Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1895 — Last Friday’s Sports. [ARTICLE]

Last Friday’s Sports.

A large crowd attended the second day’s racing and sportiDg at the Rensselaer Stock Farm, last Friday afternoon. The two running horse raens, resulted as follows: The first was the pony race, a single quarter mile dash; Silver Tail, Whittaker Bros. -Wheatfield, first, Daisy C. [the dun pony] by Gagnon, of Goodland, 2nd; Plunger, A 1 Robinson, Medaryville, 3rd. The two county race; First Miss Pollard, by Jap Wright, of Mt Ayr; Second; Plunger, by A 1 Robinson; third, P«.p Corn, by Brown, of Morocco. •> $ There was a good game of base ball between Monticello and Remington, which resulted in Remington’s favor by a score of 11 to 10. The bicycle races did not fill, but Lonis Wilcox gave an exhibition race, against time, making an eighth mile in 16$ seconds; and the quarter in 35 seconds. An illuminated bicycle parade in town, in the evening, was the closing perfoirmance of the day. The riders carried Japanese lanterns, some of them five or six in clusters, and the whole effect was very fine.