The Anaconda standard., 1899-07-06
THE FOURTH AT BOULDER.
sports, Pastimes. Baby Contest and q
Display of Wild Flowers.

Sports, Pastimes. a Baby Contest and q
Display of Wild Flowers.
Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Boulder, July 5.-The Fourth of July
exercises in Boulder passed off very
successfully. with good crowd in at
tendance No arrangements were made
for patriotic speeches or exercises of
that kind and the day was given up to
sports and pastimes. The bicycle pa
rade in the morning was not large as to
numbers, but presented a pretty ap-
pearance with many decorated wheels.
At Simpkins' hall the first event was
the display of Montana wild flowers.
and the first prize was awarded by the
judges to Mrs Terwilliger and Miss
Bennett, their design being the battle
ship Maine, with bitter roots prevail
ing. The second prize went to Mrs.
Berendes and Miss Gladys, a large
easel made up of nearly so varieties of
wild flowers. There was great assem-
blage of beauty in the baby show and
all were SO pretty that it was difficult
to determine which should get the
prizes The judges We're Mrs. Tucker,
from Broadwater county; Mrs. Concan-
non, from ElkhSrn, and Mr.. Hildebrand
For babies under one year of age Dod
ley H., the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Powell, took the prize. For babies be-
tween the ages of one and two years
the winner was Paul Andrew, son of
Rev. and Mrs. C. Howard CRUDE. Be-
tween the ages of two and three years
the prize was won by Carolina, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Rollie Gillian.
In the sporting events the greatest
interest centered in the ball game be-
tween Boulder and the Butte Juniors.
The latter is strong nine and the best
that Boulder has met this season. They
are young fellows, but play good, clean
ball and are effective in both team and
individual work Butte won by a score
of Is to 5.
In the juvenile ball game Boulder
beat Elkhorn by a score of rs to 10. l..
Nottingham proved to be an easy win
ner in the 1O0-yard foot race. Boyd
Logan of Elkhorn was second, Sid Rod
da of Elkhorn third. The horse race
was an unusually good one and was SO
close that there was some doubt as to
the winner, but two of the three judges
decided in favor of Townsend Boy as
the winner. He is fast one. is owned
by ]. b. Maxfield, trained by T. p Sher-
lock and was ridden by Jockey Reilly
from Wickes. Keno, who was beaten
only by a nose, is owned by Frank Tin
dali, trained by c. L. Thompson and
was ridden by Cass Taylor. In the
in the following order: Roy Byers,
George Chidlow, Cass Taylor, Eben
Warner and Bert Trotter.
: All the street sports were closely con-
tested. The bicycle road race to Nc
Neill's ranch was won by Mr.. Beaupre
from Basin, several. lengths ahead of
Mr. Fournier of Boulder. The distance
was five miles, with two long hills, and
the time was IA minutes In the mile
bicycle race AL Riedel took the lead,
but was overtaken by C. w. Sweet, who
won by three lengths. James Fleming
won the boys bicycle race. The bicycle
race of 30 yards, turn stake and return,
was taken easily by Jess Ripley, F1em-
ing second.
One of the best races of the day was
the girls foot race. Twelve young girls
lined up and every one a runner. Lila
Tanning and May Watson came out in
the lead a tie and had to run over. In
the second trial Lila beat, but 1t was
so close that it was difficult to deter
mine which was winner. Johnny
Bridges captured the small boys race.
There was a lack of interest in enter
ing for the ladies' bicycle race, but just
to see the programme carried out N
full two of the ladies contested and
then divided the prize money. There
was also a lack of enough 200 Founders
to make the fat mems race, SO the
weight limit was reduced, and with
much putting the contestants crossed
the line in the following order: For
Willy of Silver Star, Teslxy of Wickes.
Douglas of Boulder and Mcbride of
Butte. The latter danced a two-step
just before the race ITO show how spry
he was and Butte money was offered
on him because he looked so pretty, but
there were no takers. He got bad
start and finished fourth. There was a
lot of promiscuous tumbling in the
sack and three-legged races. Bruce
Beardsley won the former and Not
tingham and Thibodeau the latter. For
Willy won the wheelbarrow race. The
tug of war was a lively contest, but
was finally won by the valley boys as
against the town crowd.
A fine ball in the evening closed the
day that had been observed without
serious accident or trouble and with
unusually good Fourth of July weather