Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-09-14
List DAY Q E|| \ FAIR. FIR.
State Fair At Mandan Closes Yester-
day Afternoon, with i Good Pro
gram OF Sports.
Bismarck Makes the Ball Game i shut
Out, Manda1l Getting Nine
Goose Eggs.
Comet Takes the Free for All Race
Indian Nearly Killed Id i Horse
Race.

The state fair ali Mandan closed
Yesterday afternoon The last day
was the best Of the fair SO far as
weather is concerned. AT noon the
sun game out from the clouds behind
which it had hid itself for the greater
part aef the first three days OF the fair.
b grand stand was well filled. thei
crowd from Bismarck being as large
large than on the preceding day.
The admissions to the fair On the last
two days helped to bring up the E
Eceipts TO a fair average and the mann
agemneaant yesterday was hopeful that
the fair would pull out Of the hole. In
TO which the first sttwo days promised to
plunge it.
The first feature OF the afternoon
celebration was the bali game between
Bismarck and Mandan. The Bis
n,aHrrck boys went over with the inten-l
ton OF making the game a shut oat,
and they carried out their good resolu-
ftions. Haythorn pitched 8 Bis-
trEEEHy[NFi .EEIEFF5A[A l-L-HgE~
nlarck, and his work was gilt edge.
Mandan got only one or two VI safe hits
off his delivery. AT critical times he
was cool In one inning Mandan got
two men on bases with none out, and
| they doubled up, Haythern to Ryan to
Rose. This was the only ti1ne in the.
Igame that Mandan was DANGEROUSLY
near a score. Second base was the
farthest any Mandan runner got III.
the game. Bismarck earned most of
It's runs. Rose smashed out a pretty
heme run over right field. The Bis
naarck boys had no trouble finding the
delivery OF the Mandan pitcher and
sWatted him in one inning fol. a fine
succession Of singles and two baggers.
The fielding was excellent Higgins
work at first was feature Of the
game. He accepted every chance,
some OF them long flies which he
Iabbed after a hard run. The score
OF the close of the game a Bis.
marck TO; Mandan O..
The freefor-an trot was won by
Comet, a little black trotter, who took
the second. third and fourth heats
Mckinley took the first heat, but .fel
into second place, and Wyandotte tool
third. The best time was a little I'm.
, der 2::3o. It was a. clean and inter
esting race.
The Indian running race came neaa
resulting in a fatal accident. On ths
home stretch one of the Indians
crowded another into the fence JUS
as the horses came down the stretct
TO the judges stand. One pony
stumbled and fell, throwing his rider
violently to the track, and then the
horse jumped " Q the prostrate rider,
The Indian lighted squarely on1top Oh
bis head, and then fell over on the
track. He e~ndeavered to rise, but fell
( back as though dead. He was car
ried off the track and doctors sum
, moned, and after a time it was a
Eouneed that he was bruised UP con
! siderably but not badly hurt.
a game of lacrosse by the Indians
: was another feature Of the afternoon
After the other sports there was the
usual steer roping exhibition, and the
afternoon wound UP with the stage
hold-up, which was rather tame, but
probably interesting to those to whom
: was a novelty.
! On the. whole, the fair was interest.
! Ing, but more from the standpoint 81
the amusements than the exhibits
9 (which were neither as numerous nor as
fine as they Should have been. The
management did everything possible
to furnish a good amusement program,
and the base ball tournament helped
out as much bis any single feature
Bismarck, as usual, was an exeel1en,
patron OF the fair and it is safe to say
that there were is many Bismarck
people in attendance as from Mandan
and vicinity.
, Sid Darling. 1912 Howard street
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