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with Arab, Crawford, with Hilton, was second, and Splan 

 "laying up" with J. Q. The second heat J. Q. won, Arab 

 laying up, but Kitefoot stepped along into second place. 

 The third heat, when near the three-quarter pole, Hickok 

 said : ''Splan, you better pull back now and let Hilton 

 be second, so as to make third money sure." Splan 

 made no reply, and J. Q. was just sailing along at Arab's 

 necktie. It was a strange thing, and about the only in- 

 stance on record, for Splan to be silent. Hickok, after 

 they had gone a couple of hundred yards further, repeat- 

 ed : "I say, Splan, you better pull back now and let 

 Crawford be second." Splan found his voice. "Craw- 

 ford second, eh! Well, I was just thinking I'd let you 

 be second in this race, said Splan. And he did. But 

 what a race it was — and what a "killing." 



The illustration (fig. 9) of my hobby thoroughly ex- 

 plains itself, and gives the distances and detail to be fol- 



Engineer's Detail Fig. 10— Kite Shaped Mile Track. {See Fig. 9). 



