Year: 1879

BRUSH.


Norman Taylor, who had set in with his old sling
trot, brushed past Rowell on his twelfth mile and
caught the fancy of the visitors Rowe not relish
ing that sort of tactics early in the play spurted


little and both in turn eclipsed by Hazael
While they were struggling for momentary mastery
in estimation Of the lockers Hazael closed up
and presently passed them. The storms OF COM
mendation that had been waiting for the
better of the other two fell to him and
were probably increased in volume by the
admirable presence of mind ne displayed and the
long loping apparently treless way he executed the
mannuvre He continued the lead and retained the
foremost rank in the public eye until his twentieth
mile. whom he slackened up to walk and
menced to eat as he went along. On his thirteenth
mile Merritt increased his speed to a tremendous
pace for lap and then returned to his long swing
ing e;aStsen ,,eS reyessea & ms %nea ne
example On the fifteenth of his journey. Rowell
kept changing his gait constantly between his
moment in his we'll known style and then SOLDERING
down to walk. The track was loose. damp and soft
and gave the men hard work, but it was improving
at every lap and they getting used to it, though
one or two labored heavily.


THE coLoRED BOY.


little before three o'clock slight commotion
occurred the north side of the building. Pre-
vous to this it had been noticed that the colored
boy Hart walked and held himself very like O'Leary.
There was probably shade more buoyancy in the
STYLE but that easily to be accounted for the
ads youth and pardonable vanity at being in such
company, in the presence of large an audience,
The resemblance his action to that of O'Leary
called close attention to him. and this held fast
by other peculiarities. His very distinctive
contrast to the other men singled him
out, and it was discovered that he
was persstentiy following % at the heels Of Rowell
this long before they discovered it, and that just
they had found it out the famous Englishman was
among the occupants of the front benches on the
Twenty seventh street side raised by Weston's


N sn ae ID
his course. He had not gone many yards in the op-
posite direction when O'Leary whispered to Hart.
lie wheeled ut once and sped away round after
Rowel. cheered to the echo by the
dience who then saw the whole drift of
the game. Reaching his old place, Hart slackened
his pace and plodded along behind Rowell This
started the house once more and after the cheering
and applause. which lasted several minutes. sub
sided, Hart was urged forward and encouraged to
keep up the sport. Whatever Rowell did Hart imi-
tated it. Whether he walked or ran, reversed his
course kept straight on the dark figure of Hart
was always In the rear. he distance between the
two not more than enough for the play
of Rowelrs feet, feet as they left the ground
as il the two running in harness. The regu-
larity and method in the work could not fail to
strike any one otherwise than the result of long
and careful training. The boy swung his arms in
an airy. snowy fashion, and he carried his head
high with quill m toattapick tt between his lips and


Turning the tables is fair play" said gentle
man in one Of the front boxes. .'Thats the game
he won the belt and $2oOOo..'


..They may turn all the tables they like" replied
smother near the & previous .n speaker So and all the
that man Rowell. He wouldn't care q button II
they had the whole colored race behind him in q
string He's come here to win that belt and all the
money that goes with it. and my money is going up
that he'll do it,.


WHAT HART Has DoNE


The opponent they have selected for Rowell is q
Haytian by birth. but brought up in Boston.
He is only Twenty-Five years OF age. and made his
Mr.. Fred Englehardt last April in Boston. After
he had been thoroughly drilled and trained
and tested the satisfaction of those interested
him Mr.. Englehardt allowed him to enter for race.
It said that he easily doing 119 miles in thirty
hours. His next performance was at Lowell, Mass.
where he took the first prize money by gong fifty
miles in eight hours and forty minures. In June
he did forty miles in six hours in the interstate
match under q mammoth tent. He got second place
the same month in a go-as-yo please by covering
425 miles under broiling sun and suffering the first
day from a sprained knee. His next performance
was in Englehardt and OLeary's seventy-hve hour
go-as-y u please in Boston, In which he took
second money. On that occasion he scored 262
miles. During this contest he laid up for several
hours with an acute Inflammation, but he went back
to work the moment he was able to stand. week
ago last Saturday he finished 362 miles in seventy
fve hours. winning by 1t the champion belt for
short distance walking. This is the that has
created so many doubts about his being able to keep
on to the a Of ss
national match would take place before October.
Mr.. Englehardt says that he would not have thought
of putting the boy into that race il lie had believed
this could have been arranged at early dato.
Still. he is confident of the lads staying power. and
Is Mr. OLeary. 1t took until ten O'Clock yesterday
morning to bring the to their way OF thinking
and tire betting on him, which had previously been
at 25 to against him. suddenly changed to 10 to l.
The interest and attraction kept the entire audience
in the house the whole night through, and the cleo
trio lights had gone out and day had come long be-
fore many OF them vacated their seats On his nine
teenth mile Hart into his tent for the first time
since the start. Ennis. who walked steadily for
seventeen miles, substituted comfortable dog trot
for half a dozen spans. He had promised Cusick,
his trainer he would do six miles an hour regularly
for time. and he faithfully kept his word. Mr..
1tarn nf into fal
Ennis that his stomach would not trouble him
this time. moderate doses of brandy given
to him at proper intervals and that would produce
the desired result. Norman Taylor retired at
3h. Ann. 25s., having accomplished 20 miles. Hart
returned to the track after an absence OF some
Rowell. The people were then SO accustomed to
seeing him there that every time he finished lap
or started u run after Rowen when the latter al
tered his method they greeted him with deafening
cheers Tay lor lrappeared at two minutes past four
and seemed little stiff. Federmeyer went off the
the audience reused to frenzy of excitement
by sharp brush between Rowell and Hart.


THE FIRST ACCIDENT.


The cheering and shouting ut Hart was suddenly
checked by the sight OF man in complete red being
carried down the track on the shoulders Of three
Others 1t was difficult to decide at first to what ex
tent he was injured but the costume and the num-
ber on his breast told it was butcher. and many
knew he was subject to fainting fts it soon spread
that he would be back ut work In few minutes This
rcass cred the people and they turned their atten-
ton once more to Hart and Rowell. butcher fell





trance. He had kept steadily at q walk from the
moment the word "Go" was given. and had not
once altered his pace; On moving as usual round
rolled over on his back. Some gentlemen went in
stantly to his assistance and. lifting him up, bore
him to his tent. There he received proper
attention. and, hal been predicted. no
returned to the track. He received
very warmly by the house. and he resumed his task
In the methodical manner as before. He wore
a cap and scNf coming back from his tent. but
after making few laps he rejected these and APP
peared again he was before the accident. His
turned strength did not however, remain long with
him. At twenty minutes past hve o'clock he
dropped again i'll the eastern OF the Garden
an ID almost front of the cascade He carried
off and the doctor sent for. Whom he recovered tho
stroke that feed him second time he berged to DO
allowed to the walk but the refused.
He pleaded with in his eyes, and said he could
still go on, and he would prove to them that he
could overcome the weakness and keep up. The
trainer replied that il he insisted he would put him
into the again, at the time urging him to
listen to the doctors advice At this butcher turned
his AGAINST the wall of his tent and cried bit