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Show 1 , Over Ten Thousand People Yis- I hit ifed the Popular Piesort on & Saturday. Ilf HORSE RACES WERE THE Kill ATTRACTIVE FEATURE P! "Old Sow," Handled by Nauvoo pf Legion, Fired Salute in r 1 Honor of Pioneers. U$V,i rrc tuan tcu tlionsmid pcoplo at-lY' at-lY' tended the Pioneer Day celebration at Tit "'j Wandamcro, Saturday, in honor of tho MIL', sixty-second anniversary of the arriv-;it arriv-;it al of the first trail blazers on the presto pres-to j! enfc site of Sail Lake City. L''1! J Tho exercises were in keeping with M ; tho character of tho day. One of tho pjjj', i most interesting features was tho iir-I?',1 iir-I?',1 ing of "tho oil sow," an ancient can-fiftji' can-fiftji' non with a lon history, dating back to U y 3S12, when don. Andrew Jackson used hAl it in tho defense of Now Orleans H j against the British under Packenham rB of Warcrod. "j'lio old gun fired thirty-Li,"1j thirty-Li,"1j four shots as a saluto in honor of the ! V'i'V pioneer... al 12 o'clock and was han-f.jj,x han-f.jj,x died by the surviving members of tho " v.l Nauvoo Legion. " i' All veterans of the Nauvoo Legion "H.iji and all pioneers who came here bc- ,.-.' tween tho years of 1 S I 7 and 1S50 wore ;?' admitted f'reo to tho grounds and races. ,tf' Tho old folks sat around on benches, :Jt surrounded by cool waters and fresh ; r j groenorv, renewing old friendships and , chatting about tho days that am long - N I . gone. Tho atmosphere and spirit ra- i'Jl i diatcd bv the pioneers was redolent. : ' with memories of the fierce fight lj ;! against the desert and the heart-breaking jotfrncv across n bnrren. hostile and ' strango country, amid deadly ' perils. !. 1 - lt Til 1 . Ii j f uasouau u;uuu .riujrvu. t i n the morning a baseball came was , , played between the Granite high shcool I, . '? and tho Mill Creek school teams, re- : I suiting in a score of 5 to 3 in favor ; 1 1 of the former. Tho postoilice, banks, department l and many other stores closed for the i dav, and "business and professional men , , and their families poured our, to Wan- ;i , damore in the afternoon to sec the ,J f horse races. In the evening a big v ' i crowd enjoyed a fine display of Pain's 1 1, ' fireworks, !,4 j, The matinee was one of the grcnt- i est harness ovents over seen in Salt . Lake Citv. according to the old timers. ,1' ' The race's' were pulled off under tho direction of Ed MeLclland, and were satisfactory in every way, with the exception of some slight unplcasant- ' ness concerning tho running race. '' ' Many spectators' and the owners of the ... ' running horses and the Jockeys' were ' ( incensed because tho judges, under ; ' MeLclland 's instructions, called the i. 1 running race off. on the ground that there were not enough horses on tho .; track to make a race. Benjamin Ev- Jr i ans, .Tude Livingstone and Shoupe "J JJvnn protested against the race being .1 ' called off. claiming thai they had gone 1o a great, deal of expense to bring in ip, their horses and riders. The adver- f I tiscmonls of the race sent, out by Me- Clelland stated that five horses would I make the entries and that three horses IJ could start. After the harness events, 0 the running race was up, and three i' . horses Gray Belle, Vesia and Gocrn- . ' , nor Shoupe were, ready to start, but 1 McClelland made the judges call ofT fj ; the race. Tho horse owners alleged i ' that. McClollnnd had offered a purse of ? i $50, but that, he h.nd cut it in two when ' the time for the rnce came, and they ' 1 refused to run their horsos for a $25 ' ',' purse, claiming that the- could not ,!i I oven pay their expenses on that amount Tho failure to run the race t , caused a great, deal of disappointment, , as man' people went out especially to see. a running race, j Good Purses Offered. ft, Purses of $130, $100 and $50 were Si given for the free-for-all. 2:10 and 2:2G 2;' event s, respectively. i The harness events showed quite a jp bit of class, the feature being the free- S for-all. in which llarker's big stallion, 5 Alzama, showed spoed and steadiness. u Alzama surprised man' bettors by the K ' way he traveled tho first two heats 3 without a single break, because he 1 i went all to pieces last year-at the fair f 4 ' grounds. Ilarker drove him well, and j held him so evenly that Alzama was ijr i j able to race around the turns. The big Ik I liorse lost his stride but once, and that i I was in the third heat. 'A- J Oveta had trouble in every heat, , j stepping on her feet and stumbling ! l badly. When on her feet, however, .7 1his beautiful little mnrc ivent as nice- U , !' as auy horac on the track. May- f j Jlower continually broke in the first two heats and did but little. In ihe , 1hird heat, however. Mnyllowor sur- 5! )irised the wise ones, and "took a stiff iinish away from Oveta. ' ) There wns nothing to the 2:40 class rot and pace but Iceberg. In tho 1 . , first heat he broke badly at the got- ! ' away, but soon found his feet and ' - i Titnu up strong the first time' around ' ( to the stand, passing Don M. and Fleet .; easily, and catching Jimmy Britt. at the seven-eighths, winning a driving K j, Jinish by half a neck. Kj p fn the second heat, Iceberg led a hot hhjjj iaee, with Britt closo up, but, the lat- 1 S tor broko at the fivo-eighths. Fleet .1 f ''-'"np P fast, leaving Britt. four m: lengths behind, but was unable to pass Iceberg, as tho latter was driven wido 'M from the pole. .Don M. was distanced. 'i . f ceberg won the race anil first inonov, I , , -while Kotrond and third money wont r share and share alike to Fleet -and j , JJritt. Ii!' I3cy Toga annexed two straight I'1- ' heats in the 2:20 class race, Alberta h-il forning in a closo second each time. ,j J Dure Dream was distanced in tho sec- t'jS oud hoat. I j ff Summary of the Races. i 1 Following is a summary of the races: I-ff. 2:10 class and trot l a Jrcbf.Tfi (Cotton) 1 i I fi .llmmy Britt (Fnllos) 3 I j Fleet (Broczlcy) 3 I ron M. (Miller) .V.....4 13 P; Time: 2:37u; 2::!2. IM.H 2:2C class I Foxy Topa (Splera) ........... 1 1 I l'V Alberta (Kdv.ard.s) . lljUl Uarc. Dream (Smith), ,j -,f 31 "Wave (Dugan) , 3 "n I B Time: 2:321: 2:2S. lit .8 Free-for-all Jp,"h Alzama (Ilarkur) .1 I 7, 1 I May Flower (13rlckson) . . , t 1 2 11 ''8 Oveta (WoorirlnjM 2 2 D i S-a Consuclla (Simpson) :t D fX 'a Time: 2:ISJ; 2:l'.il; 2:205; 2:20. |