New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-06

Two hundred ffty-two Fresh Airs"
make their getaway to-day.
The barrier will be raised on the first
race at o'clock sharp this morning.
It's to be steeplechase over hill and
dale, across hedges and water, up to
New Milford and Kingsley, Pa long
run of 175 miles.
And every entry carries handicap,
too. Some are off their feed and not
sleek and plump. as good racers ought
to be. Some haven't had much chance
to exercise lately and cant be ex-
pected to show their best speed. Some
others have been ailing for long
time back and need tuning up.
NO prospect of a good race, you
think. See them break when the bar
rier goes up and the flag drops. Heads
up, eyes flashing, heels flying they'll
go. And they'll make the whole dis
lance, too Better than that, they will
come stronger at the fnish--two weeks
from to-day-than they 60 off at the
start
A Fresh Air race is no good that
doesn't send all starters to the post
weighted down with all sorts of handi-
caps. The more the better. But it's
a strange event when the runners don't
lose their handicaps before they enter
the stretch on the home run.
See the Finish July 20
Watch them off and then go over
to Hoboken on July 20 and see the
finish. 1t will be revelation to you
of the value Of this sort of steeple-
chasing.
That's only the first race. The others
will all be similar, but run over diff
ferent courses-one to Saratoga, N Y;
one to Ballston Spa, N. Y; one to Bound
Brook, n. j.; one to Cortland, N. Y,
and five to places in the same general
section of New York-Hudson Falls,
Fort Edward, Schuylerville, Greenwich
and Elizabethtown.
They will all be started by noon to-
day
Good purses have been hung up for
all of them, a prize for each runner.
Prizes worth putting forth every effort
for, such as pounds of flesh and blood,
rosy cheeks, scores of new experiences,
new friends, volts, and volts of new
pep" and so on.
The books are open, with odds at
seven to one on every entry-SEVEN
DOLLARS to ONE VACATION. You pay
the 81 and boy or girl gets the vaca-
ton and wins prize. You may bet
on as many entries in each race as you
choose, and you can't lose. Put your
money down by sending it to The Trib-
une Fresh Air Fund as a contribution
to help buy twoweek vacations for
needy boys and girls of the tenements
Invade Seven States
Next week Tribune Fresh Air parties
invade seven states. Between Sunday
night and Friday night 1000 lads and
lassies will be scattered over New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Con-
necticut, Massachusetts, Vermont and
New Hampshire. They will be spread
over the land from Winchester, N. H.,
on the east, to Tunkhannock, Pa, on
the west; from Malone, N. Y, and
I.ichford, VT, on the north, to Yardley,
Pa, on the south.
The Fresh Air campaign is taking
country people by storm. Everybody
whom the Fund asks to take children
for vacations does it., and not few
communities where no request has
been made have volunteered to take
parties of youngsters Of their own ac~
cord.
1t is no eXaggeration to say that
fully 5000 boys and girls can be given
vacations in the private homes If the
country this summer if the funus can
be provided to pay their railroad fares
to the vacation places offered. These,
with practically 5000 places available
in the Funds nine camps, will make it