Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1914-11-11
FOLKS
NOT PHAzfD
By WEATHER
Fair Crowd Attends Special
Program of Sports at the
Fair Grounds-The Mud
Stopped Harness Events,
But Not Doc Pardee

No amount of gloomy skies, lower /
ing clouds, slippery mud under foot or
threats that it would continue so. |
could discourage the hardy few who !
attended the special events at the fair
grounds yesterday afternoon 1t was
a scant crowd that dotted the great
big grand stand, but they enjoyed it
just like kids on a lark There were
no harness events, but the program
can be crowded the rest of the week
Doc Pardee was there, for one
thing-the fellow with the smile that
lights up the surrounding territory,
and the voice that is a megaphone
to itself. Being as there was moth
ing else to do, Doc took charge Of
things in the fine, large healthy way
he has, and acted as announcer, gen
eralissimo, cometitor and scribe for
the scattered events that made up
yesterdays special program
In the judges stand were Presid-
ing Judge Updegraff, Starter Stone,
| Art Rick, and at intervals some of
| the other chaps who do things during
| the races. Rick was about the only
one who acted as though he felt at
home. There were no harness races,
and the double-e edged publicity getter
starred all by himself-for there were
three mud races.
| Consequently, the infield sports got
an unusual lot of attention. Harry
Mace and Harry Zarado, the local
talent athletes, made the hit of the
afternoon with their hand-to- hand
balancing, which is a feat they alone
of all tumblers and acrobats have de-
veloped to its highest perfection Fol
lowing their joint act, Zarado did
trapeze act.
The Mantecons, three Mexican ath-
letes, occupied the raised stage for a
while. with a classy act that ran the
gamut of wire walking to contortion-
ing.
Young Sandow offered his mighty
shoulders for a corps of assistants
to bend heavy iron pipes over, lifted
hundreds of pounds of barrels and
things with his teeth, broke chains
bound about his expanding chest. and
toted chairs full of dinges around on
his head.
Jason Stanley's Ride
l. Jason Stanley of Los Angeles per-
formed with his faithful gray horse a
lot of those familiar tricks of balanc-
ing and swinging, vaulting and leap
ing over his mount His finish was
the drunken cowboys ride" in which
he stood straight up in the saddle
and let his cayuse pound the spats
of mud all over a large section of
the leaden atmosphere
Pardee would not start any of the
bronco busting for fear the track
would be cut up and rutted. How
ever, on Saturday, Pardee will have
Zebo the famous bucking horse-the
one that disqualified Jason Stanley.
Miles Peck of Ash Fork, Bob Morris
at Frontier day. Out Of nearly two
hundred cowpunchers who have ridden
him, Pardee is the only one who
has stayed clean, and even the Doc"
is not willing to say he can do it
every time.
Pony Races
Joe Prochaska, boss of the infield,
was charged with having displayed
favoritism. Joe had the job of nail
ing the signs on the burro carts, and
he cast his expert eye on a little
black devil, who looked mighty fast.
go Joe, who's from Miami, proceeded
to stick leila County on that selec-
ton. In return, he had the satisfac
ton of seeing ella County lead to the
stretch and then buck himself out
the gate into the mile track. Mari
copa County won over Cochise by the
margin of very emaciated whisker.
The amous black burro that won
so many kid races last year unseated
his rider fifty feet from the start. and
the youngster pursued his mount a
quarter of a mile before finally des-
pairing of retrieving the disaster.