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nectioii with Blackwood, Jr. , and at the end of his hrst cam- 

 paign w^as the black stallion called " The Iron Horse of Ten- 

 nessee," a name he richly deserved from the great number 

 of hard contests he had taken part in. There was one thing 

 in McKimmin's character very necessary in a horse driver, 

 and that was he was not afraid of anybody. While he was 

 not a quarrelsome man I have seen him on one or two occa- 

 sions with a look in his eye which showed that he was not 

 to be trifled with. In appearance he is a little" large for a 

 driver and has the general air of a well-to-do farmer. Not 

 only is he a successful horse driver, but in a newspaper war 

 with some of the trotting associations he made not a few^ 

 centre shots and showed his opponents that the whij) w^as not 

 his only strong suit. At present he is the possessor of a 

 breeding farm and confines his attention almost wholly to 

 that, leaving the excitement of driving to his friends. Rob- 

 ert Anderson, another Southern x)roduction, lias made sev- 

 eral raids on the Northern country wdth his race-horses. His 

 most notable charger was Argyle the pacer. This horse in 

 Bob's hands went some good races and some bad ones, but 

 in the wreck Bob must have saved something as I under- 

 stand he is the flourishing proxmetor of a first-class livery 

 stable. I want to say here that it was through no fault of 

 Bob' s that Argyle used to make those ' ' Jimtown ' ' breaks, 

 as he has on several occasions done the same thing with me. 

 Dod Irwin is a Quaker and a rejiresentative driver of the 

 Quaker City. To say that he learned his trade with William 

 Doble is enough to convince anyone that he will do to go for 

 the money, and if he drives your horse and does not win 

 you can rest assured the horse is troubled with the slows. 

 Eugene Rood hails from Wisconsin. Years ago he showed 

 the boys a taste of his mettle by dragging off tlie pool-box 

 with Mazo-Manie, and would have dragged off the track if 

 it had not been fastened down. George W. Webber, another 

 native of Wisconsin, is noted for his easy manners, his 

 qualities as an all-round horseman and the size and brill- 

 iancy of his diamonds, he having more monev invested in 



