The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-07-27
The Best Yet.

The Best Yet, ..
As per previous arrangements the
picnic OF tho Sunday School OF the
Congregational church was pulled OF
Wednesday at Indian Lake in the
grove of natural timber on Mr.. Hits
place, this il the old Horton Ba'ber
place AMI is the fine~t spot for pic
mic in Mobiles county.
Twenty-Five rigs, averaging six to a
turn out met at the church and start.
ed about thirty minutes behind
schedule time, arriving at the rende-
v5us the place was quickly trans 'orm-
I'd into scene of activity, men and
boys putting up hamnocks, swings,
.laul ng ice, etc., while the ladies bus
led themselves With locating tie
''spread." Then came dinner-or
rather then came the people and then
went the dinner.
It took the united efforts OF DR..
Moore, DIR. Curran, Mr., Stearns, Stit-
ser to keep enough lemo in sight
Some of the younger blood asserted
itself at this time and challenged the
married men for a game of ball-the
challenge was accepted SO quick that
the youths were dazed-it only took
the first inning for them to find that
they were up against the real thing.
This is the way they lined up:
Benenedicts- Matteson c, Dicker-
man p, Fish l b, Stearns 2, Stitser 8,
Humiston S, Curran r f, Mann CT,
Smallwood If.
Youths-Darling c, Smalwood p,
Forbes 1b, Loveless 2, Aagaard 8,
Stearns IS, Franck If, Spalding CT,
Arson If.
Umpires-Wyckoff and Doolittle.
Scorekeepers-Mrs. Sibley, Clinton
Mann.
Timekeeper-Dr. Moore.
Following is the score by rounds.
Benedicts-7-5-1-7-1-21
Youths-2-0-1-8-1-12.
Errors by both sides II.
Home runs-Jet Smallwood, Ray
Humiston.
Struck out by pitchers 8 each.
The only dispute Yves between UNI
pire Doolittlo and Milt Mann who in
sisted that the umpire was second
ba< eman. Jet struck out the old gen.
tleman every time he came up to bat
except once.
DIR. Curran led in base running, az
he beat the the bail to first, stole Sec
cond and galloped to third and fin
ished under the wire on a canter.
Empires Doolittle and Wyckoff um-
pired like vrterans. Next came the
ladies game OF base bail, which result.
ed in the score of FIVE to two in favor
of the young ladies. Following are
batteries: Mrs. Matteson catcher,
Frances Clark and Mrs. Dickerman
pitcher, Ray Leverich; Casualties one,
Miss Virginia Matteson struck on
heard by the ball, the blow was re-
sented by the young lady who pro-
ceeded to knock out three Dagger.
Then came the three-legged races.
Hop, SKIP and jump. High jump,
broad jump, girls races, croquet
match, then supper. Soon as supper
was over, which was soon, the early
birds began to start for home, but
they missed one of the features of the
day, swimming match, go as you
please, professionals barred. Four
entries, Doolittle, Matteson, Humis-
ton, Smallwood, who finished in the
order named. No time, as timekeeFer
forgot to wind watch. Smallwood
was handicapped by being required
to use one leg only. This with a
splashshing match completed the pro-
gram and there was a general scram-
BILE for buggies.
Those who bad not already lost
their voices proceeded to make night
hideous by yells, cat-calls and few
songs, and thus closed a day which
being voted upon resulted in the fol-
lowing vote:
Perfect place! Perfect day! Best
Picnic yet!
There were some mighty lame mar
ried men Thursday.
Robbed the Grave.