The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-05-30
The RACES AT LETCHER'
A Large Crowd From Surrounding
Country Saw Some Good Sport
at Letcher,

Yesterday the good people of Letch-
er turned their town over to the visi
tors who came from far and near to
attend the racing events that had
been planned for the amusement Of
the people. The day was somewhat
chilly but the sport was of a charac-
ter that the people warmed up to
it in fine shape.
The racing was held in the new
grounds that have been fixed for it
this spring ard the manper in which
the sporting element of Letcher have
done things is a great credit to them.
There is a very fine track and good
amphitheatre for the people to watch
the races, and everything is comfor-
table and in good shape. We are told
that there were fully 1000 paid admis-
sions to the ground, which would in
dicate something of the success the
affair was.
The races occurred in the after
noon. II. G. Nichols, of this city,
acted in the capacity as Judge and
starter, and his work is said to have
given good satisfaction. The races
of the day were well contested and
while the time was not particularly
fast the events created a great deal
of excitement on account of their
being close in many instances.
The quarter mile and repeat run
ming race was won by a horse owned
by parties from Forestburg. in two
straight heats. There were six en-
tries in the races and there was a
pretty good field of horses that lined
up for the start.
The fve-eightS mile dash for a
purse of $3.50 was won by Lady Green
wich, owned by Mernaugh, of Letch-
er, Glador was second and Frank
Hatch's Allie Blue was third, and
Lady Metlock was fourth. 1t was a
good bunch of horses in the race and
it was close from start to finish.
A mile novelty running race was, on
the card and this was won by two
horses. Glador took the first quar-
ter, and Lady Greenwich the other
three quarters and got three-qarters
of the 800 purse.
Allie Blue and Dakota jim also
ran, but were not in the race very
strong.
The 40 trot or pace, half mile
heats, was won by Minnie Mar
shall. owned by Larry Burns. with
Major Riley, jr.. owned by Albert
Boynton, of this city, second. but
he divided the money ith Woon-
socket horse.
The ball game was played between
Woonsocket and Forestburg.. The
latter won the game after hard
contest by a score of 10 to 8
A hundred yard foot race for a
medal was arranged and Sam Johnson
went up to 60 into that event. Sam
had little trouble in defeating his op-
ponent, and brought home the medal
Another 100 yard race was on the
card and was won by a Woonsocket
splinter. who had everything his
own way. Before the afternoon was
over there were several other matched
foot races run off between local part
les. in which Harry Wallae of this
city took prize Of s..
Mitchell sent up large crowd of
people on the freight in the morning
and it was increased by those going
up on the afternoon passenger to take
in the closing part of the program.
A number of others drove up in the
morning and found it very pleasant
drive in spite of the chilly wind
Everybody from here spoke very
highly of the entertainment put up
by the Letcher people, and declared
they had fine days sport