Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-22
EVERYONE II GOING TO The
CoUNTYFAlR, AUGUSTA, TODAY,
Finest Races in Years Promised, With
Motor Cycle, Auto and Marathon Races,
Two Baseball and a Football Game.

GOOQ morning, ClllZeIiS anu NiSiloIS;
we are "de-lighted" to greet you. We
shall be Eat home" all day at the Au-
gusta Driving park and it will be our
aim, as your host, to make this one
of the happiest days that memory
serves you to recollect and any former
period of time.
We are fortunate enough to be in a
| position to omit any and all excuses
| and as a substitute we shall offer tho
hest balanced, cleanest and withal
the most real entertainment you have
ever witnessed in single day. We
want you all there, for it costs NJ
more to play to full house than to g
partially vacant one. 1t would, indeed
be a pity were it necessary for any one
to deprive themselves of the optical
feast which we have been preparing
for them for the last three or foul
weeks.
At first many were skeptical; fearing
that there was not time to make the
necessary preparations and attend tt
the vast amount of detail requisite to
a successful "staging' of a project so
cast Our observations, however, con-
cinced US that IS per cent. of the time
devoted to such things is usually vast
ed either in talk or inaction or both
We believed that's
"A man OF words and not of deeds,
Is like a garden full of Weeds.'
and we determined to let no weeds
grow under our feet. We discovered
that our president could build fence
and lug posts and dig post holes with
the hest of them; we also found that
the other members could work when
they found it necessary and as we We're
all working with both hand and heart
we have won out.
We want at this time to express our
hearty appreciation of the splendid
support given us by the business and
professional men of this city and the
surrounding cities and towns Words
of encouragement have continually
been poured forth by all with whom
we have conversed. The splendid spirit
they have displayed in closing their
respective places of business for the
afternoon will not soon be forgotten
and we will bond ourselves with a
sacred promise to do all that comes
within our power to the end that they
shall not be losers.
The success of this exhibition means
more to this section than we can read
ilv comprehend. 1t means that this
will, in the future, become famous as
the center of light harness racing and
the favorite resort of the highest class
of horse owners in Maine as we'll as
all New England.
1t is with much regret on our part
that the free-for-a race did not fill;
we put up the largest purse ever Of
fered at a Maine fair but it seems that
Silk Patchen proved doggy man"
to the other owners of horses who
ought to have started in such a race
Mr.. Morrell the owner of Silk, was
willing to make a matched race with
any horse, one in particular, and we
hoped to bring such an event about
but the second party to the contract"
appeared to deem it hardly feasible to
meet the swift Patchen horse, though
his horse has a record several seconds
lower. We held out unusual induce
ments to bring this match to a head
but without favorable results.
AS it is. we have all that can pos
sbly be put on in a single day; in the
40 CLASS we ll6iNc slA tcIS anu
they are the very fastest and best
race horses in the State: in the 222
class we have seven starters, all fast
and game racers and closely matched
rs to speed; in the 2.27 class we have
five starters and this bids fair to de-
velop into one of the hottest contests
ever pulled off in Maine.
But horse racing is only one fea-
ture of the show. We have a motor
cycle race with nine starters; a Mar
athOn with five starters and an auto
race with several starters; two ball
games and a football game.
a word to patrons in reference to
the motor cycle and automobile races:
You are urgently requested to exercise
the greatest prcaution while thes two
RAGS are on. Only men of unusual de-
termination could be induced to figure
in races of this nature and being out
to win their mind is intensely centered
on the manipulation of their respective
machines and a clear track is abso-
lutcly essential to safety. The man
agement will introduce every precau-
ton at it's command, but you must
help Us.
In conclusion let us again thank you
and wish YOU all a happy day.
COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION.