Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04

instruments.
The judges in the various classes and
departments took their books and started
in on their duties at 8 o'clock Wednes-
day morning, and they had an undoubt-
edy hard piece of work ahead of them,
as there were so many and SO meritorious
entries in most of the classes.
The Sherman Military band, of Bur
lington, arrived on the $40 train We'd
nesday morning and were at once
escorted to the grounds by Chief Marshal
T. NJ. Chapman, of NIiddlebury, and his
aides, and they provided fine quality
of music at frequent intervals during
the remainder of the day.
AT 1920 o'clock there was an exhibit
ton of stations for premiums on the
track, and number of handsome ami
mails were shown.
Aside from this and the examination
of the exhibits by the judges and specta-
tors, there was nothing else on the pro-
gramme, although the ''merry-go-
round" and other side attractions drew
their fair share of patrons and on
lockers.
In the afternoon there were two races,
the trot for foals of 1900 and the 2.24
trot or pace event, the purse in the
former being 500 and that in the latter
$3.50. The heats in these races were
worked off alternately and they were
begun with commendable promptness as
compared with the way things dragged
along at some recent fairs. The judges
were Darwin Rider, of Bellows Falls, H.
NJ. Perry, of Cornwall, and E. E.
Young, of Peekskill, N. Y, and the
starter was E. F. Brownell, of Burling
ton. These gentlemen had been selected
by the management to otficiate for all
the races this year, and Starter Brownell
kept things humming right along.
For the colt race there were four
entries with three starters, as follows
Gold Beater, entered by j. w. Peck, of
West Cornwall; Forest Belle, William
\. Lawrence, of Bristol, and Krempester,
j. L. Stickney, of Shoreham. The race
was best two heats in three. Gold
Beater got the first heat, but Forest
Belle trotted away with the next two
and the race. In the last heat wheel
on Mr.. Peck's sulky broke down and he
was spilled out, but was uninjured the
accident occurring near the last turn on
the second half mile. First money went
to Forest Belle, second to Gold Beater,
and third to Krempester The score
was:
Forest Belle. 2 l
Gold Beater, |
Krempester, 2
Time, 2.51, 2.53. 300.
There were IA entries for the 224 race,
of which there were five starters, as
follows: Ruby, F. C. Hayward, of Rut-
land; hlcantra Boy, A. B. Whitcomb,
of Spr;rsht Geo sc Gillis, Edison
Wissell, of Shoreham; Alice Wilkes,
Lloyd Porter, of Ticonderoga. n. Y, and
Prince william, j. c.. Devlin, of Shell
burne. This was a hot race from start
to finish and at times there was consider
able wrangling among the drivers,
various charges of offcolor driving
being made. 1t required six heats to
land a winner, and each of them were
fought out for all the horses were
worth, Alice Wilkes getting the final
heat and the race, just as the clocks
We're striking six. Alcantra Boy was
drawn after the first heat and Ruby
was sent to the barn under the rules
after the fifth, not having won a heat
George Gillig captured the first and
second heats and Prince William got the
third. The Prince also came in ahead
of the bunch in the fourth but was set
back to second place for illegal driving.
So the first money went to Alice Wilkes,
second to George Gillig, third to Prince
William and fourth to Ruby. The score
/ follows: