Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1903-07-08
HOW INDEPENDENCE DAY WAS
CELEBRATED IN MOUNTAIN CITY
Fairly Large Crowd Was Present and Two
Days of Interesting Sports Provided

; exhibitions at Whipple since the com
: pany has been stationed there. The
} first contest was pitching a conical
tent. There we're three squads of foul
7 men and one non-commissionedo officer
, each who contested for the prize, and
the contest was very exciting and in
teresting. Seargent Scbatz and his
squad won the prize. pitching their
tent in exactly six minutes.
In the shelter tent contest Corporal
Thoms and his assistant Private Clap
saddle, won in three minutes.
The skirmIsh drill was one of the
most interesting events of the after
noon. There were six contestants in
this race. They took their guns apart
and laid them in pile In the street.
At the crack of the pistol they had to
run ten yards, put their guns to-
gether, fire five shots, run thirty
yards and fire five shots more and so
on till they had fired twenty five
shots each and then they had to re-
turn to the starting place. Private S.
l. Garrett won first money and Priv
ate Downs second.
Next was a prize drill, three squads
of seven privates and non commission
ed officers each contesting. Major
Walcutt, Capt. Reed and Lieut.. Phin-
ney being the judges in the drill.
EachNsquad did themselves proud and
received hearty applause from the
large crowd that witnessed the exhibit
toin. One who was not thoroughly
conversant with the technicallties of
Such a contest would have been I'M
able to pick out the winners, as they
all did so we'll, but the judges decid-
ed that Sergeant Scott's squad were
the winners on points.
The bayonet race was won by Pri-
vate Garrett, first prize and Sergeant
Schatz, second.
Private Z. W. Lee won first money
and Private Garrett second in the 80
yard dash with heavy marching order
equipment.
The tug of war between the soldiers
and civilians resulted in a victory for
the soldiers.
The base ball throwing contest was
won by Harry Cate.
In the lOO-yard foot race for fire
men, Paul Everetts won first money
and James Morrell second.
The tbree-legged race was won by
Meade and Lambertine.
Shirley Balderson was an easy win
ner in the sack race.
There were a large number of con-
testants in the boys bicycle race,
Gales winning first, Anderson second
and Meade third prizes.
The mems relay race around the
plaza was hotIy contested and was
fine event of the afternoon. The
winners in this race we're Messrs.
Jolly, Stewart, Thomas and Hendcn.
In all these events Dennis Burke
and J. Z. Mccoy acted as judges and
in all but those in which the soldiers
took part they had to act as organic
ers and managers as well. Their de-
cisions we're always fair and impartial
and gave excellent satisfaction. Too
much cannot be said in praise of these
gentlemen for the hard work they did
to make the celebration a success.
In the miners drilling contests the
contestants had been limited to Yava-
pal county miners. as it should have
been. OF course this limited the con-
test somewhat but it gave our own
boys a chance to get the prizes in
stead of some expert drilIers who
travel around and gobble up these
prizes, as a usual thing.
The double handed contest was won
by the Duncan Brothers they drilling
"A $40 inches, while Messrs. Shull
and Gorham we're second with "a in
ches even.
In the single handed contest there
were four men took part, the first
money being won by A. P. Dahlin, of
Walker. who drilled Il inches, and
second by Lewis Duncan with l1'7-20
inches. The other contestants were
u. d. Field, of Groom Creek and
Victor Johnson, of Walker.
An interesting game of ball was also
played in the afternoon between the
Glendale and Prescott teams, Prescott
winning by score of 10 to 10.
Not least among the attractions of
the Fourth was the ''Ought-to-mo-
bilI'' which had been constructed by
B. Tilton at his mechanical hospital.
1t was a great take off on the automo-
bile and il attracted a great deal of
attention as it went snorting around
| the plaza with the Journal-Miner's old
gasoline profanity producer as the
propelling agency. \ number of ad-
vertisements adorned its sides.
/ After supper the town was turned
over to the merry masquers and a
large number of them were on the
streets rugged out in every imaginable
costume, and they had plenty of fun
I till late hour. A boxing contest at
the Athletic Club rooms at 4 o'clock
in the afternoon attracted a good
crowd and resulted in a victory for
Prof. Mcmahon, the instructor for
the club. Although there was no
public display of fire works owing to
the short time in which the celebra-
ton had been gotten up, and the lack
of funds, yet there were many nice
pieces of fire works sent up by private
parties, thus closing. everything taken
into consideration. a very successful
celebration of the nations greatest
holiday.
FOURTH OF JULY NOTES.
An excursion train with over 100 ex