Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-13
THEIR HApPlEST DAY
coLoRED PEOPLE CELEBRATE
EMANCIPATION DAY.
MANY VISITORS IN TOWN
Celebration Started OF With Bar
becue and Ended With a Platform
Dance and a Cake Walk - Hooking
Defeated BY ottumwa Browns.

LATTICE anu Sdke walk - FlOCNilS
Defeated BY Ottumwa Browns.
From Fridays Daily.
The happiest day of the year Tor the
colored race was yesterday. Beginning
early in the morning by preparing a
barbecue, which was served at noon,
the colored population Of this city, to-
gether with large number Of out of
town visitors, spent the entire day in
celebrating their one great day, that
which commentaries their emancipa-
ton from slavery. In the afternoon the
Hooking Giants and the Ottumwa
Browns fought for supremacy on the
diamond the game resulting in score
of S to in favor Of the Browns. At
Caldwell park and the West End
Heights, colored folks who were not
disposed to witness the ball game,
passed the afternoon in games of va
rious kinds and in picnic fashion, In the
evening a platform dance and a cake
walk were the features at the Heights.
The Hooking Union Cornet and Reed
orchestra furnished the music. Short
ly after IL o'clock the park and the
Heights were cleared and the largest
attended, most enjoyable Emancipa-
ton day celebration ever held here
came to close.
The Barbecue.
Two barbecue booths, one in the
park and one at the Heights, presided
over by aproned caterers, distributed
pieces OF, the barbecue. In the evening
the taste of the colored people for the
southern dish was at its height and
hourly a crowd thronged around the
booths waiting for their turn.
The Cake Walk and Dance.
At the south end of the pike in the
Heights, a platform had been erected
for dancing Shortly after 8 o'clock
the Hooking musicians. arrived and
Immediately the dance was begun.
Waltzes and two steps, quadrilles and
schottische made up the program. AT
every dance, the platform was well
filled with merry-making colored folk.
The contestants for the prize in the
cake walk were Miss Ethel Waite, and
Will Jones and Miss Bessie Pleasant
and Elijah Miller. The former cou-
pie won first prize of $1.00 having re-
ceived the heartiest applause from the
300 or more spectators.
Hooking Giants Defeated.
The Hooking Giants, the much tout
ed organization which broke even with
the renowned Buxton aggregation,
which is considered by far to be the
best colored baseball club in southern
Iowa, were walloped at the West End
park yesterday afternoon by Blonde
BARRIERS Ottumwa Browns. Nine
whole innings were played and despite
the fact that the visiting gladiators
tried unrelentingly to wrest the game
from the locals. even going so far as
to substitute Buttons star twirler in
the ninth inning the final score re.
suited in eight points for the Browns
against an unlucky seven for the
Giants Realizing that the game would
be hard one. energetic Blonde cor
rallied Yves Kirkland, Chauncey Graves
Deacon Jones, Tom Price and Jim
! Lord into camp and the white Browns
did the business nicely. Kirkland was
on the rubber and his work was unus
! ually strong except in two instances
when he issued a pass to c. Rhodes In
!! the fourth and threw wild in the
/ sixth. kirkland was steady and pitch
ed effective ball, Notwithstanding thai
| eleven hits were made.
/ He fooled eleven men. Artie Moss
4 who opposed the local twirler was wilG
i at times and failed to keep the hits
scattered. He struck out four men
In the ninth inning, after Hooking hae
4 tied the score, Steele. Buttons clever
\ soutbpaw was sent in to pitch. He
struck out Second Baseman Broomel
! Cle first man up. Deacon Jones, the
ex-standpatter came next. He sho
the ball to Short Stop G. Rhodes bu
the nimble little short fielder got too
strenuous and threw the ball in the
4 grandstaud Jones going to second
/ Center Fielder Lord followed and con
Meeting with one of Steele's bender
ines, he sent it out to right field, tn,
hit scoring Jones and the winning
run.
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