Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-18
ALL rts4ns WERE CROWDED
Opening Days Program Carried Out
as Planned Before Good Sized Crowd
Harness Races Won in Straight
Heats-.Dos and Pony Show Delights
tho Children.

Today is the first big day of the
county fair, and from indications this
morning 1t gives promise of rivaling
either one of the three big days of last
year. A large majority Of the crowd
| today came from out of town. from
/ the county, and from other counties
and towns as far away as fifty miles
BY train and in vehicles the crowd
/ began pouring into the city early this
morning All of the morning trains
were crowded with passengers, on
1 some of them there being no standing
room left, and in some cases passen-
/ gers rode in the baggage cars, on the
| steps and platforms of the coaches.
or wherever they could find footing.
| While a very large number came by
| trains, fully as many more, who live
lesser distances, drove to the city.
Their teams filled the feed yards COM
pletey, and their vehicles were crowd
ed into the streets for blocks With
the arrival of the crowd in town, the
visitors began pouring into the FAIR
grounds, and by noon there We're al
! ready many hundreds there, and hun
dreds more were arriving every few
minutes.
Today's Porgran.
The program today began with the
2;35 trot, with nine horses entered. The
other harness event of the program
was the 2:2O pace, with seventeen en-
tered short dash for the runners
completed the horse racing program.
Between the events acts OF the Rice
Dog and Pony Show were put on.
There was also mule race, novelty
race, a motor cycle race and race of
the Shetland ponies. At O'Clock the
high school and high school alumni
foot ball teams played a short game
on the gridiron in front OF the am
phitheater.
Races Chief Attraction.
Yesterdays track events and races
were the principal attraction for the
crowd. which numbered 2,177. The
paid admissions at the gates totaled
1851, but in addition 10 those that paid
the veterans, their wives and WIDOWS
were admitted without charge, as were
also all the exhibitors and their help
ers. and others who had business on
the grounds.
Tuesday afternoons program con-
sisted of the ESQ pace for purse OF
5000. the trot for 3-year-old colts for
a purse Of $3.50, and the half mile dass
for Marshall county runners IN add1-
ton the Rice Dog and Pony show pro-
yided free amusement as did the two
ST. M motor
cycle race.
Races Go In Straight Heats.
Because of the heavy condition OF
the track it was not until O'Clock
that the horses were called for the flrst
event of the $3.50 pace, The judges
were c. w. Hughes. George DARING
and N. A. Evans, and the times H. y.
Michaels, Charles Swift Of Mason City,
and Bruce Moftatt, of Watertown, N.
Y. Farley Sheldon, Of Ames, started
the races and will continue to offictate
thruout the week.
Emma A, the brown mare owned by
Dougherty Bros, Of Knoxville, won the
$50 pace from a field of six in straight
heats. The best time was 2:22A. Rex
D, owned by Carl Noe, Of Hartford, got
second; Ray Onward, owned by 2. ID
Phelps, of this city, got third money;
and Sportman, owned by +. r. Ems
Sminger, of Gilman, fourth.
Emma A won each heat in the last
quarter in the drive for the wire. Only
once, and in the last heat, did she set
the pace, but in the finish she easily
passed the leader and won each heat
by from two to four lengths. Rex D.
and Ray Onward had a lively tussle
for second place, the latter winning 1t
the first heat, but the place went to
the other horse in the two other heats
after hot drive. The horses finished
in the following order in each heat:
Emma A