Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-08-17
THE ODD FELLOWS PICNIC.
Burr Oak Lodge Entetains Brethren
of County in HOspitable
Manner.

| Some time ago the Burr Oak or.
extended an invitation to the Win.
neshiek county lodges to participate
in the annual picnic, which was
held at Burr Oak on Thursday. The
invitation was accepted and good.
ly number planned on attending
In the morning it threatened rain
which prevented some from going
but those who did go had a genuine
old fashioned good time, which
everyone present enjoyed from
start to finish. The DEBORAH dele
cation went up in various ways and
kept ''stringing along" all hours of
the day, most of them arriving be-
| fore the noon hour. After few
minutes had passed in getting and
making acquaintance with our
brothers and sisters we were called
to line up around two long tables
heavy laden with everything mag
Unable good to eat" The Burr Oak
Rebeccas proved to be good wait
resses and saw to that every men,
Der had plenty and didn't go away
with a hungry look. After dinner
was served, an hour was passed in
social entertainment, card playing,
ball teams, dressed in their attire,
wended their way to the ball
park" followed by large delega-
ton of fans The game between
the Burr Oak Odds and the De-
corah odds" proved to be an in
teresting one from start to finish,
in spite of the fact that the scores
on both sides were high. De-
corah's batting proved much better
than Burr Oaks and two and three
base hits were plentiful. In the
first inning for DEBORAH Sheetz
made the only two-base hit and 8
scores were made. The second,
we received none; Karman died on
end base. In the third Brickner
made a three-base hit, and 2 scores
were scored. In the fourth Reed.
Hook and Karman made two-base
hits and Haines made a home run,
scores being made. In the fifth,
we Received 0. In the sixth, Sheetz
and Cummings made two-base hits
and scored, and Haines, Grant and
Brickner took bases on balls, all
scoring, making 5 in all. The sew
enth and eighth innings were eli
makes for DEBORAH, scores being
made in each inning. In the sew
enth Qualley, Haines, Brickner and
Karman scored on, singles, Sheetz
and Hook made 3-base hits and
scored. and Grant made home
run, also a base hit, being uI
twice. In the eighth everybody
scored but Sheetz and Brickner, all
the scores being made on singles
except Qualley, who was passed In
the ninth Karman succeeded in get
ting the only score. In the finals
everyone succeeded in getting a
two and a three-base hit, or home
run, but Qualley. The home runs
were made by Grant and Haines
The scores made throughout the
game was as follows: Reed l
Qualley 8, Haines 6, Grant 4, Brick.
ner 5, Hook 2, Sheetz 2, Cummings
2 and Karman 4-total 90. In the
first inning for Burr Oak one score
was made by Morrison. In the
second, Emery made two-base
hit and scores were made. In the
| third, one score was made by A.
Peacock. In the fourth, Price made
a 3-base hit and on an error came
home. Emmons made phase hit
and he and w. Peacock and Morri-
son scored, making A. In the fifth,
they received 0. In the sixth W.
Peacock and Smith scored on sing
les. In the seventh, A. Peacock, E.
Arnold and DR.. Emmons scored. In
the eighth, Winch, Arnold and EN-
cry scored, and Arnold made a g.
base hit. In the ninth, Price,
Smith and Winch scored. In the
finals, A. Emery and Dr. Emmons