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TBE L0N6 SHOT
Although excitement is expected on the turf, they still talk dotim Texas, about the race between the Long Shot and the fleetest thorobre
along the Rio Grande.
by ROSS PHARES
IF you think there were no tricks in the racing business before the advent of leased wires and professional bookies, you haven't heard the story of Sham Hays and the race he pulled off near Brownsville, Texas, nearly a hundred years ago.
The managers of the course, on the Monongahela, announced a race of one mile heats, purse of $100, for anything "with four legs and hair."
In the settlement there lived a man named Hays, whose custom it was to ride a bull to mill, carrying sacks of corn. Hays determined to enter his bull in the race. So, on several moonlight nights, he took the ponderous animal to the grounds, and, in secret sessions, rode him around the track to show him the lay of the course,
and to practice running in o\ direction.
On the day of the race, Hays n his bull onto the grounds. Instead ( a saddle he used a dried oxhide. Tkl head, with horns still on, jogged anely atop the bull's rump. Ha' rode with spurs, and carried a horn in his hand.
When he appeared at the judg( stand to enter his mount, the hori owners objected. Hays cited the terr of the announcement, pointed o that his bull had four legs and ha and insisted that he had a right enter the competition. The argume soon reached the "cussin" stage. T l«f horsemen, of course, knew there w no hazard to their chances at " prize money; but "What a dangfi nuisance, having a bull runni: amuck on a race track!"
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