When the caution, and it may be the stronger understanding, of the other sex would urge them to pronounce the case desperate, she is ever ready to step forward and exert herself to the last; nor are instances awanting in which she has succeeded, after men, with all their boasted powers,...
Though the number of riders present fell far short of what was expected, still there was a fairly large contingent of what is known as the Paris crowd to make the racing interesting to the 15000 spectators who came there impelled as much by curiosity as much as by desire to see good spor...