WILLIAM I 5 I 



The Indiana pacer did not invade the Grand Circuit in 

 1914, as a four-year-old unheralded and unsung. He was 

 shipped to North Randall for the finishing touches to his 

 preparation and no track in the world has a greater array 

 of morning spectators when the period for fast miles ar- 

 rives. And so William not only gave a multitude a line 

 on his speed but made all of them his admirers, no one of 

 them more pronounced than "Billy" Andrews and it may 

 be well to state here that when Mr. Marvin asked him to drive 

 the colt a mile Mr. Andrews was more than delighted for 

 a few moments before he had said to an intimate friend: 

 "How I would love to ride one mile behind that pacer. He 

 looks to me like a world beater." The latter part of the 

 remark was no guess. Billy Andrews was a man who knew 

 horse quality when he saw it. And what he said, by way 

 of encouragement to Mr. Marvin when he dismounted was 

 just a little added to the mass of evidence that he was the 

 possessor of the right sort or heart. Mr. Marvin testifies 

 that it did him a lot of good. 



Returning to the 1914 campaign. William made his 

 first start of the year and his first in select society at North 

 Randall in the 2:05 class and won it as he pleased in 2:02, 

 2:02'*^. He won his next start, the following week at De- 

 troit and then came his sensational race at Grand Rapids, 

 which has already been mentioned and in which he paced 

 the first two-minute race mile on a Grand Circuit track. 

 As he had no stake engagements that race meant either trials 

 against time or match races. He was soon matched against 

 Directum I, a horse that in the hands of Raymond Snedeker 

 had paced in even time on two occasions after William had 

 turned the trick. The race was made for Comstock Park 

 track at Grand Rapids and William won it in 2:01-^, 

 2:0114, 2:021/2. This was the first pacing race ever put on 

 in which both starters had records of two minutes. Directum 

 I defeated him a week later at Columbus in 1:58, 2:00 and 

 also defeated him in a poor contest at Grand Rapids about 

 the middle of October, neither horse being what he had been 

 because, with no engagements in sight, neither had been kept 

 on edge. Directum I won in 2:041/4? 2:011/4. That ended 



