Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-07
CROWD NOT LARGE.

Zen months OF increasingly vigorous
advertising campaign supported by
the most effective publicity novelties
his fertile brain and modern methods
could produce netted a "deluge" of
between $500 and 5000 people on the
opening day at Capital Park. The
weather was propitious, the Midway is
extensive and model, and the racing
was of Grand Circuit calibre, but the
crowd was dismally absent. Less than
thousand persons occupied all the
stands, the remainder decorating the
fences or spccumbing to the other at
fractions.
Over a perfect track AL billiard won
the I'll Pace. breaking the track rec
ord made by him. last fall. His time
WAS 2.11A against 2.12ia in 1911 This
new mark was itself displaced when
Billy Patten covered the second heat
of the 2.15 Pace in 2.10h. Directineer
was the winner of this race, taking the
first, fourth and fifth heats. Frank
Bogash. Jr., was victorious in straight
heats in the 3-minute Pace
In the baseball games, Livermore
Falls and Lewiston defeated their re-
spective opponents, Pennington and
Augusta. and will meet Wednesday
morning. in the first game of the finals.
The Midway.
All the sporting Refreshments of a
little Spa are in evidence. Vaudeville
shows. a huge Ferris wheel, elaborate
merry go round, dining tents, lunch
counters. and an army of smaller es-
Establishments were advertising their at
fractions, Tuesday
Forced enlargement of the space re-
served for these features resulted in
tearing out the fence to the north of
the grandstand and a boiling over far
out into the field.
Hamburg has two good-szed exhi-8
billions running, vaudeville show, and
the other staging athletic events.
The Ferris wheel proved popular and
several times made its trip with the
seats all occupied. This is the first
yet erected in this part of the State.
The merry o-round claimed its share
of the patronage and its proprietors
arepwell pleased with indications.
Enough provisions for Napoleon's
starving army are packed away in the
tents, booths and transportable victual
urnishers-everythin from bread To
appetizing roast turkey.
Whatever may be its destiny. Hanks
Fair can accommodate $4,000 people.
from soup to nuts
Beachey Arrives.
About 80 f. NJ, DIR. Thomas, chair
man of the aviation committee, strolled
down to the judges stand. towing
Lincoln Beachey the little bird man
from San Francisco. They passed into
the grandstand, where Starter Pike
introduced him to the spectators.
The aeroplane arrived about the
same time and was in readiness for
flight before dark for the flights which
are scheduled for Wednesday after
noon.
Mr.. Beaehey claims the altitude rec
ord of America, worlds record at
the time of the flight. He is plan
ming another attempt but has not yet
decided upon the location. Another of
his famous flights, widely pictured in
| the papers and magazines, was under
| the suspension bridge at Niagara
| Falls, last August.
| The machine to be used here is a
| Curtis bi-plane. the same in which
he will make his altitude attempt.
With no sense of bravado he told a
| journal reporter that his "Wednesday
flights would be made in pouring rain
! or a raging cyclone if such conditions
| should exist His exhibition in Au-
gusta will consist, primarily, of fancy
work. probably including his sensa
tional dip of death"
| Wednesdays Big Race.
/ Twenty-seven horses are ready te
start in the Els trot, "Wednesday, fol
the largest purse of the meet. $4,000
at least four of these being from the
Grand Circuit. The list includes Ear
rine, Marry c., DIR. Wilkes and those
| sterling Maine travellers. Dechato ane
| Baron Sidnut.
Hal B., Jr., has arrived from th'
| Grand Circuit and is quartered al th'
track. He is entered in the free-for
all. Thursday.