The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-17
EAGLES AT THE LAGOON
Begin Day With Fine Parade
and Follow With Sports
at the Resort.


The annual outing Of salt Lake Aerie
No. s., Fraternal order of Eagles,
which was participated in by Eagles
from Ogden, Bingham and Mercur, was
held yesterday afternoon and last night
AT the Lagoon. Before going to the re-
sort there was a fine parade through
the business part Of the city. The line
formed at II O'Clock and moved west on
Second South to West Temple street.
north to First South street, east to
Main street, north to Brigham Young
monument where il countermarched
and proceeded south OF Main street to
Third South street. thence east to state
street. north &c Second South street to
the Grand theatre. where it disbanded.
In the parade were salt Lake. Ogden
and MeTcur bands.
Special trains brought S42 excursion
lists from Bingham. $50 from ogden and
$50 from Mercur. and Salt Lake was
represented at the Lagoon by from
1000 TO 2,5o0 members Of the order and
their wives. families, best girls and
friends Although the programme was
not carried out in its entirety and there
was some friction over one Of the
sporting events, nearly everybody who
went had an enjOya bic time
The outing committee was composed
Of @. d. Inman, W. H. Luddington, G.
a Buchanan, Albert Herr and J. c.
Hayes, and the committee on sports
and prizes of c, A. Buchanan. W. H
Luddington, A II. Pfeffer and Fred
Clifford
The first thing on the programme was
a game Of baseball between the Bing-
ham and Mercur teams. It was sched-
uled for ? o'clock, but did not begin
until nearly an hour later. It was an
nounced that the winner would receive
% per cent of the gate receipts, but as
the game ended in a row in the second
half Of the seventh inning and the UNI
pre- quit without rendering a decision.
the prize was not awarded. At that
time the score stood u to in favor of
Bingham The Mercur ball tossers
claimed they were being robbed by
unfair decisions of the umpire and the
Bingham boys declare that the youths
from Mercur didn't know the rules
Of the game
Umpire \. j. Thomas. after deIiberat-
ing on the game, decided to award it to
Bingham. So the Bingham team viii
receive 40 per cent Of the gate receipts.
and the Mercur- team will get % per
cent There is talk Of another game
between the teams for 5000
A tuE-Of-war had been arranged be-
tween teams from Bingham and Mer-
cur. but 50 much feeling was engen-
dered over the outcome of the ball game
that this event was called off.
The other events were. Ffftv-vard
WOmen's race, won by Miss Palmer:
nfty-yard fat mems race, Eagles only,
Won by Dr.. West, fifty-yard free-fOr-
all race, won by John Arnold: fifty-yard
race, Eagles only, won by -- Brad
ley; fifty-yard boys race, won by Evan
Johnston; ffty-yard girls race. won
by Nellie Gray; boat race, won by --
Collins.
The list Of the field events was a bal
loon ascension and parachute drop by
Clint Helene OF ogden. Owing 20 the
fact that he did not get a Cood start
and the balloon was not fully inflated.
he did not reach as nigh an altitude as
usual and struck the ground with con-
siderable force when he alighted. But
aside from a few slight bruises on the
legs he was uninjured.
The prize winners in the drawing
We're: b 047, %. 004, 81, ass. 34.O54. q. 636.
52.421. -, 79S and 50, S26. The prizes can
be obtained at AueTbach's store, shoe
department.