The Portland daily press., 1897-09-10
LAST ACT COUNTY FAIR
Closing Event Narragansett Park
Yesterday.
VIEWED BY A BIG BUT SWELTER-
ING CROWD.

Haley Wins the Free for All Easily and
Lowers the Track Record-Sorrel Jim
Takes the 1872 Race-woman's Race,
Balloon Ascension, Premiums, Etc.
The last act in the drama of the County
Fair as presented at Gorham yesterday
was as successful as have been the other
two, and the attendance was again large,
although not up to that of the previous
day. The weather was all right except
for the blistering heat The sun poured
down all day long on the horses and
cattle, the sheep and the pigs and the just
and the unjust The grand stand during
the races was a kaleidoscope assortment
of colors The view of it from across the
track showed dense mass of perspiring
humanity the ladies in shirt waists and
the men in shirt sleeves. All were
making themselves little more uncom-
Portable than would otherwise have been
the case by a vigorous use of FANS, the
amount of wind produced by those air
agitators being entirely out of proportion
to the vigorous exercises required to keep
lit up.
s The events on the days programme
came off as advertised. The ball players
had buried the Ratchet and played the de-
cisive game of the series in the forenoon.
1t was described by the enthusiasts as a
glme for blood although no blood was
shed.
After hard contest with nine innings
the game was won by the Presumpscots
with the score IS to s. By innings the
score was as follows
Presumpscots, 5 o 0 41S
Saccarappas, U j. 8
The batteries were Engel and Edgar for
the Presumpscots and Bass and Barton
for the Saccarappas. The Saccarhppas
played the only part of their game in the
first inning when they scored six runs. q
The Presumpscots made eighteen base
hits with a total of thirty-two; the Sacca-
rappas eight out of ten. The principal
feature of the game was the heavy batting
of the Presumpscots. They batted Bass
all over the field.
The decisions of Umpire William Mann
of North Windham were all fair.
The Presumpscots having two of the
three games they received $50 of the
money and the Saccarappas got the other
$25.
During the game one of the players met
with painful accident which delayed the
81 me few minutes George Barton, the
eHicient catcher for the Saccarappas was
behind the bat in the last half of the
seventh inning, when he was struck by a
foul tip on the right shoulder just above
the chest. He was knocked to the ground
I'd large crowd Immediately circled
around succeeding admirably in keeping
out what little air there was from the
victim of the accident.
After being attended to it was found
that no serious effects would result. The
game was Immediately resumed.
A feature of the days sport which al
ways amuses the crowd is the ladies com
petition in barnessing and driving. 1t is
done in this way The horse stands I'M
harnessed on the track with the buggy
near by. The harness is hung on the arm
of boy. The bell rings, the woman
grabs the harness and if she is proficient
at the sport she puts the harness on the
hors, in a way very much like that in
which the automatic continuance har-
nesses the fire department horses. Then,
she leaps into the carriage, whips up her
steed and drives around the track. At the
wire the performance with the harness is
reversed. Yesterday, Miss Kate Serley
won first money. She harnessed, drove
and embarrassed in two minutes and
forty-seven seconds. Miss Alice Lamb did
1t mass, and Miss Annie Gilman in 3.13
THE RACES.
The races of the afternoon began with
the unfinished three minute pace in
which one heat was finished on Wednes-
day. 1t proved to be a three heat race and
the summary tells the story.
The free-for-all which was the first race
on the days card will be memorable I'M
til a better mark is made as the race in
which the track record was lowered from
2.2o IA to 2.17 IA. Haley, a Nelson horse,
did the business, and it is noticeable that
the former record was made by Nelson.
horse and one too that took part in yes
terdy's race, the bay mare Silver Street
Haley made the track record in the first
heat, and took the next two handily.
Nelson with Silver Street made a strong
bid for the second money. The mare
finished third in the first heat after a
pretty race with Maud Fl. In the second
heat, Silver Street made dash ahead of
Maud on the stretch at the end of the
first half and got an advantage which she
held to the finish. In the last heat, how
ever, the Nelson mare was unsteady and
Maud once more was the winner of the
coveted second place. Haley not only
lowered the track record but he beat it
in each of the three heats. He went like
machine in that first mile reeling off
the first quarter in "a seconds, the half in
1.os, the three-q quarters in LAB and the