The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-09-19

and J. A. p. Soule are the starters.
George Sanborn's feet move the fastest
and he wins in 2 40 with O. L. Leighton
a good second The race for the Gray
boys is won by Harlan Skillings in 3.0l;
Don Gushing, second.
Five horses hitched to driving buggies
furnish the next entertainment in IA three
Alspur, p Kane is out with Howard,
Joseph Loring sits behind Maxey L., ii.
O. Thompson handles the ribbons over
Louis R., and then there is J. e. Wescott
with Black Beauty. The five have to do
as much scoring as if they were harnessed
to bikes, bnt they finally got the word
and the comedy begins. Alspur starts OIL
at gait which seems better suited to
mile heat than a three mile race but
keeps at it steadily, lap after lap, until
the six and finished the race is won IN
S.45. Kane with Howard is close behind
and Maxey L. and Louis R., come next.
Maxey and Louis have had it neck and
neck during much of the race, even II
Louis does once drop a trace which an
in place again as he INDUCES in q loot
race beside the trotter. But it is Black
Beauty which furnishes the fun. She
does not travel at the gait the others are
taking, and every time she joys by the
stand Jimmie and Jane join in the re-
frain as the crowd cry, ''Turn round and
go the other way. :" Are you ready? go. .
So You'll be first, yet, etc, etc. And at
the last a spectator who had not seen the
race would have had hard work to tell
which end of the procession the Beauty
was at. The summary:
Alspur, (Phinney) !
Howard, (Kane)
Maxey L., b G, Uoring) 3
Louis R bl G, (Thompson)
Black Beauty. bl N (Wescott) 8
Tines 45.
This brings us to the serious business
of the afternoon, the races for the three
minute class, trot or pace, and the 81
trot or q "a pace. When the three minute
fellows came out they made abou the
biggest field ever seen on the track.
Fourteen horses came out in response to
the bell of the starting judge. There was
delay while one of the horses had shoe
nailed on, and then with so large field
of course it took some time to get them
off together, but Mr.. Collier finally did it
successfully and Jimmie and Jane saw
them off in bunch, from which Ben
McGregor soon shook himself free fol-
lowed by Ocean Wilkes and Nellie W.
The rest came along in the bunch and just
a dozen of them escaped the distance
flag 1t is a fighting race and is in
progress at this writing. The first heat
resulted: Ben McGregor, first; Ocean
Wilkes, second; Nellie W, third; Baby
Mine, fourth; Frank Y, fifth, Mary
Matt sixth Col. Dyer, seventh; Della
Wilkes, eighth Chester, ninth; St Pat,
tenth; Hector Wilkes, eleventh; Ginger,
twelfth; Flora Belle, thirteenth; Julia,
fourteenth. The time was 2.34A. Slide
won the first heat of the other race with
Black Medium second Dimple p, third;
Dexter K. fourth; Harry K, fifth; Gen.
Robinson, sixth; Charles A, seventh
Queen Wilkes, eighth The time was 2 81.
Between the heats in the races j. A.
P. Soule rode half milo on his bicycle
to beat lis and did it in liz. Then
Jimmie Went out by the gate and
watched the man with the swinging ball
and the pin. If you knocked down the
pin the man would give you pipe and
then would buy it back for fifty cents,
which of course, was business transac-
ton and not gambling.
The following is the finish of the second