"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



a cheerful winter tune, and Mr. Bathgate told of Fox- 

 hall's Cambridgeshire! The house-dog lay dreaming 

 on the rug, but opened his eyes as John Hyland gave 

 an exciting recital of Bonnie Lizzie's Con- 



iJV ^/ gress Hall Stakes. Sutcllffe's talk was of boy- 

 Trainers ° r t-» • • 



hood days in England, of Rosicrucian, 



Marksman, and Hermit's Derby; -and Walter Rollins 

 had a good word for Gen. Monroe. But soon the 

 great case of George Kinney vs. Pizarro was called 

 and "submitted to the jury" ; and once started, It be- 

 came the only topic. The merits of the rivals for the 

 Withers Stakes were discussed as if the fate of the na- 

 tion was Involved; but In the end "the jury" always 

 "disagreed." 



Fordham became quite a little Newmarket during 

 the Jerome Park era. Many owners, trainers, and 

 jockeys lived there ; and as they mixed freely with the 

 townspeople, the latter became saturated with the spirit 

 of racing. It was about this time that a stranger, an 

 old gentleman. Inquired of Mr. Redding, the station 

 agent, if a town election was pending. Upon being 

 told "not this time of the year," he replied that during 



the few hours he had been In Fordham 



Local Interest in 1 1 u u j i j i r 



, „ XT- r all he had heard spoken ot was some 

 the Race Mistaken ^ 



for an Election ^ort of contest "between a man named 



George Kinney and another man by the 



name of Pizarrlo, probably an Italian"; and men were 



"talking and betting over it on every corner." When 



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