Show E EXCITED OVER LONG RIDE Clubman Gallops One Hundred i iM Miles M les In Nine Wine Hours and Nine Minutes New York Jul July 80 aei To decide deci e a as r of 1000 made with Edward L Horton a fI broker Harry Barry Harr If It I of the tile Racquet and Tennis rennIs club a horse owner rode ratio 10 ic miles mUes on horseback in ii nine nina hours ours and pint Hint at Belmont park Hul yesterday y aft r i noon Under the terms cf ef the bet bel ho h hue 24 hours in which to te the uie journey us used d six ponies mostly and half breeds and galloped d his lila mounts all of the way Members of several New York were not nut only treated to the spectacle g e of mUn giving his lila best efforts to win a bet but were witnesses of at a storm hl came near turning the contest luto inti I tragedy Missed by Lightning was riding past JaSt the tho pole 1010 galloping freely free y on a fresh horte hor e ewhen when A bolt of lightning struck the th J oH 1011 oI and nut shattered It He WiS only ten en Toot feo away He H clapped his knees to the Bl r of ol the plunging horse caught him hini befort the animal could start into a run mu Wiped his hands across his face tace as thought dazed and then than continued to the point where his anxious friends were waiting for foi him He swept by them with a wave of his hand han to Indicate that he was un UIl harmed and then passed around the Loser a s Happy Man Mr Norton who nho ho watched after at nt the conclusion of the feat declared 1 I lost ost l but I am mighty m glad bout bent me It was a R game gamo struggle gle glo gb I am nun HB aS a tickled over the thO th result us UI though he lie had paid me the money Ono of cut the tho ponies covered thirty miles mile at Intervals Mr rode rod contin coutin continuously for or u 43 miles on an one relay |