Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-19
Horse Racing Not
Supplanted at Fairs
Special to Times-RepubIican.


Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. Aug. 19.1Altho auto
mobiles and airplanes have long since
distanced the thoroughbreds in the
matter of speed, the good, old fash
| Toned horse race is in q class by 1T
self as a fair attraction, all fair man
ayers now recognize. At the county
and district fairs the races still hold
! the crowds and a program which
q tame one.
The state fair races this year have
attracted an unusually fast bunch of
entries inasmuch as the purses total
$4,000. Over $1,000 is offered in the
race money hung up in each after
moons program during the fair. Some
| Of the speedy ones entered in the
state fair races were announced to-
| day by Secretary Corey as follows:
2:13 trot - Venetian Red, 2:Sh,
Smithville, No.: Miss Rexette, 2.10A,
of kearney. Neb.; Sis Big, 2.OSA;
Libertyville. Ill.
I'll pace-Adna Axe Me, 2.0SA, OF
Holyoke, colo., Eva Tango. 2.11A.
/ Indianapolis, Ind.
THE Hawkeyes." 2.13 pace-Lady
| Fuller, 2.09,a. of Abbott. Colo.;, Texas
Jim. 2.o4k, Rochester. Mimi; Hal j.,
2.05h, DEBORAH.
/ 1.-THE Greater Western" Ala trot-
The Triumph. 2.l0A. Lincoln. Neb.;
Allie Lou. 2.osh, Hemet, Calf; Miss
Pinkerton, 2.Os1s. Kansas City, Mo.
2.16 pace - Cupanero. 2.12A, OF
lRochester. Mimi; South Dakota
Maid, 2.14A. Des Moines; Sid, 2.13K,
Concordia. Kan: Bessie B., 2.06A,
Crookston. MINI.
2.16 trot-The Orphan, 214A, Of
Oakland; Parlee, 2.13A, Salt Lake
City.
2.20 pace-Dora Rally. Des Moines.
+! Squaw billiard, 2.20ha. of Bozeman,
Mont; Strathie Patch, 2.19A, Tulsa,
| Okla.
2.2o trot-Isaac r. T.. 2.15A, Des
Moines: Allie Atwood, Ella Il. Kear-
ney, Neb.
a09 pace-Mabel Gentry. 2.0sA,
Searsboro; Waite McClusky. 2.0S1s,
Tulsa, Okla.
| Every race Is we'll filed some carry
| ing as high as twenty-four horses.
| Three big strings of horses from
| famous breeding farms have been en-
tered as follows: z. S. Gould, Mid
way Stock Farms. Kearney. Neb.; W.
! B. Taylor, Sedalia, Mo-, and Warren
Dennis, Salt Lake City, Itah.
Upheavai in Kennel Club.
| There's a near upheaval in the
making among the members and pa
irons of\the American Kennel Club,
the dominant dog organization of
this country, over the system of judg
ing now in vogue. The fact that a
person needs only a fee and the abil-
ity to write for a license, has appar-
emily resulted in some unscrupulous
officials who have literally turned
things upside down at some recent
shows. Officials of the American Ken
mel Club took no notice of the many
! protests on the judging system, I'M
| til the present summer, and while no
remedy has been officially promised,
| it is understood there will be a shake
up In the system before another
year.
/ The growth Of the dog business,
| according to Secretary Newton Day,
OF the A. K. c., is more largely re-
| sponsible for the loose condition sur
rounding the issuance of judging IL
censes than any disregard of the
needs of the sport by the A. K. c. Of
! ficials. The sport toddled along in
| infants clothes for years. and during
/, that time competent judges were
| taken from among the oldest and best
/ known breeders. But the rapid deyel-
opment of the business of breeding
and showing thoroughbred dogs.
| brought on shortage Of competent
judges and many who thought only
of the money making possibilities of
judging, applied for licenses.
Even tho there have been Wig
orous protests against the present
system, none of the compliments
have offered solution Of the prob
lem. Some of the A. X. c. officials
have suggested holding examina-
tons for those who aspire to be
licensed judges, but this suggestion
does not meet with the approval OF
all who have complained.
Judging bench shows has become a
profitable business in the past five
years. Many associations pay their
Judge as much as 500 per day and
expenses. so that the judges who are
able to book sufficient number of
engagements each year may be car
tain of a lucrative return for their
work. 1t has been limited that in
some of the leading shows in the east
the past two years, judges in placing
awards have been entirely too mind
full OF the entries of friends. or the en-
tries in the sale of which they may
have at some previous time been in
terested. The condition growing out
of the complaints has been unsatis-
Z factory and menace to the sport of
exhibiting full blooded dogs. Secre-
tary Day has asked Indulgence OF