The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-05
CALEDONIA
PARK FULL
For the Annual Clan Gordon
Picnic Saturday
FINE WEATHER HELPED OUT
Sports Were About the Best Ever Seen
at Clan Picnic Dancing and
Other Amusements Were
to Be Had.

Ideal weather, a large crowd and good
lsporta made the 23d annual picnic and
games held by Clan Gordon, No. IL, Or
der of Scottish Clans, at Caledonia park
Saturday complete success. Not for
three years at least have the gate re-
ceipts been 80 large as ON Saturday, when
over 1900 people passed onto the
Egrounds. When the sports began at Ii
o'clock in the forenoon there was al
ready q good-sized crowd present, but
II the afternoon the crowd reached its
height, the special train over the Wells
River AZ 1880 having 300 crowded onto
Hts cars, and the electrics with double
headers were crowded until late in the
afternoon.
Besides the programme of sports there
was provided, excellent music by the
Montpelier Military band, dancing free
Of charge in the pavilion, music for
which was furnished BY Gilbertson's or
| ehestra Of Ave pieces, and numerous side
games that entertained large crowd ey-
tefy minute Of the day. That the crowd
had their appetites with them was
/ shown BY the AS gallons Of ice cream
/ that the clansmen disposed of, besides
case after case of soft drinks, moxie,
bananas, sandwiches and pop corn.
/ OF the side attractions Alex. Ritchie
was in charge OF ''Hee, Haw, Maude,
who let fly her feet every time a good
shot hit her in particularly tiekiish
lspot in her ribs, Kicking the foot ball
through the man, a device with James
Mackenzie In attendance. was another.
William Troup kept the boys buys throw
ling balls at his row Of dolls, and throw
ing balls into the barrel that Alex. Cor
don had arranged was an attractive di-
version. William q. joss had charge Of
a green for putting golf balls into the
lhoie, which scheme attracted all the Cow
pasture pool" players present.
/ Amusement for the little children was
not lost sight of either for Past Chief
William Barclay, wearing the Scottish
Highlander costume, carried out his an
Inual custom of presenting every boy and
girl on the grounds under twelve years
lof age ten-cent piece, and it took $40
of the ten cent pieces 10 20 around 70 all
the Youngsters who were lined MP IN
the field
The programme Of sports started at II
O'Clock and lasted until nearly seven, and
was eagerly watched BY a crowd that
lined the ropes about the field. Many
of the best amateur athletes in the state
contested in the sports, which were alto
lgether the best that the elan has had
lin years The judges of the sports were
Alex. j. Young and William MARI and
James Campbell as referee. Upwards OF
$500 were included in the prizes.
/ The Foot Ball Competition.
One Of the most interesting things on
the programme OF games was the five.a-
side foot ball match for the champion
ship Of the state, which was won by
the Crescents Of this city, whose team
was composed Of Robertson, goal-kctper
Wight. back; AiunToe, center; Rust, out
side right; Gall, outside left.
There were four teams in the contest
the Crescents. Rangers and Bon-aecords
of this city and the Northfelds of North
field The members of the other teams
were as follows: Rangers, Mcleod, goal.
keeper; Dennie, back; Laing, center; Du.
! guild, outside right; Johnston, outside
left Northfeld, Johnston, goal-keeper
Bissrtt, back, Walker, center; Smith
outside rights Mitchell, outside left
Bon.accords, j. Freeand, goal-keeper; A
Freeland, back Anderson outside right
Bremner. center; Willanson, outsid,
left. The games were fifteen minute:
IN length, seven and half minutes fol
la Kali DnFa AAr4lt. Epns a d
j. Chesser and William Birnie.
Mortified and the Ram IT'S played
first and Mortified won the game by
a score of one goal to nothing, J Mitch
ell making the only goal in the first
half The Crescents and the Bon.accords
then played and this game resulted In q
ii 10 . victory for the Cfeseenis Rust
making the goal for the Crescents ii
the first half The two winning teams
the Crescents and the Northfelds, ther
played the final game TO decide the cham
pionship, the Cresccnts winning the gam,
easily by a score Of 70 i. Rust die
great work in kicking goals for the Cfes
cents. making two Of their three scores
on clever kicks The first half endeC
with the score tied, to l. Rust scoring
for the Crescents and Walker for tn,
NorthHelds. In the last half however
the Crescents showed their superiority
by holding their opponents from scoring
while they made two more goals, onH by
Rust who Iobbed the ball in fine shap'
lover the goal keepers head and through
1.-THE goal, and the other by Gall on
swift kick that the goal-tender faile,
to stop.
The winners in the other sports wer,
a. follows: Throwing i6.pound hammer
prizes, So. SO and /. w. B. Scott, 81
. IL. I'M, Norman Mcleod second, Stuar
/ Dyke third.
| Throwing 2s-lb. weight, any style
!, prizes, SO, 81 and ST. Norman Mcleod
! As IT,. 2 in, w. b. Scott, second; A
Henderson, third.
Putting the stone, prizes So, So and 81
I Norman Mcleod, SO IT,, 0h in; Con
Sullivan, second; w. b. Scott, third.
Running high leap, prizes $3.50, Si.5t
and S1 Con Sullivan, so IT,, in; oil
hert Phillips, second; Ernest Riddle
, third
Hop, step and jump, prizes 50, St,5
and ST. j. s, ilesion, ~ f., in, a
!, Freelaud, seconds Con sullivan third
, Long leap, prizes 81, $3.50 and 81. !
J, s. Hession, 20 f., 2 in,; A. Mine sec