The Topeka state journal., 1908-08-27
RACES ARE FILLING
Entries for State Wide Fair
Are Coming In.
Many Waiting Till the Last Mo-
ment.
GREAT DERBY DAY.
Interest Centers in Big Race on
Tuesday.
Large Purse Is Sure to Prove
Attractive.

All entries for the race which will
be held at the State Wide Fair which
opens at the fair grounds on Septem-
ber close Friday evening, August 2S.
The races are filling fast said Sec
retary Rex Kreipe today, though there
is q chance that one or two of the colt
races may not fill but they are unim-
portant. The race horse proposition is
and think that there will be rush of
horsemen at the last minute anxious
to get into the races.
They wait until the last inspecting
the entries as they are made, when pos
sible and at the last minute take
measure of the chances of their horse
and enter for the race. This has been
my experience in the past and I expect
to see the same thing tomorrow"
Derby Day will be the second day OF
the fair, Tuesday, September 8, the
same day that the Ringing shows Will
near. 1t is not expected that the show
will in any way interfere with the
fair inasmuch as the location is far be-
yond the double tracks of the street
railway company where it will be inn
possible to offer satisfactory street
railway transportation.
1t is hard to tell how many entries
will be made in the Derby Day race
as the rush just before closing time
has always been great, the owners or
sure winners only DeluS WlllluS "
make their entries early. But four en-
tries have been made so far but 1t is
expected that double this number will
have entered before the books close
Friday night and perhaps more.
Tom Davidson. who for years has
handled "Old Pilgrim" one of the Kan
sas horses famed in song and story, is
out on scouting expedition in eastern
and southern Kansas arranging for en-
tries for the races. He is spending MS
time about the fairs now being held
and will undoubtedly prevail upon
number of horsemen to enter for the
Topeka races.
Entries are pouring in as far as the
live stock departments are concerned
and the indications are that these de-
partments will contain many of the
prize winners of the middle west.
iowa, Nebraska. Missouri, Oklahoma
and Kansas will all be represented In
these departments, many of the ex-
hibitors who have shown stock in To-
peka at other fairs have asked for
space.
The purse races will be the big one
this wear as the stake races are be-
coming a thing of the past as far as
the west is concerned owing to the
expense attached as far as the horse
men are concerned. At that 1t is
thought that all of the stake races will
fill with the possible exception of the
two year old trot.
Ten thousand dollars is offered in
purses for the racing features for the
fair and this amount of money is
bound to attract the best class of
racers now in this part of the coun-
try. Posters and bills have been
scattered over the entire state and
there is more talk of the state wide
fair in the country districts than ever
in the past. This will insure thou
sands of out of town visitors during
fair week and extra preparations are
now in progress to take care or them
while they are in Topeka.
From all quarters of the globe come
letters to Secretary Kreipe asking for
space for concessions of every con-
ceivable kind. These are being
passed upon carefully as the man
agement of the fair will tolerate none
of the Objectionable exhibitions which
are sometimes allowed to creep into
a town during fair week. 1t is pos
sible that ball game, or rather
series of ball games will be transferred
to the fair grounds so that the two
will not conflict. but this has not been
settled definitely.
The sham battle will be held Thurs
day afternoon commencing just after
the racing for the day has been con-
cluded, probably about 5 o'clock. The
fire works display has been reserved
for the following evening and this
as a thousand dollars worth of powder
will be burned on this occasion.
Just say for me-" said Secretary
Kreipe, shat everything is in ship
shape for one of the biggest and best
fairs ever held in the state and while
the racing will be fine it will be but
one of the splendid features of the
fair this year. The fair grounds
were never in better shape than at the
present time and ample accommoda-
tions have been provided for all
exhibitors"