The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1909-07-10
THAT'S THE UNIVERSAL CONCLUSION
ARRIVED AT BY ALL
CHILDREN WERE FED ALL DAY
Candy, Peanuts. Lemonade and Pop Given
Away Until Il Was Refused Because
All Had Enough.


Crystal Falls ever witnessed and every
one says il was the pest therefore II
must have been the best AT any rate
the children vote ike" Oswald. Phil
Shaw and O. Stephany the best fellows
that ever lived, excepting. OF course.
their own pspas One little girl con-
cluded shat they must be very nice
papas because they were so nice to all
the little girls
The crowd began TO assemble at 10 100
clock and ny the time the music ar
rived, at 10 80 about 500 children and
couple of hundred adults were On the
grounds awaiting the arrival OF the
music and eating and drinking at the
booths.
The committee on refreshments had
done their work well. The previous
day everything necessary TO work with
was assembled and two booths built,
and built large enough TO accommodate
any crowd that might face them Bar
rels Of lemon juice were made up ready
to be diluted with water as the chill
dren arrived Cakes OF ice were care
fully washed and stored away so as to
be easily reached. Thousands Of bags
Of peanuts and candy were got ready
so that as fast as the "kids" arrived
they were given what lemonade they
wished and then bag each Of peanuts
aud candy.
Again and again the little ones re-
turned and each time they got their
fiji there was 20 stinting
AT 030 the band arrived on the
scene and r. B. Webb as master OF
ceremonies addressed the crowd and
certainly did himself honor He next
introduced q. f. voos who read the
declaration Of Indep endence and that
was followed by an address by Rev.
Rosander Of the Swedish Lutheran
church. This was Rev. Rosander's in
itial appearance and he made an ex
cellent impress on his hearers.
In the mean time the crowd kept
growing in numbers until fully / 900
were within the enclosure. The sports
were called on and the first act was tine
penny scramble. First all the little
girls from 10 years down were given
an opportunity and after them the
boys Of the same age Next followed
the older boys and girls and after they
all had enough OF that tun the faces
were called on In these races the aim
was to Keep the little folks interested
and 40 the age liuit was kept down.
resulting in lots Of contestants both
boys and girls. The events for the
older boys and girls were not procuc.
tive of half the interest that those for
the little people were.
An adjournment was taken for din
ner and at 80 the ball game between
the Tobin nine aud the Big Joe was
called first IL went seven innings
and was a real contest, Tobin winning
by score OF 70 ..
The Big joe nine Is made mp mainly
OF employees OF the Tuft store who were
furnished uniforms by the Big joe
-four company John Klesges does the
Husk Chance act both in holding down
the initial sack and telling the nm
pire where TO get of at. big Bill
Deidrichs wore the gladiator 8 togs up
near the grand stand while Charlie
Robinson was just as frisky rs any Of
his boys out in CENTER field. That
was the Tufts end OF the deal josh
Hoikka was the fii.ger and he flung
without fiuke until the batting rally
in the ninth put the game up the fiue
on him Ira odgers, the Artie Hof.
man OF base ball in Crystal Falls. was
general utility man first holding down |
right 6eld and then going 10 second I
and doing both stunts we'll "Micky"
Lynch grabbed at the not ones in short
field while "Son Wills endeavored 10
gnard his shins on the short corner. |
Fred MeGee was the goat and Clyde
Henry took the sun ip right field.
The Tobin boys lined up as follows !
Ed Brudt, catcher; Geo Trevarthan,
pitcher; A. Morrell. ist base; Peneiily. !
end base; W. Cummings. short; W.
Bruett. 3rd base; r. Trevarthan, !. T.
McQuown, center; Rob Jack r. Z.
Il looked easy fer Big Joe on the
start In but soon 10 became apparent
that the boys from out In the suburbs
had something on the -four show that
they couldn't get away from. That
something was Jimmy Trevarthan In
the pitchers box He's only kid
bat he had everything In the curve line
and a good head for boy. The heavy