FATHER BACKS HER CLAIM
ST. LOUIS, November 2.-
As far as Miss Lucille Mulhall, daughter of Zach Mulhall, and one of the chempion horsewomen and cattle ropers of the country,
is concerned, George Hazard may interpret the rules of a selling race to suit himself.
She has put her dainty foot down and says Mr. Hazard shall not have her race mare, Virgie d'Or, which he claimed out of a
selling event at the fair grounds on October 19.
Mr. Mulhall sustains his daughter and says the bidding by which Mr. Hazrd, owner of the second horse in the race, secured the alleged
title to the mare was unfair and that the mare is still the property of Miss Mulhall.
Hazard does not look at it in this light, and has filed suit asking that Miss Mulhall be compelled to transfer Virgie d'Or
to him, and that the St. Louis Fair Association, which refuses to order her to do so, be compelled to pay him $2,500 damages.
Miss Mulhall is at present on her father's ranch in Oklahoma, but it is easy to form an idea of her position in the matter
from the story told by her father at his home at 4643 Washington boulevard.
Miss Mulhall was not here when the race was run, and did not know that Mr. Hazard had claimed the mare, which was entered for
$300 in a selling race, on his $600 bid. When she came to St. Louis a few days later and learned what happened, she was
not only angry, but almost heartbroken, for the animal was a present to her, and if Virgie should not win a race until Miss Mulhall
grew to be gray-haired - which is a long time off as Miss Mulhall is only seventeen now - there would be no diminution in the quantity
of Virgie's daily oats.
"He shan't have the mare," she declared. "Do you think I am going to let Mr. Hazard or Mr. Anbody Else have Virgie? No, indeed.
And they can just tell him so, too."
Then she went to Virgie's stall, stroked the mare's glossy coat, fed her some sugar and cried a little bit.
Mr. Hazard went to see the Fair Association officials about it. He was evidently not given the satisfaction that he
wanted, for he did not get the racer, and Virgie d'Or is still eating Mulhall oats.
Then Mr. Hazard sued.
"The bidding was not done fairly," said Mr. Mulhall, "and Lucille shall not lose her horse."