The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-10
or SUSPENDED JOE.
How Hc Won The Fat Mems RACE ut the
Overwhelmingly Outing.


Two thousand from the slaughter house
district found their way in the cool of the
morning yesterday to the dock at Fortieth
street and North River, where a steamboat
was waiting TO take them to Witzel's Grove,
College Point. for the great annual clam
killing. Ranged along the pier were the
McGraws, the Haymakers, the Outofthemud
Association, the Belvidere Athletics. the
Eleventh Avenue Socials and many other
ancient and honorable societies of the
neighborhood. The boat was sent on with
a cheer by all the kids who could find stand
ing room along the river front. The good
ship passed down, fairly drowned in wavos
Of brassy music, so low and splendid that IL
made the very Dutch of Hoboken put down
their morgensch open and swallow hard.
The river cleaned in the sun, m up its
bright stretch the voting force Of the Ninth
made its way to the grove.
Big and little Tim Sullivan were both
on the green and keen participants in the
great clam killing. Giegerich. Sweetser
and Mayo followed the clam with no little
success to themselves and honor 10 the bar.
Nor was Peter Dooling. the County Clerk,
ioath with the deadly fork. Even Com
missioner John p, Windolph was there
and slew a clam or two Just to show that a
Republican was equal to the task.
Alderman Doull would have made a good
score against the bivalves, il is thought, IL
he had not been drawn into a pinochle con-
test held on the seven tables under the trees
to decide the contested championship OF
Tenth avenue. The German voters say
that Doull is the best Irish ~pinochle hand
= - l.-A.sza - w.ank 20 mt him IN for
Governor. They say, anyway. that they
would rather support him for Alderman
than q German who played a bad game. -
When all the CLANS were slaughtered or
had retired to deep water to catch their
breath the band througed into the field,
when several baseball games we're started
simultaneously. The most important was
the one between the firemen n the oops.
Betting ran up into the halves and dollars,
and the finest were the favorites. The
crowd said that the cops, with their superior
knowledge of stick work, ought to win out.
But when the fireman pitcher turned the
nozzle, 30 to speak, upon the policemen they
faded away. Barely were they able to make
their little seven runs. The hremen seeing
that they had the game won stopped bother
ing to hit the ball and run o after they
had scored seventeen u n
The fat mems race was run without any
Aldermen competing. The best Of the
Aldermanic s~welterweights ran the other
day at the McManus outing and have not
been able to bring their weight up to the
required 800 again since that occasion.
Suspender Joe Hughes was the favorite,
a broad shot. as the sports called him, with
31s pounds up.
II was neck and neck between ~Suspender
Joe and Starr, a dark horse. A they neared
the tape, chest and chest, each putting and
clutching his chowder. hat in his hand, with
the ruck Of the runners behind, Joe, with
a great heave Of his well coated ribs, burst
OF his famous pictorial celluloid suspender
buttons, and with the freedom Of swing
thus gained swept to the tape ahead OF
his rival by only the thickness OF a thin
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