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Show II ENGLISH LAD A I j Hailed as Cliaipion t 5 . of the West I U I j ; His Victory Over McGee at I ' j . Top Weight Considered j Remarkable. ! Capt. Brown Is Anxious to Match I j . '. Sis Horso Broomstick Agulust I , 11 the Cook Colt, j CHICAGO, III,, July 23. English Lad's great victory over the best four- yoar-old thoroughbred in America, Mc- j 3ce, at Harlom on "Wednesday last ' marks tho feature ovent of the week. ' ' Actually giving1 away six pounds of j 'weight, according to the scale, Engllah j Lad, tho popular champion of Western ; i ' three-year-olds, defeated McGee, the , ' ' I best four-year-old In tho West, In one ( ' of tho most inspiring contents of the season. The victory was only by a i .pose, but It wrought up the crowd to ,! higher pitch than has any race this v season, j 1 . , Tho contest itself was a grand cxhl- ( bltion. But more inspiring and more i nerve-tingling than tho race was the acceptance of It by the Immense aggre- I i gntion of human beings packed in the j stand and about it. In not a single I ovent this season Hawthorne Derby, I American Derby or what not has nuch 11 cheering and wild gesticulation been I evident, Second choice In the betting, giving , away weight and racing against the best four-year-old in the West, a horse II just now Hushed with five victories and in most magnificent condition, English Lad was not expected to win. But when the eighth polo was neared ' and It was seen his chances were more 1 than even with the great McGee, tho I spectators went wild. Applause was j tho ordor, and It was forthcoming, j Their yellings, ecreaming, clapping and Jumplng-Jack movements were suf- Hclent to bring the hearts of the more , callous spectators to their throats. I For the race McGee was a -1 to 5 fa- vorite, with English Lad held at 14 to 5, ' and Witful at 4 to 1. Getting away to a good start, Souffrlere set the early j j pace under sufferance. Then McGee moved up In command. All the while t j English Lad lay back in third position. ( Turning into the stretch, NIcol began to call on the popular Idol. His re-i re-i sponse was that of a game ,true-heart-i ed racer, and ho soon was on almost I ; , equal terms with the favorite. Then ' began a duel that lasted from the eighth pole to tho finish, with English Lad slowly getting In front of the En-I En-I gllsh horse. English. Lad's Game Finish. 1 1 At the wire the colt had the advan-,j advan-,j j tage by a nose, though all the last slx-, slx-, ( teenth or more he had McGee beaten. At that, both horses wero ridden out in I ,a hard drive. Witful, noted as a 1 stretch runner, simply could not get up l to the two, finishing an easy third. The . last mile of the journey was made In just a fraction over 1:30, which shows Via,, 1 4 V I 1 1. , I, HU" HIVJ 1 till IW'Sk UlltllCU llli; UUJt 1 colt. ') , Pittsburg's millionaire turfman, Capt. i 'S. S. Brown, owner of tho crack three- 1 year-old Broomstick, winner of the I Brighton handicap, has been spending a i few days here. He goes out to the i , track occasionally to see his ponies run. j Ir. Brown believes he has the undis puted champion of the year in Broom-M Broom-M stick, and during a conversation with ;i' several friends declared his willingness ; to match the crack colt with the West's l champion, English Lnd. !;i The Pittsburg owner saw English ;j Lad race Wednesday, and was im- . pressed by the showing of the Cook 1 colt-"I colt-"I think," declared Mr. Brown to a number of his friends, "that Broomstick Broom-stick can beat the Cook horse over a mile-and-a-quarter Journey any time r that they care to try conclusions with us In the East. If English Lad goes ' East for the Saratoga meeting he will have every opportunity to hook up with : I Broomstick at the Spa, as I will enter . j him freely, and I'm not afraid to race ' I any man's horse." ' ' Since English Lad's marvelous per- 1 formances at Harlem the match which , j has been talked of for some time be- I ; tween McChesney, for two years the Idol of the Western racing public, and ' v English Lad, the present marvel of the Western turf, has been revived, and I thorc Is every prospect of these two great speed marvels meeting in the 1 j near future. Both Smathers and Cook ' favor the meeting between these two 1 great horses. ' McChesney Back to Form. ' McChesney has gotten back Into his I I, old form, and was sent three-quarters ; of a mile In 1:15 In a try-out on Thurs- T day. He la said to be rounding Into . form for the great race with Engllah ; Lad. j, Great sorrow was felt all over the , , middle West at tho untimely taking oft 1 of Highball, winner of the American Derby, and while great consideration 'jj i was felt for his owners and their desire 1 ' to obtain tho full amount of Insurance on the horse, yet a great many think )? j that his sufferings were unnecessarily fl prolonged. |
