| Show phenomenal L SPRINGING A great story of how indian foot racers ten ton miles in ten ton minutes milwaukee Smi sentinel tinel did you ever hear bear of the mos most t remarkable race ever run in in wisconsin coasin or anywhere else for that tha t matter asked an old timer the other day nu no well I 1 will tell you about it fur for I 1 saw it myself in the summer of 1844 with my ray uncle I 1 was making a business trip to what is is now the oneida reservation er A st lomi louis sportsman henry stanton bt anton was slopping stopping there at the time having been taken sick while on a bunting trip and the indians were taking care of him stanton one day witnessed a fast race by some of the young bucks and an idea struck him it afterward struck others to their sorrow he ile had the bucks try their speed and was sending leters letters to his friends east and south they were confidential letters but the iku answers 3 aers promised him all the mo money ney he be needed he ile then bent sent out notices to the sporting fraternity that on a certain day of that summer 1844 he would wager his pile that a foot race of often ten miles could be made in ten minutes it seemed erous but few locomotives bad had ever made such time stanton however knew what hat he be was about with a tr trusted osted buck peep 0 oday day he be engaged ten indians and put them on the aral on a half mile straight stretch telf and return the indians to relieve each other at the end of each mile he ile had them practice in in secret at night one day peep 0 day informed stanton that a stranger had offered him a bribe to let him see a trial race all right eaid said stan ton talce take his money and let him see it but stanton had hn his men make poor time and thus deceive the briber the day of the race arrived and with it about fifty of the sports of st louis new york and other cities the betting ran high h with odds again against the feat being clishe d among the party was a young man named desnoyers Dea fron from fro n detroit D itroia on his way to green bay ith 8 in money and ac ito cepter paper to pay debts and cm c n tract lor for furs the race wai duly opened the first young buck making his hits mile in in sixty four secondi secondo just four seconds short the next young buck wits about to start when a chiet chief one eye gone grasped him in his ili arms and ani said he was waa his sin sao and the tile run would kill him stanton hastily explained that in in their attire with clouts clonts like circie circus riders and a belt tightly strapped over their no harm could be done them but time was in in the controversy and the young buck reached the stand with stanton thirty seconds behind the betters against stan stanton ton and his crowd now began to laugh and jeer and freely offered ll 11 to 1 stanton and bis his friends looked ead sad and d dejected ll 11 j acted enough but they took ai all i the bets offered juat just the same and right here young desnoyers lost his head and put up of his money against the making ot of the race on time I 1 it t i is said some changed bands band there and then but I 1 dont know about that the race went on the third buck made his mile in in HO 50 seconds reducing the losses to 20 seco seconds this was kept ab about 0 ut the same until the ninth buck stepped to the front with a total gialo gain of five seco seconds the last buck must makeup make up the fifteen seconds now lacking he ile was a tall gaunt wiry indian and seemed to bo be all 11 legs th betters against stanton began to waver and now calls for even beta bets and even odds by stanton and bis his friends ailed failed to bring re spouse the buck started on time and such strides esl from six six to eight fiet feet each and ho he went like a whirlwind let loose he must make his mile in in forty fi five ve seconds or all was lo lot lt it was an exciting moment but the buck got there with both feet and had just two to spare there was no great excitement excited ent over the result the gamblers present were accustomed to winning and loosing large amounts one st louis man however did make a remark about a pui put up job and even drew a derringer and demanded his money returned stanton raised his arm and the tile fifty or more bucks who stood around to witness the race dropped their long blankets and stood calmly leaning on ugly looking guns that settled it the race was over the young racing bucks spent money freely for awhile as did also the chief who interfered with the race young desnoyers was never seen again either in in green B bay or detroit it was said he went X south to redeem h his is lost thousands it was the most remarkable foot race ever held in the world and were the newspapers of that day what they arenow are now columns upon columns of its report would have followed A As s it is this if is I 1 believe the firt fira t time it baa has been in print |
