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came off on Frida}^ the 23d, at 2 p.m. There were six contest- 

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Moses Bass, Halifax, N. S., (Indian) 1st prize, $15 ; Thomas 

 Buchan, Hyde, 2d prize, $5 ; George Taylor, Canton, (colored) 

 gratuity, $1 ; John Fernald, Roxbury, distanced ; AYilliani 

 Broadbent, Readville ; Robert Simms, distanced. Time, 2.23. 



Your couunittee were solicited to start a bag race, and through 

 the generosity of Messrs. Bradlee, Curtis, and White, who are al- 

 ways ready to contribute to gratify the ladies, two parses of 

 five and three dollars were made up witliout entrance fees. 

 Moses Bass, Thomas Buchan, Robert Henderson, and George 

 Taylor, entered the lists. On the trial things got somewhat 

 mixed by the excitement of the crowd pressing around the goal 

 and on the track. Taylor got his foot through a hole in his 

 bag, which enabled him to lengthen his pace, while Henderson 

 found himself on his beam ends. The parties agreed to call it 

 a dead heat and tiy again. On the second trial Buchan came in 

 first and Taylor second, leaving the others far behin<l. 



Buchan is the champion bag runner of the Scottish Highland 

 Club, and does his work with an ease surprising to a beholder ; 

 while Taylor is a new beginner, having practised but a short 

 time in a meal bag on a barn floor. 



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WILLIAM R. MANN, for the Committee. 



