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Show ! Big Two-Day Race Meet : Arouses Great Interest Minersville's plans for a two-day race meet, Monday and Tuesday, September, 3-4, have met with popu-' popu-' lar approval throughout all Beaver : county and in other towns, this de-1 de-1 spite counter attractions offered by some other sections for the Labor day holiday. 1 There are to be at least four races each day but the feature race each afternoon, in which the Cook and McKnight Mc-Knight horses are to run along with one or more other horses yet to be entered, would be enough to draw a good sized crowd of itself. Both of these horses have loyal backers who are confident of their favorite winning win-ning so much so that interest is at a pitch resembling that of many years ago when a matched horse race resulted in a good many hundred hun-dred dollars changing hands. The new' track,' located just off the state highway and newly constructed for the Pioneer day races at Minersville, Miners-ville, is reported to be in excellent shape and an ideal track in every respect re-spect while, at the same time, there is ample parking space and shade for hundreds of cars near the finishing-point. finishing-point. In connection with the scheduled big time another big ' dance to be given the night of Monday, September Sep-tember 3, at Hanging Rock, where plans are being made for the biggest dance of the season. |