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Show May 22nd A Day of Sport Could Have Been Better, Might Have Been Worse. Center Won, 19 to 17 The May '22nd half-holiday and celebration attracted a large ' uumbcr from the county towns and most ofthe city people were enticed from their homes nt some , stage of the game. To the clerks ill whoso interest the half holiday was given, and to the followers of the fortunes of the Center and First North street ball teams, the day was' all that could have been desired, but to the visitors the cutting out of some of the advertised adver-tised events was a disappointment. disappoint-ment. However, the' curtailment was unavoidable in each instance. The automobile race was inveighed in-veighed against by -the city coun-. coun-. i-y and Marshal Peterson instruct-id instruct-id to prevent it. The balloon ascension was prevented pre-vented by the fact that the balloon bal-loon belonging to the Golden West Co., was burned at Ogden or Provo, and their new one failed fail-ed to arrive here until yesterday. The band contest, which was originally deemed u certainty, was a failure because of the fact that those interested found it impossible im-possible to get the organizations together. Still there was much good fun for all during the day' and the (1 great majority of the crowd cn-J cn-J tered into the spirit of the occasion oc-casion with a vim that left no doubt of their real pleasure. There were hundreds of people on tho streets throughout the day, the Golden West Shows were n groat source of attraction, a dance at the Auditorium in the afternoon after-noon attracted some, and at the ball game there were perhaps '2000 or more people. The grand stand was filled and aside from the ball game, the crowd had the pleasure of an intermittent concert con-cert by tlw Pavilion band. First Struggle. Tho "Walking Match," pullod off at 11 o'clock, started the festivities, and was of no little inteiest. The route traversed was that stretch of roadway between be-tween Center and 'Second North streets on Main and the event caused a large number of people to line up on each side of the sticet. Tho.se who entered wero Marinus Hailing, Fritz Jensen, Rufus Rastus Johnson, Albert Schiffmnn, Oliver. Leishman and Stone. Fritz TTcnscn dropped out after the first round trip. The others stuck with it and walked a really good speed. On the final round Oliver Leishman came in first, $15; Stone, second, $7; Al-' bert Seliifl'man, third, $3. Tho second struggle- was tho Tug of War along about noon. A bunch of stalwarts representing First North and Center Street tiied to pull a two-inch rope in two, but succeeded only in pul-i pul-i ling each other over a line. The t third and decisive struggle was not pulled off. Tho Big Event. At 8;30'p, m. tho ball game, the big feature of the day, proved to bo a cross between a balloon race and a gamo of shinny as played by left-handed gorillas on the Sahara desert. From tho time that the Right Honorable and Rev. Mr. Lelaud Jc-hinkins, who occupied tho slab fqr the Center Street angels, tossed the spherical spheriod over the squared circle in front of Dr. Georgercna Parkinson, Par-kinson, until Mr. Thomas-Kiter Boyle made his Pinkcrton-likc capture of the soaring globule in the ninth inning and wrenched hope of victory from the First North Street cherubs, there was naught but spectacular fireworks beyond description by the pen of anybody les3 than V. II. Apper-loy, Apper-loy, who might in lines of poetry, immortalize the occasion. There were muffs and more muffs, home runs made on base hits, and three-baggers on sacrifices'. Every Ev-ery man in he bunch handled the ball like it was a hot potato", and the poorest of tho poor managed to swat the Lydia Pinkham pellet whenever he wanted to, and not a- few times when he didn't want to. The runs were made so rapidly rap-idly and were so many that no one had any idea of the score until un-til a half-hour after the game ended, when the final summing up showed a victory for Center Street, 219 to 217. But, in the imperfection of the game came the fun. There was an unlimited amount of baCting and that's what the average attendant at-tendant at a baseball game likes. The crowd yelled itself hoarse in cheering or jeering pud tho band played on. The line up of tho teams is as follows:. First North Center St. Jenkins-Thorpe p. Jenkins Willison c. Parkinson L. Squires 1st b. Curtis Adams 2nd b. Lundahl C. Jenkins 3rd b. Boyle- Thatcher Thorpe-Jenkins s.s. Ramshaw Nielsen l.f. Benson J-. Squires c.f. . Smith Boyle r. f. Boyle Score by innings. 123456789 Center 52131115 19 First North . . 720022ojo4 17 Harry Stoney umpired the game and was uniformly fair, but some of the fans were ever after his scalp just the same. Band Concert. The Logan Pavilion band, led by Jos. Smith, Jr., gave a concert on tho tabernacle square at 7 p, in., that attracted a large number of people. For an hour or more the band played the latest concert con-cert music, and was frequently applauded. Tho Pavilion band is the best in this north country, and the concert better than many for which good money has been paid. Tho Ending. Tho day's festivities closed with dances at the Pavilion and Auditorium, the. Ellen Thomas concert at tho tabernacle, and the Golden West Shows doings. There were fully 1000 people at tho Auditorium, there being near 100 paid admissious. At tho Pavilion Pa-vilion there was a large crowd also, but the Thomas recital failed to attract the multitude. Tho Golden AVest aggregation of everything in general and nothing in particular, raked in tho shcckles just the same. There- was nnught of a boisterous boister-ous or hilarious nature on tho streets, and though some of tho boys took plenty of Rocky Mountain Moun-tain Teat and Hostctters Bitters, tho downriglit inebriated weie few and far between, for all of which there is due thankfulness. A N6te or Two. A feature showing enterprise null real holiday spirit was the appearance of tho Eliason brigade in the parade and on the grounds. About "steen" of the firm's lady clerks, any of them better looking than the winner of the Tribune's beauty contest, were dressed in white, wore sailors and were he-decked he-decked in blue ribbons to beat the hand. They sang, cheered, rooted root-ed and howled for the First North Street bunch, but nlas, alack I Nevertheless, tho girls themselves wero winners, nnd they and the firm arc to lie congratulated. Harold Lafount deserves unlimited un-limited credit for the energy and time he gave to this affair. Others Oth-ers deserve credit, nlso. |