Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-24
BIG afternoon
CROWD PRESENT
Improvement in Weather Sat
urday Made Travellers Pic
mic a Success
MOST OF THE EVENTS RUN
Marsh lltown Travelling Men Win the
Ball Game, and Present Waterloo
Team With Purse-ResuIts Of the
Other Events = Mrs. Simon Wins
Fine Prize by Writing Epitaph.

The bad weather Of Saturday fore
noon, which threatened to mar the
pleasure Of the afternoon at the faii
grounds, took on such an improvement
by early afternoon that it was possible
for the large crowd present to enjoy
the program of sports scheduled be-
tween the two ball games of the after
noon The track was heavy for the
running events, and the slow mule and
motor cycle races were dispensed With
Two thousand or more people were in
attendance.
The first ball game, called at 1880
between teams Of Marshalltown and
Waterloo travelling men, resulted in a
victory for the home team by score
Of 6 to 2. Cline and Salisbury and
Booth acted as the battery for the
home team, and Vaughn and Sandorf
worked for the visitors. AS a courtesy
the local club presented the visitors
with its $40 share of the $50 purse
hung up as prize for the event.
The results Of the other events were
as follows:
twenty-five yard fat mems race -
Oscar Gohlke, State Center, won; S.
3. Lusby, Marshalltown, second; D. W.
Wheater, Marshalltown, third.
Travelling mems boys race, for lads
To-, Syx,if, b.
ney Simon, second.
Travelling mems girls race, under II
years Heien Adams. won;s Letha
Trainer, second; Katherine Gerhart,
third: Wilfreda Head, fourth.
Young ladies' twenty-five yard dash
-Freda Kallenberg won; Alice Pike.
second.
Consolation young ladies ceEs-
ther Waltemeyer won.
Eighty yard travelling mems free-for-
all dash-Robert p. johnson won; Earl
Bigelow, second; Roy Roberts, third.
Seventy-five yard travelling mems
free-for- aM-Charles Bendlage won;
Burt Cooper, second; Clayton Thomas,
third.
Tribute to travelling men by travel
ing mans wife-Mrs. A. H. Simon won
with epitapfi; Mrs. L. j. Jarrett, Sec
ond.
Distance guessing contest-Mrs. By
ron Carpenter won; Mrs. F. g. Stewart
second; Mrs. Oscar Gohlke, State Cen
ter, third.
Ladies ball passing contest-Mrs. A.
r. Hilsabeck won; Mrs. M. L. Mundy,
second; Mrs. Frank Meyer, third; Mrs.
w. j. Van Derveer, fourth.
Oldest travelling man on the ground
Tie between Lot Dean, MarshalltoWn,
and James Fenlon, Des Moines.
Travelling man present with largest
family-S B. Lusby Marshalltown.
Travelling man coming greatest dis
returned home from Kansas especially
for the picnic.
THE last event Of the program, the
tug of war, was also cut, owing to the
slippery condition of the track, which
made the event impracticable.
The finest prize won during the aft
ernoon was that captured by Mrs. A.
H. Simon for her tribute to the travel
ing man. in the shape of an epitapf.
Mrs. Simon secured a beautiful $25
silver tea set offered by Wyrnan, Part
ridge & Co., wholesale dry goods, ST.
Paul Mrs Simon's tribute, also that
of Mrs. Jarrett, which won the second
prize, a sack Of flour, will be found on
page Of this issue.
James Fenlon, of Des Moines, and
Lot Dean, Of this city, who divided the
100 cigars offered to the oldest travel
ing man on the grounds, are both vet
Grams on the road. Mr. Fenlon is the
older in years, being 81, but Mr.. Dean
has been a salesman the longer time,
sixty years. Mr.. Fenlon now repre-
sents the Woodmansee Manufacturing
Company, of Freeport, ILL.,, and has
been on the road forty-six years. He
sold the first machine ever made by
the Mccormick Harvester Company.
While in the city Saturday Mr.. Fenlon
was the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. c.. z.
True.
Mr.. Dean began travelling with his
father, back in Massachusetts,, when q
boy of Is. and is now IS. He is now in
the employ Of the Marshall Vinegar
Company, and makes his home with
his daughter, Mrs. A. E. Myers.