CHAPTER 

 XXVII 



EDDIE MITCHELL 



CRESCEUS AT PHILADELPHIA 



THE race with The Abbot at Boston was the last 

 race in which Cresceus took part during the 

 year 1901. He had met and defeated all the 

 stars, and there being no other champions willing to 

 try conclusions with the brilliant Ohio champion, his 

 efforts during the rest of the season were confined ex- 

 clusively to exhibition miles. He gave a series of ex- 

 hibitions across the continent, and made a triumphal 

 tour from the Atlantic to the Pacific. During this 

 tour he appeared before great crowds of enthusiastic 

 people, who vied with each other in doing honor to 

 the world's greatest champion trotting race horse. The 

 champion began his exhibition tour at Belmont track, 

 Philadelphia, on September 26, and over the historic 

 old course he trotted one of the greatest miles of his 



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