2l6 THE world's CHAMPION 



The telegram was sent and then Mr. Andrews was called 

 by telephone for the purpose of talking it over with him. 

 He furnished this information: "I was driving a race this 

 afternoon and had dismounted and was on my way to the 

 barn when I heard some one hailing me as if he had a life 

 or death matter on his hands. He was waving a telegram 

 at me and I saw it was Cox. He was coming on the dead 

 run. He showed me the message from you, pulled a quarter 

 out of his pocket, flipped it up and you owe him $2,000." 



That week in company with Uncle Biff" and Robert 

 Milroi the ''little scrub" was shipped by boat from Detroit 

 to Cleveland, and so Lee Axworthy became a member of 

 the Pastime Stable. There was more or less concern as to 

 how the youngster would stand the awful morning racket at 

 the Cleveland dock and the overland journey to North 

 Randall through the great traffic of the Ohio metropolis. 

 Henry Knowles was commissioned to lead him or have him 

 led behind his light wagon, and no horse ever had so good 

 a time. The racket at the dock interested him greatly, there 

 was much to see on the way to North Randall, and through 

 it all Lee Axworthy toddled along, missing nothing and 

 never showing the slightest sign of fright. It might be stated 

 here that he was just that way all his life and as Ben White 

 says in his story about him in this volume he was a good 

 feeder and a good doer, always and everywhere. More of 

 that appears further along in this story. 



The little fellow was put in Mr. Devereux's barn and 

 Harvey Shorts exercised him until fall. Once a week or 

 oftener Mr. Harvey drove him and he says that he never was 

 able to drive him a full mile at the trot. He did not know 

 he was at school or else he did not know that Mr. Harvey 

 was the teacher. Finally, one day, the colt allowed himself 

 to be "shooed" around the mile track in about 2:50 and in 

 that mile there flashed the first ray of hope. The colt 

 had trotted into the stretch and was nearing the seven-eighths 

 pole when he suddenly turned on some steam. His teacher 

 looked down to see if he was running or had stuck to the 

 trot and finding him trotting wondered what had changed 

 him so suddenly. Ahead he saw the white horses pulling a 



