Year: 1879




The man in easily the best rather the showiest
form on this track to-day is little Hart and he can't
cover lap but he is rewarded with abundant words
of cheer. Stifdy erect. his chest out ful his head
back his legs going with the cleanness and precision
SO conspicuous in his famous mentor. his very
carriage and air reassuring. and make you won
der IL he can possibly be tired after all. But
look o little closer and you will find that
the cheek, which full and plump on
Monday morning. has come down greatly,
the horizontal bone in front of the top of his
stands out like lead pencil the skin his fore
head looks drawn and tight and the expression about
the eyes is unmistakably worn and rather anxious
one OF course he's darker under the eyes than any
of his rivals. but that is scarcely limited to the
times he is hard at work. but family trait rather.
For q man with . sprained ankle. and a badly
sprained at that he is certainly sklful at
concealing it, and tho chief difference between
his work now and Monday is tha. 1t
takes him ten or fifteen seconds longer to get
lap than then. His scrupulousy white iersey-for
he has all the week been the tidiest man on the
track except. perhaps. Guyon-has above it to-day
white flannel band about his dark throat neatly
fastened with childs pin behind. Very likely that
Rnssian bath the other night left little huskness
behind it. and was. unless he used to
1t. questionable move at best. He holds
his thick lips open. too. as If breath
ing wasn't easy ordinarily. and these little
things, put with the ten less to-day than at this
tme--hve o'clock-yesterdAy. show that this game.
good boys virtue is gradually but surely going out
of him. But what they want to do with him and
Merritt and Guyon this next year is to nurse
them. keep them at vigorous but never very hard
work right along, and see that they rest
and eat abundantly. and they'll make these
uias talk year two later much
better than Merritt does now than when
lie couldn't catch little Panchot here but few
weeks ago. Awkward and struggling as is Merrltts
make up when you put him beside the handsome.
shapely Guyon. he has shown that handsome Is
milesSto the good tell the stuff of which he's made


HAS AMERICA THE MATERIAL?


There's one thing You cannot help thinking Of this
hasn't put on the track such timber England has.
Say what you will, help your hopes out with
said and DONE looking at tho matter squarely 1t is
hard to escape the conclusion that we simply
haven't anything In stock ft TO compare just now
with these British fabrics-excepting always Wes-
ton. Not entirely an anomaly is he either. Long
and extensive has been Hazaeis experience, it
does not equal weston's in this protracted loot
work. Had Weston, instead of waiting till he
over forty before learning how to
run. been taught twenty-five years ago. as
is Incomplete, 1t is more than probable white
man in all this broad world could outstrip him in
this, the supreme test yet discovered, OF all phys
cal endurance We say white man. for there is
chapter In this weeks work whi h amid the long
eAcitement has been entIrely overlooked, ana IL
came near being good IL not better reading than
any in the book. All will remember that
two or three weeks ago. when these racers were
buried in the midclo of their wrangle about the time
NJ which the TO be rum there came quietly
up to the managers one day stout. swarthy niddle
aged man, and said he had man to enter for this
hght. Who the latter was he would not say further
than that he was Yuma Indian. and wanted u large
tub In which to daily dsport himself. That all.
Vigilant reporters Piled him. as reporters only till
they wor,ied out OF him the fact that this same
known mad trick OF dong his l2Sls day right
along for months together. crossing mountains,
swimming streams, dashng onward, onward, on.
ward, regardless of all fire and water aud other
stacos. Everyone concluded that a nice sawdust
track in q covered enclosure, with gay lights and
band that played "Yankee Doodle ninety-nve
times day and "tommy Dodd" ninety-six
and four laps, the winner of this great
aud mighty contest at last to be a regular, Al,
ull-blooded American of copper exterior ard manly
'front.' aud more or less limited clothing, according
20 the state OF the thermometer and the best middle
ground to what correct in this direction that
could be determined on by consulting the powerful
brain OF Alexander Williams the one hand
and that Of Anthony Comstock on the
other. Well. he didn't como. And why