CHAPTER 

 XXIX 



ALBERT NEUHAUSEL 



IN THE NAME OF CHARITY 



MR. THOMAS W. LAWSON, of Boston, dur- 

 ing the winter of 1900, offered a purse of 

 $5,000 for a match race between Cresceus 

 and Charley Herr, the race to be trotted during the 

 meeting of the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders' 

 Association at Lexington, Ky. The proposition of 

 Mr. Lawson was accepted by Mr. Ketcham, and also 

 by Mr. David Cahill, owner of Charley Herr, and the 

 race was looked forward to by horsemen with consid- 

 erable interest. 



Cresceus was shipped to Lexington, Ky., from Bal- 

 timore, and was in readiness to trot against the Ken- 

 tucky champion. Charley Herr, however, was in such 

 poor condition that Mr. Lawson, a few days before 



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