The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-16
BANNER DAY FOR GARFIELD
BIGGEST DAY OF SEASON ONE
OF MANY SPORTS.
Robert Russell Gets Time Prize For
Road Race and II. C. Matthews
Won-4,5oO Attended.

Oregon Short Line day yesterday was
the banner dav of the season for Gar
field Beach. About 4,5OO people attend
I'd, and every one seemed to have a
good time. The rains going out at 1880
a m and 2:S0 p. m. each had over
twenty cars loaded to the boards, and
both trains required double-headers.
The Ais and Gas trains also carried
out large crowds. The company issued
2.400 free tickets. and the friends of
employees swelled the crowd to such
an extent that Captain Barratt had his
hands full in taking are of the throng.
Nothing of an unpleasant nature hap
pened during the day to spoil the fun.
The bicycle road race called out more
contestants and aroused more interest
than any other event of the day. There
were thirty-two names entered for the
race, but only twenty-one succeeded in
starting. The race was run six miles
instead of ten, and the handicaps
ranged from three II one-half min
utes down to the scratch men. H. c.
Matthews finished first, but was put
back to third place on accoun of start
ing one-half a minute before his time.
Robert Russell captured the time prize.
covering the course in is minutes and
SO seconds.
The first seven crossed the tape in
the following order and captured the
sever prizes: II. c. Matthews, first;
A. E.. Anakin, second; a. Wardrop,
third: Robert Russell. fourth; C. Peter
son, fifth; H. Mitchell, FiXth, n A. c.
Husbands, seventh.
In the ladies' s~eventy-five yard foot
race, Mrs. Bud Mitchell captured the
prize, which vas a sack of flour.
The boys potato race caused a great
deal of merriment. 1t was won by Will
liam Bowerbeck, who carried off "a nice
sweater.
WHINE Of the race for girls under 10
years was won by Mae Arnold.
Calvin Pitt won h pocket knife in
the race for boys under u.
In the race for girls under u, little
Lucille Evans won the prize, which was
a bottle of perfumery.
Two prizes were offered for the win
ners of the 100 yard lash for men. Will
liam Sears won abe first in II seconds,
and j. A. Trumbow captured the sec
ond. The first prize was an elegant
mandolin and the second was a 100
pound sack of Jour.
The tug Of war between the black
smith shop and the car shop was won
by the former
A number of the officials were to have
taken part in the pigeon shooting
ll1dl1I p0l ON4AAS W liz Os0AA ~
town did not do so. superintendent Joe
Young did his best to represent them,
but Special Agent E. w. EXum slew
most of the clay pigeons and got a
fishing rod. w. H. Mitchell of the local
freight office was a close second, and
got the box of cigars.
The baseball game between the Rio
Grande Western freight department
and the Oregon Short Line a account
ants was called at S:15, with H. NJ.
Cushing and L. Barnes as umpires.
After eight innings the score stood 10
to Is, and the boys were forced to call
the game off, to make room for an
other event. Special features of the
game were a pretty triple play by the
r. G. VS. in the last half of h eighth
and a home run by Wrinkle of the o. S.
LIS. Along in the sixth inning, Glenn
ents of the o. S. LIS broke his bat and
a piece of it struck Nicholson and rem
dered him unconscious for a few min
utes.
This game was followed by a game
between the boys from the freight
house and those kom the shops, which
in victory for the former, the
score being 6 to 8. \ so purse went to
the VictOrS.