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You've scooped the vealy city crowd / Of glory and of purse -- / Why shouldn't Pegasus be proud / To trot you out in a verse? / Chicago hoped to wallop you / By a tremendous score, / But bit off more than it could chew, / As witness: "5 to 4."
Well done, you 'Ganders! here's a hand / To every one of you; / These record-breakers of the land / Now break themselves in two.
Well get their pennant -- it shall float / Upon our distant shore, / So let each patriotic throat / Hurrah for "5 to 4. "