The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-14
Most Spectacular Features OF
Week Here Tomorrow.
Famous Woman Aviator Kath-
crime Stinson, viii Fly.
DIRT TRACK AUTO CHAMPION
Fred HOrey viii Defend Title
Against Masked Racer.
Motor Program Ends Greatest
Fair in Kansas.

Speedsters.
Speed Demons.
Kaisas Free fair visitors will see
all of them at the race track Saturday
afternoon.
Speed-it will be delivered by the
entries in the automobile races, and
by Katherine Stinson, the girl flyer.
1t will be delivered in such quantities
as Kansans never before saw.
Speedsters-they will be the ma
chimes, autos and airplanes, on, over
and around the track. They will be
the fastest pieces of mechanism that
ever were trusted to dirt track.
Speed Demons-you know who they
will be, all but one. They will be
Fred Horey, national dirt track cham
pion automobile racer; F. L. Willard,
with his racing ''flivver," the mysteri-
Gus Masked Marvel and Katherine
Stinson, the feminine queen of the air.
That is the program and fair Off
cials are satisfied it can't be beaten:
If it had been possible they would
have done it.
Katherine Stinson is expected in
Topeka with her biplane some time
today She will have an audience
from the moment she arrives, for she
is known as the best little thriller
aviation circles have produced.
To Other Countries.
Her home is down in Texas, where
| she has an aviation school. But she
| doesn't spend much time there. For
| year or two she has been showing
| the Chinese and Japanese what a
| woman can do when she has the
| chance Her brother and sister, alSo
in the aviation business, run the
school for her They have been busy
since last fall teaching prospective
| soldiers how to fly in such manner
as to best the German filters
Miss Stinson handles an airplane
Just as she would a little gasoline
| runabout-just as familiarly. How
| ever, she wouldn't dare to attempt the
things with a runabout she does with
her biplane.
| For instance, it would be foolish tC
| attempt to make runabout turn over
and travel on its back. That mode OF
locomotion would be fatal for gas
wagon. But she does it with a bi-
| plane She glides along in the air
| flips some piece of machinery an6
over she goes. That is just one of the
| tricks she does.
Every Second Exciting.
| While YOU gaze at her and her plane
| she points it's nose right at you an6
| cuts a hole in the air for a thousand
feet. But don't run when she does it
She'll stop. She's done it dozens o.
| times, and before sne reaches the
ground she rights her plane ant
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There will not be a tame second while
| Katherine Stinson is in the air.
The three auto racers will be her'
before tomorrow morning. Horey'i
car is already in town and on displa.
at the rooms of the Topeka Buicl
company. Big crowds have ebeel
looking at it today. The machine Il
equipped with a valve-in-head moto
such as are used in Buick cars.
has won many a race.
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L. Willard, known as the tastes
Ford on earth is also in town. Blu
no one would know it is a Ford t,
look at it. 1t doesn't even look lik
a second cousin to the well-knowl
flivver. The engine is about all tina
is left of the original and that ha
been altered to fit Wizards needs
Willard has been racing for eigh
years and claims never to have beel
defeated by a car in his class.
The Masked Marvel who will rae
with Horey and Willard has not bee
located in Topeka but he may b
here. He will be on the track Satur
day and will attempt to remove Hor
ey's title.
Auto Races Thrilling.
The automobile races promise t.
be sufficiently thrilling for all prac
tical purposes, and any deficienc,
after that will be supplied by Kath
crime Stinson- But in case ther
might De someone VINO wanted NOR
Horey and Miss Stinson VIII race
she driving her biplane a few fee
above the ground and Horey skim
ming along on the surface o. tn
track, attempting to pass the judges
stand ahead of the girl in the rae
of the two elements.
| The afternoon program VIII negi
at 1880 o'clock Saturday Afternoon
and the grandstand will hold nearl
four thousand people.