30 EVERY MAN HIS OWN TRAINER. 



Tom King, " Is he not too high in flesh ? he looks more like a 

 coach horse than a trotter." That was the day of the race 

 that will long be remembered by the horsemen of America. 

 It was the East against the West. Great Eastern carried the 

 banner of the East, and Elsie Good the flag of the West. 

 The Western delegation said Great Eastern was a big lobster 

 and no good ; he was seventeen hands and one and one- half 

 inches high, and weighed, in high flesh, thirteen hundred 

 pounds. He stepped it ofi" in one, two, three order, getting a 

 record of 2:1 ij, and some of the Western delegation had to 

 walk home. 



There was in the class Hannah D., 2:22^ ; Elsie Good, 

 2:22|^; Jack Draper, 2:27; Levinski, 2:25J: ; Nellie Walton, 

 2:2r;i ; Mazomania, 2:20^; Bateman, 2:22; Phil. Sheridan, 

 2:2(4; Ella Madden, 2.25| ; Grey Chief, 2:24f, and Great 

 Eastern, who had a record at that time of 2:28J. 



Elsie Good had won at Cleveland and Buffalo. The 

 West had made up their mind she was invincible in her class, 

 consequently she was an immense favorite in the pool box. 

 Some of the delegation came to Dan Mace, who had Nellie 

 Walton in the same race, and agreed to divide all purse and 

 pool money with us if we would agree to not interfere with 

 FAs'ie Good, that is to get in her way or impede her stride, not 

 thinking that either of us could beat her. They had a pot of 

 money in the pool box and wanted to protect it, as we term 

 it, in factthey had persuaded me that she was a world-beater, 

 as I had not at that time seen her trot, consequent!}' 1 was 

 willing to do business, thinking a half a loaf was better than 

 none. In coming down for the word, Elsie scored like a train 

 of cars. Mace's mare did not act very well and I did not 

 show up much with Great Eastern. Mace and myself were 

 informed by the Western delegation that we were no good 

 and that we were out of the i)lay ; if we got an}'thing we 

 would have to help ourselves to it. I talked with some of 

 them and tried to have them give us some of it as it was late 

 and we had no money in the box. I had by this time found 



