374 LIFE WITH THE TROTTERS. 



'were some time figuring tlie position of the third and fourth 

 horses. Crawford became impatient and asked me what I 

 thought about it. I told him his mare had won the heat 

 sure. He wondered why the judges did not hang out their 

 decision. I told him they would in a minute, whereupon he 

 remarked that would be too late for him, as he would be 

 dead in a minute, meaning that the strain would be too 

 great, he could not wait that long. I think he was mis- 

 taken. 



No matter what the decision might have been I am sure 

 from what I saw of the man at other times, it would have 

 taken more than that to kill him. Once afterward when he 

 was very ill and I stood at his bedside, he told his physician 

 that he wanted to know just what chance there was of his 

 living or dying. The physician answered that he had just 

 an even chance for his life. Crawford replied to him that 

 that was as good a thing as he had ever had in this 

 world, and was willing to take an even chance and try and 

 live, which convinced me that it would take more than an 

 adverse decision from the judges' stand to make him surren- 

 der. In appearance, disposition, etc., the four men who won 

 the money on this race, besides being connected in business, 

 were great social friends. The public, I think, are greatly 

 mistaken about the character and habits of men connected 

 with the turf. As in other walks of life, there are a great 

 many different kinds of people interested in trotters, some 

 for pleasure, and some as a means of livelihood. Terry Barden 

 was a man of very delicate health and mildness of manner, 

 and whether he was buying the first choice in the pool-box, 

 or speaking to a lady, had the same polite manners and low 

 tone of voice, always pleasant to meet with. He often lost 

 his money, but never a friend. He is one of the few men who 

 lived and died and left behind him no word of censure. 

 Crawford, a man of more nervous temperament, is the de- 

 scendant of a well-bred family, received a good business 

 education, served his time in the war, and proved by his 

 ■conduct that whatever else was in his character fear was no 



