The Portland daily press., 1900-08-29
The Ball Game in the
Forenoon.
The Result of the Horse Races
in the Afternoon.
zspEc1An 10 THE PnHss.1

ESPECIAL TO THE PREss.1
Gray, August % -Under fair skies and
greeted by a good sized crowd the six
teenth annual fair OF the Gray Park Assoc
citation opened yesterday. There is great
INTEREST manifested in the fair this year
and the officers confidently expect that
it W III be the best in the history of the
organization. A large number OF exhib-
It's In all classes have been made. The
large hall is we'll filled with beautiful
fancy articles and a splendid display of
fruits of all kinds. Oren Hooper's Sons
from their store in Portland have sent
out number of household goods which
are greatly admired Fine looking cattle
are tied up in the long rows OF sheds and
there Is also an excellent lot Of swine and
poultry shown in the pens.
The. first event on the programme of to-
day was the baseball game which was
played on the diamond inside of the race
course. This contest was between the
mines OF Greeley Institute and picked
team composed of the young men of
Gray. The Institutes were lined up as
follows: III. Marrow, G; Marsden, p;
Kidder. ID; S. Cobb, Sb; Hill, 8b; E.
Cobb, IS; Cummings, IF; E. Marrows,
Of; Davis, If. The Gray team was made
up as follows: Libby, C; Barstow, D;
Thayer, 1b; Cummings, 2b; Morrill,, IS;
Pencil, b; Chapman, ri; Leslie, CT;
MoConkey, If.
The Institute boys had been putting in
lot of practice for this game so that all
OF them were in great trim. On the
other hand the picked team lacked form
and were never in it with their opponents
who won handy victory in seven in
nings.- The score by innings was as fol-
lows:
Gray Institutes, 10 I'll 9 1 x-35
Grays, 0 1 1 0 o.
The umpire was Abraham Anderson.
Two contests of oxen in drawing heavy
pieces OF granite were pulled off at the
conclusion OF the bail game. In the
three year old class the honors were cap
tured by Charles Libby with Simon Lib
by finishing a close second. In the steer
class which drew pile of granite not
quite as heavy as that of the other class,
Charles Hall made the best showing. ST.
mon Libby was also second in this COM
pet ition. The judges were William
Thompson of Windham. John knights
of Gray and Charles Hall of Raymond.
Preceding the horse racing Mark Leach
an enterprising young man of Casco,
gave an exhibition with his trained
steers This took place in front of the
grand stand and the crowd heartily ap-
plauded young Leach for his clever work
with his yoke of Intelligent animals who
went through all kinds of stunts, playing
teteoa-tete, balancing themselves in tubs
and allowing their master to do almost
anything with them.
THE RACING.
OF course this was the feature of the
day. Two good GLASSES had been arranged
and the crowd witnessed some very good
sport in this line The first class was OF
green horses for whom a purse of $50 was
set up. There were four horses in the
list and all of them showed splendid
training and did some great work. Hem
ny Hal won out In the first three heats
hereby capturing the honors. In all of
these trials he started off as leader not
withstanding that he had drawn the OUT
side position. Irving Rowe drove him in
his usual capable style and never once
did this horse let down or show any break
ing propensities. This was in marked
contrast to the others who all at several
different stages went up into the air
Magnetic broke badly In the first heat
but was pulled down so that she and
Brown Cossock had a very pretty race for
second honors. Magnetic showed marked
Improvement in the other two heats.
The summary:
Henry Hal. g (Rowe) II 1
Magnetic, br IN (Delano) 8 2 2
Desperation, blk IN (Small) 2 4
Brown Cossock, br (Field) 3 3
Time-2 853l, 2 30, 9.34]5.
The other contest was the SO go" class.
AS the title implies this was indeed a
peculiar aggregation of ,equines. From
the very moment that these world beat
ors with their hobo drivers, hove in sight
from the stables and came down the
stretch until the end Of the second heat
when a postponement was taken until to-
morrow the crowd was good naturedly
entertained. The drivers were attired in
the most gro tssque style, each being dis
tinctly or iginal. The races were as had
been the Intention, a farce. The drivers
all aid their best to see who would win
the BOBBY prize of coming in last and the
only thing that prevented these races
from being run all OF the afternoon
was the prompt work of the officials. Two
heats were finally made and it was decid-
ed to finish this GLASS at LAO O'Clock to-
morrow. prize Of $50 will be given, not
to the winner or the race, but to the most
comical outfit in the lot.
The summaries SO far as the race pro-
gressed today are: