PAYTON RUNS SECOND TO RACING COLT
A few hangers on at track practice last Wednesday saw an interesting experiment performed. in a duplication of the experiment tried by Eddie Tolan in Cuba last winter. Eugene Payton, Southern’s colored dash flash. pitted his speed against that of a racing colt owned by Mr. Cox, custodian of the New Gymnasium. Unlike Tolan, however, Southerns' counterpart of that worthy did not use a flying start and therein lay defeat; for although Payton shot out in front for the first twenty-five yards, the colt gathered itself in such a burst of speed that Eugene soon saw that further Pedial efforts were useless, and dropped out of the running, conceding the victory to the young horse.
In justice to Mr. Payton. bowever
it might be said that's the colt was
going to his dinner, its mother having
been staked at the cud of the straight
away prior to the race, while, our
Mr. Payton had n0 such incentive.
Daily Egyptian Diversity News Archive (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)
Daily Egyptian Diversity News Archive (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)
