The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-06-07
GRAND FIELD
DAY SPORTS.
Wilmington Police Have a
Gala Day at the Union
Street Grounds.

The Wilmington police department held
its annual field duy sports Yesterday At
ternoon Trout and Union streets
Fully 1900 pei sons were present TO soc the
guardians OF the city have good day EN-
joyment. Every one came home delighted.
The day was ideSl and the sportS superb.
Every member of the force worked with
Will TO make the affair decided SUCCESS.
The game Of base ball was the first item
on the program. At the conclusion of the
game the winning side WAS presented
with box Of five cent cigars Then the
management carried u table to the
grounds in front of the grand stand. Five
fishes were placed thereon and Clarence
Holt. of the lunch cafe No. East Fourth
street, filed them with soup. The soup
contained all The ingredients found in
Hollis excellent soup, together with an
additional flavor OF cayenne. pepper:
The contestants were Heal, Eakin,
ScheIl. Manion and Purcell. The race
was good one. The soup was hot and
the spoons small. Eakin and Purcell were
ion won with Heal second close. The
prizes were lunch tickets ut Hollis In the
pie eating contest Special Officer Wallace
ran away from Heal. Everybody laughed.
Hucklcberry pie is good stuff.
Wallace received o Lunch ticket and
Heal handsome pipe.
Tho other events were; 100 yardi-J. Fl.
Massey, fist Payne; second, Thurman.
Time, II seconds. Prizes, silver cuff but
tons donated by Benjamin Gam; second,
pair Of va or.
Welsh first, W. Ward; second, Lucas,
Tucker Time 1215.
100 yards handsome fruit dish; w. j.
Matsey, first, Floyd, second MARI.
Special leo yards dash-Welsh, first; j.
=. Scott, second.
no yard, dash-Handsome pitcher.
;':be; tirst Purcell. second Taylor; Witsil,
Neeley, Edwards, Bayley, Wallace Time
70 80
Broad jump, first, cake dish, second,
iruit dish J. II. Massey, first; Payne, Sec
md, Scott. Lucas Ward. Distance Is 81.
second, 10 ~.
Putting the shot-First pair of vases
srcond. box of stationery First, Ward, ~
feet; second, Captain Kane, PILL feet
ucker, Massey. Payne and Mullen.
Potato race-prizes, silver pin, meer-
schaum pipe, Davidson and Moran. The
ether contestant was Floyd.
The base ball game between the east and
west side men was the feature of the after
noon sport, and although operator Kane
was not in tho game there was ample fun
without him. John WEIGH did the pitch
ing for the east siders' and Robert Bow
uian for the wost siders. Willard Menrs
was umpire. The game was without iu-
cident until the seventh inning when the
east side team collapsed, Seven runs were
piled against them and in the midst of the
excitement first baseman Lucas walked
after q passed ball. while Billy Gum
shouted derision in the faces of the losers.
But the losers had their good men.
Aiken, Shields and Tucker did remark
ably well and at one time success by The
ether side seemed as improbable as Span.
ish victory. Their pitching talent gave
out, however, and with tho collapse came
ruin. Massey, on the other side, distin-
guished himself by making two home
runs. This was the score by innings:
East Side. ................2 90 l 3 3 I'll
West Side. ..............3 0 | 90 7-l2
Batteriss-East Side, Eakin and Welch;
West Side. Bowman and Massey.
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