The record-union., 1891-09-12


DIRECTOR LARUE.
The Board of Directors have sccepted
Director LaRue's resignation as Super
tendent Of the Pavilion, and Director
Chris Green has been appointed to fill
the vacancy.
AT THE PARK.
The Ladies' Tournament-Succ
Balloon Ascension-The Races.
There was a large crowd of people at
the Park yesterday morning to witness
the ladies' riding tournament and the
balloon ascension. The morning was cool
and pleasant, as the days have all been
since the fair opened. The grand stand
was almost filed with spectators, while
on the quarter-stretch and all the open
spaces in the vicinity were assembled
several thousand more.
The field of contestants was the largest
that has yet presented itself on the occa-
sion of riding tournament, numbering
no less than sixteen ladies and misses,
four of the number being quite young
girls. They were all fairly mounted,
while few rode horses of a far better
class than usual on such occasions.
None of the ladies appeared in full
equestrian costume, wearing either small
soft hats or narrow-brimmed ones of the
''sailor" pattern. The names and resi-
dences of the fair riders are as follows:
Miss Frances McClannahan of Sacra-
mento, formerly of Shasta; Miss May
Miller, Grass Valley; Miss May Lemay,
Sacramento; Miss Delilah Lockhart,
CORTLAND, Sacramento County; Miss
Grace Dixon, Sacramento; Miss Gene
veive Henry, Sacramento; Miss Edith
Bradley, Sacramento: Miss Maize Steb-
bins, Sacramento; Miss Eflie Klemp,
Pleasant Grove, Sacramento County; Miss
Clara Reichling, Chico; Mrs. J. NJ. Collier,
Sacramento; Miss Melvina Foss, Sacra-
Inento; Miss Bessie Quarles, Sacramento;
Mrs. Trefrey, Sacramento; Miss Mabel
Bradley, Sacramento; Miss Mabel Fay,
Sacramento.
The prizes for women are $50 first, S45
second, $50 third, S25 fourth, so fifth and
Si5 sixth. For misses of l6 years and un-
der they are $50 first prize, S25 second, $40
third, SIS fourth and $40 fifth. The special
prize for expert riding is $50. All the
prizes win be awarded by vote of the di-
rectors, Friday, the 18th inst.
Marshal Crawford Cox, on his familiar
white charger, had charge Of the caval-
cade and made an excellent chaperone.
In the judges stand were President
Cox and Directors Hancock and Larue.
The ladies first galloped past the stand
singly, then in pairs, trios, quartets and
so on. Their riding was greatly admired
by the spectators, and all received gener-
Gus applause as they passed the stand.
Then two rows of slender poles were
stuck upright in the track, and the ladies'
rode in and out, in sort of grand-right-
and-left movement, which was pretty and
graceful.
Next in order came the fitting, at which
a few of the riders were very successful,
and all did fairly well. 1t can be said for
the juvenile riders that they fully held
i,
riders ii would be difficult TO find than
little Mabel Fay of Sacramento and Eflie
klemp of Colusa
After the fitting came the hurdle-leap-
ing. This is one feature of ladies' riding
tournaments that should be relegated to
obscurity.. 1t is never graceful,
always dangerous. and is q test
not of ability to ride horse we'll
but simply of luck in securing n good
horse for that particular business At
Yesterday contest one of the riders,
Miss Grace Dixon, who rode without a
saddle, and had rather unsteady ami
NAL under her, barely escaped meeting
with an accident that might have proved
fatal. After having cleared the hurdle in
good style, she returned for another leap.
AS her horse alighted from the jump he
swerSed slightly TO the left, and the
young lady lost her balance and nearly
fell on the right side, but with great
presence of mind she grasped the girth
with her left hand and pulled herself
back TO place while her horse was on a
dead run. Had she fallen she would have
gore head foremost under the horse.
The ladies will ride again on next
Friday.
THE BALLOON ASCENSION.
Immediately or the conclusion of the
ladies' riding Miss Hazel Keyes, the dar-
ing and graceful aeronaut, gave a splen-
did exhibition Of her skill. The mann
moth balloon was inflated without diff
Guilty or delay, and few minutes before
II O'clock noon the word was given and
1t shot rapidly upward.
Out of the cloud of dust that rose as the
balloon lett the ground soon emerged the
lady aeronaut dressed in pink tights and
clinging TO the trapeZe suspended from
the parachute
The balloon rose rapidly, taking a
northerly course, and was soon so high
in the clear sky that the lady looked no
bigger than six-year-old child. When
at an elevation of about halfa mile Miss
keyes drew the rope which detaches the
parachute, and for about a hundred feet
She shot rapidly downward. Then the
big umbrella caught the mir and the de-
scent was promptly checked. 1t was made
slowly, Miss Reyes landing safely just
outside the north end of the race-track.
Tho parachute lodged in the branches oi