Show I POOR SHOWING Once Famous Trotter Starts at Galesburg and Disgusts Big Crowd S When f the once mighty mi ht trotter tr t l Cresceus limped on on n the track at Gales G les lesburg burg burgr III Ill the other ther day and hopped a amile amile amile mile In the sorry spectacle in all probability was was w s the final chapter In the turf history of o the greatest trotter that ever eer lived With the trotters tr beating every day of the Galesburg G meet meeting meetIng ing Cresceus the king of all the trot trotters trotters trotters that ever lived was dragged out after years cars of retirement sent to give an exhibition of or speed when the men who had him in charge knew full well that he could not even take a sound h less show speed Cresceus Has Weird Career Cresceus will be a horse of history I when all aU other trotters of his day are forgotten and deservedly so His ca en career career reer from the day he was foaled until he retired after the notorious exhibition I at Wichita Kan where his mile was reported as having been done in all the judges sticking sUcking to the fact even after the record had been publicly repudiated by the stallions owner was a succession of sensations triumphs and lucky inci mci incidents incidents dents In fact the element began playing a part in his career that was to be long before he was foaled It came ame about in this way Down in S Ohio there was a mare called caned Mabel that produced a a colt coIt that trotted in as a old George Ketcham of Toledo hearing the mare was to be besold besold besold sold at auction decided to bid hid on her herup up Uj to 1500 But on the sale day two other men acting in concert became in their bidding each thinking the tIle other was the man that had the auctioneers eye e e so that Ketcham got the mare for tor When she foaled Cresceus the young youns youngster ster was a most ungainly common looking specimen of the trotting horse No one on the farm regarded him as of any possible value Death Sentence for Colt As a yearling the homely colt was attacked by epizootic and to relieve him a big blister was put on his neck As soon as it began to heal it itched and the colt walked to the of his stall and rubbed the ilie neck until a horrible gaping wound that exposed the windpipe had beep been beep made Kill him wee wre w e the instructions Now if there is one point where the average balks it itis itis itis is at killing a horse unless such action would be e humane So as the colt looked better the day following his sentence to death he was allowed to hang around and got well at once Then he was broken to harness and it was weeks before he could trot at all allbut allbut allbut but finally he balanced himself and then he could step in good shape for a yearling And then began the wonderful series of things that Cresceus did In his bIs re remarkable remarkable remarkable career |