Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-07-04


REGULATION HOSE RACE.
1. Run 100 yards to plug. attach hose,
three full turns. lay $50 feet of hose.
break coupling and put on nozzle. All
connections to be made three full turns
2. Teams to consist Of not more than
II men and foreman.
3. No team allowed to unreel hose un.
til within 50 feet Of plug. the axle of cart
to be on starting line when started.
I. Time to be called when nozzle
touches the ground.
5. The carts to be used to be ordinar,
service hand hose carts Of equal weight.
6. The two teams making best time to
compete in regulation Hub and Hub
race. and the two teams making slowest
time to compete in Consolation Hub and
Hub race.
CoUPLERs' RACE.
1. Team Of two men run 50 feet. break
coupling of three full turns: time to be
taken when nozzle touches the ground.
.. Hose to be two lengths of ordinary
service hose. with ordinary service COUP
ling and ordinary regulation nozzle not
less than a inches. as approved by the
executive committee.
;. Hose and coupling to lie on the
ground. All couplings must be three full
threads.
4. Nozzle to be carried from the start.
HOSE RACE NO. =.
Open to all teams not winning prize
in the Regulation Hose race.
Same rules As In Regulation Hose race.
CONSOLATION HUB AND HUB RACE.
Two teams making slowest time in
Regulation Hose race.
I. Run 100 yards to line. lay 100 feet
Of hose. break coupling and put or nozzle /;
time to be taken when nozzle touches
ground.
2. Hose not to be pulled until within
10 feet of line. and end Of hose to be back
Of line when time is called. Other rules
same As IN Regulation Hose race.
NOVELTY HOSE RACE.
!. Run 100 yards to plug, attach and
lay 200 feet Of hose. take out second sec.
ton and take out sixth section. put sec.
ond section where sixth section came
from, and put on nozzle. All couplings
to show three full threads.
.. Carts to carry $50 feet Of regulation
an finch hose.
;. Time to be called when couplings
are made.
I. Team to consist Of II men and FORE
man. Other rules same Of Regulation
Hose race.
FLAG RACE.
Teams TO consist Of six men each. and
distance to be run 100 yards. three men
to run from each end. The Flag to be
furnished by the local committee and to
be carried by the contestants the entire
distance.
PIREMAN's Voor RACE.
!. Open to one contestant from each
department.
.. Run 100 yards to line.
REGULATION HUB AND hub RACE.
Two teams making best time in Regu.
lation Hose race.
Same rules As in Consolation Hub and
Hub race.
LADDER CLIMBERS CONTEST.
I. Team shall consist Of FIVE men, one
climber. two footers and two raisers. The
ladder shall be a regulation 7ofoot lad.
der. rungs to be iA.inch centers. Ladder
to lay fiat on the ground. The footers
shall stand At the foot and raisers at the
head Of the ladder erect until the signal
to 60 Is given.
2. The climber will stand 50 feet from
the foot Of the ladder. and at signal will
run to climb the ladder. which Is to have
an angle Of at least IS degrees. Time to
be taken when he touches the top rung.
CHIEFS RACE.
Open to the chiefs Of all departments
contesting.
!. Run 100 yards to line.
rRRE-F0R-ALL 100 YARD DASH.
This race will be run Thursday after.
noon, May a. and will be open to all
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