Bennington banner and reformer. (Bennington, Vt.) 1903-19??, 1903-08-20
STARKS WON
THE TRUMPET
But Putnams Would Have but
For an Accident.
AT F. N. T. A. B. PICNIC.
Event Was the Best in the History Of the So.
ciety-CuP Contest Resulted
in Tie.
AT F. N. T. A. B. PICNIC.

The leading feature OF Bennington
battle day was 23rd annual picnic
and feld-day of the f. M. T. A. b.
Society, in Hunts upper Grove in the
afternoon of the 18th. It was attended
by one of the largest crowds in the
history of the event The ball-game
between the Father Matthew club of
North Albums and the local nine was
called about l 80 p. M, Moon of Pow
nal was in the box for the locals. The
home team was we'll in the lead up to
the end of the fourth inning when the
visitors began to straighten out
Moons curves, and batted out lead,
which they increase steadily until the
end.
In the sixth inning, Hoolihan of
Rutland went into the box for the home
nine. Bunting the North Adams pit
cher was hit frequently, but not at
crical moments. The game as whole
was ragged and full of errors The
locals were far from playing their us
ual good game. One of the fans sug-
gested that their newuniforms queered
them. The final score was % to a.
Collins Graves umpired the game.
The 100 yard dash was the first of
the atheletic contests. p, II. Healy
and Martin Kearns ran for the K. of
c., Claude Walch for the American
Forresters, and J. Harry Jubb for
the Y. ". C. A.. Jubb won, Walch,
Currans and Healy finishing in the
order named. The best time was 10
seconds, fiat.
The contestants~in the hop skip and
jump, the standing broad and running
broad jumps, were Martin Kearans
and John Gibney for X. of C. and
Louis Puffer and Walter Houran for
the Y. NJ. C. A. Currans landed all
three for the X. of G.
John Purcell of the X. of c. was
defeated in the shot put by r. F.
Healy of the Y. NJ. c. A.
The high jump was won by John
Plum Of the Y. NJ. c. A. The other
entries we're; Gibney and Kearans for
the X. of c., Plum and Russell Graves
for the Y. NJ. c. A. This left the K.
of C. and the Y. NJ. c. A. tied with
three points to the credit of each.
The Starks we're the first to run in
the hose contest and their time was %
2-10 seconds. The Tiffany hose com
pany started next and made the run
in % 6-I0 seconds. The Putnam com
pany ran in hard luck. Three of their
men fell when three fourths of the way
down the track, and even then their
running time was 2S seconds, which
was the best of the afternoon. But
the pipe judge discovered that their
nozzle had not been screwed on COM
pletely as provided by rule and added
one fourth of second to their time,
which left them az % IA seconds.
The fire laddies from the Eagle Hose
company ran in % 2-l0 seconds, but
they had some trouble with their
'coupling which beat the Putmans,
so their time was put at 2S 7.2O
seconds, The closeness of the results
made the event an exciting one and
the judges did not award the trumpet
until Monday night when 1t was an
nounced that it went to the Stark hose
company. The committee was upam-
imous in its decision. e. E. Larrabee
was time keeper for the running, w.
H. Bradford starter, Michael Loner-
gan pipe Judge and Collins Graves hy-
drant judge.
The city band was in attendance and
played few selections in the intevals,
which was inirequent and short.
1t is to be hoped that the success of
this occasion viii give an impetus to
track atheletics among our young men
who lack nothing but pratice to be-
come proficient.