The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-12

of 100 yards, J. J. o'Donnell finished
 first with Bernard M. Hope a close
 second Time 10 seconds fiat.
 1 M Cunning of Hartford finished
 tlrst in the fat mans race while Office,
 John Coonan of this city came in sec
 ond beaten only by half a nose. Time ! 12 seconds.
 The free-for-all event for 100 yards
 was won by Walter Burke. Naylor.
 another athlete, came in second. Time
 6 S-16 seconds.
 ] B. M. Hope of New Haven won the
 apple race and Connor of Hartford
 was second. This race was by far the
 most interesting of all the athletic
 events All four contestants were fight
 ing for places and each one had de-
 clded that he had captured first place
 or at least second when the judge
 picked for close decision of this kind
 said: Ladies and gentlemen. contest
 ant No 1, as far as could see, picked
 up all his apples and reported to me
 inst but when I examined the box of
 apples there was only nine in if and
 not ten. Therefore he is out of it.
 Contestant No. 2 threw his apples
 from the place where he picked them
 up and, therefore, he is barred. Con-
 testant No 3 worked in the squeeze play once too of;en and droppod one
 Of his apples There is but one man l5lt and he seems to have accomplish ed the feat without foullng and there
 fore the victory is his. MT. Hope of
 New Haven, step up and receive this 6oS Of diamonds (Applause)
 Another glorious surprise was on hand for the guests from New Haven. Seven special cars were awaiting them cn their distmbarkment from the base ball grounds and schooRers (of beer) conducted the visitors first to Wothers field II was on the journey tnither that the gloomy mass of cloudlets above weighted down with the barrels of rain which il held, while 1t had threatened to heave down upon the merry throng at nearly every instant in which the baseball game was in pro- gress and which 1t had thoughtfullv and considerably retained till the ath- 10 ol2 events we e owe elced them civ 8 of that stupendous burden and let the torrents of rain fall heavily around the New Haven guests who were safely quartered and enclosed within the strong walls of the cars of the Hart ford Railroad company This did not In any way mar the happiness which was to be forthwith exposed by the of joyous officials. Colts band which had enlivened the trip from the depot and the defeat at base ball again acted the part of the hero md by pouring forth continuous strains of that glorious music which all lov- CTS of such can proudly enjoy and did enjoy. After being escorted on their trolley trip to Wethersfleld and shown the prison, they were taken back over the same route to the center and then out, miles out of the city to Windsor, the marshal strains of marshall music all the while.
 After the trolley trip the guests from both Hartford and New Haven were given grand spread at the Allyn House
 There were over $50 present Mayor Henney acted as toastmaster and in- troduced the following men who also spoke: Ex-Governor Chamberlain of | Attorney F. J. Lake of Hart ! Ord, Alexander Troup of this city, ! Major Reilly of Meriden. Mayor Dunn | Df Willimantic and Mayor HarbiSon of | Hartford.
 Those present from New Haven were | Bernard Hope, Selectman Samuel Bo- | nan, George Vogler, F. D. Adler, Prof | Hermann Hillmnn, Samuel Smith, E. goote Thomnson, Thomas Cox, isaac Iyman Johnson. James E. Howard Ed yard Scoville, D. W. Boyer, Elson Wright George Rowe. Bernard shan ey, John J. Sprightly Thomas Molloy, !. F. Flynn. Joseph Kollerstrom, c. w )swald Pallman, John H. Ailard. Fred. Whitaker, John Gibbons, Walter Burke, oe McHugh, Fl, B. Ekmark, J. c. Bren- an. J. D Shay, ". B. Somers, Louis 'erdinandus, John T, McCue. John Der lody, George Sullivan Larry Griffin, ohn B, Roche, James R. Cook, Thomas ' Reyes, John O'Donnell, Bartholomew allahan, Arthur OConnell Harry Vhildey, Frederick Booth Joseph H. S. | hamilton, Samuel Fl, Williams, Joseph l ahn, Joseph Maynard, Hubert NJ edgwlck, George Neal, William w, arry Robert Callahan, Daniel Mc- Is ulre, Frank P Green. Edward Mo- uinness Albert l.. Donnelly Frank Maher, John w Burns, Frederick = /. Orr Alexander Troup, c. & Schappa, E. keating, Thomas Murphy, John Rey- ' lids, Arthur Muller, Edward o Teara, lncent Keane, Samuel ]. Aller, E. c. elmer, William Schappa. Lawrence 'hepper, William Wehner. Peter Mo ugh, M A. Sullivan, R. S. Crockett
 Fred strong, Senator D. A. Blakeslee, larles ". Platt. George Frear, Freder- k Brethauer, Frank Mullinger John lonan James J. Carr. Charles Phillips. hn O. Johnson, Homar Perkins Frank 3rloins. Otto Unger, J. N Rowe, E. c. Edward A. Street. w. II. 'eston, Frank P, Ryan. F, W. Wat