The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-07-16
THE MERCHANTS FAIR
PREPARATIONS NEARING THEIR
COMPLETION.
Race Program of Nine Events Arrang-
ed-Pavilion To Be Rooted Today
Possible Baseball Games.

The committee having in prepara-
ton the tentative program for a race
meet to be held on Saturday, July rs.
will submit the following card of
events and entries up to date. A big
effort will be made to get the day ac-
knowledged as a general holiday so
that everyone may get the opportunity
to go out to the races.
Three-eighths of mile dash for polo
ponies. Only bona fide polo ponies to
enter. Cup $50
One mile running race for purse
of $780, Mollie Connors and Weller
barred.
One mile special trotting race, heat,
for named horses. Cup $50. Nettie H,
Allen; Artie W., soule Oak Grove,
Lewis; Luster, Kluegel; Wisteria,
Turk.
One mile DASH gentlemens' riding
race. Open to all horses that have
never yet raced. Cup $50.
One mile trOtting and pacing for
named horses. Cup $50. Dusty Rhodes,
Creole, Grandpa, Faro Bank.
Mile dash for police patrol. For
horses and members of patrol now on
duty and for horses that have never
won race. The distance may be re-
duced, one mile being thought to be
perhaps too much for horses regularly
equipped for the road.
One mile trotting and pacing. Cup
$50. Heat. Wait-a-Little, Richardson;
Violin, Prince Cupid; Frank Murphy,
Gay; Los Angeles, Drummond; Tony,
Cunningham.
Three-quarters of a mile dash, for a
purse of 800. Mollie Connors to carry
125 pounds.
One mile trotting and pacing, heat
Cup $50. HoOpa, Rycroft; Billy, Armi
tage; Prince c., Levingston; Walter
p, Prince Cupid; Dick, Schlief But
cher Girl, Holt; Lucy D., Monsarrat.
Baseball games will be arranged be-
tween leaders of the league at that
period. Hilo, it is not thought will
send over a team, but according to
present advices, Maui, which possesses
strong nine, will come down. In
that case Maui will be pitted against
the local nine then at the head of the
league. A big challenge cup will
probably be put up for this game to be
styled an InteT-Island Perpetual Chal-
lenge Cup. These games will be play
ed on Monday and Tuesday afternoons.
The pavilion for the Merchants Fair
exhibits will be rooted over this after
noon. 1t is as long as the drill shed,
and ten feet wider than the actual
floor space of the latter, so that there
is plenty of room for the big crowds
who are expected to visit it. Three
quarters of the space has already been
pre-empted. Through the pavilion
doors entrance has to be made to the
agricultural exhibit, and when the
doors of the latter are opened on Mon
day there will be a long vista down
the length of both buildings that Will
give an air of considerable magnitude
| to the undertaking.
The formal opening of the pavilion
will take place on Saturday evening,
July 2S. This will be a sort of dress
| rehearsal with the band in attendance
and native songs from the band Choir
listers. The agricultural exhibit will
be opened at 10:30 by Governor Dole
on Monday morning after the prizes
! have all been awarded.
The committee in charge for the
merchants will meet this afternoon to
discuss final details. There is quite
possibility of the floor of both the
drill shed and the pavilion being clear
ed the last night for big masquerade
ball, with no unmasking and a regular
! carnival close to the fiesta.