The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-15


Automobile day, Aviation day.
Band concerts, afternoon and evening.
Carnival on Sunflower trail.
Racing program at 2 30 p
First Heat-6 Laps.
Special match race Purse $1,000, d.
yided as follows: First, $500; second.
follows; First. three points; second. two
points: third l point. Winner to be de-
termfned by number of total points scored
in three heats.
Fiat. .......................F Fred Horey
Ford. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Floyd Willard
Darracq. Masked Marvel
Second Heat-10 Laps.
Fred Horey, worlds track champion,
will defend his title against Floyd VIII
lard and the Masked Marvel. Same con-
d1tions first heat.
Third Heat-eO Laps.
Final heat. Points scored in other heats
and this heat determine the winner.
Katherine Stinson Will fly between first
and second heat, with her Curtiss war
biplane.
Miss Stinson, in her second flight will
close with a match race with Fred Horey
in his Fiat, for the Aeroplane-A Automobile
championship of America.
Today is the climax, the apex, the
vertex, the zenith of the greatest week
the Kansas Free Fair has ever known.
With soul-racking automobile races
and hair-raising airplane flights inter-
larded with sketches of band music
and followed by a carnival on the
Sunf1ower Trail, the program for this
afternoon and tonight ought to be the
best of the week.
The program began at 2:30 O'Clock
in front of the grandstand with the
first heat of the automobile race
Three cars are contesting for the dirt
track championship of the United
States-Horey holder of the title, Will
lard and the Masked Marvel" The
first heat ends at the finish of six
laps, but that is only the beginning
of the race.
Two more heats will be raced. one
of ten laps and one of twenty laps.
Between the first and second heats
of the automobile races Katherine
Stinson. the brave little girl aviator,
will give her first flight. She will
| fly twice during the afternoon and
| will end her second flight with race
| around the track, against Fred Hor-
| ey, now holder of the title as cham
pion dirt track automobile driver.
| Entries in Auto Race.
| The three entries in the automobile
race are Fred Horey with his Fiat
| car. Floyd Willard with his fastest
Marvel driving whatever car he
| chooses They are expected to deliver
more speed in the two hours or more
they will pe on the track than Kansas
| fore.
Miss Stinson is known thruout the
| United States and in China and Japan
as the greatest woman aviator. She
takes off her hat to no mere man who
thinks he can drive an airplane. Any
thing a man has done with an airplane
she does.
She is only 20 years of age, but she's
been up in the air more than any
other living woman. She drives q
plane like other women drive automo-
biles. except better. She persuades
her big biplane to turn over and fly
on its back. She heads it towards the
ground and lets it drop for thousand
feet, or until the heads in the audi
ence begin to turn away, then rights
it and scars away with a smile and E
wave of the hand.
Miss Stinson reached Topeka from
Kansas City just before noon and wen
directly to the fair grounds to superin
tend the necessary work on her bis
CurtisS biplane. The biplane arrived
Friday night. She will leave Topeka
Immediately after her flights thi
afternoon.
Kennedy Shows Tonight
Besides the races and the flying tn,
Kennedy shows will continue to fur
nish amusement at the grounds fo
young and old. They have been doin,
/ capacity business since 10 o'clocl
today. Saturday, ordinarily a dull da,
at the fair, has pulled the crowd thi
year-a bigger crowd than ever befor
: passed through the gates on the las
day of the week.
Tonight there will be the midWa
. shows and the big carnival on tn
: Sunflower trail. That will finish tn
f day, the week and the 1917 Kansa
r Free Fair.