Show the derby day derby deab y day in england yesterday da th the e road to E epsom was ai jammed ni full as usual q the he ris downs were covered with the cocoa nut throw ers sideshows side shows monte monto throwers th rowers ring toss and all that ilk and the race course filled with shar pers as danger dangerous olis though less dirty the tile 1 sky is always clear on derby day and the sunshine very warm the stands are not full yet everybody is cracking champagne and munching sandwiches in the rouches barouches ba finally the saddling bell rings sharp and clear through the summer air and away off over the sea ma of green nowhere to where it echoes against the hills and the white church steeples of the villages beneath how q quickly ca ly the stands fill after the first bell beil ll 11 and what banks of loveliness are the more aristocratic ones tier after tier of warm colors and beautiful faces then comes the preliminary gallop down the home stretch fifteen to thirty of the fastest running horses of the world nostrils distended veins swelled skins glossy as satin heads bent down in valm efforts to draw the gaudy colored jockeys over their ears slowly they all canter up to the rise on the far ott off comer and field nield glasses are leveled by the thousands to see the start down goes the flag and they IQ re off stringing out each rod as some young colt that carries his owners fortune and his honor drops to the rear killed by the cruel pace ah I 1 here is the rise of the tottenham hill and now we shall see where the blood and the bone bonelle lie lle how smoothly and easily gang forward covers his ground breasting the rise with a playful toss of his lean thin head and a wider stretch of the lengthening stride that running strain out of of white king does him good service on the hard ground of today to day if the turf were mushy those bl big 19 shoulders of kaiser would leave him no chance close at gang forwards forward flank comes the wild looking head bead Doncaster of savagely sawing his bit in an impotent effort to get away away from the iron arms of je jemmy wilmer the best jockey between the four seas if it were not for the temper of doncaster he might win the race but even jimmys iron muscle cannot keep him from fretting away half his strength on the first quarter now comes the wild dash of the run in and the slender limbs of gang forward twinkle in the suid suld cuip light like the gleams of flying thought theres not an earthly chance of catching him isa t there though jemmy wilmer sets his teeth throws up his hand and doncaster immediately luns away with him then is seen what those vast shoulders and that mighty stride can accomplish on a down slope how the voice of the people rises like the roar of a mighty sea as his brown head steals slowly up to the shoulder of gang forward and stays th chere there re I 1 how the deafening thunder of applause rises in the octave of alarm as the yearly year y dog rushes across the course almost under the flying feet and how it swells back again into one vast re berating ver roar as a last touch of temmes Tem mys spur sends doncaster over the line a half length ahead and lands him the winner of the quickest and closest derby since pretender beat pere gomez in the dazzling race of 69 cincinnati Cincin nall times may |