Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-07-29
Local Ped Men Entertain Braves
and Squaws From all Over
the Peninsula.
BATTLE OF BALLS AND BATS
Hampton Warriors Cried Enough, When
Medicine Man Bagby Knocked Ball
Into River-Parade Headed by Big
Chief Acknowledgment Making and
War Dance at Casino.

Newport News AMI several hundred
or moro young braves and hi. cniefs,
accompanied by sQuaws and proposes.
altered on the Casino pail: Yesterday
shortly after noon, having mig: atcd IN
tribes and groups from I'LL over the
Peninsula; and there were some in the
hiS camp Who had padllcd their canoes
across the deep water of the James
river from over in Smithficld and other
! POINTS across the river. When nll the
rcd skins had come into camp on the
Casino green. wigwams were pitched
camp fires built and soon the Casino
grounds along the river shore had
been turned into IL great camp and the
air was filled with the war-whoops of
The braves, the commands of the chiefs
and the screaming of the papooses
and sQuaws.
In the camp were Red Men repre-
| scnting the tribes in Hampton, Phoc-
bus. Smith1cld. Crttcndcn, Grafton,
Poquoson, Mathews and Fox Hill and
! all had come to celebrate with the
Comanclcc Tribe, No ~, and Fleet
Foot Tribe, No. s, nf this city.
The copper faced warriors with the
sqnaws IL this city had prepared
generous reception for the visiting
tribes and in the camp there was abun-
dance of daintics, pleasing to the
tastes of the rcd skins, so peace and
harmony rcignrd in tho camp through
out tho day and oft tho pipe of peace
passed the rounds among the warriors
and chiefs
The amuscmcnts of the day hogan
In tho afternoon mt 2:2O o'clock, when
the warriors of Hampton and this city
donned fighting costume and wagcd q
fierce battle with halls and bats on the
Casino diamond. When. tho hattie he
gan there were several hundred "Red
Men, sqnaws, papooses, pale faced
men and ladies gathered around tho
| llell to watch the slaughter and was
certainly n slaughter Of the National
game. Medicine Man McAlister, Of
Hampton and Heap Big Chief Mil
stead, OF this city. agreed to he targets
| for the arrows of the opposing tribes
by umpiring the game
| When once il had started the bat
tie waged fast and furious. Tho Rcd
Men" from the Kecoughtan Tribe OF
Hampton, led at the bat, scoring three
runs in the first inning and the local
warriors doubled that number when
they took to the stick. The second
Timing resulted in big goose egg for
each tribe, hut in the third the Hamp.
| ton warriors succeeded in getting one
Indian across the rubber, while again
In that inning tho locals wore treated
| to goose egg. The fourth inning re-
suited in -four for the Hampton and
| fN.
| fifth each tribe added another scalp to
its list. In tho sixth inning the IIamp.
ton tribe forced two warriors across
the rubber, giving them lead in the
scalp taking by the score of 10 to s.
In the ending of that sixth inning,
however. the scalping process hogan.
the local warriors having the knife in
hand. The fight was fierce and bitter
and before the Hampton braves could
heat a retreat, the Comanchcc and
Fleet Foot warriors had taken eight
more of their scalps. When the Kc.
coiiShtan warriors took up the
knives" ir the opening of the seventh
and last inning they succeeded in taxi
ing two heads of hair from the locals.
In the ending of tho seventh half of
the slaughter tho fighting blood Of the
local chiefs and braves had hcen aro,ls.
ell and one by ono they scalpcd the
Hampton Rcd Men until they had add
cd nine more Of the precious trophies
TO their belts, giving them n total of
%, while the Hampton warriors had
! succeeded in getting only 10.
Big Medicine Man Bagby, who is
well trained in the scalping art as play
| cd yesterday, was SO blo0dthirsty in
| he ending Of the seventh inning that
the Hampton braves turned faint and
quit the game, for had not the local
Medicine Man sent the sphere over the
river bank into the peaceful waters of
the james river.
After the baseball game the Red
Men returned to their wigwams under
The shade of the sheltcring trees that
line the river bank, whore the defeated
and victorious warriors. big chiefs,
braves, ,squaws and papooses were
treated to refreshments
Owing to the length of the scaiping
contest on tic Casino diamond the
council of the local tribes decided not
to hold the athletic events. in. which
the snuaws were to have participated.
At 6:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon
the grand parade formed on West ave-
nuc at Twenty-siXth street and soon
"i''i Maiua ~ UeSui 10 move around
the city Leading the parade was
Chief Miistcad on his war horse Fol
lowing him were about fifty braves on
war horses. The Red Men were be.
dcckc,l in a full regalia of, feathers and
frontier suits with flowing black hair.
Their faces were smeared with bright
hncd war paint. The Old Dominion
bnnd rode on n gaily decorated float.
There was also q Red Mems float
drawn by four big black. horses. On
the font which, was decorated with
1lngS md. hunting Wcrn ahnut fifty