The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-09-25
The County FAIR.

ne County raN.
The 37th annual fair of the Shiawsset
county agricultural association is thing Of
the past. That the fair would not be up tC
its usual standard has been known to the
officers for weeks past The reasons fol
this are too many and varied to mention
the principal one, however, being the hard
times.
The display In none of the departments
save poultry and fruit, was up to former
years. The horse classes were very light,
also cattle. The sheep and swine display
was credit to the county. The agricultural
all was well filed with farm products Of
excellent quality. In floral hall the entries
were numerous In fancy and domestic work,
paintings, youths department, etc.
Bicycle races, horse races, close ball
game, and Paul Roth's latest device in kites
provided a variety of amusements In the vi
cinity of the race track on Wednesday after
noon, though the races followed so closely
that person could scarcely take them in
and the ball game at the same time even II
he could rest his eyes on Roth's tailless kite.
The first bicycle race called was the one
mile novice. There were ten starters, and
the race was run in two sections of five each,
the best three in each five to run the final
mile. The first section made the mile In
2:5s16, and the three men who qualified for
the final race were f. K. Evans, Charles
Huntoon and Otto f. Schaar. The second
section took second and a half more time
to make the double circuit, the three men
qualifying in the following order: FL. j. Co
rey, Ernest Gould and Ernest Fraser.
When the final race was called time limit
of $3.50 was placed on the racers and the fact
that they took matters little too easily in
the first half caused them an extra mile run
after this was over with and gave the spec
tators the fun of seeing an extra race. The
track was not very smooth, however, and
the wind was very bad, which partially ac
counted for the time of 1903 when run sec
ond time. They were paced the first half
by Hunt, and the second half by Douglass,
the winners finishing in tn following order:
F. E. Evens, II. j. Corey, Ernest Fraser; |
time 2:44.
The county champi0nseio race was very |
interesting contest between the best riders of
the city, and the result talks louder than
words as to the relative marit of the riders.
This re was also run in two sections, first
four from each qualifying for the final mile
The first four to qualify were Amspoker,
May, Lahman and Corey, finishing in 2:44,
in the order named. The second four took
2:5l In which to do their mile and were
Hunt, Hathaway, Douglass and Evans. In
the final only seven men started, Corey re-
naming out, and of these but five finished,
Lahman falling in the first half AID Evans
dropping out to assist him. The race was
a hummer from start to finish and was won
by Douglass, with Hunt close second and
Amspoker not far in the rear. Hathaway
followed in fourth place while May brought
up the rear, but protested that he had been
run into Considering the wind and track,
the time was very creditable, $40, and
good deal of enthusiasm was manifested
over the result.
In the meantime the track had been kept
busy by the horsemen in the intervals be-
tween the bicycle heats, and two heats in
the half mile running race were sufficient to
decide that feature, while the various heats
of the gentlemen's roadster race filled in all :
available time and outlasted everything else. :
lt taking seven heats to decide the race.
The running race was as pretty race as ,
was eyer seen in the county. There were +
three starters, but the race was easily be- =
tween Red Jacket. owned by c. N. Race, of
this city, and Buttress, owned by G. Davis, 9
Of Plymouth; the other horse, Bob Clark,
being left in class by himself far in the g
rear. The two first named horses ran very .
evenly, never more than horse length n
apart and almost fairly neck and neck. The r
arst heat was won by Buttress in 54H and
he second in 55 which gave him the race.
The gentlemen's roadster race was an in \
one until the close at the end of n
the seventh heat, and as much genuine fun o
was had by the crowd as though the time
Mas LWcntN ocCOuuo iCoo ONOir hOoe' AhO r.
lorses and positions were as follows: n
Matilda, F. 81. Gould, 81 % q
Livery Boy, Lester Hubbell, 1 22 2 Q 4
Bernice, ID. butcher, 3 ,
]. f. W.. Fred Wildermuth 2 8 4
Golden Rod, Rollin Pond 3 5 Il
Matilda, Living Boy and Bernice took the
money in the order named although the first 6
,wo were driven under protest. The time a
by heats was 1886, 1880, 1929. 1:25, 1:25 and
1876. Matilda was just out of pasture and /
driven without any shoes. '
The base ball game between the Owosso ?
and Ovid clubs was close one as indicated b
by the score, 13 to IL, and held crowd Of
pectators to the end despite the races going p
IN in full sight from the diamond. The il
Owosso club were little too much. how e
yer. for the visitors. t
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