Ogden Daily Standard | 1906-02-12 | Page 8 | Benefit for Firemen's Widows and Orphans

BENEFIT FOR WIDOWS AND ORPHANS twenty thousand persons witnessed athletic contests san francisco calif feb 11 twenty thousand people gathered at recreation park today to witness lit nes the benefit baseball game and boxing bouts tendered by tho the widows and orphans of firemen dakin and hennessey who met death in fighting the fire and the smoke on the transport meade the boxing bouts were by britt berger hanlon and toby irwin joe corbett made his first appearance on the diamond for nearly a year pitching the first inning for the glea sons mike fisher had his old tacoma uniforms out but the word tacoma had been taken off and the word fresno substituted the score was 8 to 6 in favor of the gleasona gleasons Glea sons 14 the feeling against the standard 0 oil 11 monopoly Is nothing to what it would be it if the country could realize its unscrupulous methods and its tremendous power st louis post dis patch