The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-25
COPS LEFT LAST
DESERT IN WAKE
ls(Continued from First PaEe.l

Make me q child again, Just for
to-day" was the prayer Of every heart,
and the prayer seemed to have been I
answered. Grey hairs went for naught;
wrinkles were only those brought by
smiles: old hearaches were forgotten,
and the voice Of tears was lost in I
laughter. Many a woman has said
that the way to q mans heart Is |
through his stomach, and II that be |
true many q lass might have won her
lad yesterday, though It might have
been long route to travel. Never
rheumatic Joint was there that
creaked yesterday, and youths were
revived in burdensome age. The stew
satisfied the appetites that had been
In the making for weeks, and the hop
made lemonade oiled the springs OF |
the heart and completed the general
illusion that the world had suddenly
grown young and gay once more. The
sun waxed hot during the middle Of
the day, but coats and collars We're
soon discarded, and beneath the bush
the hot and the faded famed them
selves cool again. What wonder then
that the old men danced and the young
men ptped. and the sound OF the
trimbrei was heard afar?
Began Early in Day.
The general merrment began at I
o'clock in the morning, for the police
had to go out in two shifts. one in
TIE morning, the other in the after
noon.
AS soon as the crowd had assembled
in sufficient size. and that was almost
| before the break of day. the fun
started. OF course. everybody was
1 hungry before he arrived and to sat
L e h =, 1,ft n
4 freightload OF sandwiches had been
prepared. Barrels We're tapped. Phil
j Neisz. chairman OF the entertainment
4 committed; officers Sherry. Ii,nmcr
4 Thurman and schleff and Sergeant
Sowell were placed next the bung-
holes, and the frothy, yellow colored
| lemonade began fairly to ayF With
sleeves rolled up high. the valiant
/ officers set about appeasing the thirst
1 of the crowd that poured necessarily
4 by. 1t was enough of an ordeal to
! make the stoutest heart quake, this
A attenton demanded by the raging
4 thirst, but the officers worked man
fully, and If the crowd was thirsty
when 1t left, 1t was not the fault OF
a the men behind the guns-or rather
y the bar.
i The general enjoyment OF the morn
Ing and early afternoon was greatly
!, Iadded to by Kessnich's Band, which
A had volunteered to furnish music for
. the OCCASION. @i{
I In the grandstand they sat and
. played, and the strains from their In
struments were waited from corner
to corner of the vast area where the
police and their friends were engaged
| in every form of amusement Auto
races and trotting events were on the
& program and If 1t We're not that a
a card game, game OF quoits, or an
Eunusually protected lemonade thirst
that prevented, everybody was there
"a to watch them.
Great Baseball Game.
off from the eastern end Of the track
s a. game of baseball was in progress
Z nearly all the afternoon, and depite
l the almost overpowering heat and the
!, dust Of the unturfed field the game
: was nearly as exciting as the las
: game between Richmond and Norfolk
s 1.-THE score was larger of course fol
r the men played the old style, the way
. baseball Is meant to be played Boil
! teams were pick-ups from players wh'
had more enthusiasm than skill. ant
the way they scored on each othe
4 was frightful. Finally one team
n doesn't matter which, for neither wa
n tdistnguishabe from thesother and tn
? men played unfortunately o.
). q 46 to 80. Immediately there was grea
< jubilation, and the visitors had a drinl
v at the expense Of their rivals lttwa
81 lemonade all hands around, and seyera
$, times around at that, and then the UNI
3 pire was called in to have one on tn
9 crowd.
Over next to the grandstand a dozel
r or more Interested themselves in
le CANA of .quoits. a pastlme usually NOR
.cl, ,>ln n l1nYt nm "a
II hrma, but the aged athletes SCENE,
T. Ito enjoy 1t. and no one kicked In tn
y various sheds setback,penuchle, dom
-, no es---neWt names, all of tllem--Wer
j. played. Groups of four or more wer
o. found scattered all about the place
ir and the refrains: II raise you one Q
i'd II call u,"were heard like the son
IN OF oc,lsts In the once infested Ian
a.. 80 of Egypt. What such a saying as 7
- raise you one" has TODD With dominoe
Nj. lis not explained, but the player or
A.tItpcsite to the one speaking lgenerall
r.. did the same thing and often It WA
sc done two Hor three times III less h tina
a,moment ll
- Other Textures, #
4,l; Among those engaged IN plaNin
INF dominoes was the milling Sam Ster
=. whose cheerful pllsyiognomy6 Threaten
'at ed to expand to the breaking poin
TO- Others equally innocent We're there
10 plenty. such quantity Of gamestel
4. land sports was rarely gathered ~
Is gether before.
N lack Sales presided over the p'
it. all day. The Ions had heen nut
res ne 4. Il 80 I, y
100 dozen cars Of corn, SO cans
.SI tomatoes. and other things which a
too numerous to- mention, and while
for that matter, the chef refused
name. He was not pressed too far p
a hind the refreshment stand Once
l Tate, Craft and Tomlinson preside
4, doing justice to ali who came the