The New York herald., 1922-08-13
s the ancient sport OF horseshoe
pitching coming back?
Certainly there has been an in

= Certainly there has been an in
creased interest in the national horse
shoe pitching tournaments from year
to year. 1t is not confined TO farmers
lealone. or TO members of the Main
Street squad, but TO the wealthy and
IN I'll to do.
Three hundred are expected TO enter
II tfc-national horseshoe pitching con-
test which will be held at the Iowa
State Fair August % to September l..
or this number at least seventy-five
will be winners of some sort, state.
sectional or previous national winners.
They are all experts. Horseshoe pitch
ing is as serious with them as foot
ball is with the average college man.
Ehey see as much pleasure, satisfac-
a7on and recreation in the sport as
. kids do in baseball.
Among the former champions who
have entered are Frank Jackson of
-Kellerton, Iowa, winner of the ma
/. ,uonal tournament last year: q. c.
Davis of Columbus. winner of the
midwinter tournament in Florida last
winter; Fred Brust of Columbus.
George May of Akron, the 1920 cham
pion; Tom Meagher of Kansas City.
. seventeen-year-o boy, who was
placed second in the national tourna-
ment last year; Freddie Hay of Min
neapolis, ID years old, who won The
Minnesota State championship and
ssas plaoed fifth In tae national tour
nament, and Hughie Palmer of Akron,
rs years old, who wonAthe industrial
championship OF America last year.
Included in the list of entries is IS. g..
. leighton of Minneapolis, presidcn- of
the National Horseshoe Pitchers AS
sociation, who is a leade. in the or
.Sanization-
A total of 81 800 in prizes and fifty
+. loving cups have been put lp by the
national association and The State
: Fair Board. The Des Moi7es Cham
Der of Commerce have offered a '.us.e
/. silver loving cup. with suitable in
scriptions, for the winner of the ma
tonal tournament.
Contestants Restricted to
- Two From County
In conjunction with the national
tournament the Iowa tournament will
Also be held at the fair. Within a
week after the first announcement of
tho contest 500 queries had reached
the Office of the secretary of tho fair
Board, with the result that a decision
=. was made in favor of county elimina-
tons. Scores of counties have al
ready had their elmnations. and the
two best pitchers in the county have
-sbecn chosen. Each of the hundred
counties in the State will have a team
iof two men to represent them at the
fair. Most of the county contests are
Being held at Farm Bureau picnics.
Up at the Boone county picnic, held in
fthe west central section of the State,
$1,000 farmers attended the picnic and
800 were entered in the horseshoe
pitching contest.
- Several entries from Florida and
California have been received.
Yes. and women pitch horseshoes.
Furthermore. they know their stuff.
They pitch under exactly the same
rules men do. with the single excep-
ton that their courts are thirty feet
,slong and those men use are forty feet
long.
- Witness Mrs. j. r. Matthews of Min
,rcapois. She is comparatively young.
pretty. married and with n family of
two boys and n girl. She learned the
game from her oldest boy. Ralph. She
Phccamc interested and then enthusi-
.astic. To the astonishmcnt of her
Children and husband she learned the
game rapidly and was soon able to
beat them consistently. She was in
strumental in urging the city to es-
tablish courts in city parks. She in
SISTED that her husband construct a
court In the back yard, which he
finally did. When the national tour
nament was held at the Minnesota