656 A HISTORY OP HEREFORD CATTLE 



Sir Bredwell Beats Free Lance. ''There 

 was but one light show in the entire section that 

 seen in the senior bull class. Dale went back here 

 among the two-year-olds under the rules for com- 

 puting ages at the exposition, so that the tourney 

 was opened by a tilt between Funkhouser's Free 

 Lance and Sotham's Sir Bredwell. The pitcher that 

 goes to the well each day is sooner or later broken, 

 The big son of Beau Eeal and Lady Wilton has 

 dared defeat on many a hotly contested field the past 

 four years, and has borne back to Plattsburg in 

 triumph spoils of showyard war that will furnish a 

 theme for many a fireside tale in the years to come 

 as his many battles royal are recalled. But here 

 he fell before the superior freshness, bloom and 

 character of his younger antagonist. The doughty 

 old warrior's weight could not prevail against Sir 

 BredwelPs superior front and smoothly carried 

 flesh. Such is the way of the world. Show bulls 

 meet the common fate. Eepeated fittings and pass- 

 ing years render it difficult for even the kingliest 

 of them all to hold their own indefinitely against the 

 rude assaults of active aspirants for leadership 

 among the younger element. At five and one-half 

 years of age Free Lance relinquished showyard 

 sovereignty at Omaha last week to the three-year- 

 old son of Corrector and Beatrice. Bovine monarch 

 never possessed a more regal presence than the 

 newly chosen champion. It may seem a somewhat 

 heartless proposition, that nerve-jarring vivat of 

 the French, but in it is condensed the whole philos- 

 ophy of the inevitable : ' The king is dead, long live 

 the king !> " 



Dale Wins Again. "We now approach the 

 most sensational string of young bulls of any beef 

 breed seen in this country since that memorable day 

 when Fowler, Bowdoin, Sergeant Major, Broad- 



