The San Francisco call., 1896-06-11

from to II years of age. Their young,
1.-THE limbs went skipping over the ground
like q rubber ball. Little Miss Tailor won
the first prize fancy cake, and the Misses
O'Neil, Smith and Mcdonald the others.
In the girls race only misses from II to
15 years old contested They came over
the line in the following order: Miss
Moore, Miss Cummins, Miss Madden, Miss
Sullivan and Miss Thode.
Then there was the young ladies' race.
None of them wore boomers, but the way
they got over the ground was terror to
dress-reformers. Miss Coad came out t1rst,
Miss Hanna second, Miss Herring third,
Miss Hauser fourth and Miss Bearwald
fifth.
The Young mems race was won by Rob-
inson. Cummings was second and Bur-
CESS third.
The retail grocers' clerks also had con-
test of their own. Burke won and the
other prize-winners came over the line IN
the following order: Sullivan, Lonergan
and Bender.
The porters' race was won by Robinson,
Toomy getting in second and Sullivan
third.
Believing that it was not fair to let mar
riage bar ladies from racing on the grounds
given by certain bachelor members of the
association-that in chasing their hus-
bands with culinary articles they got more
practice than was allowable, thus becom-
ing professionals and leaving the amateur
class-they were permitted to compete.
Mrs. Burns proved the f1eetest, Mrs Erick-
sen came in second, and Mrs. Conroy and
Mrs. Bostrom third and fourth respec-
lively.
This ended the racing. But the great
event of the day yet remained, namely
the tug-of-war. married mems team
pulled against single mems team. The
captain of the former was Walter Hewitt,
of the latter, Harry Roesler.
The former team consisted of the cap
tain, Lindauer (anchorman); Moran,
Kennedy, Stohlman, Monaco, McVicker,
Maxwell, Kerr and Thompson. The lat
ter of the captain, Henneberg (anchor-
Gottschalk, Tuite and Calderwood.
During the preparations for the event
the contestants passed the time in hold
ing their heads so the perspiration would
not dampen the spot they intended to use
in brscing their feet, and in vigorously
joshing one another.
Hey there! what sorry looking lot
of Benedictsp' yelled one of the single
mems team. "Get on to their willowy
anchorman," was the answer.
Though they struggled hard the single
mems team were speedily lerked across
the line amid hearty applause and good
natured taunts.
(Which result plainly demonstrates,
declared the irrepressible Mershon, that
marriage is tremendous drawback"
During all the time these games were In
progress the transporting element was in
the large dance hall, lightly tripping in
time to the music of Ritzau's band. Dane
ing was kept up nearly til the time the
last train departed.
Shortly after the dancing for the after
noon began a banquet was given to the
n
which was presided over by President
John G. Nobmann.
The prizes for target shooting for mem
bers, with the scores, were awarded as tol-
lows:
H. Tientjen, 60, first prize; William
Ring, SO. second; Charles Nobmann, 588,
third; Fred Myer, 81, fourth; J. ID.
Haari ies. 56, fifth; George wilkins and
John Schloen, 81 each, sixth; J. Larkey,
81 seventh; J. J. Moran, 81, eighth. A
NUMBER of others also received prizes, but
their scores were much smaller.
In the target-shooting for wholesalers
the following is the list of the principal
prize-winners with scores:
q. Il. Whitney and J. A. Folger. 56 each,
first prize; Larrot & Co. and Cleveland
Bachdols, 48 each, second prize.
The drummers shot as follows: ID. ID.
Becker, "a, first prize, the highest score
made during the day; Charles E. Torres,
50, second; ]. F. Faul, "a, third; S. I.
Blake, 81, fourth L. Otzen 81, fifth.
The first prize in the target contest BY
the press representatives was won by A.
ii. Powers, with score of 3d. The second
and the third were won by James K. Tay-
lor and f. l.. Perkins, respectively. The
two latter refuse to publish their scores
purely through modesty.
N. f. Fields the official scorer, who was
for sixteen years connected with the Police
Department of this City, wishes it under
stood that if the ammunition had rot
given out before he got to shoot no one
else would have stood even drowning
mans chance.
The prizes in bowling were awarded to
the following persons in the order named :
Mr.. Prehner, G. Glinderman and 6. Han
erken. W. Schwarke also received the
prize for the most mines, and ]. Heitman
the prize for the most poodles, box of
Napa soda, at which he bemoaned his sad
fate in not being a Good Templar.
On the trip home, as the train passed
through the tunnels, several youthful
malefactors made great smacking with
their lips and emitted distressful cries of
"Oh, George, don't" and "Pll tell ma, !"
whereat the young ladies were found TO be
blushlng painfully on coming into the
Eight. and cast highly indignant glances
at the offenders
taken all in all, the outing was grand
success, about 5000 people being present,
and the Retail Grocers' Association is
highly elated in consequence.
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DR.. Blue Is Promoted.
DR.. Rupert Blue for several months past in