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Show Thrilling Cowboy Sports for State Fair Crowds Some, of tho bucking hovsos and famous cowboy rlclern who will bo Koon at, Utah'H state fair, Soptember 27 to October 6, Inclusive. 1 I Famous Auto Racers Also Will Compete for Purses Amounting to $5000. IN ANOTHER week or two there will be moving toward Salt Lake such a procession of blooded livestock, live-stock, pedigreed poultry, prize-winning prize-winning fruits and vegetables as no western state has ever before witnessed. From every nook and corner of Utah 'a fertile valleys and mountains are coming com-ing the beautiful and inspiring exhibits that go to make the wonderful educational educa-tional features of Utah's annual state fair. In scores of different sections throughout Utah men and women are busily preparing the material that will form these exhibits. Livestock growers are grooming their beautiful horses, their cows and swine and other stock preparatory to showing them at Salt Lake, where from Monday, September 27, to Wednesday, October 6, there will be placed on exhibition the most remarkable re-markable array of blooded animals ever assembled for an annual state fair west of the Mississippi river. President J. G. McDonald and the directors di-rectors and supervisors of the Utah State Fair association have succeeded in arranging for a combination of amusement amuse-ment and educational features for this year's state fair that will excel everything every-thing held here before. Horses, cattle, sheep and swine, horticultural horti-cultural and floricultnral products, dairy products, manufacturers' goods and merchants' mer-chants' exhibits, fine art, educational features, women's work, agricultural machinery and minerals will all be taken care of at this year's state fair as not before in years. The buildings and grounds will be most beaut i fully decorated and appointed, ap-pointed, and with music, life and merriment merri-ment on every hand, the 91 fair will open on Monday, September 27, with a remarkably fine showing in every department. de-partment. President McDonald promises Utahns the greatest set of thrills in the history of state fairs here, when Louis Disbrow, Johnny Raimey, Eddie Herne, Joe Bianci, Lee Gunning, Tommy Milton and other world-famous auto racers send their great, 300-horsepower buz buggies whirling at tremendous speed around the great racetrack at the fair grounds. The automobile races will take place the first three davs of the fair, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, September 27, 28 and 29, and more 'than .tOOO has been put up in purses. Probably not a single one of the spectators pres ent at the automobile races at Minne- j sota's state fair last .year will ever for get Disbrow ' (jy rations on tho turns and his wonderful bursts of bpeed on the straight-aways when he tried to break the fifteen-mile record on a dirt track last October. Lap after lap wub negotiated in record time, until finally he was several seconds under the world b mark. At the end of tho fifteen miles he was signalled to go on and try for the twenty and twenty five-mile world's marks, liis pace never slackened until the nineteenth lap, when ho blew a tire and his ear headed for the fence. He was equal to the occasion, however, and straightened out his wonderful little speed creation and drove it down the home stretch in front of the maddened thousands, who cheered wildlv for tho little demon and yelled words of con gTatuIntion. Barney Oldfield, who was one of the competitors, was the first to congratulate congratu-late Disbrow aR he jumped from his car. Another big sensation of this year's state fair will be the daily balloon ascension of Lunelle Belmont, the only woman aerialist in the world who ascends as-cends in n monster balloon-thousands of feet into the clouds and comes to earth in three parachutes. Miss Belmont cuts loose from the balloon bal-loon and drops several hundred feet in her first parachute; abandoning th;it. Hhe drops the next stage in the second parachute, and uses the third one to descend to earth with. Entries have closed in the speed department de-partment under Supervisor Charles A. Ziemer, and some splendid harness and running events are assured for this year 's state fair. The fine arts department of the fair this year, under the supervision of Mrs. Simon Bamberger, is expected to develop de-velop a number of surprises. Salt Lake artists scored heavily last year among the exhibitors in the fine arts department, and Miss Florence Ohristensen was awarded a cold medal for the best painting on exhibition at the state fair. J. G, TTaward secured the prize of $100 for the best painting executed during the vear previous to the fair. The grounds and buildings at the fair will be beautifully decorated this vear. and the manufacturers ' and merchants' building in particular will receive special spe-cial attention. Supervisor Frank J Bjewlett, in ' harge of these two buildings, build-ings, has had the benefit of several years' experience and travel in foreign countries, and he is arrange some exceedingly ex-ceedingly novel effects for his department. depart-ment. Reduced rates will he granted on all railroads for the ten davs of the state fair this year, and the fact that this is the first vear in the historv 0f Utah 's state fairs when the event has opened in September lends added interest to the change of dates. Tho fair opens Monday, September 27. and runs through continuously until ednesday, October fi." |