Arizona republican., 1920-11-12

sand persons, including hundreds of former service men. His speech was preceded by brief addresses by Amer ican legion officials of the state and local organizations.
 Grandstand Is Crowded
 Long before the first event of the afternoons program was scheduled to start the last of the reserved seats in the grandstand had been sold. At 1.15 o'clock the grandstand box office be- gan selling standing room, and before o'clock there was hardly an available inch to be found in either the grand stand or the spaces between it and the mile track. All grandstand boxes were filled to capacity for the first time of the week. Governor and Mrs. Thomas l.. Campbell being among the inter ested spectators.
 Members of the Red Cross motor corps. under the direction of Miss Henrietta Olney, took soldiers confined in hospitals of the county to the fair grounds, that they might attend the Armistice day program.
 All grade schools of the city will be closed today, to give students and teachers an opportunity to attend the fair. All school children will be ad- mitted free to the fair grounds today.
 On Today's Program
 An entirely new aerial feature by "Cannonbalr Sanders will be the out standing attraction on today's pro- gram. Sanders will be shot from a cannon to a height of 1,500 feet, de- scending in a parachute. This stunt is regarded as one of the most spec tacular ever devised.
 Today's program also will include two harness events, the 2:07 trot for C Q AL 0.1r Crx~- a purse of S2,500. Five running races The cowboy sports program includes calf and goat roping contests, broncho riding, relay race and 8 pony ex- press race. A double balloon ascen- sion by Miss Jaeger and companion with triple parachute drops by each will be one of the concluding thrills of the afternoon. The remainder of the program is much the same as dur ing the first four days of the fair. A program of unusual excellence kept yesterdays big crowd on edge throughout the afternoon. Seven events were included on the race pro- gram, five of which were running events. In the harness events, La Panza and Bondelin were the winners of the 2:15 trot and 2:05 pace, re- spectively. Among the runners, Brown Bill won the half mile dash for Ari- zona owned horses; Dode Adams and Walter Whitaker won the five-eights mile dashes and Striker and Myrtle A, won the three-quarter mile event.
 Aerial stunts by the Barr flying cir GUS were the best of the week. Several acrobatic features by the pilots were heartily applauded by the crowd. The cowboy sports were run off in clocklilxe fashion, no time being lost in the calf and goat tying events. A special match race of 200 yards for horses actually qualifying in the cali | tying contest provided extra enter | tainments
 Other features yesterday were John Brown, the wrestling bear, in a wrest- ling match with a heavyweight grap- pier, Miss Jaeger and companion in a double balloon ascension and triple parachute drops, a tractor parade, de- clared to be the largest ever held in the state, and cowboy races, bronchc riding and other minor events.
 Because of the big crowd yesterday many autoist swere unable to gel parking space for their machines with in the fair grounds but arrangements were completed last night whereby space will be provided today for al additional 500 cars. Saturday, auto mobile day at the fair ground, no carl will be permitted in center field, ac cording to the announcement las evening.
 Livestock Parade This Afternoon
 The parade of livestock will be hel' in front of the grandstand from 12 t o'clock this afternoon, an announce evening.