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Show 1 PAIR CONTINUES TO Si DRAW THE CROWDS m I , Flights by Aviator Walsh and Parachute Jumps ' I of Coleman Were -Features Great Interest 1 1 . Taken in the Baby Show Four Flying Ban- I vards, Concert by Ogden City Band and the I J ; Horse Races Interest the Spectators Today's I j Program. fil OOOOOOOOOOOGOO 000000000,0 o.o o o ?i ' if I . o TODAY'S FEATURES. ' O W : ''',. ;i O Ogden City band. . O J ; FHghts-'nv -Aviator Walsh, demonstrating use of aeroplane c 1 i in times o war. , . . . O I I Four Flying Bnnvards in aerial casting and "ring work. I 1 Harness and running races. r O I I Balloon ascensions, with triple parachute jump. rf I Football and motorcycle races Saturday afternoon. ! o o '& OOOOOOOOOOOGOO OOOOOOOOOOOGOO ! Robert Oscar Browning, ten-months- :'I old, and a real, live boy, won the h prize for the heaviest baby boy at the' r Four-State fair Baby show yesterday t afternoon, when he tipped the scales . at 31 1-2 pounds. Maybe little Mo ' Browning wolghs a pound or two more ; but the Judgos can't swear to this, as ' the yo.ungster would not keep still i long enough for the scales to register I ; any more When the Infant had been ) . weighed, ho cooed a little, smiled a ( little, and then cuddled up to one of i " the judges asif to say, "Well, I's some 'i boy, anyway, aren't T. ' Tiny Miss Lois Chandler, daughtor ; Qof Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Chandler, of ' 2785 Grant avenue, won the first , prize for the prettiest baby. The sec-.' sec-.' . ond prize In this class was taken "by !l another little queen. Miss Royal Har- J i rop, daughter of Mr and Mrs Joe Har- rop, of 150 Seventh street. The third ' prize went to little Miss Rhea Sum- f i Tnorill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. - tf H Summcrlll. of 1948 Steel avenue. I f All of the babies were samples of I i "Utah's best crop," and every bit prize l winners. I Mlas Gladys Balllnger, seven weeks : old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Bal- Iv linger, of West Thirty-fourth street, I was awarded the premium for bolnj; 3 ', the lightest baby in the show. This ; I tiny girl weighed only 11 1-2 pounds, I but was every ounce a little dear : ' All of tho Infants in the show were k under twelve months of age. The ; I awards consisted of silver and gold medals and cash. The judging was f done in front of ijio grand stand. ' pvherc the fond moljiers lined u,n '.' with the infants in their arras, while ; : tho band plavod. "I Like My Wife, ; - But Oh You Ivid " ' Balloonist Thrills Crowd. I :' JO GUI. Balloonist Coleman's most j daring aeronaut, thrilled the specta- i i. .. tors at the fair grouuds yesterday af- j ternoon with his ascension and double ;, parachute drop. This aeronaut is said : I frnr mi'rv i .ib in !.. f to bo tho only fan in America that has ever attempted to Jump with six par achutes. He accomplished this feat In tho oast the past summer with ?reat success and was Immediately ranked with the foremost aeronauts In the world. In high altitudes be cannot uso moro than threo parachutes para-chutes In his exhibition and today GUI will attempt tho triple Jump Yesterday Yes-terday afternoon only two parachutes could be used on account of the -wind that came up suddenly about t,ho time the balloon was readv to go up Tho aeronaut reached a height of about 2,000 feet before he cut away from the balloon In his flight yesterday. yester-day. The drop, with tho two parachutes para-chutes opening about 300 feet apart, delighted tho spectators, who ran .from the grounds to tho spot where the aeronaut alighted, south of the main gates, cheering wildly as Uiev pushed each other aside in an effort to be the first to congratulate the balloonist bal-loonist ' While Aviator Walsh did not attempt at-tempt any "grand stand" flying yesterday yes-terday afternoon, ho gave two splendid splen-did demonstrations, reaching a height of about 1,800 foot from the ground at one time. He flew with speed of over a mile a minute in one of his exhibitions," ex-hibitions," circling the flying field a number of times, waving his hands at tho crowd, ns ho scurried through space. Today Is, Walsh'te Last Day. Aviator Walsh would not promise last night that he would attempt something some-thing sensational In his flights today, but some new stunts are expected from the blrdraan, as ho is roported to have had "something up his alcove,"' ever since his arrival. May-bo May-bo ho will try for an. altitude record. Ho saj's he wants to mako one here. Perhaps he will fly over the fair buildings. He's had that In mind ever' ev-er' day. While tho airman will not say what ho proposes to do to entertain enter-tain tho crowd today, It Is understood that ho will try and glv? Ogden something some-thing greater to romember him by than his successful exhibitions given dally sinco tho Four-State fair opened. open-ed. Aviator Walsh will give his farc-woll farc-woll flights today From Ogden ho will go to New Mexico for a series of exhibitions. Football Game Saturday. For the big football game between tho Ogden High school and tho University Uni-versity of Utah, to bo played at the Four-Stato fair grounds Saturday afternoon, af-ternoon, tho fair management has made a special rate of 10 cents for all school children outside of the Weber Academv and the Ogden High school. Students of the High school and academy aca-demy will be admitted for 25 conts. Tho official lineup of the Ogden High school team for Saturday's game was announced last night by Manager Smyth as follows- Smyth, center and captain: Browning, Brown-ing, left guard; Thomas, right guard; Anderson, left tnckle. Sample, right tacklci Smyth, left end; Allen, right end; Stowe, fullback, Tribe, left half. BvanB, right half; Moran, quarter back. Sample, a promising man, arrived from Blackfoot, Jdaho, this morning and will line up with the team in practice prac-tice this afternoon. Big things nro expected of this husky youth before the season is over. The motorcycle races billed for Saturday Sat-urday afternoon at the fair grounds are all ready arousing much Interest. The events will bo a five-mllo race for singles and a ten-mile event for twins. Throe of the best ameleur riders In the city, H. G. Martin, L. J. Halght nnd John Hoxer have entered both cvonlb. In the ten-lmle race the purses will be divided as follows: First, $35; second, sec-ond, $20; third, $10; In the five-mllo rare the purses will be: First, 25; second, SI 5; third. $10. , The riders will warm up on tho fair grounds track this afternoon Peaches for the Omaha "Peaches.'' The g'rls employed In the "Twentieth "Twen-tieth Century Farmer" department of the Omaha Bee will j,omo 11 mo next Week be feasting on luscious Utah peaches, the gift of D. J. Ilammon, a well known fruit raiser of Roy, Utah, who is in charge of tho splendid Roy district fruit and vegetable display In tho Horticultural building at the Four-State Four-State fair Yesterday afternoon Mr. Hammon's attention was called to a tall, slim man attempting to pocket a few of the boat peaches In the exhibit. He hurried hur-ried over to the stranger and asked him why he was trying to carry otf half the show. The stranger replied, "Woll, yon see, wo can't grow anything any-thing like those peaches in Nebraska and I wanted to show the folks back there what kind of prlzo winners Utah can turn out." Then tho peach burglar introduced himself as H A. Stanton, special representative rep-resentative of the Omaha Bee. at the Four-State fair, nnd ho and Mr. Ham-rnon Ham-rnon got acquainted 4n a hurry, with tho result thnt the grower of Borne of tho finest peaches in tho state pre-sen pre-sen ted the newspaper man with a crate of excellent fruit to bo shipped to the girls in tho Omaha publishing office. An interesting feature of tho Roy district exhibit at the fair is a display dis-play of Jumbo peanuts raised in that productive section of Wober county. That peanuts should be grown in this state, so near at homo, too, is a marvel mar-vel to many fair visitors, who don't eom convinced until they have asked everybody In hearing distance if that is "really straight goods." Name Peach After Governor. And peanuts are not all that Roy and vicinity can produce. On a big plate, right out in front where everybody every-body must Bee it, is tho biggest El-berta El-berta peach on exhibition at the fair. This peach is called "Governor Spry," and the man for whom It is named should feel highly complimented, as the peach Is certainly a beauty. "I don't know exactly what we will do with the governor," said Mr Ham-mon, Ham-mon, who raised the peach, to a group of spectators yesterday. "Every girl on tho grounds seems to want to elico him up." BesldeB "Governor Spry" Mr. Ham-mon Ham-mon has in his Roy exhibit the second sec-ond largest applo In the show. This apple Is a Rhode Island Greening and is "almost as big as a house." Charles Zelmer won ou the biggest pear. It Is of the Flemish Beauty va-rioty va-rioty and takes up about as much room on a plate as a dozen ordinary 7ear's. W F. Garrison of tho Sunnysido orchard secured first prlzo on tho best plate of apples in the show These apples are of mammoth size and of the Wolf River variety. They mako a small fruit show by themselves. them-selves. Wins the Sweepstakes. The Roy district exhibit won the sweepstakes In general display In the Horticultural building. This Is tho fifth time that this -prize has been won by the hustling farmers of that section Tho exhibit or the Weber County Infirmary was one of the best In this department. Other fine displays of fruit wero those of J. F. Walker, Syracuse. Sy-racuse. Utah; .1. T. Ballantyno Estate. Es-tate. Geo. Thlnnos & Sons. "Apples Grown Without Irrigation;" E. T. Woods, M. A. Schair, Ogden; Enoch Farr, Ogden; W. A. Montgomery, J. C. Jensen, proprietor of the Healy cafe, Ogden; Mrs. J,. M. Smith, Og den, and others. Tho exhibits In tho Horticultural building arc all attractively arranged This department is ono of tho niOBt completo and Interesting on tho grounds. oo Stops itching instantly. Cures piles, eczoma, salt iheum, totter, Itch, hives, herpes, scabies -Doan's Ointment. At any drdg store. |