PROCEEDINGS STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 9 



National and State Horseshoe Pitching Tournaments: Mr. B. G. Leigh- 

 ton, president of the National Horseshoe Pitchers' Association; Mr. 

 James McKeon, president and T. H. Fogarty, treasurer of the State 

 Association, and Joe Becker, secretary of the Polk County Horseshoe 

 Pitchers' Association. 



The committee decided to locate the courts in the open space north 

 of the brick horse barn and south of the Fish and Game Exhibit. The 

 classification as agreed upon called for an appropriation by the State 

 Fair Management of $900 in the Men's National Tournament, $100 in 

 the Women's National Tournament, and $250 in the State Tournament. 

 The State Fair management is also to provide the six medals offered 

 in the Men's and Women's National Tournaments at a cost not to 

 exceed $200. The entry fee in the national tournament for men was 

 fixed at $2.00 and for women at $1.00, and in the Men's State Tourna- 

 ment at $1.00. The classification and rules to be practically the same 

 as used at the national tournament held at the Minnesota State Fair 

 in 1921. 



The following officers for the tournament were selected: Tourna- 

 ment manager, B. C. Leighton; referee, James McKeon; head scorer, 

 Mrs. H. J. Pletscher; superintendent of courts, T. H. Fogarty. 



It was agreed that the tournament was to be advertised and held 

 under the auspices of the National Horseshoe Pitchers' Association of 

 the United States; the National League of Horseshoe and Quoit Pitch- 

 ers' Association; Iowa State Horseshoe Pitchers' Association and the 

 Iowa State Fair. 



It was agreed that, Mr. B. G. Leighton was to be paid $100, hotel and 

 traveling expenses, for his service in promoting and managing the 

 tournament. It was also agreed that Mr. Leighton was to solicit the 

 trophies to be offered by the state and national associations, and that 

 the other trophies offered as prizes, in both the national and state, 

 were to be solicited by a local committee selected by the State and Polk 

 County Horseshoe Pitchers' Associations. 



The State Tournament to start Monday morning, August 28; the Na- 

 tional Tournament to start at two o'clock Tuesday, August 29 and the 

 Women's National Tournament at nine a. m., Wednesday, August 30. 

 The executive committee assigned the three spaces in the east end of 

 the exhibition room under the grand stand to the board of control of 

 state institutions for their industrial exhibit; also the sleeping room 

 in the cattle barn just back of the sale ring for sleeping quarters for 

 the boys' band, and men in charge of the exhibits. It was also agreed 

 that the fair would furnish the material for building the necessary 

 booths in this exhibit room with the understanding that the board of 

 control would furnish the necessary labor for construction of same. 



The board of control agreed to have an' exhibit from each of their 

 sixteen state institutions and also a creditable exhibit of dairy cattle. 



At the request of the superintendent of the educational department, 

 the executive committee agreed to designate Friday as "Children and 

 Public School Day", grant the public schools the use of the assembly 

 tent on that day and also appropriate $50 to defray the expense of bring- 



