The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-10-08

Results of the Pulling Contests Yesterday
-Jobie and j. j. Winners in the Trot-
ting Races-Last Day of.the Exhibition
Today.
Yesterday was red-letter day at the
Sea, boro fair and a j. record breaker at
that. Not that the crowds were any big
GER than usual nor the time of the blood
ed animals faster than in previous years,
but rather for the novelty which was
introduced and called "a pie eating con-
tsst' which created more fun to the
SQUARE inch than has been seen at any
county fair tor many. a long year.
Between the heats of one of the track
events, the master of ceremonies was seen
placing two large Ipieces of paper on the
raised platform near the grand stand,
and at each corner of the square was an
old-fashioned custard pie. Behind each
pie was stalwart youth with hands tleo
behind his back. That each of the boys
had mouth for piexwas quite evident.
but who should get round it the quick
est time was question. At given
signal they went at it, belly down, and
gave a practical demonstration OF how
a man would eat custard pie who.was de-
prived of the use of hands and of legs, TOO.
There was no handicap. In this race on
account of length of nose which at times
seemed to. bother one ofkthe contestants
at least, but for all this, the race was
quite an even thing. Five minutes after
teeth and tongue got to work there was
nothing left but plates and paper and the
winner did the trick in just four min
utes and forty seconds. All the pie-eaters
hailed from Scarboro and they were
Harry Swasey, who finished first; Celius
Peterson, second; Frank Sylvester, third,
and A. S. Wheeler, fourth.
The crowd had hardly stopped laughing
over this little episode when the sack
race was announced. That set them
agoing again as seven fellows tumbled
over one. another for distance of about
so feet, seeing who would get under the
wire first, E. T. Larkin took first prize;
r. W. Robinson, second, and F. Sylves-
ter, third.
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the day the games Of base ball should be
mentioned. The South Portlands tried
conclusions with the Soarboro High school
boys in two games. The first resulted in
favor of the Scarboro boys with a score OF
to 6. The afternoon game was q tie.
Stearns and Stevens were the battery OF
South Portland, while Larkin and Larkin
did the honors for the Scarboros.
PULLING CONTESTS.
The draft oxen were at it again yester-
day and in the sweepstake class under
#. 2 in., the result was as follows:
Henry Morrison, 81 TT. in; Oscar T..
Deering, first yoke, 90 it. 8 in; Oscar
f. Deering, second yoke. IS TT. in. ;
E. S. Libby, 10 it. in.
Over TT. in. in girth, the result was:
Henry Morrison, 10 it. in.; Oscar F.
bearing, rs it. 9 in; E. S. Libby, l3 it.
8 in. sas
There was a contest between draft
horses under 2400.pounds as follows: O..
L. Robinson, first pair, 20 it. in; G..
l.. Robinson. second pair, 81 TT. II in.
Over c2400 pounds, j. S. Jordan's pair
pulled the drag II it. Sin. in just half a
minute and then stopped. u. y. Place S
pair was allowed to tug the five-minute
allowance with 26 TT. 9 in. to their credit.
MATCHED HORSES.
The first premium for best matched
horses went to Geo. Place, South Port
land; the second to N. B. Lane, Scarboro.
beth.
GENTLEMEN'S DRIVING HORSES.
In this class first prize was awarded
Queen Estelle, owned by J. 81. Sawyer;
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