Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-07
ALL FLOCK TO
BALBOA BEACH
SIX THOUSAND PASADENANS
ATTEND PICNIC
ENTIRE DAY PASSES WITHOUT
uNToWARD ACCIDENT
Huae Quantities Of Coffee and LEMON
ade Consumed, and an Elaborate
Program of Sports Carried
Out Successfully
snAo,ai to The herald.

Special to The Berald
PASADENA, Aug. 6.-Six thousand
persons abandoned the Crown City TINS
morning in favor of Balboa Beach and
made the annual Pasadena day picnic
the largest as well as the best ahalr
of the kind that has been held.
From the time the first left nome at
o'clock this morning until the last
came back late tonight the streets
were practically deserted, Whlle tile
heocb axnerienced the liveliest day in
its history. The picnic was apsoluteIy
,1nmarred by accidents of any klno'
TRANSFORMATION facilities We're abun-
dant as were provisions. The crowd
consumed two hundred gallons OF COL
fee and four barrels of iced lemonade
provided by the committee, in addltlon
to several tons of food which 1t mao
brought along in baskets ana boxes.
The sporting events, which formed
+he main feature, from the spectator
point of view, extended throughout
most of the day. The track events,
scheduled for the morning, held over
well into the afternoon, and the aquatic
sports filled the rest of the time. Dur
ing the intervals the ptcnlckers elther
took the launch ride around the pay
which was provided by the commlttee,
dlSDOTIeQ themselves III hAAC ANA@
watched others doing these things.
The results in the sporting events
were as follows:
edward dash, for boys under 10:
First heat-Leland Newby first, Earle
Townsend second. Second heat-George
Carr first, Roscoe Wilson second. FL
nals-Leland Newby first, George carr
second.
4Izfa UNox oxylNT first Grace
Adams second, Martha Zimmerman
3 third. Second heat-Edna Hollingshed
first. Lucille Mitchell second, Helen
Ward third. Finals-Elsie Faybrick
first, Martha Zimmerman second, Lu-
cille Mitchell third.
1OO-yard open race: First heat
Charles Daley first, J. -. Gains second.
Second heat-Alfred Carlson first, Her
man Siefert second. Finals-Alfred
Carlson first, Charles Daley second.
Young ladies' 50-yard dash: Agnes
Marouard first Esther Mills second,
Ruth Barnhart third.
Fat mems race, so yards: Kenyon
Warren first, Frank Daley second.
1Oo-yard open race: First heat-Al-
bert Brooks first. William Carr second
Charles Daley third. Second heat-Al-
fred Carlson first. Herman Siefert sec
ond, William Daley third. Finals-Al-
fred Carlson first, Albert Brooks sec
ond, William Carr, third.
Old mems race, 80 yards Wflfred
Smith (5S) first, r. Il. Metcalfe (5S)
second, William Taylor (6s) third.
Boys sack race: C. Jannock first,
Vernon Faybrick second, Earle Town
send third.
Girls potato race Elsie Faybrick
first, Lucille Mitchell second, Martha
Zimmerman third.
Picnic committee race: H. r. Hertel
first, H. G. Chaffee second, w. T. Da-
vies third.
Boys 20-yard swimming race: Ralph
Hopkins first, Charles Sidnour second.
Mems 60-yard swimming race: H. L..
Kretchmer first Herman Siefert sec
ond.
Breast stroke race, 90 yards: Frank
Hayes first H. L. Kretchmer second.
Swimming under water for distance:
j. H. Simpson first, Herman Siefert
second.
Diving for FORM Robert Merriam
first, ]. H. Simpson second.
Water polo: Pasadena Y. NJ. C. A.
three goals, Balboa two.
Single scull boat race: George Jones
first, Alfred Carlson second.
Canoe race (two men) Dan Thomas
and Charles List first, Harold Gleason
and Marshall Hayes second, Robert
Spurgeon and Gerard Castleman third
Special awards were made as follows
Heaviest man, ]. NJ. Prosser, 22i
pounds.
Heaviest woman. Mrs. E. Taylor, "a.
pounds.
Lightest woman, Mrs. Capron, 7Sh
pounds.
Tallest man, H. F. Simpson, fee
6A inches.
Shortest man, William II. Darrow,
feet Ia inches. Darrow won the same
prize last year.
Largest family present, H. p. Zim
norman, wife and six children. Two
other families of the same size entered
the competition and the three drew
lots for first place.
Longest married couple, Mr.. and Mrs
Sanford Vickers, flfty-three years
Mr.. and Mrs. D. Stanton had been mar
ried only two or three months less.
The prizes were all articles of mer
chandise donated by Pasadena mer
chants.
One hundred and twenty cars wer,
furnished by the Pacific Electric rail
way to transport the crowd.