The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1908-08-06
COMMERCIAL CLUB
DAY Big SUCCESS
ADDS $425 TO PUBLICITY FUND
Many Took Half Holiday and Enjoyed
Sports, Dinner and Dance, and
Suggest That IL be Made
Annual Affair.

Annual Affair.
Commercial Club day wss success.
From the time the last merchant
turned the key In the lock Of bis front
door until the last bar of music float
ed through the ball room every body
was out to have a good time and to
help the club. Nobody worked, en-
cept the ladies who were on the sup
per and dance committees, and to
them should largely be given the cred
1t of providing Hood River with two
Of the most enjoyable public enter
tainments ever given In the city.
without their assistance Commercial
Club day would not have been posi-
BILE. Many thanks then to them and
also the men members of the commit
tees, who spared no effort in making
the affair success.
The amount realized tor the public
ity fund from the various entertain
ments was 1926, and the idea OF set
ting aside day each year for this
purpose was discussed by many, who
say that it brings the town and ooun-
try people together in way that
could not be accomplished otherwise.
1t Is suggested that il it should be-
come an annual event that a whole
day be taken and the affair so arrang-
ed that much larger oommittees could
be appointed 80 as to distribute the
work of getting it up on many instead
of comparatively few.
According to she pre- arranged pre-
gram stores and business places Of all
kinds closed promptly at l o'clock.
The band gave short concert on the
square at ! 80 and the crowd then
went to the ball game.
Base Ball Game.
Several hundred people were In at
tendance at the game, many of them
ladies, and the band enlivened the
scene and put ginger into the players.
Anybody who attended with the ideas
that they we're 10 witness a poor con-
test we're agreestly disappointed, as
the exhibition was we'll worth the
money.
The game was called at 2:30. Chris
Nickelsen was appointed announcer
and stated In stentorian tones through
megaphone that as this was the first
ball game to be played in Hood River
county Mayor Lawrence Blowers
would pitch the first ball aud Truman
Butler, vice president of the club,
would catch 1t. Later these gentle
men performed this act successfully,
amid the cheers of the spectator
The announcer also informed the
crowd that the opposing teams would
be known as the Newtown Pippins and
SpitzenberRs. The Newtowns had
their left arms decorated with yellow
streamers and we're as follows: r. W.
Kelley. G; Bert Lender, b; l.. Il.
Morse, 2 b; @. G. Carrin, Sd b; r.
W. Pratt, SIS; Joe Vogt, {; j. e.
Nichols, @ &; and Fl. II. Bailey, (.
The Spitzen bsrRs wore red streamers
and were: Joe Iompkins, p; Geo.
Sargent, l b; Frank Davidson, ID b;
Del Rand, Sd b; A. Oliver, 8 g; j. L.
Henderson, {; DR.. jenkins, @ f; and
Chas. Clark, rf. DR.. f. G. Brosiui
was captain Of the Spitzenbeigs and
Chas. Castner acted in like capacity
for the Newtowns. John Castner waf
selected RS umpire, Jack Rand acted
as water boy and the game was on.
In the first inning the Newtowni
took the field, Pitcher Wright threw
out his chest and the Spitz we're re
tired In one, two, three order. Th'
Newtowns Jailed to score In the iirs
inning also. In the second Tompkins
Morse and Sargent crossed the plat,
Tor the Spitz, anG CurIin and Bale.
succeeded in making two runs for tn,
Newtowns.
Judge Henderson, who went to ba
IN the third for the disciples of tn,
red ribbons, made safe hit, stol
second and third and came home OF
Clark's out. The first three men VI
for the Newtowns In their half of tn
third, Wright, Kelley and Lender
scored, and the score stood to 4 il
their favor.
In the fourth the Spitz developed
batting streak, led by Sargent ant
raped the ball for fve Iuns with tn
assistance OF several fumbles by thei
opponents. At this stage OF tn
game 1t looked as II 1t was all oft TO
the yellow boys, as they failed t.
score in their half Of the fourth.
In the fifth the red men added an
other tally, making the score 10 to {
In this inning, however, the New
towns braced up and sent three me
around the Eases on hits by Lender
Currin and Pratt. This put new ell
ergy into the arm of Pitcher Wright
who put on more steam In the sixt
inning and handed the s3. bo
men a bunch OF goose eggs. The sixt
was a Waterloo for the Spitz in an
other way also, as their lower price
but more prolific opponents put o
their batting clothes and raced aroun
the sacks for eight runs. In their gan
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