Arizona republican., 1917-11-14
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 SECOND DAYS PROGRAM WHILE
 ATTENDANCE RECORD |S BROKEN

With an estimate of $500 people in the grandstand at the Arizona State Fair yesterday and an actual increase of 25 per cent in attendance over the similar day of last year. records for fair success went glimmering yesterday. the second day of the big show.
 In the hunt for thrills for the big crowd two men met injury yesterday. one being quite seriously hurt, but aside from this the program was well handled and went off with exceeding smoothness.
 In horticultural and agricultural de- partments the judging is well advanced and every department will be complete for the visitors day. The demonstra- ton being conducted each morning at 10 o'clock on the Stockweather ranch, Is attracting much attention. Here the tractors are being shown on the ground secured for that purpose by the fair management
 Today is Indian Day at Fair
 Indian day at the state fair is one of the big features because of interest that the government takes in this race of people, and the many arts that arc taught them. But a few years ago they were savages roaming over the very land that the Indian now tiils and makes to bloom like rose. All this wonderful change has been brought about by the education of the red man along useful lines of work. Especially have they progressed in the line of agriculture, and no school that the government now maintains can in any way excel the Phoenix school.
 One of the attractive features at the fair is the home-cooked lunch stand in harge of Mrs. Nelson, who Is head Of the organization of the women of the Central Methodist church. This serv- ice is being literally patronized by those who come to the fair to spend the entire day.
 Races Over Early
 Races were concluded early at the State fair grounds yesterday afternoon, all events having been finished by 3:30 o'clock through the winning of three straight heats by entrants in the harm ess races, which allowed the big crowd ample time to enjoy the cowboy sports and special features presented on the track, and within the enclosure. in front of the grandstand.
 The pleasurable afternoon was
 
 may yet prove fatal to the victim. Ben Dobbins, while attempting to bulldog big Hereford steer, fell beneath the animal and sustained internal injuries. He was hastened to the Sisters Hos pital in an ambulance driven by Ed ward Dooley, handcuffed driver. with whom Dobbins was associated in one of the Dooley's specialties.
 The other accident was that of Cupid" Buchanan, auto poloist. who was hit in the head with a mallet by a member of the opposing team, who was swinging at the polo ball. Bu- chanan was rendered temporarily un- conscious by the blow, but it is not thought that he was seriously hurt.
 The unfortunate setting afire of the balloon Monday afternoon was offset yesterday by one of the neatest as- tensions in the history of the several state fairs, when Captain Bennett rose swiftly into the clouds with his big hot air bag, and did a double para chute descent which landed him al- most on the very spot from which he started. Atmospheric and other con- ditions were so entirely conducive to a successful ascent that Captain Ben- nett was seen at his best. There was 8 thrill when the balloonist first leaped from the giant bag, and double thrill when he apparently fell from the para chute open above him. With num- Der of acrobatic gyrations performed at the end of the slender cords which supported him, Captain Bennett landed squarely on his feet, not even shaken up from his perilous junket in the skies.
 The bulldogging events. the auto polo, the calf tying contests, the div ing girls, and the bucking broncos sur- mounted by picturesquely garbed cow girls together with. the music of the bands. held the big crowd in breathless interest untn nearly 6o'clock last even ing, when those in the grandstane, scarcely able to realize that it was over, so quickly had the afternoon passed, reluctantly left their seats.
 Woman Leads Sports
 On a high spirited flea-bitten gray, Vera McGinness, claimant to the world championship among women vaquaros, led off the cowboy sports program with a drunken cowboy act, which startled the spectators. Quaffing nothing stronger than soda pop from a flask, Miss McGuinness stood on her horses withers with the animal in dead run, and reeled backward and forward and sidewise until it appeared as though she would topic from her unstable mount into the dust track. But not so. The daring girl piloted her steed several hundred yards and brought him to halt without losing control for 8 moment.
 Dainty diving damsels. in filmy bath ing suits, which showed them at their best. plunged from the top of an ele- vated platform into shallow depth