| Show RACES AT PARK some of them were real interesting te others looked like slow mule races ed coiron wins the free for all an d pace reads queen wins match trot the races at the driving park yesterday afternoon were interesting at times if not tor their speed then because that one wondered why they called it a race there was a surprise in store for all who went out there because they saw when they arrived a crowd of perhaps people and that was a larger crowd than had attended the races last year it the attendance at all races had been added together but they were there and they enjoyed themselves that is as much as they could under the circumstances it is doubtful it as large a crowd can be gotten together to attend another lot ot races though it is possible there were three good races in good time one in slow time and one which was at no time a race the game opened with a match race for a sido between reads queen and chrismond Chr ismons faust it was a humorous affair queen being apparently short of wind and faust being far from a counterpart of the frisky gentleman of goethals Goe thas story faust was shy one leg that Is for us and he went around the track on the first heat seemingly with the idea that be would get the matter done with as soon as possible he won the first not because he was fast but because queen was slower the second heat was not worthy the name because it was not even warm this and the third were won by queen and the third heat was won by about a quarter of a mile it was called a race and tom keogh who officiated as starting judge and was assisted in tho judges stand by commissioner lyman skeen and moroni stone announced gravely that the time was tor the first heat for the second and for the third in the grand stand the watches of the spectators told times variously from to some of the timers having lost track of the minutes it was an amusing burlesque the second race was a tree tor all trot or pace and boy sl read up ed conroy owned by dr E II 11 conroy ed nye up and minnie 0 I 1 reed up were starters charlie du fers wasatch monarch was entered but scratched later this was a good race tor ona heat conroy had the pole and kept the lead straightaway from the start boy closing up towards the home but not reaching the wheel minnie was coming along but not overly fast time for the half the second heat was something of a boy was halt a length behind the head horse at the call ot go and sprinted to get in shape minnie closed up to conroy and boy was pocketed and broke just as the sixteenth was turned he never went info the race again he turned back at the eighth ana amid cries of where are you going sl si read drove up to the judges stand and gravely announced that he had not heard the call to go there was a great laugh and si pulled old boy off the track for the race was lost conroy came jn a good six ahead in with minnie hard at it then came the three minute class with pearl R with ezra richardson up grey pointer with joe dana up frank H owned by R horrocks with ed nyo up and brown bess 0 M runyan up it was a sort of go as you please race but they all got in under three minutes or rather under a minute and a halt tor the race was a halt mile pearl winning the first heat brown bess the second and pearl winning the third again time tho three eighths dash was a rapid turn with four entries pat L by read bros maggie S by N 0 nye george B by W bailey in this as well as in the quarter mile dash one of the features was tho riding of a one legged jockey a boy from uintah who sat his mount as clean and true as it he had the pedal extremities of a centipede the trio wea e off at the first score with alex grant tor starter and it was a pretty race pat L winning by a bead in 49 the quarter mile dash showed up tour entries babe by read bros minnie by etherington dick B by frank watson and ados by W H anderson babe won in a driving finish with dick B second and third timo 35 i |
