The Portland daily press., 1895-09-26
CUMBERLAAD'S FAIR.
A Fine Day and Good Attendance
For First Day.
THE RACES WERE CLOSE AND
VERY INTERESTING.

Brooks and Gen. Robinson Were tho Win
| ners-A Hostler Breaks His Ankle
Many Premiums Awarded.
| A oloudless sky marked the opening
day of Cumberland Fair, and the line
weather naturally resulted in very
good attendance. The managers OF the
| fair do not pride themselves on run
ming big show, but they. always have
frst-class one, and this year there Is no
exception to the rule. The hall IS we'll
filled. with exhibits. the display of fruit
and fancy work being especially notice.
able.
The cattle sheds are crowded with line
animals, and in the horse stalls are some
of the best specimens of the equine race
to be found within a radious OF ten
miles of Cumberland. One OF the special
features which serves to attract scores OF
people annually TO the fair is the Tine
dinner served by the association.
The tables fairly groan beneath their
weight of good things, and even the
most hardened dyspeptic could not resist
the temptation to indulge in the Tempt
ing array of food displayed.
THE RACES.
There were two races on the card, these
being for the three-minute and z. 80 class
es George Stanwood acted as starter
and W. H. Parker, Alonzo Libby, and
Sylvanus Porter held the stop watches
ho 10 al fipCt and
nine horses came for the word. These
were Ben McGregor, Frank Y. Tack,
Hammer, Ginger, Ocean Wilkes, Flora
Belle, Lin, Mary Matt and Prince. Flora
Belle played in luck and thus had the
privilege of travelling on the inside of
the track. There was considerable dis
cussion regarding Tack Hammer, some
of the drivers claiming that he was al
together too fast for the three-minute
class, SO after scoring couple OF times
Summer decided to avoid all chances of
getting in to trouble and drove the bay
stallion to the stable. The field was sent
away in a cloud of dust and the heat
was rather a see saw procession as al
most every horse took a turn at setting
the pace. Frank Y, Ocean Wilkes and
Mary Matt swung into the stretch to-
gether with Lin trailing behind Ocean
The race to the wire Twas a pretty one
and not a half a length separated the
three leaders when they came under the
WIRE Ocean Wilkes was first, Frank Y.
second, Mary Matt third and Lin fourth,
Time g. 3s IA.
The second heat was pretty much Of a
procession up to the three-quarter mark
with Ocean Wilkes in the lead. At this
point HAWKES. roam mare began to pull
up on the leader and beat him out to the
wire. Prince was third and Frank Y.
fourth Time 236
In the third heat there were but two
horses in the race for first place, namely
Lin and Ocean Wilkes. The roam mare
had the pole which was quite an adyan-
tago, and Ocean Wilkes could not go fast
enough to take it away from her. The
bay stallion went game mile and went
under the wire second only because he
was up against faster horse There, was
quite scrap at the head of the second
division between Ben McGregor and
Prince. Although the black stallion in
| the preceding heats had landed sixth
and seventh, he showed considerable
speed in this time and beat the bay geld
| ing out by half a length. Time 2 80 1-s.
| The fourth heat was running race
from start to finish. Lin was the first
one of the field to go into the air, and
his example was soon followed by most
of the others. Ocean Wilkes was going
pretty even and came home under a strong
pull far ahead Of the rest of the field.
Prince was second, Frank Y. third and
Mary Matt fourth.
There being no flag the other horses
seeing that they were out of it merely
logged along. Jordan finding that he
was outclassed, drew Ginger at the close
of the third heat by consent of the judg,
es. Time 2 3S IA.
The final heat was won easily by Ocean
Wilkes, although Lin gave the bay stall
lion hot fight to the three-quarter pole
| when she made a rank break and fell
way behind. Ben McGreggor came in
second, Frank Y. third and Mary Matt
| fourth. Time 236 IA.
| The result of this heat gave the race
and first money to Ocean Wilkes, second