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Show f Crowds see JL, ram fair ! Attendance All That Was Pre- dieted, Making Cedar City J A Busy Town. F AMUSEMENTS AND EX- ' g HIBITION ABOVE PAR T Winners of the Special Premiums, and gp of the More Important of the M Sporting Events. 3 The prediction of The Record last EL issue that Cedar City would be n very j busy little city during the three days m of the County Fair, which opened on K last Tuesday and closed yesterday, was m verily fulfilled, for it is doubtful if the ? town ever held more people at one W time before; and it is certain that at k no time in thojiast were there so many P automobiles in evidence. w The Fair went off peaceably and f, the general verdict appeared to be K, that it was an uncommonly good coun- ty fair. There was some drinking, of I. course, and a few men were seen who appeared to be the worso for strong I drink, but under the present laws we had a right to expect nothing else.' r Still, there wore no drunken brawls or p or unsightly conduct. ." The races appeared to all be clean I and run on merit. The first day they t were very tardy in starting, but on if subsequent days this feature was not f nearly so noticeable. The ball games f " were hard fought battles, and every w' player, good or bad, did the best he byte t , wbb capable of under the circumstnn- BV: CeS QHHff , The .New- Home for the Fair. aWp''' - .The-new site for. holding the Fair fW at Cedar City, which was placed in p condition for the first time this year, y, elicited many favorable comments. & The grand stand is larger and more t" pretentious than the county has ever n k had before, and afforded better nc- fkl-' commodations for seeing the sports. 1 f' The only objection made is its close proximity to the cemetery. The fcu- ." ture of having the exhibits and sports contiguous is a good one and proved i popular with the people. The Special Prize Winners. Considerable interest was awakened by the liberal special prizes offered for agricultural and live stock exhibits, exhib-its, tho winners of these prizes being as follows: For the best fivo acres of dry land wheat, $25, won by Thomas Durham of Parowam For best acre of dry land corn, $50, awarded to Lamar Graf of Kanarra. For the best acre of corn, raised with high water only, $50, won by Ray Lunt of Cedar City. L For the best acre of potntoes, l. $50, won by Henry Webster of Cedar K Ctiy. For the best draft colt, $25 Her-..' Her-..' bert Webster. K For the best beef calf, $25 Mitch- f ell Brothers of Parowan. Best two nigs, $12.50 Jess Ford, fl&. of Kanarraville. , L For the best dairy heifer, $12.50 K S. J. Foster, Cedar City. W For tho best pen of two lambs, $25 !$ Wm. W. Pendleton, Parowan. ft'.' The remainder of the premium win- I' ners will be published next issue. Winners of the Horse Races. ', & The winners of the regular sched- W uled horse races, were as follows: i yfe Quarter milo race, open to all, for f o a purse of $120, won by Brady, owned Br by Mr. Haws of Boulder, Garfield Co. H Five-eighths mile, purse $175, won !E by Shine, owned by Clem Tebbs of ml Pangultch. f Half mile race, open to nil; purse M. $160; won by Brady. M, Three-fourths mile, open to all, for p a purse of $175; won by Snip, owned vl by Don Findlay of Kanab. I , Three-eights mile, open to all, for ' purse of $140; won by Independence, ' owned by John Bladen of Cedar City. Half mile saddle horso race; purse $50; won by ono of Mr. Hnws' horses. One mile race, open to all; purse . $200; won by Snip, tho Chamberlain !',tm Vinrsn. Jtf Quarter mile work horse race, for I' a purse of $30; won by Higbee horse, owned by E. J. Higbeo of Cedar City. There were also a great many specially spec-ially matched races run during tho fair, which addod materially to the attractions. The Base Ball Games. In all three base ball games were played, one each day, which resulted as follows: Cedar City vs. Washington County team, principally from St. George, won by the Dlxio boys on a score of 13 to 10. Dlxio Team vs. Lund and vicinity, i 4 won by Lund on ft score of 18 to 16. ' These two games decided tho divis ion of tho prizes, Lund getting first, $125; Dlxio second, $76; Cedar City ,1- M K third, $50. Tho Cedar City boys gave the residue of their purse, after defraying de-fraying expenses, to one of their players play-ers who had the misfortune to dislocate dislo-cate his wrist. On the third day of the fair Cedar City, with three of tho Dixie team substituted for other players, won from tho Lund tenm on a score of 17 to 8. No purse for this game. A pleasing feature of the fair was a pnrade of the leading livestock animals ani-mals in the horso and cattle clnss, which reflected credit upon tho county as well as tho owners. Next year tho County Fair will bo held at Parowan. & , ( |