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Wilson. The latter proved the fastest two-year-old 

 trotter that appeared on the half-mile tracks and in 

 1924 he gave him three-year-old world record of 

 2:03l^. In 1929 he made the grade with Bronx 



2:041/2. 



For years Dick McMahon had the reputation of 



being able to beat the barrier or worry a starter 



more than any other man that ever sat in a sulky. 



As a lad he drifted out of Fredonia, Kansas, and 



made for the Iowa race tracks. He learned a thing 



or two at Independence, when C. W. Williams was 



training Axtell and Allerton. Later on he landed at 



the head of a racing stable and started to do things 



with Citation, Ross K. and Belle Alcantara. His most 



startling performance, however, was recorded at 



Columbus when he landed the three-year-old stakes 



with Mary Putney in 1915 and followed her showing 



there by winning the Kentucky Futurity. This was 



the year after he purchased King Couchman from 



Cox. He made good with him even if Cox said that 



the Atlantic King gelding was the worst acting pacer 



in captivity. 



UNDER FOUR FLAGS 



Whenever the southern antebellum turfman 

 General T. J. Wells is referred to, it has been taken 

 for granted that his ancestors located in Louisiana 

 with Bienville or one of the old time governors who 

 ruled the territory for the Bourbon Kings of France. 

 A brief inquiry, however, developed the fact that his 



