Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-30
HORSE REIGNS
AT DEVON SHOW
Crowded Program Arranged
for Exhibition Which
Opens Today
ENTRIES ARE NJ AN Y

Society was forced 10 sip its coffee hur-
riedly this morning, for the Devon Horse !
Show, always a popular event on the sport |
ing calendar, opened at 10 o'clock.
There is q lure about the Devon Horse !
SHOW, and the present event, which marks |
the thirteenth annual show to be held on |
tho Main Line oval, Is no exception. The |
show will continue until late saturday
afternoon and such a crowded program has
been arranged that not a moment will he
dun.
Today's program brought out the hunters,
ponies and saddle horses. There were sew
eral jumping classes, too. and the open
jumping class brought out twenty-five
entries. This afternoon was devoted TO
the showing Of 1917 saddle horses. \
bronze horse, valued at $l75 and donated
by william du POnt, Of Wilmington, was
the prize in this particular class. The horses
that are entered are being shown for the
first time.
Unusual interest is attached to the sad
die classes because Of the women judges
Among them were Mrs David Wagstan,
Of Tuxedo y. Y; Miss Ethel Hartman, Of
Washington, and Mrs. John Gerken, Of
New York
If the number Of entries can he taken as
any criterion this years show viii he one
of the best exhibitions staged in Devon. II
| may he that the role that women are play
| ing In the war has had some influence in
regard to the selection Of judges and an
! unusually large number Of the fair sex viii
decide upon the merits Of the entries.
Mrs Gerkeu, Of New York, and Mrs. Will
| liam A. Iieher Of Bryn Mawr. will judge
| the ponies Mrs. Charles a. Mum, Jr., and
| Mrs G. Cecil Filter. Of RYcrtOn, were
the Judges Of harness horses. Mrs. J.. l."
| Fleitmau Of New York, who is well known
| in horse show circles. was chosen by
| the Devon Horse Show Association to judge
! hunters and jumpers with Mrs. A !. hntelo
| Devereux and Mrs. william L. Hirst, OF
this city, Miss Ruth Clendanel of Ken
nedyvlle Md, served as veterinary in
| spector
OF course the ladies will preside on Sat
| urday for that day has been named as
| Ladies' Day. A special program has been
| arranged for the women, and as they have
! been placed i'm charge there can be no pro-
test from the feminine section OF the grand
| stand when awards are made.
Friday is set aside as Hackney Day.
| Members of the American Hackney Horse
Society will come for the meeting and at
tend a dinner at the Rltz-Carlton on Friday
night
a number of notable horse faucicrs were
on hand this morning to judge the classes,
The Judges and the classes assigned to them
! were as follows: Joseph u. Widener, heavy
horses and harness ponies Pierre borillard
| Tr Tuxedo y Y, light harness horses
with J. Garner West of Garnersville, n "
| William du Pont Of wilmington; Herbert
/. Camp, Middletown. Conn. and John NICE
Bowman Of New York, saddle horses. Hack
| ney and percheron classes are to be judged
hv j. Wesley Allison Fred Pabst and Colo
mel du Pont Mrs, Adele Cantrell White
and DR. Oscar Seeley will Judge gated sad
die horses and road hacks,
Boxholders for the show include;
| Mrs Arthur b. Huey. Mrs. William !
| Hunter. William du Pont, Gurnee Mum
Mrs Charles A. Mum Jr.. Alexander VA
Rensselaer,, Mrs. Charles NJ. Lea, A.
Coke, William r, Wright, Powell Evans
Mahlon Hutchinson. Mrs Edward
schmidt Alan y. Wilson, William Hopkins
Archibald Barklie, Mrs q Hamilton Colke'
DR. George Fales Baker, Samuel y. Riddle
Mrs Pope Yeatman, A. j. DreNel Pau
Charles N Coke, Mrs. A. J. Lindsay, VIII
liam r. Warner Jr., Walter NJ Jerord'
w w Atterbury, II. B. Rosengarten, Mis-
Helen Hope Wilson, T, de Witt Cuylel
. Edward f. Beale, Edward T. StotesburS
George W. Childs Drexel, United State
Senator Philander c, Knox James r. Tin
die Mrs Maurice Heckscher, Henry N
Warren. Mrs !. Gardner Cassatt, pl
Thomas G. Ashton, Samuel NJ. NaucaiT
John A. Brown. Jr., Harry 4. Berwind, Mrs
Henry s. Jeanes, Or. George c. Stou
George D. woodside, A. II. Wiggn, Dl
Wilbur =. Klapp, Francis p Garvan, jaime
cox Brady Lewis A, Riley, Frederick
Schmidt, Norman Cantrel DR. w. Reynold
wilson, John p. Grocer, d. r. Hanna, Mri
Archibald G. Thomson, j. Macy Willets an
| H. X. Boodgood.