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Show ; OO Events During Celebration of Armistice Day The final rnlversary of Amiistire ; . . iho vniei'lean Lesion citizen of Oe;len yeaterday by memberaof Herman Baker I'ost No. 9 of the American Lglon, citizens citi-zens of Ogden and hundreds of Idtora from outside points. Financially, the event wns a jrreat auccoas and, although the weather sods threatened lo spoil the da' ftsivlties the rain of the early morning failed to stop the propram and the entire enrd of ccnts was put over in Bod style. Shot guns, bugles, fireworks, whlatlee, bells, and in fart oven sort of noi.e. opened the da's program. In the wee email hours of the morning the fireworks htarted and at 7 a. m. the Southern Pacific Pa-cific band started the musical program by playing catchy airs. The band assembled as-sembled at Washington avenue and Twenty-fifth street and started it firxt selection at exattly 7 o'clock "Oh, How I Hate to Git Up In the Mornlnf.:" wan t till"' Of th piec- with whe ti lb V I opened. Scores of youthful frolic makers mak-ers were on hand to put pep into the start of the program. From 7 until 9 o'clock the fun maker3 held swav, malt np: merry and having en ' o!l around go d time, At 9:30 o'clock th'i beautiful American Flag was pre ae Cited to Ihf city of Ogden by the members '.( he Innnan Joker Post No. 9 of the American Lepj n. The Ividleu' band ut Ogdeu rendered several selections at lbs CP. I Fir.ll square. The sun's raya ap-pec.cd ap-pec.cd shor.; r.fter the dinner hour anl the committeemen smiled and thankd the v ea'.hcr g d for reserving part of the day for their program. .l 12:45 o'clock Robert Martin, wear-ing wear-ing tho colors of the Salt lake Elks. crosMft Ihetape in Ihe big eros-couii;i run. Ted Johnson was second and ( fi 1 Mai! in. brother of the champion, wai ibird. Clarence rre.chaw of Ogden wis fourth. Several other men started but f.-.iled to finish. This started the athl:ilc nr0. of events Tie Salt Lake and Ogden soccer lean s tl n mixed In a last soccer game, the io- vaocra wlnnlnn by a score of 2 to p, I'.clh tennis dij.laycd some clever pli in line of sport. OV. Glory was then hoisted to the iop f n flag poie while tho band play.d "Tiie Star Spangled Runner." Fans and l athlelaa stood atattention while OiJ tS.crj was hoisted to the top of t tie mast Th 10O yard da.-h, 220 yard dash and Use Wile run saw some fast men in hi Creed Ilaymond. national aprblt champion of America, gac the Ogden-ites Ogden-ites ?-me real claasy runninp In tht' ; print aacea Haymond la one of the moal popahed nmn ra that ever donned the logs lo Amei'co. i:ini"rt Marl. ii won the mile ecnt with a.'i Ted Johrson was a close second. Ut the sprint races Hutton of Ogle.i hicli. and O'Keefe of Ogden high, were icnid and tnlrd. respectLely. Both outha displayed claaa Th; ;ridiron game between the Amrr-iean Amrr-iean I.'Tion 'i;.ni of OgJcn and the I tx 1 Aggie Frealimen was. the feature ovnnt of She rn1 Both ncgregatlons iui-played iui-played t!ass psiore and the locals wen by score of 14 to C Considerable riy. alrv Was mat Ifes ted during this eontej". Following tin footluid game liC Tlell ing athletes, members of the local foot-til! foot-til! tenm t! tficlala were d-.nod t Ihe I VVeber 'hd. Arthur Wee. . w.u to:ist- maatcr. prominent speed coituro! i lafed 'i.c member of th AtnoTlcn i e. j yion en Iheir splendid wor I-'necmnn Sx sett, we'l known JJi sprot follow one of ti ; v.rtcu spor: Iiik r.en in the western count rn paid the mar' rs of tne "i rican l. -i'n fooi,-ill tenm loepect whe i . tnetOtl Uut with propr i training th" local an-;-"e a-tion a-tion cc il l vital atiy agaregallon in .ti weal. Bassett said in part : "Nothing v i 'd plea?-' me more iha?t to see tho lo. ai Amerie.vj Legion in m" I the ir.nr of tho of U. and Ag-i'ir Ag-i'ir t-nii. '.ith wdll bo aytd a I Salt Lake on turkey day. The Aggies an I the Crimson both uri stro)-: iigrre,-. lions but, after seeing the loc I team n action ac-tion today, ur truthfully un ttiii i caliber of football displayed was superior supe-rior to any I have ever witnessed in my davs ( t .hietlc c-nde..vor. 'Jl.e u-tire u-tire Ogdon wa't fs corapoei' of iir.in veterans who know the gam from A to Z and veterans of the first class order. I will use all the influence possible In arranging the contest between the winners win-ners and I think that the local American Ameri-can Legion, in starting athletics, has established a record which will go down in history in this state They have started and others will follow." |