The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-07-06
Vast Amphitheatre at the
Bail Park Filled to
Overlooking With An
Enthusiastic Crowd.
EVERY EVENT OF THE DAY
CARRIED OUT SUCCESSFULLY
TENDED BY BIG CROWD.

The Fourth of July celebration neiu
at East Ely park, Sunday was the
most notable ever witnessed in Rob-
inson district
While the park has been the scene
OF many exciting doings, those OF
Sunday, both from the point of at
tendance which numbered between
1900 and 100 people and attrac-
tions offered, far eclipsed anything in
the past
The first feature on the program
was ball game between the Smelter
and Ely mines, which was won by
the latter.
The game for the first two innings
looked as though it might be the
most sensational one one of the sea-
son, but when the Elyites in the third
inning got on to the curves of Fay
from that moment it was all Ely
and it was apparent that the boys
from McGill no longer had look
in. 1t was not altogether the fault
of Fay, which brought about a score
of 8 to L, with the Smelterites on
the losing end. Had he received
anything like proper support, the
tally sheet would have told differ
ent story, not that they would have
won but the Ely boys would not
have had anything like the score
they had and which gave them the
game, likewise the purse of 500.
Benefits playing on second was one
of the features of the game and
showed the management of the team,
that in other games, they had not
used the best of Judgment when
they played him on third or in the
field. Daley was the star batter of
the day and the way he took to
Fay's curves was really unkind.
taken as a whole, the playing of the
Elyites were exceptionally good and
work was not of the best. Galley,
who pitched the game for the Ely
boys did some clever work and the
runs he gave the McGill players We're
few and far between. The playing
of Wilson for the Smelterites, at first,
was unusually good.
The score:
Ely ...O X-9
McGiil % 0 o II
Following the ball game cowboy
quadrille danced by Frank Nevin and
Miss Minnie Gallagher; John Short
and Mrs. Robinson; George Short
and Mrs. George Armand; George
Baird and Miss Ella Kent. The Ely
band furnished the music for the
dance and the graceful riding of each
of the dancers was the subject of
universal comment. The only thing
to mar the picturesqueness of this
feature, was the dust raised by the
horses as they went through the diff
ferent figures of the quadrille. That
portion of the dance which most ap-
pealed to the vast audience, was the
fast riding of each of the members.
Nevin who was not a competitor IN
the event, but just to show the boys
how they do the stunt in Arizona,
rode after one steer and in most
graceful manner threw the rope but
once, but that was enough to place
the steer in position for tying. or
course the other cowboys have a
dozen excuses to offer for Nevin's
clever work. Among them was tnat
the successful rope thrower threw at
a time when the wind was not blow
ing and that he had the best trained
horse. That the element of luck
figured in the throwing is another
reason given for Nevin's exceptional
throw.
The winners of the steer tieing
contest were. John Short, John
Hickman and Bob Connors, who
divided a $75 purse equally between
them. The judges for the cowboy
tornament were: Alex Baird, Alec
McEllen and Arthur Short, and their
decisions met with general approval.
In the cowboy 100 yard and turn
stake" race, John Short on Alex
Baird's Badly, was the winner, for
which he received purse of $40,
time 25 seconds flat.
One of the amusing features of
the days events, was the burro one
fourth mile race, in which five
Youngsters did the riding. This
proved conclusively that the pros
pectors friend" is unquestionably
the most stubborn thing on earth.
The race would not be over as yet
had not several of the cowboys got
ten behind the. burros and showed
them along.
The broncho busting contest in
which the riders were not allowed