Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-09

New London County Agricultural So
citey closed on Wednesday with the
keenest and hardest racing, the horse
men said, that the fair has had In
q score Of years. 1t brought back the
| days of the old racing, when the horses
went day and night and spread them
selves into a couple of days before the
winner was decided. And then the
Bert Eager, the 20 year old balloonist
hurled down through the air for huns
dreds of feet when his parachute re-
/ fused to open He could be seen kick
ing and squirming as he fell. and then
/ just as he was about to disappear be-
yond the trees from the sight OF tho
crowd on the fair grounds, the big
| white umbrella opened up and he cana
| down without scratch.
| School Children Saw Derp.
Eager said after he got back to the
grounds that he had just about given
Ing toward a nice quiet spot in q GEM
etery. Still he kept trying to induce
his parachute to spread out, but the
| moisture in the air seemed to have
1nked the ropes and made the appar-
atus unmanageable. He figured he
was only about 20 feet above the
ground when the folds of the para
| chute came free. Then 1T spread out
and stopped his downward progress
| with jerk. He landed on a soft spot
houses. He came down within full
sight of the East Great Plain school
house, and the principal, who is Miss
Maude G. Lathrop, rewarded her pu-
pills, for an unusually becoming first
day in school by letting them out a
triffie ahead of closing time to see the
airman as he got to the ground 1t
was an unusual event in their young
lives.
Out of Sight in the Clouds.
made the ascension more spectacular
than usual as the balloon was sent up
shortly after 8 o'clock 1t faded quick
ly from sight in the misty haze. Only
the keenest eyed could discover it aft
er 1t had got up a mile and then II
the ground Prof. T. H. Flowers fired
his first signal shot and then before
he had waited the usual interval be-
fore the second signal. the waiting
mist like a shot. Then just at tho
last moment, the big white parachute
opened. A moment later, the other
two umbrellas, used in the first two
parts Of the triple drop. came down in
the same place. After he got back
was brought up on the stage and pre-
scented to the crowd. Few realized
what he had just been through, but at
the stage some of his friends had
: | II
Starter Merrill the Right Man.
The two races put over from Tues
day afternoon, added to the two events
! for Wednesdays programme, made a
. full racing card, but Starter A. H.
Merrill got the horses underway early
: in the afternoon and the final heat
in the 2.35 class that concluded the
meet was over by 4.30. 1t was fast
racing, and clean, and the starter
4 made friends by his equable decisions,
J the rate at which he kept the heats
: going, and his uniform courtesy. At
= torney Albert ]. Bailey was holding the
stop-watch on the racers in the stand
during the last couple of days and
Herbert Ferguson was there to be OF
j assistance to Clerk Kimball in his
= | work.
Recalled Old Days.
The class that had the horsemen or
their toes was the unfinished 2.2(
class, carried over from Tuesday. This
It was for a purse of $500 and there
g were five starters in the field Two
!, of the heats had been run the after
v noon previous before the rain broke
: in on the racing and Deacon B.. the
Norwich horse, owned by A. NJ. Eth
eridge, had taken one and O'Neil, the
: New Haven roam, the other. Deacon
d B. came to the track Wednesday aft.
d ernoon in fine fettle and led the bunch
Il in the first heat. At that time 1t look
y ed like Etheridge's race. But in tbs
e fourth heat. Peter Agan. Elmer E
Miller's chestnut from Jewett City
strobe into the lead and showed en-.
= durance and speed that placed hin
5. at once in the competition. There
: followed the keenest fight that tht
= horsemen remember since the day.
/ when Frank A. Welles was driyins
e Country Boy and Theodore Palmer o.
: Fox of Norwich had Star Durock OF
the Norwich track. That race, sons
of the veterans at the track recalled
went eight heats and was won b.
George Miller, uncle of Elmer z. NIL
Ter. 1t turned out on Wednesday tina
history repeated itself more or les
. in the Miller family.
X Seven Sizzling Heats.
I. Three times the first three horses
7, came up the stretch to the finish wir,
10 so close together that the judges hai
ss to squirt to pick the places. Game
j. ness and endurance and good driving
IS were the things that returned Pete
l. Agan the winner in the seventh AM
final heat In the fifth he was heater
u out by inches by O'Neil. and then tn
q odds seemed to turn again in favor o
y the New Haven horse with Deacon
:. B. still in the race, though he ha'
"a fallen back to fourth place by thi
70 time. Peter Agan came back in tn
x, sixth in another remarkable finish. an
m then in the seventh heat, clinched tn
l. race and first money. Deacon B. too
al second money and O'Neil third. TIL
summary:
N Unfinished 2.2o Class from Tuesday
ID Purse $500.
p Peter Agan, CHI s, E. E.
r Miller. Jewett City,
H. Conn. .............. 2
Deacon B. br 8, A. M.
:. Conn. .......:....... 1a1s44
j. OiNeil, IN g, A. Dinner
A. man, New Haven,
IN Conn. ............... j
IN Dan Mckinney. blk g,
m John Jarvis, Franklin,
Il Mass. .....-.w... 5 3
10 Dunna May, b m, J. w.
Page, Providence, r. I. 2
Time-2.19 Ia, Eat Ia, ais T.
2.1s Ia. 2.18 la. 2.1s Ia, 2.1s la
ed Hartford Horse Won.
Ut The two remaining heats in III
=. unfinished $50 class went of in res
- al ular order, Matt Brazilrs Hartfor
~ horse taking the heats three straigh
=. The time was noticeably low. I'll