Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-09-07
SEVENTEENTH YEAR. NO. II.
LABOR DAY SPORTS
Large Crowd at Ellis Park TO Witness
Games-Pleasure Was Marred by
Fatal Ending of Balloon As
cenaion

Fatal Ending of Balloon As
cension.
Monday was not an ideal day for Labor
propitious with cool breeze and ooca-
sional rain in the afternoon.
There were many people stirring how
ever, in the city and at Ellis Park in the
afternoon large crowd assembled to en-
JOY the sports, base ball game, trapeze
performance and balloon ascension; the
fatality which followed the latter at the
close OF the day in which a human life
was sacrificed, marred the pleasures and
turned gayety and joyousness into gloom
and sadness.
After Prof L. T. Gould gave an exhi-
bition of wild ride on wire stretched
from the tower of the fabric mill down to
mother earth at | o'clock p. M. the cor
net band which had dscoursed fine mus
ic for an hour. headed procession to Ell
lis Park.
Prof. S Garfield and VanHorn enter
tanned the large crowds gathered there
for some time with their famous reyolv-
ing ladder and double trapeze acts and
Prof L T. Gould, the contortionist, gave
his specialties.
The sports.
loo-yard dash free for all-Gleason
took lst, Higgins 2nd.
loo-yard dash under 6 years-Eddie
Malone took the prize.
Fat mans race-Elmer Essex, st;
James Riker. End.
Sack raoe-Hggins lst; James Hill
2nd.
Pie eating oontest-Byron Soules lst;
John Shay, End.
Tug Of War-Afforded much amuse-
ment with box Of cigars to the winners.
Running Broad Jump-Higgins lst;
Gleason End,
Standing Jump Higgins st; Fargo
End.
The Rail- Game
One of the best games ever played in
Beldng was the one pulled off Labor day
before the largest crowd Of the season,
BeldnG defe Ating Greenyle 2 to 0.
Both Smith of Beding and Kench of
Greenvle pitched shut-out ball but
Greenve's errors in the fourth gave
Belding the game. Aside from this inn
ing both pitchers received good support.
After two were out in the fourth Chap
man was hit In the back with pitched
ball, going TO third on Soules' single and
scoring when H. Kench threw wild to
third 10 endeavoring to catch him there.
Soules took sec md on ths error and scor-
ed when Fuller mufted pitched ball into
the crowd off third. L. Jersey ended the
inning, being caught off second, after be-
ing passed to first Again in the fifth
Belding came near scoring when WILCOX
reached first on Bernard's error and Rik
er made clean single to centre. Cooper
however made sensational one hand
catch Of NJ Jerseys fly and Beldng did
not get another chance to score. Smith
pitched himself out of two holes. In tie
second, with no one out, the bases were
filled on a base on balls to Fuller, N Jer
seys error Of Vests infeld hit and Ber
nard's single Cooper hit to MoElroy
who threw Fuller out at the plate and
Wyneup and Middlebrook famed, Again
in the sixth with the bases full Wynct p
famed and Greenves only chance OF
scoring we're lost.
Both teams broke even in the one two,
three order as six sections of the game
showed only three batters at the plate
for either side.
Clayton Chapman, the Belding boy
who has been playing with the Grand
Rapids Central League team, caught for
the locals. his work behind the bat and
lis base running and the excellent out
fielding Of Miner Wilcox, being the feat
ures Of the game.
This game makes three out Of five,
which Belding has won from Greenyil,e
this season.
The score: