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Show CROWDS FLOCK 10 IFJUTIFIL UeOOH Witness the Athletic Contests at tho Resort Labor Day. ROSS, THE WRESTLER, FAILS TO THROW MEN Plumbers Found the Carpenters' Carpen-ters' Ball Team Easy, and Won Hands Down. Probably 3000 pcoplo witnessed tho athlotio programme at Lagoon yesterday. Everything was free, oven to tho wrestling matches, which woro unusually good, much better in fact than 60ino framed-up affairs that have from tlmo to tlmo been palmed oft on tho local nubile. In hla attempt to put down thrco husky wrcstlcrn in thirty minutes. Chnrlca Ross failed, but hla very fnlluro added rather than dotractcd from tho merit of tho exhibitions. Ross tried hard to dlsposo of his Inst man. but Jtrcngth spent In tho two previous contests nnd poor condition to begin with prevented him. First Man Was fEasy. Ross disposed of John Kelly, his first oppo-no.n.1, oppo-no.n.1, ,n lhreo minutes nnd thirty seconds, lolling him over on hlo back with a half-Nelson nnd a leg hold. Clarence Drlggs proved a harder problem nnd by his qulckncw nnd speed prevented a fall for nlno and one-half minutes. He crawled out nf many a hold that looked Invincible. In tlmo Roes woro him down and put him eouarely on.hls back with a full Nelson, using his legs to nwlnt him. Ross took only short rests bstween his llrst two falls, tho weather bclnp threatening. Glenson the Best Man. Olcneon started to force matters from tho very start and only a lack of weight and Btrength prevented his securing a fnll over Ross with a full Nelson. For a full seventeen minuted tho men tussle! away, tho advantage being with Ross toward tho end of tho contest. con-test. "When tlmo was called Ross had Gleason ln hard straits, ono of his shoulders being on lho mat. Other Athletic Events. In addition to tho wrestling match thoro were athletic events of every dcncrlptlon. Many of these woro good nnd the hundreds of spectators liberally applauded tho efforts of tho performers. Plumbers Win Ball Game. Tho ball name was easy for tho Plumbers, who took tho Carpenters off th house-tops nnd snowed them under bv a ecoro of IS to 6. The game only lastodflve Innings, but (luring that short tlmo moat every player won a reputation that will bar him from participating partici-pating In futuro contests on tho diamond. Spectacular Novelty. The pole-cllmblng content wan a spectacular novelty. Up and down the thlrtv-threo-foot pole hopped themj expert linemen like fo many monkeys. O. J. Culp, who made tho climb ln seventeen seconds, wan awnrded the first prize: E. Price, with a record of nineteen seconds, was second. In Tug1 of War. Tho Electricians proved themselves past-masters past-masters at the tug-of-war came. They dls-iwsed dls-iwsed of nil competitors in short order. Tho Beer Drh'crs only lasted twenty seconds. Tho Structural Iron Workers put on a bolder front and for four minutes and fifteen teconds had tho. Electricians on Queer atrcct. Tho winners of tho other contests follow: Ono hundred-yard foot raco for union men-Charles men-Charles Sheeley llrst, A. Bulow second. . Ono hundred-yard foot raco for boys under 21 years Claud Watson first, J. Burbidgo second. sec-ond. Ono hundred-yard nmateur foot raco for boys aged 12 to 16 Clifford Wardrop first, S. Fowler second. Fifty-yard foot raco for ladles over 14 Nell Tnlhot flrBt. Annie Pitts second. Fifty-yard foot rnce for girls 12 to 16 Vera Wnrdrop first. Julia Focarty scond. Twenty-five-yard foot rnco for girls under S Elvlo Hartmnn first. Mary Millard second. Running broad Jump, for boys 16 or under Harry Mills. Ray Spnldlnp. ,,.,, Twcnty-flvo yard egg race, for girls S to 1. Florence Green Jlrst. Vera Nelson second. Boat race, free for nil William Wilson first. Gus B. Ockman second. Swimming contest. 100 ynrde Charles T. Shcoley first. C. E. Riley second. Oldest couple on ground Thomas Slight, aged 73; wife, 71. Cakewalk, for boys and girls under 14 Lo-nora Lo-nora and Alva Anderson llrst. Ester Cronln nnd Beatrice Brown second. Prize waltz, for ladles Mrs. Lillian Bell. Prlzo waltz, for gentlemon John L Larson. |