Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1892 — A Game Girl. [ARTICLE]

A Game Girl.

One of the little incidents which tend to explain why life insurance companies will hot accept a risk upon the life of a circus performer occurred at the Madison Square Garden yesterday afternoon. One of the features of the show is a race between six thoroughbreds ridden by lady jockeys, which calls for a large and imposing amount of firstclass grit. The short turns of the garden track are to negotiate, and when the girls fly around them they exhibit .a fixedness of countenance which shows that they appreciate the danger. Yesterday afternoon the racers struck one of the corners in a bunch. There was a thump, an eruption of sawdust, and when the mass of kicking horseflesh was disentangled the rider of the leader was found beneath her steed. The sigh which arose from the audience showed that a tragedy was expected, but it failed to materialize. The plucky little rider was extricated from her perilous position and borne away for repairs. This would have satisfied the average person for one day, but last night she tiirned up again in highly beplastered and arnicaed condition and won the race of the evening hands down.—New York Commercial-Ad-vertiser.