The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-09-19
2:25 PACE GOES
SIX GOOD HEATS
Magers Winning Out; Dark
ness Intervenes And
Fair Ends

The last day OF the Knox county fair
came to an end Friday evening with
two of the races scheduled for Friday
still to be driven. Disappointment
reigned in the breasts of few super
enthusiastic horsemen because Of the
fact that these races will not be held
on Saturday, as many expected, when
it became so late that it was obvious
that they could not occur Friday.
The cancelled races were the 2:13
pace, purse $500 and the 1922 trot,
purse also $500. These races could
not be held on Friday owing to the
fact that the rain Thursday prevented
Thursdays races from being finished
and made it necessary to race ten
heats of the Thursdays races on Fri
day. On Thursday it was announced
ahat the unfinished races would be COM
menced at noon Friday and it was
thought that by this arrangement the
entire schedule could be finished Fri
day, but despite every effort only one
of Fridays races was driven, the 2.27
trot, and the last heat Of this race was
not finished until nearly six o'clock.
AS if to make amends for the brand
of weather passed out on Thursday
the weather man made Friday an ideal
day, although had it been somewhat
warmer the horses might have been
cnnnd
crowd was by a small margin the larg-
est of any day of the fair. The race
track, after having been thoroughly
soaked on Thursday, had been placed
in good condition and was fine for fast
work.
Thursdays unfinished races began
at noon, starting off with the 2:18 pace
Two heats of this race were finished
Thursday with seven starters. On Fri
day only six horses were started, Coun-
try Jim, owned by Mrs. l.. w. Thrail-
Kill, being withdrawn. Two heats on
friday finished this race with Lacy A.,
owned by E. ]. Case Of Croton, taking
first money; Jimmie Valentine, second
money, Marion Belle, third money and
Walter Hal, fourth money.
First money in the 2:17 trot, three
heats of which were raced on Friday,
was copped by Mayona, owned by Ben
b. Jones of Newark. Second money
went to Jack Woodcliffe, third to DON
ma and fourth to Ira G. Repose, owned
by G. G. Brown of this city, which took
fourth in the first heat Of the race
Thursday, was distanced in the second
heat.
Six heats were necessary to decide
the 2:25 pace. There were eight hors-
-es in the field until the fifth heat when
Rosa Direct and Tommie Murphy were
ruled off, having been outside the mon
ey in every heat. At the end Of the
fifth heat the contest for first money
narrowed down to the horses having
taken first in at least one heat and
Jimmie Gray, Joseph Jay and Miss Gu
ba Clay fgought desperately for the
big end of the purse.
This last heat was real horse race
from start to finish in spite of the
fact that Joseph Jay showed more
class than the other two contenders
Jimmie Gray, little beauty belonging
to James Clemmons of Newark, dis
tinguished himself in every heat oi
the race by pacing without break
and pacing a real race all of the time
However, he seemed to lack that nee
essary little extra squirt of speed need
ed on the home stretch. Both Jimmie
Gray and Joseph Jay had led the pro
cession in two previous heats. Miss
Cuba Clay "copped" in the first hea
on Thursday.
Billy Mayors drove one and three
quarter laps with the game little gra!
horse just nose behind and Miss Gu
ba Clay about the same distance be
hind him. AS the three rounded int
the stretch however, the gray hors,
was unable to stand the gaff
He was pacing all he had and tn,
brown mare forged ahead. They cam
under the wire, Joseph Jay first, Mis-
fer and fourth to Proxy Knight
third.
The 2:17 trot, the only race on Fri
days schedule. went four close am