New-York tribune., 1922-09-13


but particularly so on the hardy men
of the lawn who chalk up the odds.
The stewards tried to horn into it also
and make themselves ridiculous, but
Cassidy, whe. has sense of humor,
wouldn't permit them. Like Nelson,
of DID, he put his telescope to his
blindest eye as the stewards waved
straw hat signals to him to start the
race without Sequel, and exclaimed to
his drawn, whlte-faced assistants: Il
see no signal"
Sequel ran away mile, a mile and
half or two miles. Wilful truancy
you might call it. She went it alone.
She even objected to the company of
little E. Martz and hung him on the
barrier before she took to her heels.
The customers gasped, Of course. Many
of them were in sympathy with Sequel
till she ran away. Then they ran
away, too; They ran down to the club
house and lawn to try to implore the
Uncle Jakes to cancel bets. But the
Jakes guffawed, rubbed their snug
hands, and all the tumble they gave
the entreaties was to chalk q bigger
price against Sequel. 1t is said they
tempted the "suckers" with Is to l,
and some few suckers grabbed to the
later despair of the philanthropists.
Little Effort to Halt Runaway
So did some smart regulars who
n oted the fact that Sequel was out on
! little sightseeing trip and not in
| malice aforethought. 1t would have
been an easy matter for the track at
tendants to have headed Sequel and
shooed her back to the starting post
She scraped Martz off in returning
under the barrier from false break,
and of course, was galloping the re-
verse way of the track. There we're
plenty of hardy men of the stables
contingent lining the track rails in the
backward path Sequel was pursuing.
But even these were down on some
thing else in the race or were afraid
of soiing their boots. They let the
filly run, or rather canter; they even
assisted her.
One kind-hearted gentleman who
feared Sequel might not be able to
jump the bar that guards the entrance
from the chute to the training track
took it down for her. Sequel took the
training track, reverse way also,
galloped around to the vicinity of her
stable. leaped the fence like hunter
and disappeared among the stables.
paul Revere Murray, whose duty
it is to catch runaways as we'll as to
marshal the fields to the post, was
caught mapping. He was almost back
to the straight chute and tried to cir
cumvent the stray beast by meeting her
half way on the training track. In
good time he retrieved the errant one
and led her back by the path she had
taken. He had come through the dis
tance chute and was again on the main
track, evidently unknown to all but
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engineer Mars Cassidy five frantic
bells. Cass didn't know what to make
of it, so the signal corps expert of
the stewards "straw-hatted" him to
start the field without Sequel. Here
Cassidy saw his duty, used his blindest
eye,-and waited. He is the soul of
patience at, times.
Sequel Defeats Great Lady
In her ramble Sequel must hae dis
covered the fountain Of youth. She
ran that way, anyhow. She broke in
front and she stayed in front. Martz
hustled her along till he had opened
up lead Of three lengths. Then he
hustled her some more. The filly was
all out ard doing her best at the end
but was still a length and half ahead
nowhere. And Evelyn Sawyer, the good
thing, didn't get smell of the money.
Many a good man was disconsolate
after that race when he remembered
that Sequel had only gone for a little
warm-up while she left the rest of
the field at the barrier to tire under
their imposts. A chance OF lifetime
to harpoon the books was lost in the
general excitement.
The tumble of Martz was only cir
cumstance to the spills the students
took during the afternoon. Martz
landed feet first in the soft mud; the
players landed head first in the mire
The only rays of sunshine fell in the
first race and in the victory of Nassau,
favorite, in the Champagne Stakes,
the feature Of the day This good colt
of Frederick Johnson's earned $4,65o
by racing the seven furlongs around
turns in the fast time Of 1925 2-5. Fair
brother, who had the mount, held the
race safe from start to finish.
Miss Smith was the only one that
furnished any show of contention, and
Morris seemed to have great difficulty
in preventing her from running out.
! Occur de Lion, outrun in the early part
SSsE s: 81 Sc S. 81 81 81 81 " =. ss