CHAPTER 

 XXX 



E. C. GURNEY 



ANOTHER GREAT MILE AT COLUMBUS, OHIO 



FOLLOWING Cresceus's appearance in behalf 

 of charity at Toledo, he made his next public 

 appearance at Columbus, Ohio, on October 17, 

 at the fall meeting" of the Columbus Driving Associa- 

 tion. The enthusiasm in behalf of the champion in 

 all parts of Ohio was so great that it was decided that 

 before he began his western tour, he be allowed to 

 trot an exhibition mile over the famous Buckeye 

 course, over which he had earlier in the season trotted 

 to his record of 2 :o2j. 



It was a cold raw day and a fierce wind from the 

 west blew across the track, and the air was damp, 

 heavy, and chilled the audience to the bone. Men 

 wrapped in heavy ulsters shivered in the grand stand, 

 and the.hundreds of ladies who had braved the weather 



