Arizona republican., 1917-11-13
ThrlUs Not D0lvm 0m B1W Are Glvem When Rider Is Injured Amd BlQ Balloon Clutches Fire

With an attendance 20 per cent greater than on the first day of the Arizona State Fair of last year, the thirteenth annual State Fair opened yesterday in excellent shape. Exhibits were nearly all in place for the opening and by the close of day things were running like clockwork.
 Thrills on and off the program there were aplenty. In the half mile run- ming race a fast horse. the Apache Kid, fell upon his rider, J. Sachs, injuring the youth severely. That was the first thrill not down upon the bill. The sec ond came when the hot-air balloon took fire and the woman who was making the ascent dropped for safety from the blazing airship.
 Today's program Is an even better one than that for the opening day, and all of the exhibition buildings will be going full blast, exhibits all in place and lectures and demonstrations on every hand. Ideal weather brought out a record first day crowd yesterday and it is anticipated that the attendance mark for all previous fairs will be far eclipsed by the biggest and best fair yet given-the Fair of 1917.
 Something Doing Every Minute
 With races being conducted on the mile track immediately in front of the grandstand, running races and cowboy sports on the half mile track and with auto polo and other amusements in the enclosure, the big crowd at the state fair yesterday had more than they could manage to see each with only two eyes. There was something doing every second of the afternoon, the pro- m, Cf unnr-fc hefy1o a rind oh fn suit all tastes and temperaments.
 The cowboy sports included a pro gram of calf tying, bulldogging, relay races bronco riding, wild horse riding, standing Roman riding and many other raising stunts participated in by some of the most famous riders and ropers in the country who have taken part in the greatest events of the kind in the country.
 The diving girls made their appear ance, but owing to leak in the large tank into which they dive from a high platform and which prevented it being entirely filled with water, their exhibi- ton was somewhat curtailed. The an- nouncer stated. however, that that de- feet would be remedied by today and the full exhibition given.
 The auto polo game proved to be ex- tremely interesting to the many who never had seen automobiles put to such g. hazardous use. Three cars were used by the players, and in spite of several spills that looked as though they might end fatally for the players, no one was hurt seriously.
 cantu's Band Plays Today
 Music at the fair yesterday was fur nished by the Indian School band and the Phoenix band.
 By invitation of Governor Campbell the music at the fair today and the remainder of the week will be aug mented by the band from Mexicali. Lower California, a part of the per- sonal staff of Governor Cantu. This organization is said to be one of the best in the southwest and has played at many large gatherings.
 Glenn Breed today will make an ef- fort to lower the motor car record of the state fair ground track, driving a Hudson Super Six.
 Vera McGinnis, champion woman rider of the world, was much in evil dence in the cowboy sports yesterday. She demonstrated that she is one of the most daring riders ever seen in Phoenix. either man or woman.
 Track Lightning Fast
 On a track that was lightning fast, the first days racing program at the state fair was presented yesterday be- fore grandstand crowded to its linn its, a crowd that stayed until the final heat was run and the final announce ment was made.
 The mile track at the fair grounds in Phoenix, already with reputation for being one of the finest in the country, was said to have been in even better shape yesterday than on previous oc- casions when horses with nation wide regulations have scored down the stretch and past the wire.
 Although it was the first day of the fair. the racing card was very inter- esting. There were six races on the program and every one was finished,
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