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Show nnanans:ftn ( nnnAfta ft eft &&&& Sports and Athletics. Knthuslastlc horsemen havo voted Tho Ilroncho tho champion pacer of America, a a result of tho wonderful performance of this sinsatlonal piece of horseflesh at Cleveland tho other day when tho llttlo maro established three new worlds records The quiet little daughter of Btorm-cllffo Btorm-cllffo won tho free-for all paco In threo straight heats, difeating llaron Ural tan, .Maud Keswick, Ncrvolo and Haul Patch, and her tlmo was 2:03, 3:031 4 and 2 03 3 4 Her record con slit of tho threo fastest heats over paced and won consecutively, world records for pacing marcs In a raco and tho worlds mark for tho fastest third heat evir paced by any horse. All of which she did without being urged In tho least and, In fact, was being cased up at thu finish, hut for which Charley Dean, her trainer and - driver, sus lio could havo forced her to the 2.00 mark easily Sumo tlmo ago, tarly this seasui, when when The Ilroncho paced a mlln at Llbertyvllle, 111 . In 2 05 1 2, It waa prodlcted that alio would smash nearly near-ly nil of thu records (hi season and besldca would paco close to 2'00 Part of this sbu has already done The writer also said that an effort would bo made to match Tho Ilroncho with Dan Patch, king of pacers This statement, although coming from Charley Dean, who knew what the mare could do, waa scoffed at, but now word comes from tho Knst to tbo effect that tbo two great pacers are certain to bo matched before tho season Is ended The Ilroncho also has engagements at the Wisconsin stato fair at Milwaukee, but whether or not her now owners, Messrs, K. J Rocbon & Doblo, of Winnipeg, Man, will allow her to remain In Dean's hands until then remains to be seen Rochon declare tho mare Is not for salo at any price. The men who paid Mr Adama, ot Dlura, III , (10,000 for tho llttlo pacor a few week ago wero at Cleveland to watch their new purchase perform, the first time they bad enjoyed that pleasure. They, of course, expected to seo her win, but they never antlci pated that she would bang up three world' marks In one afternoon, nor did thoy even dream of her going a third heat so close to 2 02 and eased up at that They woro wild with Joy aflcr thu raco an I petted and hugged tha queen of paceM as n mother would her child Chat ley IKan, who has had tho maro In charge for several season and who ha madu her Just what sho Is, was also cheered and congrntulatid on nil sides He madn n ahow of Kd (leers' fast pacer, llaron Uratlan, nnd also toed with Maud Keswick, which was second tho first heat Hniel Patch, tho horso which beat Tho Ilroncho ono host at Milwaukee Milwau-kee last fall, waa also In tho raco, but ho was In tho rear all the time. The Droncho and Her Driver, Osan, It was Dean who named her The Ilroncho becauso of her bucking and rearing nnd tearing disposition when ho got her He learned that she had been beaten by some of heir keepers and that sho wus scared half out ot her wits at tho tlmo, not knowing what thoy really wanttd of hor, but as soon as sho learned that no one would abuse her in tho new home she changod her disposition altogether and It Is an uncommon thing now for her to make a skip while pacing whore formerly It waa hard to keep her on her foot In all of her record smash Ing feats she never made a bobble and sho tore away like a wild horse . each heat Got It Hlmsslf, "That lawyer I employed to get hold of that property for me la ths smartest man I know " "He got II, all right, did her "Yes he got It" Cleveland Leader, |