Wichita eagle., 1888-02-25
INAUGURAL MEETING.
The Wichita Exposition and Interstate Fair
AssociatiOn-lnaugural Meeting,
June %, 1883.
FIRST DAN-JUNE D.

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No. 1-Trotting; colts and fillies 2-years-
! old and under, owned in Kansas previous
! to January |, 1883; purse $500.
No. 2-Running; three-fourths of a mile
dash: 2year -olds, maidens allowed 3
pounds, Kansas bred colts pounds; purse
$500.
No. drumming; 1 mile dash, all ages;
purse 500.
No 200 yards hose race; Is men; purse
S75; LIST money, $50; I'd money, s25.
SECOND DAY--JUNE 6.
No S-Trotting: colts and fillies, years
old and under, owned in Kansas previous
to January !, 1888; purse 5000.
No. 6-Running; mile dash for Swear
olds, maidens allowed 3 pounds, Kansas
colts > pounds: purse 500.
No. Running: mile dash; selling al
lOwanceS: purse $500.
No Championship hose race; purse
SIS; LIST money, so; I'd money, s25.
THIRD DAY-THURsDAY, JUNE :.
Mo. 9-Pacing: free for all: purse $500
No. -Running;one-fourth mile dash;
purse 500.
No. Thinning; one and one-fourth
mile dash, all ages, selling allowances;
purse $500.
No 12-At II O'Clock a. M; hook and
ladder race; purse $50, $50 to first, $50 to
second.
No. l3-4 O'Clock p. m: team race; purse
500, S75 to first. $50 to second.
FOURTH DAY-FRIEAY, JUNE s.
No. l4-Irotting: free for all: purse $500.
No. 13-Running one and one-eighth
mile dash: all ages selling allowances;
purse 500.
No. 16-Running: one mile and repeat;
| all ages; purse 500.
No. 11-Firemen's coupiers race; purse
$50 $50 to first. $50 to second.
FIFTH DAY-sATURDAY, JUNE 9TH.
No. Especial race for named horses
Purse $500
No 14-Trotting, colts and FLIES
years old and under owned in Kansas
prior to June /, 1883. Purse 500.
No. l5.-Running, consolation purse,
half mile heats; purse SlO0
CONDITIONS.
Trotting and pacing will be mile heats,
best in , to harness, except in the 2-year
old colt race, which will be haf-mie heats
= in 3 to harness, and the 3 year old colt
| race which will be mile heats, 2 in 3, and
Will be governed by the Americat Trot-
ting association rules: per cent must
accompany entry. In all races entry fee
10 per cent of purse. Horses drawn the
! night previous to race will only be held
for one-half entrance
Horses distancing the field or any part
thereof shall receive only one premium.
Purses divided as usual, 60, % and -.
EnterleS close, pacing and trotting May
p. 1855. Running will be governed by
American rules. Selling purses governed
as follows: Horses entered at 1000 to
carry weight for age. one pound off for
every hundred dollars. down to 81 800, win
ner to be sold at auction and surplus over
entered price, if any, he divided between
second horse and the association. if in case
of bad weather or other unavoidable causes
the association is unable to start one or
more of its races by three o'clock p. m. on
the last day of the meeting. such race or
races will be declared off and entrance
money refunded. Entry blanks will be
furnished by the secretary. Sealed bids
for booth and other privileges will be re
ceived by the secretary and promptly re-
ported upon.
Stalls furnished free to all horses entered
in races who have paid their entrance fee
according to the conditions of the meeting.
Feed, hay and straw at marke ct price will
be furnished on the grounds. Track one
mile in length. Wichita has $4,000 people
and the largest transient population of
any city in the country: it is also railroad
center. Rates of one fare for the round
trip have been secured.
y state firemens tournament will be
held in the city of Wichita during the
week of the race meeting. The same rules
VIII govern this tournament and the
racing events that are used by the South
western Firemen'S association of Missouri
Full particulars and conditions of contests
will be mailed to each department in the
state at an early date by Fire Chief A. g.
Walden, of this city. \ grand military
encampment will lie held during the week,
and a trades display will be made on
Thursday night. June {. in honor of the
eighteenth birth year of the city OF
Wichita.
Kansas, Grand Circuit assertion will
hold their first meeting in the city of
Wichita beginning Aug. Goth continuing
till Sept. lst, 1855, Winfield from Sept 3rd
TO Sept. eth, Newton from Sept 10th to
l4th, Topeka from Sept 18th to Sept. I'D, |
Salina from Sept. 18th TO Sept. 30th. and
Waldo Park, Kansas City, from Oct. Sth to |
18th, for the year 1898.
OFFICERS FOR 1855
Hon. William Griffenstein. president,
Col. \. A. English, vice-president.
j. o. Davidson, treasurer
j w Hartzall Seeretary and p,ana,ar