Show J Labor Day Attracts LaJe Large Laige Croud e e g A j My ton Wins Vins ills Baseball Tournament Defeating Duchesne r Roosevelt Horse Stars at Races Complete success crowned the efforts of the Duchesne Commercial Commer Commer- cial Club in sponsoring th the annual Duchesne Labor Day celebration held last Sunday Sundar and Monday A crowd estimated at 1500 attended the activities in the park Monday afternoon with ideal weather welther prevailing prevailing prevailing pre pre- throughout the day Boxing matches in the town hallin hall hallin hallin in the evening were held before a awell awell awell well filled house and were followed by the most heavily attended dance Duchesne has seen for a along along i long time Sundays Sunday's tw two ball games were played before a crowd of approximately approximately approximately The first game between between between be be- tween LaPoint and Duchesne proved to be by far the most in interesting interesting interesting in- in of the two Duchesne led off in the first inning in inning inning in- in ning with three runs getting another another another an an- other in the third Lapoint tied the score in the fourth inning and the tie held until the eighth when Duchesne again wen went t wild and ran in four more scores holding holding holding hold hold- ing their lead for the balance of the game for a final score of 8 4 in Duchesne's favor Good ball playing throughout the game was marred only by poor umpiring No particular unfairness or favoritism favoritism favoritism favor favor- was charged to the umpire his errors and poor decisions favoring favoring favoring fa fa- fa- fa first one side and then the theother theother theother other but constantly keeping the j teams in discussion Casper pitched the first part of the game with Fitzwater on the I mound for the balance IThe I IThe The The My Myton ton Roosevelt game I played during the later part of the the afternoon was a series of errors from start to finish wi with th both teams taking part in the poor playing My Myton ton won von the game a score of 6 6 9 Mondays Monday's events started at a a. a m. m with sports for the children The playoff baseball game between between between be be- tween My Myton ton and Duchesne the Continued on page G 6 Labor Day Celebration Attracts Large Crowd Continued 1 from page 1 big attraction of the day started at 1230 p p. p m. m Duchesne again started wi with th a n bang piling up a 4 to 0 lead in the first inning which they held until the fourth inning when Myton tied the score Duchesne scored two more runs inthe in inthe inthe the seventh inning and then Myton Myton Myton My My- ton broke loose In the eighth with 6 runs for or a final win of 10 A peculiar quirk of the game was the fact that of My Myton's tons ton's ten runs only three were earned hits the balance being due to errors on the part of the Duchesne fielders Six men in all tried out in the field to whom were batted a dozen long high flies only one of which was caught Usually capable of fine ine fielding the boys all laid their errors to the fact act that the heavy smoke haze in the theair theair theair air from the forest fires in Wyoming Wyoming Wyom Wyom- ing and Idaho made it impossible to judge where the balls were going going go go- going ing t to land This haze was even heavier Sunday but only a few flies were batted into the outfield Carman pitched the first seven innings for Duchesne with Fitzwater Fitzwater Fitz- Fitz water water- finishing the game Shields pitched for Myton Immediately after the ball game the various races rodeo events and sports were pulled off offin offin in ill fast order The Eldredge horse from Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt won heaviest heaviest in the racing taking 1st m money ney in the mile and 3 z mile and second in the mile Dick Wash's mare placed i 2nd in the and r 2 Z mile races i and 1st in the mile Glen Ames of Altonah riding the Wash horse in the mile was injured slightly slight slight- ly when the horse left the track trac at the curve East of the grand grandstand grandstand grandstand stand throwing him against a tree and a parked automobile He was stunned slightly but escaped with only a bruised face and shoulder Two pony races were run Woodard taking first and White Whit e second in the race for the smaller smalle r b boys ys and Hadden first and Brundage Brundage Brun- Brun Brundage dage second in the other Thomas Thoma s won first and second i ithe in inthe inthe n no the saddle horse race Two Tw o strings of horses were entered i ithe in inthe in inthe n the yA 3 mile relay with will Mont Poulson winning over Fred Hayes In the mens men's races races Homer Fitzwater won both the yd and yd dashes with Wilbur Bates taking second places Al Muir of Fruitland was awarded awarded awarded a- a warded the prize for for- forthe the best riding riding rid- rid ing ng and the Hayes horse was judged the best bucker in the b bucking contests Numerous small j prizes were awarded to the bo boyT who r ride de the steers and and bareback bareback horses The entire program was pushed push push- ed through with such speed and precision that the material was exhausted and the crowds dismissed dismissed dis dis- dismissed missed at 5 00 p. p m. m Of the boxing matches in the evening by far the l bout bouton on the card was that between of Utahn and Hatch ot of Vernal Though differing greatly great great- ly in build the two men were evenly matched in weight and ability ability ability a- a and showed the crowd some fast and clever boxing until it ended in the round with a knockout by Some disfavor disfavor disfavor dis dis- favor was shown by the audience who contended that last blow delivered to the body while Hatch was going down down was wasa a foul but the referee stuck to his decision In the preliminaries Baum and Casper and Smith Davis Davis Dav Dav- is and Casper all fought their matches to a draw Because of a over purses Hacking of Vernal would not go on with his match with White and it was replaced with an exhibition bout between Rhoades an Indian from Ft Duchesne Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- chesne and Kid McCoy a Salt Laker Both of them showed fine ability Donald Peterson of Duchesne Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- chesne fought three rounds with ith Richens of Arcadia to a draw The headliner between Sharkey Thomas of Duchesne and AI Al Muir of Fruitland was rather a disappointment disappointment disappointment disa disa- to most of the audience aud- aud ence The two men apparently well matched in ability each seemed seemed seemed seem seem- ed to be a little afraid of his opponent and did more guarding guarding guard- guard ing ng than boxing With neither of the he men taking an offensive The bout Dout progressed very slowly thru the six rounds to a draw At the completion of the card Harold and Elmer White of Duchesne Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- chesne gave a one round of exhibition ex- ex bout In which more actual actual ac- ac ual boxing was done and more blows delivered than In almost the he entire balance of the evenings evening's evenings evening's even- even ings ing's matches As soon Boon as the h hall ii could be cleared after the boxing matches the he orchestra took the stage and the crowd started their dance dance with more people on the floor than nan there have been for many months |