The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-19

could not do better than make a close
second to keokuk's first.
The third event was an exhibition in
fancy strokes and somersault dives
from a spring-board. In these sports
B. ]. had been like a bat in the air and
trout in the water. He was so much
better than any of the rest of the Lake
runners, that the others never COM
peted with him. They were therefore
in no condition to shine against their
rivals to-day. The umpires decided
that Keokuk had won on points and
the Lakerimmers could make no objec-
ton.
The next event was relay race.
Each club entered four men, and each
man was to swim twenty-five yards.
The long and lanky Sawed-off was
the first of the relay Of the Lakerim-
mersi against him was pitted a short
and stock Keokukian. At the pistol
shot, they dived in and flew for the OPP
posite shore. 1t was a case of shark
versus pilot-tish, and the audience
laughed immensely, especially when the
little Keokukian crawled- up on the
bank while Sawed-off was three strokes
away. On the opposite bank by curl
Gus chance, the Keokukians had sta
toned a telegraph pole of a man, while
the tiny Jumbo represented the Lake
runners. The tall Keokukian got away
first, the frantic Jumbo had to wait
while Sawed-off climbed out. Then he
flashed into the water and went spin
ming through it like a screw propeller
that had broken loose. He managed to
gain what Sawed-off had lost, and to
land at the opposite side just in exact
time with the Keokukian. Ready was
the third Lakerimmer and by funny
accident the Keokukian against him
was also red-headed. The two went
buzzing across the pool with only their
fiery top-knots showing, and some one
in the audience yelled;
would you see the two burning
ships!"
The Lakerimmer just managed to
beat this lap by a head--a red head
and his brother, who would never have
dared to lose the advantage which his
twin had given him, succeeded in fin
ishing his relay and the race so that he
won by two heads.
This little ray of encouragement
was sadly needed by the Lakerimmers.
But even this bit of sunlight was
quenched in the handicap race In
which, in spite of their generous han
dicap, the scratch man for Keokuk put
out all his rivals.
The score of events for the day were
A to 1 in Keokuk's favor.
The Lakerimmers were beginning to
feel sick of their bargain which should
mean three days of such humiliation
as this.
Sleepy was for calling the whole
thing off, but that was not the Lake
rim idea of craftsmanship and he was
voted down.
Toward the last of the afternoon the
audience had begun to thin out and
q - oil hn M i~d md n
burns business-like soul was worried.
So he said:
The great trouble with to-days
events has been that they were too Sc
rious. Now tomorrow we must put
little ginger into them"
Il am sorry we haven't been able to
put more ginger in to-day" said Tug,
but our best man is not here"
Il did not mean that" said Mr.. Way
burn, II mean that we ought to put
something comic into the races"
Il think it is comic enough the way
it is" said Jumbo, the idea of our
trying to pretend to be a flock Of
ducks, and the only duck we have
flew the coop last night. We're only
flock of chickens
But when Mr. Wayburn again ex-
planned that he wanted some inten-
tionally comic events, the Lakerimmers
said they were willing to take the
gloom off of the affair.
CHAPTER Xxx.
The next morning the Lakerimmers
came to town bright and early. They
were sorry to read in the morning pa
per an account of their many defeats,
but they were pleased to see that the
kind-hearted reporter had blamed most
of them to the absence of their cham
pion water sportsman, B. j.
The Dozen split up into various little
groups and wandered around to see the
various sights of the city. Some OF
them strolled out to the high bluffs
and rejoiced in the magnificent view
of the great sweeping current the
Mississippi makes there. Below them
the canal seemed hardly wider than
the asphalt roadway. They could see
the spot where they had rescued B. j.
from the Hiram @. Mudd, and it made
their hearts sick to think of all the
trouble they had been to and all the
distance they had come, only to lose
him the minute they had him. They
cast a last glance at the river where
the bridge with it gap reminded Jumbo
of a comb with a few teeth missing
Then they turned sadly away.
After a time few of them found
themselves in the park, where they
saw a monument to the fine old In
dian chieftain who had saved the peo-
pie of the town many years ago from
Indian massacre and whose name had
been given to the town in loving men,
DRY.
Ready and Heady were not so much
interested in Indians as the others
were. They sauntered along the
park roads till they came to the zoolog-
ical collection. There they found a
black bear in a cage. They proceeded
to have fun with him. His feelings
were sufficiently hurt at having to stay
in a Jail without having committed
any crime, and he was in no mood TO
see fun in the jokes the twins played
upon him. Perhaps, too, he was like
a bull in his objection to red. How
ever that may be, the twins got on his
nerves and he snorted and lunged at
them furiously. Not being able to
reach them through the bars he be-
gan to climb.
BY some oversight the bars at the
top of his cage had been allowed to
work loose, and the twins who had
been laughing uproariously at the an
tics of the bear became serious when
they saw him shake those bars loose
and begin to shoulder his way
through. They were too much amazed
to move when they saw him work
himself clear and begin to climb down
the bars on the outside. But they We're
not very long in deciding that they
could talk the matter over better at