Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-09-09
Bangor fair cannot approach Ellsworth
on poultry.
FIRST DAY.

the crowd was not as large as the beauti-
ful weather seemed to warrant. There
was no lack OF amusement - events
crowded upon one another's heels all day
long.
| THE FLORAL BICYCLE PARADE.
| The feature OF the morning was the
floral bicycle parade. Owing to the early
hour, and on the first day OF the fair,
many did not see this parade, and thus
missed one OF the prettiest features of the
| whole fair. The wheels were beautifully
decorated, considerable ingenuity and
taste being shown. gentleman from
| Lewiston who has seen many floral
parades ut the State fair, said to THE
AMERICAN reporter that he had never
seen any decorations quite equal to these.
The judges were Mrs. T.. b. Bowen, Mrs.
{. IL. Drummey and Mrs. c. b. Partridge.
The first prize was awarded to NJ ISIS Lulu
Eppes, the second to Miss Maude Smith,
third to Miss Sarah Jarvis. y special
prize for costume was awarded to Misses
Leonice Foster and Bessie JOY, who had
their bicycles harnessed in a team. The
other participants were Misses 1nez
Kingman, Ethel SWEET, Leah Friend and
Harry Rowe.
BASEBALL.
The baseball game Tuesday morning
was between the West Sullivan and Ellis
worth high schools. The West Sulivans
came to Ellsworth with an unbroken
string of victories for his season and the
Ellsworth boys were not strong enough
to break it. The visitors piled up sixteen
runs to Ellsworth's three.
There were plenty OF features to arouse
the latent enthusiasm OF the rooter.
Mattocks' home run was one of them,
Andy Havey's work in centre field, Will
Iey's and Dunn's pitching, Young's field
ing, Theodore Higgins game at first base,
and the heavy hitting by the visitors
will be remembered also.
The game was played on the new
diamond, which is in poor condition.
Fred w. Drake was the umpire. Follow
ing is the score by innings;
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The players for West sullivan were
Andy ETavcv, m. Carpenter. If, Wiley, f. Mat
Webb, =, Gordon }b. For Ellsworth Dunn,
p, BRADY, c, Young, %. II higgins, RI, Haynes,
3b, >toekhrd1e, II, Fernaid, II, T Higgins, lb,
CampheII, m, Ellington,
Fun BETWEEN HEATS.
The afternoon WAS full. When there
was no horse trotting, something was go
ing ON in front of the grand stand, on the
track or platform.
a feature of the fair which has not
been sufficiently advertised is the aero
batic performance by the Monsula
Brot hers, the trapeze and ring perform
ance by Monsula and ISIS Russell, and
the latters "slide for life. These are all
good acts. In the slide for life, Miss
Russell, hanging by her neck, slides down
wire stretched from the top of the
grand stand far out into the inner field.
T. II. Mosher, the bicyelist, exercises a
sort of general supervision over this part
OF he fair, and incidentally does an act Of
his own on the rings, and gives fine ex-
hibition OF trick bicycle riding.
Besides these performances to keep alive
the interest, there are the bicycle and foot
races and minor races to fill in he time
between the heats in horse racing. On
Wednesday and Thursday afternoons,
Nine. Larona will make balloon ascen-
sion and parachute leap.
ATHLETIC EVENTS.
The athletic sports and minor races are
in charge OF John A. Scott, assisted by
Harry O. Tracy and George b. Stuart. Fol-
lowing is summary of Tuesdays events:
Iaif 10 n.
f. W. McVicker, Bar Har Dor first; II. r.
Wiley, Boston, second. The other
starters were F. w. Pray, Bar Har Dor;
James q. Stock bridge, Ellsworth; j. II.
Haynes, Bar larbor. Time, 1.21.
Haf-mile foot-race, II, e, Il - Won by
L. q. Richardson, Somesville; James q.
Stock bridge, Ellsworth, second; W. ii.
Ellington, Ellsworth, third; Frank
Moore, Ellsworth, fourth. Time, 2. 30.
Two hundred yards dash, prizes, 81, =
won by +. q. Richardson, Somesvllle;
Marcellus Woodward, Ellsworth, second;
James q. Stockbridge, Ellsworth, third.
Time p p seconds.
Richardson, W no won the haf-mile and
POO yard dash, says he has never been in
training, ana never before ran III raCe'
The time in the 200 yard dash is remark
ably good considering the track.
HORSE RACING.
There are large fields for all the races
during he fair. The racing Tuesday was
very good. The 2.30 race was particularly
interesting, the first three heats going to
three different horses. The farmers race
was as exciting as such races usually are.
The officers OF the races were w. A.
Whittier Old Orchard, starter; o. +. I'm
derhill, New York, +. Nj. Rowe, Bluehill;
Henry b. Stock bridge, clerk. In the 2.30
class, Frank Merrill, of Bluehill, acted in
place of Mr.. Rowe. Following is sum-
mary of the races:
THREE-MISUTE CLASS.
Hopeful, b &, by Day Dawn, Chris
Toole, Bangor. J