"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



Overhead sees in the heavens, 

 Circling high and circling higher, 

 Keen of eye and swift of pinion. 

 Chief of birds and king of falcons. 

 Peregrine, by far the noblest 

 Of all birds that fly above us; 

 Russet brown his dainty plumage; 

 Ruddy red his beak and talons; 

 But the Iroquois, the brownskin, 

 Knows the secret how to tame him — 

 How to make the falcon lower 

 Ruddy head and russet plumage 

 To the black and cherry colors 

 That the brownskin bears so proudly; 

 For he trims his arrows deftly. 

 Does this swift and dexterous Archer, 

 Does this hero of the pigskin, 

 Hero of a thousand Derbys, 

 And the brownskin learned his secret 

 In the city by the river. 

 In St. Louis, where the whiteface. 

 Where Sir John,i the wobbler's patron, 

 Mourns his dollars and his greenbacks 

 Piled upon the scarlet colors, 

 Piled upon the son of Hermit. 



The race for the Derby needs httle description. 



Iroquois was first away, but Archer eased him, laid 



away, and coming at the right moment, won easily 



by half a length. The London Sporting 



^oqiiois ins j^.f commented: "Hats off to America! 

 the Derby •' 



Lorlllard, Iroquois, Pincus, Archer, I 



salute ye! Pincus was said to be galloping his horses 



1 The "Sir John" alluded to above was Sir John Astley, who 

 had backed Weston, "the wobbler," in his six-day pedestrian 

 match with O'Leary. 



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