Show GINGER IS THE BETTER BETTEB HORSE beats teaser in three straight hearp old did it faly easily with hut one break throughout teaser in faor poor form several daely running races big HI present A crowd of 0 people never left a race ing course in ill this county better satis tie 1 with ith a days events than did the throng leave leace the annne park eest of richfield Rich Held last thursday while they expected a closer contest between ginger and rt easer and was wae disep disappointed that met it proved so one sided they appreciated the fact that a everything ery was clean and on an the square it is estimated there were here between twelve kail and fourteen tourte eu people in attendance the day was fine ard the track in excellent condition good order was preserved pres erred the afternoon aud alere were feer te than usual the Rioha eld cornet land band was present and aad was li bertl in its dispensation of when the first heat of 0 the pace and trot race wa was 9 called and the horses got 1 ota a vai 41 almost neek neck and neck the crowd became almost 9 and it ita eyes never neter left the animal until the finish teaser drew the pole the horses kept close until teaser broke x few aw hundred yards from the start alar lie he fell behind but as soon eoon as he regained his hie feet lie he slipped by ginger giager in the prettiest ch ot of foot work probably seen on an ani track in this state but tie he again left his bis gait bait and lort ground ginger tool the lead und came home a length and f half bait ahead lime Inthe in the second heat beat teaser behaved even eien worse than before lebroke he broke at the start and it wits was almost impossible to get him to hit his fet feet tie lie lost all the way around and as GO CO yards to the lad bad when ginger crossed the horae home line rime 2 28 the third heat waa dingers gingers Gin gers th all the be way teaser lost hie hia feet beveral times but at the first halt bait sla its doing nice work only a length and 6 behind lie ile behaved pretty well until the saul final stretch was reached when ile he again broke and lost by abbat four foor lengths time 2 32 there it is no doubt that lt lf atmer could have been kept on his feet he be would have made a close and pretty race with ginger outside of his behavior havi orbe he was not in first class condition for or the contest the trip from provo in a stock car was hard on the animal and he be had not properly recuperated cupe rated ginger proved himself to be one of the best beet animals in the state he is reliable and sure and coolheaded in the three miles of racing he made but one break and then only for about two I 1 Ds he is a noble animal bell honest 0 at and true and there is a great future before him THE rhe RUNNING RACES all of the running races were closely contested and the entries made a very good showing the first was ft a halt half mile heat dash between minnie a grass valley mare miss mias jean and white cloud minnie took the lead at the start and kept it to the finish about five lengths ahead white cloud took second position to the home stretch where he be was passed by jean who landed second tune time 55 the fhe second race was waa a quarter dash between kalamazoo bob and may bird the mare got s little ahead at the start but was soon passed by the horse borse which led by to lengths time 27 faithful jack a salina balms horse light foot tommy and midget the little bean mare were the entries in the yard dash they lined up and reached the wire in the order named pretty well bunched time 18 following these were svere some saddle pony races which were interesting one cue especially being almost neck and neck around the entire track THE HENS THE BIRD should be emblematic enta tive of tins tin country in the illinois honse of tives a few days ago a member of that body rose in the house bouse to suggest that the emblem of the nation be oban changed g e ad from the florce flarce randy gaudy and cheese use e s s eagle to that of the american hen ben in speaking upon the subject he said aid a poets may bay sine of the glory of the eagle aud and arlita may paint the beauties of birds of plumage but bat tb the mud mod set american hen is entitled to a tribute for her in n kinstry her usefulness and her productivity tile american 1 alel hen bell can produce wealth realf it equal to the b capital stocks of all the banks of the the new york clearing house in three mouths months and have a week to spare in less iasi than sarty days she can equal the total annual production of all the zold hold nines mines of the united states the united states proudly boasts of its enormous of pig iron by tar far the greatest great tat of any country in the world and yet the american hen produces as much in six mouths months as all the iron mines of the country produce in one year in cue year and ten months she could pay off the interest bearing debt of the united states |