The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-08
CROWD RECORDS
HUNG Up IN IT
STAY UNBROKEN
Officials Assert Exhibits
This Year Among Best
Ever Shown.
RICH PRIZES TO DRIVERS
$1,000 to Beat LoCkhart'S
Mark: FiddIing Award to
One Armed Man.

Indiana's seventy-sixth annual
State fair will close tonight at the
end of the eighth day, following
automobile races this afternoon on
the mile dirt track. The Playground
will be vacated once again for a
year, until the seventy-seventh fair
opens next September.
Although the exposition has been
highly successful in the opinion of
officials in presentation of some Of
the best exhibits ever staged, the
1927 attendance record was not
broken.
There was a possibility that the
auto races might bring such a
crowd this afternoon that the sew
epal thousand attendance deficit
might be made up, but this was not
considered likely.
Thirty-siX auto racers began quail
flying for places in the five track
events this morning. There are to
be three ten-mile races, a five-mile
consolation race and the big stake
race of twenty-five miles to top off
the days and weeks events. The
races were to start at 2 p. m.
Prize for Record
A cash prize of $1,000 is offered
to the driver who breaks the mile
track record set by the late Frank
Lockhart at Cleveland last year,
with the time of 1898. H. George
Clark, general manager of the races
has promised dustless track and
one of the best races ever staged.
A $4,000 prize purse is offered tor
the races, in addition to the fast
time award. Johnny jenkins, driy-
ing a Stutz Blackhawk roadster, will
be pacemaker. A hydraulic timing
device will be used to clock the
speederS. Robert M. Roof, of An
derson, Ind, inventor, will time the
race.
The drivers include some of the
best dirt track wheel wtelders in the
country. .
Fa4r attendance Friday revealed
26.132 paid admissions, as compared
with 1882 for the same day last
year. Friday was indianapolis day
and Mayor L. Ert Slack and city OF
ficials and employees were in attend
ance.
Hendricks County Wins
rTordriclre ooyntv's farm quartet
was named winner in the contest
and received the 500 first prize.
Members are George and Harold
Gobbs. Kenneth Everhart and
David Blair. Other winners were:
White County, second; Henry
County, third, and Johnson Coun-
ty, fourth.
The winners presented radio pro-
grams over station WIS and WKBF
Friday night.
A cam of horses owned by
Delbert SwindelI won the horse
pulling contest in the 2,600-pound
class, it was announced today. The
horses recently set record at the
Muncie fair.
Marshall Cl1burn, Dol CnaSe SG.,
a one-armed fiddler, was declared
State champion in the final ellml-
nation of the Old Fiddlers' contest,
Friday night in the coliseum. Gil
burn, who holds the bow between
his knees and produces music by
running the violin over the bow
has played for twenty-five years
but never before entered contest
Prize Cattle Sold
Eighty-eight prize-winning cat
tie entered by the Boys and Girls
All Club were sold to the highest
bidders in an auction held in the
Coliseum Friday afternoon. The
Claypool Hotel and Columbia Club
both purchased choice entries.
While the pair neared its close
members of the board began plan
ming the 1929 presentation. They
discussed plans for another build
ing program that would include q
new structure for Indiana Univer-
sityexhibits and a new grandstand
The present stand is considered g
fire hazard and the next LegiSla-
ture is to beasked for appropria-
lions for the new buildings, it was
said.