The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-09-08
STATE FAIR
OPENS MONDAY
All Set for the Biggest
Exhibition Ever put on
in This State

The big Washington State Fair
has its hand out. Four hands out,
to be exact. They're stretching four
west, north, south
in wecome to the state of WASH
ington.
There's simply more clean sport
and rolliclzing fun packed into the
week of September 12-17 than any
week, even a fat week, ought to
be made to hold. 1t makes a big
bundle. And from the time on
Monday, opening day, when the
racing autos zoom thru the gate,
the string that holds the bundle is
cut, and the gay contents start
tumbling out for the pleasure of
the crowds.
Not only the fellow who likes
best to stay draped over the pal
:ngs and watch the horses go by,
and the other fellow who likes
best to stay draped on the merry
go-round and go round with 'em,
but everybody young and old, man,
woman or child, will find at the
1927 state fair the very thing he'd
rather do than anything else, by
way Of having a wholesome good
time. All the old familiar pastimes
and pleasantries will be there but
the things will be new and
differentl And certain it is that
for every visitor, be it his first
attendance or his thirty-frst, the
blend is going to be one of smooth
satisfaction and enjoyment.
The auto races with which the
weeks program is launched will
be of high professional caliber, en-
tries including eastern dirt-track
stars Of such magnitude as Ray
Lampkin, driving the famous Will
cox Special, present holder of all
beach and dirt track records. How
ell Wilcox with his Peugeot ma
chine is said to be a speed wiz
ard. while Irwin Hoffman and
Barney McKenna, both eastern
contenders, driving respectively, a
Comet and a Simplex, will spill
some fast motion on the mile cir
cult. Phil Schaffner is another
racer of national note. He will
pilot a Peerless. The grandstand
crowd will witness record-breal-
ing competition-one long TO be
remembered.
DR.. Robert E Prior, superintend-
ent of Speed, predicts all things
wonderful for the weeks horse
racing. The Hotel Commercial and
Hotel Donnelly $1,000 each; two
$1,000 purses, and many money
bag not far below that figure are
morsels to tempt any reinster a.
round the fast half mile track in
a few winks Of the eye. Each Of
the major races will be marked by
a quartet or more Of steppers be-
tween whose wheel tracks there
will be little daylight. The colt
futurity for two-year-olds prom
;ses some eight or more babies
toddling hard after the money.
The class of grandstand amuse-
ments is superior to any ever be-
fore offered by the State Fair,
being collection of clever acts
direct from the Western Vaudeville
circuit which sponsors the appear
ance here.
We read much and often of @per-
feet back contests" The fortunate
grandstanders will undoubtedly ad-
just their glasses and focus as one
man for a squint at the Misses Viz
Wan DuBarry and Hortense Petra,
both winners of perfect back con-
tests held in Lon Angeles in 1925
dlAu 1OEO. 1uSy dIS dIAOlR JuS lO
expert girl swimmers and divers
in the cast of Maundrell's Water
circus spectacular fair offering,
which was last season featured
on the New York Hippodrome.
The circus carries Is tons of e.
quipment including a tank % feet
in diameter and an encircling stage
60x60 feet for the presentation of
the water ballet and other novel
stunts.
Several tons of metal frame
work and runways are required
for the Chefalo cycle act. This
includes a ride down Soft. run
way, a loop the loop. and leap
across the 4O-foot gap TO the ma.
ishing runway. Manuel Macias
billed as the "drunk on the wire,"
IL regarded as q leader among
Mexican wire walkers and will do
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