Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1888-11-06
Scoring az Races


Unier date Of sept ~, see Warren
R,wsOn of Arlington. Mass. has an srti.
Gle Ia The Journal relative 10 the STATE
fair. III mskes QUE point In the letter
-hieh oaght 10 claim the earnest attention
of The trustees. 10 the snd ths, II may. to
large sxisnt, De rsmsdied. Here II whs,
he says There Il no need of the spects.
tors having 10 Walt an hour fOr The horses
10 gsi q good send OF You never see sny
such foollng AZ Mystic or NJ Beacon Paris.
II IL very trying Tor crowd OF ten thou.
sand 10 walt 80 long for q few minutes
work. n the Judges give The drivers 90
understand that they mean business. they
viii come right % To time
Mr. Rswsou is right when he complains
of ~ much useless scoring bat when
be tells us that they ''nsyer have any such
fooling n Mystic and Beacon PARKS" he
IL mAkiug . statement which L. wholly
untrue. Thsrv i Jast ~ much waiting
snd "fOollns" there snd elsevhsr, ss there
was 81 The Maine fair In fact. Mr. Drew.
one % The judges Who started the horses
here. vsry frtqaenty occupies the sane
Posliiou a. Mystic and Bescon. The fact
u. under The present Arrangement of rules,
or rather. ihs lack OF them. the Jadgss are
comparatively helpless. Of oourss II the
horses come % The wire In front of The
pole horse. they can scold and thre.tsu
Zoe n IL l. rspss.sd. bat this does no,
reach The main dfieuliy. The public who
pay their fares 10 ne park sni again 10 The
grant stand, want some method adopted
which viii stop - much useless scoring.
Take. fof an example, the three minute
class. A. The call Of the bell from fve 10
seven horsss appsAr on the track and com.
msbcs 10 score they come % the wire for
The word, and. owing 10 their bad position.
are called back. Nov vhst DO they dor
In mosi every case, one will turn around
within three rods from the wire. while
another will 20 800 rod. up the stretch AMI
turn, with The rss, all struggling along be-
tween In this position they will come to
The wire again With The same rssali a. ~
asi And from this cause mainly the
crosd has 90 90 and walt hours until ihey
sre disgustSd 10 see heats troiiei that
0ush, 70 have becn accomplished In half
Tie time.
We kuov II L. easier 10 dad faali than u
Il % give q rvmoiy. This isssubieoi that
hss tsi considerable discussion. and In
soms places this useless scoring hAs been
largely reduced BY new ,xpsdlsnis. sun.
from a large msj ,fity ~ the uAung cir.
cults AL over The country. The complaint IL
made against The needless and proyoking
slosusss In getting started.
The delays afising from scoring cannot
Ia The nature OF thlrgs be wholly over
cone. hut that they can be- made much
shorter then Al present hardly admit. %
doabi. To snyone Who has observed the
faiils attempts ~ gt, . start. and noted
the movements % the dlfsrut compsu'
tors. u becomes perfectly ,ppsrsut that In
three tines out ~ iOar the cause OF the
failure is In the fact that the horses are
not bunched when The rush oommenoss
The remedy. then, (iusissd OF having the
drivers turn aroand suy-hsre AMI every
uhers) 10 10 bubehiug The horses ~ .
.aiisbls distance rom the snpi. How
c,n this b. doutf There may b. various
s,ys % accomplishing u, bot We ofsr
ore that Ne think fs.sihl~.
Piace The distAncs jaige With bis f,g t
= suitable point ~ ths stretch. and then
compel every driver 10 pass him before
tufnlug and not allow any horse io pass
hin until b. drops bis rag. when be
.-es they are well bnnchsd be drops bis
Gag snd The rush oommeucss n The
iadgss woai select compsisni man fof
zach = place. give bin AL The poser nee.
essay 10 enforce the rule. II would DO .
grsa, deal toward correcting The evil. be-
slie bsing an Improvement which the
.pectaior. would Tl,ily welcome and sp-
prove &C. n PAr,oN. 10 J0urbh.
Auburn.