260 Recreations of a Sportsman 



and Europe. For hours previous to the games, 

 the roads from Los Angeles were lined with 

 autos and other vehicles. All roads may not 

 have led to Rome, but they did lead that day 

 to the Roman chariots, and when the races were 

 announced by the tournament directors, a crowd 

 that in numbers would have done credit to the 

 old Coliseum at Rome stood up and cheered. 



There was a peculiar interest in the race this 

 year, as the horses were entered by horsemen of 

 national reputation : Richard Carman, four bays, 

 and E. J. ("Lucky") Baldwin four darker steeds. 

 Hogaboom drove for Carman, and West, the 

 champion winner of many races, for Baldwin. 

 The latter had refused to train his horses except 

 to drive them around the track, as he proposed 

 to let them run away in order to win. What 

 Carman's man would do was conjecture. 



Promptly on the minute the two chariots came 

 into the ring and were greeted by cheers and 

 cheers again. The popularity of the sport was at 

 once apparent, and the vast crowd rose to the 

 occasion. It was a gallant sight. Thousands 

 of flags fluttered in the wind, tens of thousands 

 of flowers were banked up against the fence, 

 and there was a strange contrast of winter and 

 summer in the white sentinel peaks of the Sierra 

 Madre and the palms and orange groves of the 

 lowlands. 



The two men, garbed in the costume of chariot 



