The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-27


 TEssEs AT O'CLOCK TEA
 ROBERT HEMPHlLL ENTER
 FANS AT DINNER - OTHER
 NOTES.
 The event of the coming week is to be the horse show. to take place Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday evenings at the Birmingham Riding academy for the ben eft of the Orphans home at East Lake Only short time has elapsed since com mittees began plans for the event, but much has been done in the interim to in- terest Birmingham's horse lovers and horse owners in the exhibitions. The programme shows many classes for each night and the matinee which every little boy and girl in town is eagerly antici- pating. Each class, 1t Is thought, will have seven or eight entries, and they show the greatest variety. There is the class open to the best gentleman driver, fancy turnouts, appointments to count 20 per cent; the best gentleman rider on horse showing four gaits; best lady astride rider and another, the best aside rider; best lady's driving horses to be driven to buggy, phaeton or runabout; boy and girl riders, ponies-even work horses are classified, and so on ad in- fnitum.
 Several entries have already been made, and others, though undecided, have every int nf ri 4ri1~ HRr1i a horses and vehicles have been promised by many whose owners will expect others to show them. Miss Eleanor Matthews, who is so perfectly at home in her pretty phaeton, plans to both ride and drive during the horse show. One of the pret- tiest entries will be that of Miss Jamie Harris, who Is a superb rider and drives as we'll. She will drive her brothers splendid span of geldings to the Harris trap, and will have driving with her Miss Mabel Wheelock. Miss Mildred Tynes and Miss Nelle Harris. Miss Harris has a natural taste for horsemanship. Her father has always owned at least one team of beautiful horses and is himself a great lover of horse flesh.
 Little Miss Dorsey Harris will conduct the chlldrens drill with George Cunning ham. She has worked faithfully gather ing together her little friends who own ponies, and has shown herself capital manager and leader. She will not ride her pony but will be mounted on large horse, as will her partner in the drill, though the other participants will ride ponies Little Grace Meighan is one of the most attractive figures in the drill. She will ride her tiny Shetland pony the smallest to be seen at the horse shows, and will alone take the lead, going slight ly in advance of Dorsey and George. A number of the children who are to ride will also enter the driving contest with their ponies and carts. Participants in the drill include Evans Dunn, Thomas Elem ing, Lawrence Saks, George Cunningham, Edward Norton, Richard Johnston. Flu gene Johnston, Raymond Webb, Grace Meighan, Annie Tardy, Dorsey Harris. Margaret Lewis, Mildred Seals. Mary Snyder, Bertha Pizitz Judith Jones, Or line Barnett, Leighton Wood and Augusta Clarke.
 Mrs John Wallace Luke will exhibit '.Kentucky Colonel, Mr. Edwins Ball s beautiful sorrel gelding, which she rode on the evening of the opening of the rid ing school She is magnificent horse woman and never appeared to better ad- vantage than when riding this beautiful Kentucky thoroughbred. She will also drive in the horse show. probably tan dem. Miss Emily Morriss is also one of those who will probably drive. Her horse is beautiful and with her driving him will be a great addition to an arena crowded with the beauties of the track and the fair women driving them.
 Mrs Augustus Benners has decided to enter her new horse, Rex" a beautiful black fellow, whose head is carried high and kingly like his name. Mrs. Ben ners will both ride and drive Rex" Mrs. Oliver Hazard Fucker has been asked to exhibit MT. Jenkins beautiful sorrel mare, sClover Eaglep Mrs. Fucker is a fear less and expert rider. She will be remem- bered as one of the equestriennes in the Terminal parade. There will also be many other interesting entries, making competition keen indeed.
 Though the summer horse show is an Innovation there is not doubt that this one will merit a repetition next summer. It promises to have the snartness of the eastern shows and those given in Ashe- ville smaller, truly, but decidedly a.step toward making Birmingham a center for such exhibitions MT Pollard, the riding master at the academy and director of the horse show, has received a letter from MT Langhorne Tabb Anderson, the owner of Point au View Farm" a Kentucky horseman widely known, accepting his in- yitation to act as judge. His acceptance Is quite compliment as other engage ments, both in Kentucky and Virginia, had to be set aside so that he might be here He wrote: "I spent all of last week at the Springfield, O., horse show, winning two silver cups and securing a ribbon every time I made a show. There were three other horses at the show that I had sold, two of them winning cups and one was second twice"
 The boxes at the Horse Show will be at- tractively decorated. A number have al- ready been sold. The seats around the arena will hold 1000 people and every