Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-10
Thursday PROVES
BIG DAY Of FAIR
IMMENSE CROWD FROM CITY At
TENDS-BAD SPILLS MAR
RACES.
NoRvE A. LOWERS TRACK
RECORD TO 2:12l4
Eldora Horse Goes in Fast Exhibition
Mile Accidents During Race Nu-
merous But No One is Injured
Few Horses Start in Even.s-Dar :.
ling Mare Wins Local Race.

noon, SO their employees could attend
in body. The result was Thursdays
crowd went several hundred over the
attendance Wednesday, making it the
big day OF the week.
The total attendance for the day was
1851, about 500 under the figure for
The same day last year. The receipts
were s2,oI2.25. SIS less than for the
same day Year ago.
Today Children's Day.
With children admitted free, todays
attendance Will be large, but it is not
expected that It will reach the figures
OF either Thursday or Wednesday, and
probably the gate receipts will not be
nearly SO great Fewer people came
70 the city from out OF town this
morning, and the attendance from
within the city Will not be so large,
altho many mothers and fathers went
today with their children. With this
evenings vaudeville the fair comes 10
close.
Accidents Mar Races.
\ series OF three accidents. any one
Of which might have proved serious,
but all Of which resulting in nothing
more than slight injuries, furnished
plenty Of excitement, but nlarred the
races Thursday afternoon.
The spills followed each other in
close succession, TWO Of the three be-
ing due TO collisions OF horses and
sulkies. In the first George w. Darling.
II this city. was hurled from his seat
d. the east end of the home stretch,
when the horse y. McNichols was driv-
ing. SHE'D in front of Darlings mare,
Maggie Parker and the latter ran into
McNicholss sulky. Darling was lifted
clear of his seat and thrown on his
right side. Aside from being bruised
and shaken up he vas not hurt De-
spite The fall he gamely continued in
The race, which he Won in straight
meats.
Trotters Mix on Turn.
Attic but TWO horses answered the
call for tae 2:35 troi. for purse of
$500. .neys5ecalne en,angled. and both
drivers and one of the horses we're
thrown on the ,urn into the home
stretch The drivers and horse Is
caped unhurt Du, both Salkies were
damaged
"Fa." Jaclyrnan OF Waterloo. who
vas beaind his galding Harley had
Passed E:te,er, driven by Meehan. Of
lie T. o. The Sack stre,ch in the
t9urca heat 81 10 rage In rounding
the turn Aieeaan attempted 10 cut in
side. a9d il doing 80 his sul.ly became
entangIed ~ita Jackman's and both
drivers were thrown The heat was
taclared of oy he judges.
Jockey Thrown and Dragged.
Joe Sellers. aged l6, son of James
Sellers. Of near Green Mountain, fell
off Maud, one Of the entries in the
half mile dash for Marshantown
horses. just after the horses were sent
away for the first heat, and was
dragged fifty or seventy-five yards un-
der The horses feet. The horse did not
trample him, however, which probably
accounts for the reason that he was
not seriously hurt. altho ne was badly
shaken up and painfully bruised
1Norve A. Breaks Record.
Pacing as smoothly as a machine
Norve a, the handsome brown stallion,
son Of Norval, who is owned by Leo
Marks, of Eldora, lowered the track
record from 2:14 10 2:12A. For turning
the trick in the exhibition the associa-
ton gave Mr.. Marks $50. j. C. Kathan,
one Of the veteran drivers of Iowa, was
up behind the brown stallion. Twice
he scored the horse, then he gave the
word as the big brown animal went
under the wire and was off. Norve
stepped the first quarter in :321a, and
the half mile in 1906 Kathan eased
him up during the next half, and then
a runner picked him at the quarter for
magnificent sprint TO the wire. When
the time was announced the CROWD
yelled.
Fields Of Starters Small.
AS on Wednesday, the fields of har.
ness horses, excepting in the driving
race for Marshall county horses, the
number of starters in both the 2:2:
pace and the 2: 35 trot were disappoint.
ingly small. Altho there were but two
horses, Ettelor and Harley, in tht
stake race. lively battle resulted
which Ettelor won altho it required
four heats, exclusive of the one wher
the mix on the turn resulted. In the
second heat, Harley by a magnlncen
burst of speed on the back stretch
passed Ettelor, and beat her to thu
! wire by five lengths. In the other three
heats Shipley's horse was never head.
ed. The following was the order il
which the horses finished:
Ettelor .................... z
Harley -. ...................2
Time-2:27K, 2:94a, 2:2sA. 2:25A
Fearing Horse Wins Pace.
Foster, the black stallion owned By
G. H. Tight, Of Gearing, had little trou.
BILE running away with three firsts, and
the money in the 2:22 pace. He drew
the pole in the first, heat, and was new.
er headed to the wire in any Of the
heats. The following was the order o.
the finishes:
roster ...... ...s..... ...........1 ]
Bonnie Grace 2
Lovey Mary 3
Time-2:21A, 2:2ok, 2:e2A.
Local Horses Step Fast.
In the unusually fast time of 1:15a
and 1:1e, Maggie Parker, the 13-year
old mare, owned by George w. Darling
won the half mile mixed gait race fron
a field of five starters. The collision
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