The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-08
HEALTHIEST
BOY AND GIRL
FETEDAT FAIR
Governors and Legislators
Day Is Celebrated at
Annual Exposition.
ATTENDANCE PICKS UP
Tom Quinn to Be Crowned
With Coveted Brown
Derby TONIGHT.

The healthiest boy and girl in
Indiana, who will represent the
state at the international livestock
exposition at Chicago in December,
we're guests Of the Washington and
the fair board today at the Indi-
ana state fair
The states healthiest are John
Phillips Of Muncie and Miss Dor
othea Caster of Albany.
They received their designated
titles at the All Club roundup held
in May at Purdue university.
John is Is, weighs 1874 and is 5
feet 10 inches tall. He scored SO. 3
per cent in the club contest. He
keeps fit by drinking no coffee or
tea and averaging four glasses of
milk and eight glasses of water
daily.
Visits Feature Trip
Dorothea weighs l43 and is 5 feet
4 inches tall. She scored 1888 per
cent in the Purdue contest. She
drinks no tea or coffee and averages
two to three glasses of milk oaily
besides eight glasses of water.
Visits TO exhibits and meeting
fair officials featured their fair trip.
Politics, politics, and more politics
formed the subject of discussion in
the Democratic party's booth as
we'll as the Republican today at
the Indiana state fair. Benches
were lined with political prognosti-
Gators. Vote-getters chirped like
crickets in a haunted house.
And all because today the fair
celebrated Governors and Legisla-
tors day.
The fairs banquet for the men
who live by the ballot-box was held
at noon when legislators were enter
tanned by the state fair board in the
woman's building.
Bush, Myers Are Speakers
Speakers were Lieutenant-G Gov
ernor Edgar D. Bush, Walter
Myers, Speaker of the state house
of representatives; E. j. Barker, fair
board secretary, and o. l.. Reddish,
fair board president.
The meal was prepared and served
by students of girls economics di-
vision of the fair,
The $4,000 L. S. Ayres & Co. stake
for 210 trotters was the feature
carded for the afternoons harness
races.
Governor Not Present
Governor Hal c. Leslie did not
attend the fair today, despite it
being in his honor. He again is at
his vacation home in Dunes park.
Fair officials were well-contented
with attendance figures of the 1882
exhibition.
I'VE had rainy Saturday for a
bad start and then counting the de-
preston on top of that We'll be
lucky if we get out with a $4,000
red mark on the register" one fair
official said
Attendance picked up Wednesday,
to 24,79l paid visitors. All attend
ance is based on paid admissions
only. Passes and exhibitors badges
would boost Wednesdays figures APP
proximately 1000 to 5000.
One of the highlights at 8 p. m.
tonight besides the night harness
races, vaudeville and fireworks will
be the browning of Tom Quinn as
King Tom / of Brown Derbyville.
Won Great Contest Easily
Tom won the annual contest of
The indianapolis Times by a mar
gin Of $4,000 votes. His coronation
will take place in front of the race
track grand stand A parade
through city streets will precede the
coronation
Friday will be indianapolis day"
at the fair and the last chance for
city and state residents to see the
1892 exhibition. its live stock. and
the new Indiana university building.