The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-07-10
NEARLY TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE VISIT
YALE ON THE FOURTH.
Every Section OF Country For Many Miles Around Yale
Turned Out And Helped Make The Fourth A Day
Long To Be Remembered--The Fireworks In
The Evening Were The Best Ever.

Saturday, July ith, 1908, dawned cold
and dismal with heavy rain falling
dampening even the ardor of the sun
rise saluters who had gathered to fire
off the big guns with the earliest ray of
the morning sun. The earliest risers
kept inside until after five o'clock. The
outlook for glorious fourth was GER
tainly the worst possible. But grad.
ually the rain ceased to fall and after
eight o'clock out came Old Sol and cast
his rays upon the moist earth. With
the sun came westerly breeze drying
up the roads and sidewalks i'm fine shape.
The Fourth was then OH in fine style
and since nothing could be accomplish
ed on the farm, our farmer friends in
vaded our city, coming to town by the
wagonloads. by the time the last train
had arrived, an immense crowd throng-
ed our streets.
The rain having muddied the roads
the various games and sports were post
poned for short time. After the last
train had arrived the band marched
down Main street followed by the Cali
thumpians. Prizes were won as fol
lows
Craig Adams, 81; Joe Worden, SO;
George Worden, 3d. Oscar Lane, 50;
Lloyd Holden, 50.
The next event to be pulled off was
the hundred yard dash in which Irving
Palmer won first and Alex Sayles sec
ond. In the race by boys under II
years, Eddie Sponenburg won, with
VIM. Cotter second.
The fat mems race was won by Mar.
tin Smead with Lee Wilt second.
Ida and Ellen Laycock won first and
second in the girls race.
Standing broad jump:
Alex Sayles-9 1T.
Grin Lanes fl. 8 IN.
Running broad jump:
Levi Lane-l6 #. . in.
Fred Currier--l6 fl. ) i'm.
Run. hop, step and Jump:
Levi Lanes IT. 3 in.
Orin Lane-36 fl. 10 i'm.
AS Emmett's team for the tug-of- war
| failed to show up, the money was for
feited to Speakers team.
The pulling match results for teams
under 2i00 pounds were as follows:-
Chas. Wilt-l4 in.
Alex. Robinson-1s in.
VIM. Mosworth-4 in.
Joe Morgan-4 in.
Free for-all:
Alex Robinson-127s in.
| Chas. Wilt-7B in.
John Lavalle-756 in.
A heavy load of stone was placed
on sleighs in front of the Wilt Hotel
and the distance it was drawn was
measured. The weight of the load is
unknown.
After these events over 1000 persons
left the city for the grounds of the Riv-
erside Driving Club where the ball
game between the Port Huron Chron-
icles and the local team together with
the races were to be pulled off. 1t is
doubtful if this number Of persons was
missed from the streets, so large was
the crowd in town.
From the standpoint Of fast and ex-
citing playing the game was not a de-
cided success, our boys having il we'll
in hand at all stages. The score was
to 2 i'm favor of the locals. Roy Jones
lammed 'er out for two home runs and
| Ernie Baxter for one.
Yale lined up as follows
Catcher-M Mitchell
Pitcher-Lane
LIST base-Lothian
2nd base-Baxter
Bird base-Jones
Shortstop-Currier
Right Field-Palmer
Center Field-McDuff
Left Field-Beatty
Port Huron's battery was Sickles and
Welsh.
| Next came the races.
245 TRoT OR PACE.
Gertie T., j. Fisher, Croswell. . 1 l
Hal c., j. L. CTissler, Peck 2 2 2
Bessie Mack, Neil McDermid,
North Branch. h..............3 3 3
Time: 249JS, ESQ, $50.