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out my horse was good, but did not want to show up until 

 later on in the next week, and so informed them, but they 

 said " No, not a cent; go help yourself. The judges became 

 tired of the delay and called out to us, '' Go up there and 

 come down or we will send them oS without you.'' We 

 went up and came down and got the word, and I was up in 

 a little better place than I was in any of the other scores. 

 Going around the turn Hannah D. had the lead, Elsie Good 

 second, with Gus Glidden driving her, I was third. My mind 

 was fixed, I preferred any horse to win except Elsie Good, as 

 I was considerably riled up over the breach of contract. As 

 we turned into the back side Elsie Good' passed Hannah D., 

 and I followed suit, and we were at the half-mile pole in 1:09. 

 Great Eastern was at Elsie Good's head, and I being a little 

 angry, said to Glidden, her driver, "That his mare could not 

 go a bit,'' and stepper] along by her and won the heat easy in 

 2:19. Then there was a terrible howl and hurrah; the 

 judges made a mistake at first in hanging out the time as 

 ?:21. Alden Goldsmith rushed out of the Grand Stand, walk- 

 ing almost over peoples' heads, very excited, calling out, " That 

 is not right, the time is 2:19," and the judges on looking saw 

 their mistake and put out the correct time, 2:19. That started 

 another hqwl — 2:19 for that big lobster. The Western dele- 

 gation said that heat will do him, he won't come again to- 

 day ; but he did, and won the next heat in 2:21 in a jog. 

 Then the Western people began to get a little nervous, think- 

 ing, perhaps, they had the last look at their money. 

 They sent Frank Herdic, the pool seller, to see me, and pro- 

 posed to give me $2,000 to let Elsie win. I said " No ; I will 

 not let her win for all that is in sight of me just now, for I 

 have got them in over their heads, and I want to drown 

 them right where they are ; then, perhaps, they will do as 

 they agree next time." You could see many a long face on 

 the quarter stretch, and some of the friends of the mare 

 thought Glidden could not drive her, so they put Sant Wil- 

 son, a half owner of her, up, but the result was the same, as I 



