Omaha daily bee., 1920-09-16
Ak-Sar-Ben
Opens With
MuchNoise
Blare of Trumpets and Bawl
Of Spielers Mark Initial
Swinging of Carnival
Gates Yesterday.
Huge Crowd at Races.

"B. l.. r." will please take notice
that, in spite of magnollous adjectives
this article is not written by "the
ccstatic reporter" Ak-Sar- ben has
grown so. big this year that you just
have to use big adjectives to de-
scribe it.,
The Ak -Sar-Ben carnival got un-
der way yesterday with a blare OF
trumpets, the bang of tom-toms and
the bawl of spielers in front of the
wonders of the Con 7. Kennedy
shows: fs
The gates opened officially at p.
III. with music of the band i'll the
Moorish cupola over the main en-
traifA. Fifteenth street and Capitol
avenue. The Ak-Sar-Ben governors
made their triumphal entry through
the gates, looked over the grounds
and then hurried out to keep en-
gagements at the biggest and new
est attraction presented by Ak-Sar-
Ben to Omaha, Nebraska and the
surrounding territory.
Larger Crowds.
At the -Sar-Ben $2,000,000 ex-
position field. yesterday was even
bigger than the opening day of the
races and other thrills.
Yesterdays crowd at the field was
estimated ut koodly 6,0O0 And
the sun shene on a scene OF close
races, daredevil stuns, crowds al
,ernately cheering and GREATNESS.
For Jack Williams, the human
fly" defied the sting of death as
he stood calmly on the wings Of
an airplane which swooped low over
the heads Of, the thousands Nine.
Stella, hanging by her teeth, shot
down the inclined wire; "Flory"
dived 90 feet into tank of water;
the auto poloists popped into each
other and turned turtle i'll their ma
chimes.
Three. governors of the .Ak-Sar-
Ben were drivers in the great mule
race, which provided laughter be-
tween Ahe serious races.
Charlie Black. George Brandeis
and J.<E. Davidson were the gov
ernors. Arthur Thomas, manager
of, the Chamber of Commerce bu-
reau of publicly. drove the fourth
mule. The hybrids raced down the
stretch. neck-and-neck, before .the
laughing. cheering thousands and
finished 'apped." Davidson was de-
clared winner, with Thomas second,
Brandeis third and Black fourth.
The big races, described in an
other article, were full of excite
lnent and close finishes.
This is the ''Big Day"
Today is the "big day" at the
RACES. Single G and Hal Malone
will run in the great free-for-all
$4,000 purse). There will be the
2:l4 trot for a purse of Sl,500, the
aAk-Sar-Ben derby and other races.
A special feature today will be the
Stock Yards Derby running
race Il which the wild-riding cow
boys from the stock yards will be
the contestants.
The "harnan fly" auto poloists.
Nine. Stella and "Flory" will again
fiirt with death i'll their respective
fashions.
\ And a bigger crowd even than on
the last two days Is expected.
The old-time spirit was apparent
at the carnival last night. Crowds
began flocking early through the
gates while the band played and the
brazen-throated spieler spelled the
wonders of the "Newly-Weds." a
pair Of midgets with their child;
animal show. Plantation Over
the Falls" Premiere and Congress
ef Wonders. The ferris wheel, sea
planes and whip took the folks up
high or whirled them around and
the riders in the motordome per-
formed daring stunts.
The strings of incandescent lights
making arches over the downtown
streets were lighted FORK the first