"BABY RUTH" SCORES A HIT.
Shetland Pony on Roller Skates
Performed Diffucult Tasks.
The roller skaters of Kansas City had a chance to see a new rival for skating honors in the person of "Baby Ruth," a Shetland pony at the Convention hall rink last night. The pony's trainer, James Benefield, first showed the crowd that "Baby Ruth's" skates were of the regulation kind by sending one of them rolling across the floor. When the pon came into viuew a moment later it was wearing four skates, each of which had four rollers, with the customary ball bearings.
The pony made a tour of the rink floor, keeping close to the outer edge, and then began to move about gracefully in small circles and "figure eights" in the center. If the going was any different from that to which any pony is used, "Baby Ruth" did not give any evidence of it, for all the strokes were made with apparent ease. A well educated dog introduced some clever tricks which furnished a comedy element.
