Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-07-02
ADJUSTMENTS.
- AND -
ATHLETICS

IL 41A !
July 3-Opening of Ocean Pier thea
tire with high class vaudeville.
July 3-Individual and club automo-
bile runs from Philadelphia and New
York, arriving ere about A p. M.
July Base ball between Five Mile
Beach Base Ball Club and Cape May
at Ottens ball park, 18th street.
July 3-Floral ball room of the Ocean
Pier opens for the season.
July 5Automobile parade Oh the
board walk In the morning and races Oh
the Central avenue speedway in the
afternoon.
July 5-Ten mile marathon race for
the championship of Cape May county
at the Holly Beach Yacht Club, Wild
wood Crest. Also 100 and 220 yard
dashes.
July H.-Red Mems Day at Ottens
Harbor
Every Saturday night-Dancing at
the ocean pier. Good music.
Dancing and Skating every night at
the Crest Pier.
On Wednesday, July 18th, the Red
men of Five Mile Beach will go to OF
tens Harbor and hold their first grand
annual jubilee. There is sure TO be a
jolly time for all who attend this great
pow WOW, for there will be two bands
of music to keep everybody in good
spirits. An elaborate programme is
being arranged, which among other
things includes aquatic sports on the
Harbor and dancing. In the evening
the novel feature will be a big war
dance with tableaux, which will be
held under a large tent. The local
Redmen will invite fellow members of
the order from every section ofthe State
TO participate in the festivities and a
large attendance is anticipated. The
public is extended a cordial invitation
to be on hand TO witness the ceremon-
les. Endeavors will be made to have
the famous Indian chief White Cloud
and his tribe present.
II ~ Il
OF the many events planned for the
celebration of Independence Day, OF
Monday, July 5. None is exciting
more interest on the beach, than is the
big race around the entire island by
the tisAipg power Dos1ak This event
i've Mile Beach.
Tered are substantial
amvIh cash and the hardy
crews of the boats entered will strive to
the utmost to win. The thousands of
visitors who will, be here will have a
grand opportunity of witnessing the
race from the start to the finish from
many points of vantage. The course
will cover q distance of II miles. The
contestants will start from Ottens Har-
Dor going out through Grassy Sounds
and Hereford Inlet to the ocean. Once
on the sea the boats will race along
within a few hundred feet of the beach,
passing Anglesea, North Wild wood,
Wild wood and Holly Beach, thus CIV
ing the great crowd ofspectators group
ed along the beach front and board
walk, a grand opportunity of Witness
ing the contest. Each boat will bear
on its bow a big number in black
easily discernible from the shore. At
all the islands resorts the fishermen
are busily engaged in putting their
boats in the best of condition for the
race. There is much rivalry among
the hardy toilers of the sea as to the
prowess of their respective craft and
the race will decide the championship
of Five Mile Beach. The racers will
enter Turtle Gut Inlet at the lower end
of the island, pass through the State
Inland Waterway and finish at the
place from which they started, on OF
tens Harbor. The entry list is a large
one, among them being: Andrew
johnson, Girls Kloo, Carl Erickson,
Oscar Westerman, Axel Holmquest,
John Soronsen, Otto Lemberg, John
Nelson, Algot Carlson, John Erickson,
Gustav Peterson, John Johnson, Gus
Anderson, Sigfried Johnson and John