Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19
Two Heals In Each Race 60
To -Four Different Horses.
ComnlendabIe Work by Starter,
Judges and Timers.
Joe Grim, italian Championship"
Provides Plenty of humor.

Despite the nasty drizzle the first
DAYS races of the last meet this year
were continued, Wednesday afternoon.
at Capital park until two heats in
each of the two classes scheduled had
been run of. The track record of 2:144
was equaIled by Billy Patten in the
first heat of the 2:l5. II is the gem
eral opinion of track followers that
the record will be decisively low cred,
Thursday.
BY $50 the track was becoming dis
tinctly slippery and dangerous. one
horse in the last heat stumbling so
violently as 10 break the checI-rein
and no opposition was voiced by the
judges when the proposition for post
ponement was put. Then, too, the mist
driving into the grandstand and other
places, where the 600 spectators had
sought shelter, wasn't conducive to
comfort and no protests were forth
coming when Starter Pike made his
announcement.
Berone aud Joe X each took heat
in the 2:21 pace, while Joe Mapes and
Billy Patton split them up in the 2;l5
At u 90, Thursday, the 22l class will
be called to finish the event, the 2:15
following, IN an attempt to catch up
with the program by Thursday night
That certainly means a treat for
which a great deal of important
work will be uHhesitatingly placed
aside by Names race fans. Four
classes in enc afternoon-weI. Starter
Pike is some capable but the days are
growing short,
Spectators were admitted free to the
new grandstand when the rain start
ed. About 800 took advantage of the
privilege while ANOTHER 100 sought
shelter in the old stand to the south.
The others made tents, or like avail
able coverings, serve as protection
Battling Nelson. who will fight
George Alger, Thursday night in City
hail. was introduced by MANAGER
Hanks as the ex-ehampion light
weight-the greatest little fighter in
the world" and the badly scared
Battier received a good hand. His
cars We're swollen out of shape and
his face showed several cuts. having
fought the clever Pal Moore, Tuesday
night, in Boston.
But the fun of the afternoon came
with the arrival Of Joe Grim, the UNI
knock out-able Italian champion. He
induced to attempt to break the half
mile track record of somewheres in
the announced vicinity of SPA. Joe
bowed in a Chesterfeldian manner to
the impressed spectators and awaited
the word-his Apolo-lille form graced
b. pink tights. a gorgeous sash and u
checked cap.
Battling Nelson gave him the word
and ne was away in a startling burst
OF speed. Two feet, four feet, and on
to q feet His cap was snatched de-
terminediy from his tossing black
locks and then realizing his cloying
weight Joe yieiously, and apparently
without conjunction cast it into a
nearby field. another squirt which STIR
red the sporting blood of the speeta-
tors. But see he falters, he walks,
All, but that is the science of Joe
Grim's half-mile running, He has dis
covered that he runs easier after a
good rest. The squirt to the wire
brought the crowd to its feet ana
amid GREATNESS silence the time was
announced by Battling Nelson as 3 %.
He'd have run faster if he hadn't
worn shoes" explained the Battler
Joe BtttN tpAciN IeSpGilueQ 10 the CANS
fer speech and continued to respond
while Hanks adjured the crowd, "bc
patient; he's only just begun" Grim
proclaimed himself the Italian cham
pionship" and that nobody me has
beat" He cast his green bathrobe up
or the ground and declaring his I'M
perviousness to colds invited ten big
men to come and stand on me-" He
could hold 10 t'ousen' pounds on my
bach. and two hundreds in one hands at
same time" and if he was 10 year less
he could make dat Jack Johnsons look
like two-cent piecesi" The men did
not come forward and he finally clos
ed with the declaration that Augusta
people would see him fight two men.
Viva lie joe
Many who discovered the pool sell
ing establishment at the south Of the
grand stand expressed their regret and
surprise that, after Manager Hanks
protestations OF good intentions fol-
lowing the last meet. that this should
have been permitted. Several gave
their opinion that this feature would
be abolished before the close of the
racing.
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Chester +. Pike, of Windsor, VT,
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