The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-07-17

THE LAST DAY OF
THE COUNTY FAIR
Saturday was the banner day at
the county fair and the best day of
the four in every way. The old town
closed up shop at 2 o'clock and ev-
! erybody and their relatives beat it to
the fair grounds to attend the automo-
bile races which were more interesting
than any other because 80 many Of
the town boys were in these races
and then again any auto race seems
to draw better than a horse race these
days. We do not know how many au-
| tomobiles there were up there on Sat-
! urday but there were hundreds and
hundreds of them, line after line,
coming in from all directions. 1t was
| striking contrast to years ago when
we had to depend on horse power to
get to the fair and take hours instead
of minutes. But the world do move,
indeed. and modern science and In
vention has worked wonders. They
have crosser the Atlantic in "a hours
now in an airship, beating the fastest
vessels by two or three days. In q
short time they will beat that record
and we expect to see most OF our peo-
pie travelling through the air at ex-
press rate instead Of the automobile
route on the ground, the auto gong
back like the horse.
Well to go back to the auto races
there was some crowd and lots OF en-
thusiasm.
The first race was the first section
of the preliminaries, free-for-all flve
mile heat, first and second eligible to
enter free for all five mile bout for
a purse. There were three entries tor
this. Capt. Lippold in his Cootie,
which should have been named
Scootie according to the way it hit the
trail; j. H. Lee, Fargo, with his
Elein: A.. S: Etter, Wimbledon, with
his Grant Six. It was dandy race
all right but Bert Lippold seemed to
have q grip on that heat right from
the start and won handily. Bert is
some driver. Time 6:42 3-5. Pegg
got 500 and Hagenstone $50.
Next. came the five mile stock car
race for Ford cars with three entries
Earl Pegg with his car Go" rightly
named, for Go went like a bird. AL
Hagenstone, Valley City, with his car
Lightning, and Al Higgenbothem witt!
his car Grasshopper. This was real
race and was won easily by Earle
Pegg. Earl is some little old general
when he gets to pushing Ford car
around the track. Tice 1926.
The next was the section Of the
preliminaries for free-for-all, five mile
heat, first and second eligible to enter
final bout for purse. There were three
entries for this. Ole Mikkelson in his
special built car. Fred J. Fried, VIM
bledon. with his Stutz, and Paul
Clancy, Fargo, with the Essex: Paul
Clancy in the Essex came in first. Ole
Mikkelson, second and Fried third.
Time 6.51 3-5.
Then followed the free-for-all back
up race half mile heat around the
track backward. There were three
starters, Earl Pegg, AL. Higgenbot-
hem and AL Hagerstone. Pegg with
draw. Higgenbothem with his Grass
hopper came in first and got $50.
Time 2:14.
The most exciting race on the pro-
gram was the race between Luessens
mules and Earl Pegg in Ford car.
Pegg was to go around the track twice
while the mules had only to make the
round once. The mules won easily but
it took all the strength and cuss words
of J. H. Sampson and Frank Heimes
to keep those mules going and when
the race was over both men were prac-
tically Frustrated from over work,
something which hasn't happened to
either one of 'em since time was.
Luessen got $50 of easy money.
Then came the real race of the day,
the final heat for first money. The
first and seconds in the two previous
races were in this: Lippold with the
Cootie. Clancy with the Essex, Lee
with the Elgin and Ole Mikkelson with
his special. It was some race believe
us. Ole Mikkelson seemed like VIM
ner for the first several laps Of the
race but gradually Lippold with MS
Cootie came creeping up and then got
the pole and won easily, beatlng ms
competitors by quite a distance. II
was dandy race and the crowd went
wild when the OOOtlc CIVSS0u e"S 49,.
a winner and Cape. Lippold was hoist
ed " up on the shoulders Of his admirers RS
In Justice to Ole Mikkelson we want.
to saw that his car had to slack down
on account of his engine heating ana
that made big difference with nm.
OF course that is part of the game,
and. whether he could have beaten that
fast running Cootie under more 1ave
orable circumstances is a matter OF
conjecture. He has very fast car
and we understand is going to Fargo
to take part in the :! races there 4xon S1e
for the future. Lippold won $3.50, Lee
s1oo, and Clancy $50 prize money:
The races finished by an exhibition
race Of a mile against time by the ne
Essex, the mile being made IN
II This ended the official program. S Of
races for this fair. In the evening 1ne
Diamond Bar Outfit gave an eT hnn'-
ton. Sampson kept his dance nEm
-: -. corn;va1 was in full SWING,