Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-09-28

brown, HIT by pitched ball, Edmunds,
l.. Anderson, &, Parson, struck out,
by Nash ), by Gallegos S; umpire,
Notes OF the Game.
Albuquerque and Las Vegas play
today.
Edmunds played without an error
yesterday, accepting five chances
nicely,
Nash got his share of the assists,
handling nine without an error.
Aztec Sun Dance.
The bunch OF San Juan Indians who
appeared in their famous Aztec sun
dance at the park yesterday proved
to he one of the big attraetlnons OF
the fair.
All agreed that they we're the best
bunch of bucks that had ever teen
seer In this part Of the country. From
the old g~ray,haired leader with his
feather baton to the small boy, al
most a pappoose, who brought up the
rear, they were decked out in COR
geous style. Six digniiied bucks beat
the drums and tom toms while nine
teen bucks adorned with feathers.
beads and skins of bever, and carry
ing bows or spears, went through
their symbolic movements in true
Indian style.
Firemen's Tournament.
The donors in the fire tournament
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Las Vegas winning two of the events
and Santa Fe one.
In the ladder climbing contest J..
Il. Phillips of the Las Vegas team
defeated b. Delgado of the Santa Fe's.
The victory in the coupling also
went to Las Vegas, J. n. Cook and j..
e. Phillips defeating p. Gonzales and
A. Ortiz Of the Santa Fe bunch.
The most exciting of the events,
however, was the dry test, This
event was participated in by the
whole team of eleven men and CON
sisted in a run Of 200 yards with the
cart. a plug attachment, uncoupling
a ioint and attaching the nozzle. The
Las Vegas boys made a very pretty
run, completing the operation in 30
ga seconds, but the Santa Fe team
| went them just a little better and
followed with a record of 80 1.2 sec
onds and first place in the dry test.
Bucking Bulls.
Tie gent]er OF the two buckinG
| bulls appeared on the track In front
of the grand stand yesterday and
| gave the crowds an idea Of what a
fractions bovine can do in the way OF
pitching. Virgil Brown. who is an
old friend Of the beasts, was the only
one who tried him and from the way
Brown got shaken up or this, the gen
tier of the two, there is undoubtedly
a rare treat in store for those who
see the local busters" mount the 9th
er bull this afternoon.
Bronco Busting.
The riding of outlaw broncos was
one of the most interesting of yester
] day afternoons sports.
/ Dell Owens, the champion boy rid
err. vas the favorite of the CRANE
stand. No matter how hard the
broncos pitched he didn't Seem Il
notice 1t at all and kept his equili
brium without grabbing leather.
Some Of the local riders upheld New
Mexico's reputation to the complete
| satisfaction of the crowd.
One of the ponies got mixed W
with the fence and hooked a cincl
over a picket, forcing the rider t.
come t o earth. but otherwise the out
laws were forced to give In.
The Races.
Three interesting races were pulled
off at Gallinas park yesterday after
! noon, the most interesting Of which
was the 2:40 trot for a purse of $500
| There we're five entries in this race
King, owned by j. d. Hand, Swagert
by r. L. Richmond, Gen. McClellen by
H. Bleuher, Alice, by Frank Sturges
and McGinty, by H. r. Greenleaf. In
the first part of the race McGintv was
| easily the favorite. wining two heats
and making a dead heat with Alice
for the third. but after the third hea,
| the bottom seemed to fall out of his
speed and third place was the best
he could do for the rest OF the race
King took first place one heat and two
seconds, Alice came in ahead twice
with three seconds and a dead heat
Swagert was d~istanced in the fourth
and McClellen was thrown out in the
fifth as having no chance for money
At the end Of the sixth heat the race
was still undecided but the sun hav
ing gone down the finish was lief,
for today. The best time made was
2:3S in the fourth by King.
The five furlong running race hat
only three entries. Bay, Frank Nc
| CURE. and Ben. In the one heat o.
this race Mcguire took the lead and
kept II to the finish with Ben rush
ing him close the whole way around
The third race, a four fuv,ong rur
for ranch horses, had numerous ant
varied entries. Antelope, Chico. Lit
tie Jess. Cutler, Trouble. and Texa.
(; Ranger finishing in the order named
W. P. Updegraff of Topeka was start
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