The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-25
NOW FOR HORSE SHOW.
The Amphitheater Will Comfortably
Seat $500 People.

Final preparations for the Topeka
horse show are being made. The am
phitheater has been completed II Is
strongly built and has a seating capac-
ity of $500 persons.
The prospects for the coming snow are
hattering. The list of entries in the pro-
feSSional classes are surprisingly good
The classes in which the entries are
confined to Topeka, have not been filled
as they should. Heretofore the home peo-
pie have been rather tinlid in entering
because of coming into competition
with professional horses
Arrangement of classes has been
made so that Topeka people so desiring
may not have to compete with horses
make entries will have to do so before
tomorrow at noon, at which time the
books will be closed
A polo game will be one OF the fea-
lures of the show. The sides Will be
captained by Dean R. Low and A. Z.
Ashbrook of Kansas City. This will be
the first polo game ever witnessed in this
city. The players in this game are
mounted on horses. The sides line up
and a ball is placed between Them The
players carry long slender sticks with
which they strike the ball. The object
of the game is to drive the ball to a
goal at the end of the field. Any num-
Der may play the game. It is a very
exciting game and sometimes becomes
dangerous.
The hunting tandem will be another
| feature of the show. Each OF the con-
! teStantS drive a tandem hitched to a
cart. They drive around the arena sew
| eral times and at a signal all turn and
drive as fast as possible to a given
point where the drivers jump from the
cart and unfasten the leader from the
harness, mount and make a run before
| taking the hurdle. This is also interest
| ing and exciting.
The judges secured for the coming
| show have no interests here and are
~
capacity in shows in the larger cities.
The judges are: Mortimer Levering,
banker, of Lafayette, Indiana; Warren
Galbreath, claim agent of the M. K. &
T., Dallas, Texas: and John r. Gentry,
manager of the st. Louis horse show.
HORSE SHOW NOTES.
| Fifteen head of horses were shipped in
to Topeka this morning.
O. D. Woodward will exhibit Lime
Stone Bell one of the greatest horses
in the high school class. This horse is
the one used by the Woodward Stock
company on the stage in the production
of QUO Vadis.'
Seventy-six entries have been made
from Kansas City.
Joseph T. McLeavey Of Dwight has
entered a saddle horse.
THE Arrow the pure white horse
which created a sensation when exhibi
ted at the Philadelphia horse show, viii
be shown here.
The arena of the horse show will BIZ
brilliantly lighted with electricity.
Don't say high school gaits. They arr
movements.
D. H. Carter, the Kansas horseman
has made entries in several classes.
A great many swell turnouts will b
seen at the show. Besides the ones from
out of town a number have been bough
by Topeka people especially for this oc
casion. Dean Low recently received
a. wicker tandem cart and a wicke
runabout. The runabout is equipped
with an odometer which rings a bell a
the end of each mile, both electric an
gas lights, clock and all the other ap
pointments which go to make a run
about complete.
A. Watson Armour, son of the million
aire packer, has made a number of en-
tries.