The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-14
STATE TO
TOP RECORDS,
IS PREDICTION
1900 Entries Expected to
Vie for $154,558 in
Premiums, Purses.
NIGHT RACING FEATURE
Speeding Locomotives Will
Crash Head On AS Last
Might Climax.

largest ever held in Indiana" de-
clared c. Y. Foster, president Of the
Indiana board of agriculture, today.
The fair will open Sept. 5.
There is plenty of cheap feed,
and livestock men have their stock
in fine shape this year. We expect
a cord-breaking number will ex-
hibit in competition for the $154,-
55897 offered in premiums and
purses"
More than 300 exhibitors from
nineteen states already have en-
tered. BY next Tuesday, E. j. Bark
er, secretary treasurer, believes that
at least 1900 entries will have been
received.
Jesse Andrews of Battle Ground,
Ind, was the first to make an entry
this year.
Night Racing Again
Horse racing will be one of the
main features of the fair. Every big
stable in the United States will be
represented in grand circuit racing
which begins Monday, Sept. z.
Throughout the week, races will be
run in the daytime, and also at
night.
Cattle and hogs will be judged in
the largest building in the United
States used for that purpose. Cattle
entries have been received from
Arizona, Texas, Colorado and New
York, as we'll as from nearer states.
Saturday, Sept. 5, is boys and
girls club day. Calves clubs and f.
Fl pig clubs are to be judged in the
coliseum and the swine arena.
Broadcast Planned
Arrangements have been COM
pleted to tie together radio stations
WKBF and WIS the night of Sep
TENDER 5, when the WIS barn
dance crew will give its regular Sat-
urday night frolic in the coliseum.
The Rev. Billy Sunday will adj
dress girls attending the girls
school. and boys having exhibits of
club work at the fair, at the Wom-
ems building at 10 Sunday morning.
Mr.. Sunday will speak again at
$3.50 at the coliseum. His talk will
be preceded by a concert to be
given by the Indiana university
band.
Varied entertainment will be
provided Judging of horses, cat
tie, sheep, swine, poultry, dogs and
cats will be carried on every day.
Vaudeville acts, three ring circus,
races and fireworks will hold the in
tereSt of all visitors.
Engine Crash Climax
Directly in front of the new
grandstand on the last night of the
fair, two locomotives weighing 24l
tons each will thunder down mile
long track for a head-on collision.
The engines will be travelling a
mile-a- minute when they crash.
This same type of spectacle is to be
one of the attractions of the 1888
Worlds Fair.
The grandstand which was COM
pleted this week will seat 10000
people and provides standing room
for 5000 more. On the east end of
the first floor will be located police
headquarters, fire engine station,
an express office and telephone
booths. ConceSSionaires are being
allotted space on the west end.
$4,000 Cars May Park
On the second floor, Butler uni
versity, Muncie and Terre Haute
will have exhibits displayed and the
Boy Scouts will have booths there.
There will be no parking prob
lem on the ground. Roy E. Ora
ham of Columbus, Ind, director of
the department of parking and DO
lice, estimates that there is room for
about $4,000 cars. Eighty men will
so arrange space that visitors NAV
leave without any trouble. In the
last eight years, not a car has been
bumped
The Indiana state fair is one of
the few which does not receive state
aid in paying expenses and prizes.
Appropriations are for the buildings
alone. Revenue from the gates.
from concessions and other sources
has proven adequate.