The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-07-13
AMERICAN LEGION
HAS FLYING CIRCUS

The Flying Circus, postponed from
last Saturday on account of the heavy
rain, was shown yesterday afternoon
to a crowd Of over $500. That they
were satisfied with the performance
is shown by the many favorable COM
ments heard in the crowd as they
were filing out of the grounds. The
weather was unsettled and shortly af-
ter the stunt flying commenced very
heavy wind and rain came up that
stopped the performance. However,
the aviators got two Of tie planes
out in the evening and did little fly
ing over the city to make up for it.
The program started about $50
with the first motorcycle race, a two
mile race with four entries. Art Pet
erson won this event with Art SPAWN
a close second and Strout couple Of
lengths behind him. johnson did not
finish the race as he seemed to be
having trouble with the machine. The
time was 2:32 minutes.
This was followed by the first half
Of the auto polo. This game always
gets considerable attention from the
crowd as it is exciting and keeps the
crowd on their toes at all times.
The three mile motorcycle race end
ed with the riders coming under the
wire in the same order as formerly,
Peterson first, SPAWN second and
Strout third. The time was 1852 As
minutes.
In the Ford stock car race there
were four entries. Ed. Kroner enter
ed his Ford touring car, VIM. Messer,
of Rogers, was in with a rebuilt car,
Oscar Nelson had an imitation Ford
racer and John Heimes entered his
Ford roadster with John Neuberger
at the wheel. Ed. Kroner won the
two mile race in the phenomenal time
of 1929 minutes, coming under the
wire sitting pretty. He won a spot
light donated by Pegg garage. Neu-
berger was an easy second and won
tire repair kit and trunk rack while
Nelson captured box of cigars with
third place. Embertson Garage do
mated the tire repair kit and trunk
rack while Gamble Robinson donated
the cigars. Messer was eliminated in
the second lap when he hooked wheels
with Neuberger and rolled over on the
home stretch. He managed to jump
clear though and was not hurt altho
the car was somewhat damaged.
The boys bicycle race only drew
two entries, George Anderson and
Ellsworth DuVall. Anderson won the
event easily and took six boxes of
crackerjacks away while DuVall took
four. A carton of crackerjacks had
been donated by the Valley City Fruit
Co. land the balance of the carton
was thrown out to the children in the
crowd
The feature race for the afternoon
was the five mile event with the four
motorcyclists entered. This resulted
in a dead heat with Peterson and
Spawn tied for first money. They
made the five miles in G:36 minutes.
Strout was third. The leaders were
required to ride another mile to de-
eide the race and SPAWN won in 1:1S:
as minutes.
The three aviators took the air af-
ter the final motorcycle race and en-
tertained the crowd for about half an
hour before the rain stopped the per-
Torrance. The three planes, piloted
by Lieutenants Hallgren, Snyder and
Omlie flew over in battle formation
and then separated. The plane pilot
ed by Hallgren came in front of the
grandstand and Harry Proctor, wing
walker, started his stunts, crawling
all over the plane, hanging by his legs
from the understructure and complet-
ing his act by standing upright on the
top wing while Hallgren Topped the
loop. Omlie and Snyder kept the
crowd interested for a few minutes
with fine exhibition of stunt fly
ing before they were sent to the land
ing field to escape the storm.
The afternoon was success in ev-
cry way. The crowd was larger than
was expected and the performance
was all that anyone could ask. The
American Legion members are to be
complimented on their sagacity in
getting the Federated Flyers here for
the show.