Show Bud Budweiser iser C Cops Frog Jumping ping Honors nors tc Puddle Juniper Jumper 2nd Thousands Attend c 4 c j jc 4 Great Champ Leaps 11 11 Feet 5 Inches I ANGELS CAMP Cal May 18 T-h T Mark Twain s immortal story of the buckshot weighted jumping frog was reenacted l with modern modem trimmings in iii this little California sun baked mining village and today Budweiser the greatest piece of or frog flesh lesh that ever swung a leg down Main street was vias the toast of the tile mother lode country The lead pellets which impeded Twains Twain's complete flop as far as frog Jumping contests are concerned were missing yesterday just as were the old Ie-old bullets in the celebrants celebrants cele cele- I brants In alger costume flourished before spectators all the way from Angels Camp to Murphy Flat The mottled amphibian Budweiser Budweiser Bud Bud- weiser welser which brought brou ht victory vIctor to his master Louis Fisher and renown to his home town Stockton Cal was forced to leap 11 feet 5 inches to stage a thrilling comeback and de defeat defeat defeat de- de feat a fi field ld of or other frogs fross inthe in inthe inthe the fourth annual Calaveras frog jumping contest Three years cars ago Budweiser won the contest I SECOND GOES 11 FEET 1 INCH Between lines of screaming woJ women wo wo- wo- wo men shouting men and goading J children Budweiser stretched those long lean legs to seize victory victor from Puddle Jumper which John I nio islo Oakdale Cal entered among others from California and North i Carolina Puddle Jumper leaped 11 feet 1 Inch Joe a big green hopper from the thelow thelow thelow low countr country along the Sacramento river placed plated third with a leap of 10 feet 6 inches He is own owned d by byJoe byJoe byJoe Joe Cesar of Antioch Cal Sally th the soulful eyed amphibian ian entered by the ladles' ladles auxiliary of the Calaveras fire department misunderstood regulations a and n d jumped backwards FIVE JUMPING RULES For the benefit of or those who may not have seen a a. first class frog jumping contest a a. vigilante committee commit commit- tee with side arms and side whiskers whiskers whiskers whis whis- kers governs erns the jumps There arc ure four sets of or judges official judges official judges besides sides those on the hc hc side lines lines and and no one knows how man many other off i dais There are five n rules Frogs must jump in the arena assigned Two trials arc are allowed Measurements are made from the end of the third jump to the takeoff Frogs are al allowed allowed allowed al- al lowed one minute to take off oU Angels Camp was jammed The towns town's hotel hotd was packed to the raft raft- I- I ers Them as had chairs kept em cm and a bed was a luxury |