HAMLIN AND SPEED DEVELOPMENT 



howls and hisses from the grand stand, while Guy 

 did no fast scoring, but merely ambled; and how 

 the said Hamlin finally had the race postponed till 

 the next day for the benefit of Guy. 



" Belle Hamlin is still eligible to the free-for-all 

 class, and Mr. Hamlin can have a chance at Prince 

 Wilkes or any of them that may happen to be in that 

 class during the coming summer. But he always 

 seems to crawl under the fence, and make some prop- 

 osition out of the regular and customary ways of trot- 

 ting races, in order to try and shield poor Belle 

 Hamlin. 



" GEORGE A. SINGERLY." 



When the attention of Mr. Hamlin was drawn 

 to this letter, he wrote me : 



" It is unfair in Mr. Singerly to criticise me for al- 

 lowing the prolonged scoring in the Guy- Prince Wilkes 

 race at Buffalo, when he well knows it was a special 

 race, made for the three horses. The same had just 

 trotted in Detroit, and Mr. Singerly knew Guy's 

 peculiarities. You are perfectly familiar with all 

 the points. You know Belle won all of her Circuit 

 races and trotted a third heat several times in about 

 2.16. She went wrong in a race with Clingstone, and 

 I let her start only to help the Association, and told 

 everybody that asked me before they started that she 

 was off. You scored Singerly so hard last week it 

 cut into his inter-lining. I am overwhelmed just 

 now with pressure of business, and have written this 

 letter in an awful hurry, but I know there is but 

 one Busbey, and you can reply ably to Singerly with- 

 out more from me. I see Wallace is after me again, 

 lying as usual." 



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