, 1890-09-19
, ivsIy Times at the Fair Grounds
Yesterday. 4,
1bree Fights Brought off Between
Racing Events.
The Oxford Company's Cocotte the
Hurdle Cup Winner.
Iobn McCormick's Bad Fall and
lin Pearce's Tumble.
A Bio Crowd Out to See Some Fine
Running.

The third day was decidedly chilly and
unusually calm as to weather, but warm
and full of action as to happenings on the
mack, in the quarter stretch and about
the grounds. Three very pretty fat races
we're brought off in a satisfactory manner
Init the hurdle race was rather bad from
most any point of view barring the mag
pi6ceut performance of imported Cocotte,
the dainty entry of the Oxford Horse
company. She sped around like the
wind and took the hurdles with the readi-
ness and ease of a hunted deer leaping
obstacles in a flight through underbrush
and fallen timber.
10 the hurdle race two riders tumbled.
John Mccormick from Bedouin and Jim
Pierce from Ariosa. At first it was
thought that the former had been killed,
the report bsinl that his back was broken,
but be came around in a couple of hours,
recovering Consciousness and being abb,
10 give directions for the rare of his
horses. He is badly Lurt, but will re-
cover. Pierce was lucky, sustaining only
a leg bruise, whish gave him a limp more
inconvenient than painful. He displayed
good nerve and remarkable presence OF
mind IN rescuing the fallen Mccormick
from a p%erilous position. One horse
trampled on the latter after he had shot
from Bedouin s back and rolled several
feet.
Three fights occurred. One was be.
tween Constable Douglas and J. b. Gas
sidY, the one armed owner and manager;
a sporty white man and horsy darkey
we're the combatants IN another and a
pair Of drunken blokes principals in the
third. AS between the darkey and the
white man the former protested against
turning over some stake money and was
relieved Of the lucre by force and then
bumped for his obstinacy. There was
q heap of excitement over this. Some
one shouted "pickpccket." land all who
Witnessed the aft air were lavish with sug
g~estions and free in Comment. Cassidy,
it is said, essayed TO explain the scrap be-
tween the negro aud white man on behalf
Of one of the brawlers and was clipped
side of the head with a shelally for his al
legged off ,iousness. The one EARNED man
snatched a club from the hands of a boy
standing near and paid Douglas back in
kind. Cassidy's ear was split and Dong
las has a swelling IN the jaw that is
likely an unpleasant addition to
his anatomy aud surely not at
all ornamental. Douglas STAN
peded himself and drew his gun, swing
ing it about in quite reckless fashion. 1t
is said that several other pops were
pulled, but there was no shooting. Gas.
sdy ave security Tor his appearance in
police court and was released from Gus
tOdy. Frank Hadsell, sheriff Of Carbon
county happened To lie on hand and did
much toward putting a stop to what
threatened at enc time to be a serious
general fight.
The .hlrd fight, between the unkpowns,
was had at the range of the Cheyenne
Gun club and was witnessed by a big
crowd. Neither pug" could fight enough
to keep himself warm, but the bout was
a diversion for the audience.
A committee from the bar front has
suggested to the fair management that a
fight be given in the quarter stretch be,
tween races and heats, thus relieving the
tediousness OF the waits.
Yesterdays crowd was the largest vet.
The reduced rates brought 500 school
children to the grounds.
The fakirs, who have become altogether
too numerous, did a big business, chop
ping the heads off suckers like the
eHecutioner in a dressed chicken factory.