The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1910-07-08
THE FOURTH At MOLSON
The Day We Celebrate Fright
Loyalty Observed By
Our Neighbors,
OR0v|LLE WELL REPRESENTED
A Big Program of Sports That
Supplied Amusement For
the Multitude.

a crowd, variously estimated at
from 1000 to 1900, people celebrated
the national birthday at Nelson Mon
day in manner evidently satisfactory
to every one present. if the expression
OF the celebrators are to be taken at
face value. OF this crowd Oroville
furnished between $50 and POO people,
including baseball team and the
band.
The celebration was in charge of a
committee of Nelson business men, and
there was something doing from the
time the passenger train pulled into
town in the morning until the west
bound crowd said goodby in the even
ing, and from the headway gained at
that time the remaining crowds prob
ably made merry for many hours later.
The town was decorated in a manner
beftting the occasion and proceedings
morning. with the reading of the
Declaration of independence by John
E. Reese Following this time hon
ored custom in the opening of Fourth
of July celebrations, came the ball
game. 1t had been arranged that the
principal game of the day should be
between mines from Chesaw and Oro-
vile, but late on the evening of the
Bird the committee had word that the
Chesaw team could not be present, and
for a time it looked as though Oro-
vile would be without competitor
for the baseball prize. An opposing
team was finally picked up among the
visitors, and the game was begun with
DR.. j. l.. Masters as umpire. The
game started with Oroville at the bat,
and at no time was the result in doubt.
Occasionally player from the picked
nine would get as far as the first base,
but was allowed to give no further
exhibition Of his prowess as a runner
For five innings the game went on, the
Oroville boys tallying up anywhere
from one to six runs each inning. In
the last half of the fifth the picked
nine managed to get one run through
a series of misplays on the part of the
Oroville bunch, and quit the game,
the score standing at l5 to |, in favor
of the Oroville team. The crowd was
somewhat disappointed at the poor eX-
hibition of ball playing, but took the
matter philosophically. The Molsou
boys under other circumstances would
no doubt have put up much better
game, for several individual plays
showed that the players understood the
game, but having never played to-
gether, the nine was lacking in that
team work that goes so far in winning
a closely contested game. The lineup
in batting order
Oroville +. Bartell 2b; Powell, 30;
Hart, rf: G. Bartell, c: Blackler, If;
Sexon, SIS; Wilson, cf; McDaniels, p:
Sailing, Id.
Molson-Hale, p; Ludolf, C; C.Weed,
lb; Turner, 2b; H. Weed, 3b Caile, IS;
Overfelt, If: Vincent, rf; b. Weed cf.
| The score:
u , I )
Oroville .................32 ) | 6-l5
Nelson. .................0 0 /
The races began Immediately after
dinner and were run in the main street
of the old town, the finish being in
front of the Tonasket hotel.
The first race on the program was
for saddle horses, the prizes being Sll
for first. and 50 fer second. Horses
were entered by }. II. Stuble, Fred
Brett, j. Turner, William Kruger, H.
A. Huttel and George Riste, first
money being taken by the Stuble horse
and second by Kruger.
In the boys foot race for a purse ol
! So, Beverly Powell, l.. Robertson, Ed
Tjeerdsma and A. Kelley entered, and
the prize was carried off by Powell,
with Keeley a close second.
Eight girls started in the girls foot
race, which was won by Grace Cody,
with Celia Mcdowell second, purse -.
Alta Wiser, Bertha Fletcher and
Christina Rinehart started horses in
the ladies saddle horse race, for q
purse of 81 first, and 50 second. Miss
Fletcher took first prize and Miss Wis
ser second.
Clarence Plunket, William Kruger,
Fred Brett, G.. II. Satterthwaite, NJ.