Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1917 — BIG RACING PROGRAM AT FAIR [ARTICLE]

BIG RACING PROGRAM AT FAIR

Single G, Miss Harris M and Other Stars An,ong Starters. The greatest harness racing in the history of the Indiana State fair is in prospect for the week of September 3, when the exposition is to be held at Indianapolis. A total of twenty trotting and pacing events are on the week’s card, four races each afternoon, the purses and stakes amounting to nearly $28,000. At least 200 horses have been entered, among them Single G and Miss Harris M., the sensations of the year in American pacing, and these two will meet a number of other strong rivals from the grand circuit in the fair’s free-for-all pace on September 5, among them Walter Cochato, owned by Will Maple of Converse, Indiana, Goldie C and South Bend Girl. The world’s best 3-year-olds will be in the trot on the same date. The races on the other days will all be hotly contested. A daily feature of the speed program will be concerts by Thaviu’s Russian and sextet of singers. Throughout the fair, the outlook is as promising as in the speed department. Many notable stables will have their best talent in the night horse, shows. The shows of cattle, sheep, swine and poultry will.be unusually large. The displays of machinery, including twenty or more farm tractors, will be the largest the fair has ever had. it is the present plan to have the tractors plow and disk the infield of the race track during fair week and later to plant the 35 acres in wheat.

Food conservation will be strongly emphasized at the fair by the Indiana Council of Defense and Dr. Harry Barnard, federal food commissioner. Brief talks on conservation and thrift in the homes"will be made by prominent Indiana women in the cdfiiseiim each afternoon. Gov. Goodrich and Charles A. Bookwaiter also being on the list of these speakers.