.-THE state
completed its testimony in the case
against T. E. Lanford, charged with
the murder Of Glenn Foster and Guy
Mcdowell, which is being tried in ses-
sions court this afternoon, and the
defense put up several witnesses be-
fore court adjourned. The state made
out a strong case against Lanford.
Witnesses were put on the stand who
testified to seeing Foster and Mellow
ell get in Lanford's car with Lanford
who saw the three driving toward
Camp Wadsworth, where they were
killed, and later saw Lanford return
ing without them. The defense is put
ting up an alibi. The taking of testi-
mony will consume practically all of
tomorrow and probably part Of the
next day. It may be Saturday before
thee ase goes to the jury. .@
The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-01-12
Robbsd q Big Sum d d Money

A. B. Bryant, white man, Of Mon
arch, was yesterday arrested for being
drunk and shooting firearms in the
corporate limits of the city. He was
brought to police headquarters by Po-
liceman w. P. Shelton. He had acci-
dentally shot himself in the leg. Bry-
ant told Chief Moseley that he had
been robbed. After getting further
information, Chief Moseley put Police
man Gault and Stroud on the case.
They arrested Sid Henderson and Sis
Love, colored. ISIS confessed that
she could get the money where she hid
it. She went to Crawford Hill, ac-
companied by the chief, and turned
$110 over to the officers. Both par
ties were turned over to the higher
court, and are now in Jail.
Bryant was fined $7750 this morn
ing in the mayors court and paid the
fine.
The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-01-12
Anxious to Help Relatives

Paris, Jan. 10.-Russians anxious
to send food drafts to relatives in
Russia fairly overran the office of
the American Relief Administration
which recently opened here to enable
them to do so.
Members Of the former Russian
nobility rubbed shoulders with Rus
sian peasants in the effort to obtain
one of the $40 drafts before they
were exhausted.
There were many cases in which
Russians who had not seen their re-
latives for years ard had lost all
trace Of them brought their savings
to the American offices and begged
the staff to try and find and send food
to them. In all cases the money was
accepted and assurances given that
the persons would be found or the
money refunded within three months.
The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-01-12
Meeting of Stockholders
of the Bank of Union

The stockholders meeting of the
Bank of Union was held yesterday at
noon in the Offices of the company.
The report of the bank was read
by w. w. Altman, cashier, and showed
tho condition of the bank to be ex-
cellsnt.
The report Of the president, c. C.
Sanders, was read and was very salts
factory to the stockholders.
r. l.. Kelly was elected to fill the
vacancy on the board of directors
caused by the death of E. F. Kelly
The other directors were reelected
and the board now is as follows: A.
G. Kennedy, p. E. Wilburn, D. N
Jones, DR.. D. H. Montgomery, B. F.
Kennedy, J. F. Cheek, G. B. Sanders
R. L. Kelly, C. C. Sanders, ]. G.
Hughes and L. ]. Sprouse.
G. c. Sanders was reelected presi-
dent; B. F. Kennedy was elected vice
president; w. w. Altman, cashier; J. F.
Jeffries, assistant cashier; C. H. Ben
nett, bookkeeper; Miss Sara Tracy
stenographer.
The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-01-12
FOUR INJURED
In TRUCK WRECK

Florence, Jan. 11.-Dr. 3. G. Gregg
received telegram this afternoon
stating that truck in which a hunt
ing party from Florence was riding
was struck from the track by the
fast Atlantic Coast Line train No.
ST. at Strawberry today, injuring
bore or less seriously J. w. McCown,
Sr., Brooks Mccall, Ed Layton and
w. P. Cole. George McCown, anoth-
er member of the party was not hurt.
Mr.. Mccall was the most seriously
hurt. DR.. Gregg stated this after
noon that while he could not learn the
exact extent of Mr.. McCalPs injuries
he feared that his condition was crit
ical
No details have been received as
how the accident occurred The
party was apparently on its way
Strawberry, the nearest station. J..
w. McCown was hurt on his body and
his leg bruised. Mr.. Layton was cut
on the head. Mr.. Coles right leg
was broken and he was considerably
bruised. George McCown was not
hurt. AS far as he could laern, none
of the party was considered serious
~ injured except Mr.. Mccall. Dr.
Gregg and Mrs. Brooks Mccall left
for Charleston this afternoon.
The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-01-12
Changes In Superintendent
First Baptist Sunday School

C. c. Sanders, for the past IL years
superintendent Of the Sunday school
of the First Baptist church, rendered
his resignation Of the office Sunday,
January /, and Guy H. Wilburn was
chosen to succeed him. Mr.. Sanders
has rendered faithful and satisfactory
service throughout the entire period
of his superintendency, and has, un-
der his administration, witnessed very
marked development in the growth
and efficiency Of the school. The
school has grown from 120 to $50 av-
erage attendance. The congregation
has cooperated fully with Mr.. San
ders in his efforts to strengthen the
school. Under the pastorate Of DR.. E.
S. Reaves largely through his effort,
combined with the efforts of Mr.. San
ders and his teachers and assistants,
the school has been thoroughly grad
ed. It was through the efforts Of DR..
Reaves that the annual Sunday school
institute has become an established
custom with this school.
There are now 19 teachers, one SUI
perintendent and two assistants, and
Mr.. Wilburn is receiving the full CO.
operation of the outgoing superintend-
ent and all the officers and teachers in
the school.
Mr.. Wilburn is young man, a
consecrated and devout Christian, and
Is held in high esteem by all who know
him. 1t is expected that the school
will maintain its high level Of ef.
fieiency under his management.
The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-01-12
FORD LEAVES
FOR WASHINGTON

Detroit, Mich, Jan. 1.-THE Muscle
Shoals plan of Henry Ford contem-
plates one Of the greatest undertake
ings in the history Of industrial
America and if the Detroit manufac-
turer obtains possession Of the pro-
ject in Alabama he will take :mme-
diate steps to make that part of the
South one of the industrial centers of
the country, the Associated Press
learned today. His plan, it became
known, includes development of the
property as model to be extended
eventually to many other parts of the
country.
Mr.. Ford's proposal includes the
building Of a city rs miles long in tho
Muscle Shoals region. 1t would be
made up Of number of large towns
or small cities. This is in line with
the manufacturers view that men and
their families should live in small
communities where benefits of rural
or near rural life would not be en-
tirely lost.
His proposal to the government in
cludes leasing of the property for 100
years. But before the expiration of
half that time he proposes to turn
the completed project over to the peo-
pie Of the district or to the govern
ment in such way that no one in
the future will be able to make a per-
sonal profit from the undertaking. He
will arrange that neither he nor any of
his heirs may realize any monetary
benefits from the Muscle Shoals plants
or the power developed, it became
known.
Mr.. Ford proposes to make the pro-
ject, if the government gives its con-
sent, the outstanding achievement cf
his career.
The Muscle Shoals project is. how
ever, only the start Of a greater pro-
gram, it became known. This includes
the development Of water power fa-
cilities in many parts of the country
by which persons in those communities
would derive power to run manufac-
turing plants, light their homes and
run machinery on the farms. One,
detail of the plan is the harnessing
by farmers of every creek and brook
that crosses their property.
!, Mr.. Ford expects to leave here about
noon tomorrow for Washington to
confer with Secretary Weeks regard
ing his proposal Of leasing the Ala
bama plant i'ts"