Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-11
FARMERS REUNION.
Pleasant Day With Many Events at
Cabin John.

The fall tournament and farmers reunion
OF montgomery county, Md, was held at
CABIN John Bridge yesterday, and thou
sands of persons were on the grounds. II
Is safe to say that all the sport-Iovine citi-
zens of that section were there. Twelve
knights entered the lists, and forty-eieht
babies were rivals in beauty and winsome-
ness In the baby show
The tourney was won by William Fisher
known as Knight of Halpine. The contest
was close between him and knights Little
Daisy and Burtonsville Fisher is a resi-
dent OF Montgomery county, as he had to
be to enter the tournament, and he lives
near the bridge. He chose to crown q
Washington girl, Miss Lita Offutt, as queen
of love and beauty.
The three arches were constructed near
the Palm Garden and had to be passed nv
each knight in eight seconds Shortly he
fore o'clock the twelve mounted men as
sembled before the judges and listened to
the charge. which was delivered by Mr.
William Kilgour of Rockville Mr.. Kilgour
was introduced by the chairman of the
committee on arrangements Mr. E. e.
Crockett. who afterward explained the
rules The judges. Messrs. Edward Peters,
Thomas Talbot, George Bradley Villa m
]. Lynch and Joseph Stearns, then took
their places. The tourney was quickly
started under the direction of Chief Mar
shall Robert Offutt with the help of AS
sistant Marshal Peyton Whalen. and the
aids, Robert Stone, Ed Welt and Bowie
Vinson. At the call of the bugle the first
knight. the Montgomery Boy, charged AS
the different favorites appeared the band
played inspiring tunes to cheer them on
and also hailed their success with cheering
strains. The contest soon narrowed down
to four knights. At the end of the third
attempt Little Daisy, Burtonsville and Hal
pine had each captured eight rings out of
a possible bn ho1
seven. was declared the winner of the
fourth prize, and the other three went forth
to tilt again. In. the fourth tilt each of the
three knights secured all three of the rings
and tilted again. In the fifth Halpine alone
secured all. and therefore he was declared
the winner of the tournament. The follow
ing are the results of the tournament at
the end Of the third tilt:
Montgomery Boy, George w. Ricketts,, @;
Wayside, Jacob Fisher, 6; Joseph Harriss
Little Daisy, 8; Gus Kline, Bethesda, 8; E.
E. Crockett, Cabin John, 1; H. e. Keller,
kenilworth, Z; w. E. Harper Lochinvar, 6:
B. Brashears. Burtonsville 8; H. T. O'Don-
nell. Sligo, 3; William Fisher, Halpine, 8;
James Reed, No Chance, 6; H. 8. Wheeler,
Falkland. g.
Mr. James P. Viers of Rockville delivered
the Grafton on the occasion of the corona
ton. Immediately after Halpine crowned
Miss Offutt queen She was attended by
Misses Helen Coon Bessie Parsley and
Hattie Higgins as maids of honor. hun
dred dollars in gold were given to the win
ners by the Noonan brothers.
The next contest of the day was for
babies under three years of age. From the
whole fortyeight Dorothy Viers. daughter
of Deputy Sheriff w. E. Viers. was selected
by the judges as the most beautiful. She
completely won them over with her golden
curls. dark eyebrows and rosy complexion.
The Oldest resident of Montgomery county
present was William Pyles who lives near
Cabin John. He Is ninety years Of age, and
has lived in the same house near the bridge
for seventy-three years. He Is still active.
and. it is said, is very fond of the fox
chase. A. A. Perry Of the scenic railway
won a prize for being the tallest man. He
is six feet five and half inches but
scarcely overtopped William r. Lyd-
dane. a farmer Of Maryland. Walter J.
Lloyd. weighing 1856 pounds easily claimed
the honor of being the latest man of the
day, for there were no other contestants
Mr. e. Perry and Mrs. Charles Matthews
were the oldest twins on the grounds, being
forty-fve years of age. They, in fact had
no competitors The prize for the largest
family was taken by Robert Garrison. with
nine children. Henry Kruhn, who came
thirtythree miles, from beyond Spencer
farthest from home '''o
In the foot race for large boys John Jar
bee came in first and Ed Terry second.
Cora Twilford YVES first in the small girls
race and Marie Gingel second. Walter
Lloyd won in the fat mems race in q walk
being the only aspirant