Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-22
THIRD BIG REUNION
OF NORWICH HOSE NO. 4.
CIambake at Poquetanuck Drawbridoe
Attended by 154-Games and a Good
lime.

The much talked-of and long-looked
forward to third grand reunion of Nor
witch Hose company. No. 4. with its
baseball games, various athletic at
of good things to eat, was celebrated
at the PoQuetanuck drawbridge Sunday
in a manner quite in keeping with the
high class way that company has of
doing things, and the day will go down
in their chronicles as one that must
long be remembered by ali who were
We're there. Just 145 people attended,
the majority going down on the
O'Clock train in the morning, and from
the moment the first crowd reached the
grounds until the party disbanded at
the railway station in Norwich. after
a pleasant homeward trip, good cheer
was paramount, and everyone felt sat
iefied that the event was q most pro-
nounced success A pleasing and pop
ular feature of the day was the enter
tainment which was given by the
Nightingale quartette of Norwich,
made up of A. H. Ousley, first tenor;
John r. Robinson, second tenor; Louis
Gagnon, first bass. and Charles II.
bearing, second bass. This quartette
sang several times during the day and
received words of praise and compn-
ments from all sides. Mr. OuSley. ac-
companied by the quartette, sang Sill
yer Theads Among the Cold" VIII CHI
was much enjoyed. w. c. Kendall was
the official photographer and took pic
lures of the several athletic contests
as well as one of the entire party, as
they We're seated at the dinner table.
An exciting baseball game was
WaEed between the Norwich and Taft
Vile men resulting in a victory for the
latters nine by the score of to 2.
Each player on the winning team was
presented with cigar. The features
were the fine pitching of Charter, d
fine catch in outfeld by Burke and the
base-steaIing of Steve Sullivan. The
lineup was as follows: Taftville-R.
Charter p. r. Schoheld c, F. Charter
1b H Benoit Oh w. Charter SIS, NJ.
SeideI 3b A Dupris If w. Wohleben
CT. s. BreauI IF. Norwich. Pearson
c, w. Leonard p, w. Wicks 1b, A Peck
ham %. L. NJ. Kelley SIS, c. Dreecher
90. ]. Burke IF. d. Casey CT. S. Sulli-
van If Charles II. bearing acted as
umpire.
The various athletic events resulted
as follows: Fat mans race-Raymond
Charter, first prize, handsome watch
fob Mike Nolan. second, bullet pencil;
Jerry Lahem third, cigars. Slim man S
race-Wm. Weeks. first, jewel case;
Martin SeideI, second necktie; VIM.
WOhieben third. cigars. Potato race
VIM. Weeks first, pair of handmade
silk suspenders; Joseph Pearson, sec
ond a bullet; John Clark. third. cigars.
Sack race-Joseph Pearson. first, pair
| of pink silk arInletS; Jack Wilson, sec
ond, ash receiver; John A. Clarke,
third, two boxes imported cigarettes;
Free-for-al race-Jack Wilson, first
| elegant cane; P ]. Carbray, second
French briar pipe; Doc Richards, third
cigars Three legged race-F. E. Peck
| ham and Jack Wilson. first. pair OF
gold cuff links: p. J. Carbray and
Joseph Pearson, second. gold stick pin
The tug-of-war between Norwich
and Taftville was won by the men from
the Model Mill village The teams
were: Taftville-Morris Keefe, Gus
tav Parradis. Raymond Charter
! Charles MERCER. John Desjarais and
! Edward Cardinal Norwich-John r
| Robinson. Herbert Short, Joseph Pear
/ son. Jerry Laheur. Paul Gadle and
Matthew Mayhem. The fat men played
the slim men a hve-inn ng baseball
game and won by the score of to 2
The batteries for the fat men were R
! Charter and Fred Schofeld. and for
the slim fellows William Weeks and
| Frank Harrington.
A buffet lunch was served between
! 3 and II o'clock. At noon the party
sat down to clam chowder and at 3
| p. m. the clambake and dinner took
place. Chef Wright of the Wauregan
served and everybody was made hap
| by. with the following menu:
Blue fish. drawn butter, sliced Gu
cumbers. sliced tomatoes, small sau-
sage, spring chicken, chicken lobster
steamed long CLAIMS, white and sweet
! potatoes, green corn, steamed onions
white and brown bread. watermelons
The committees in charge of the af-
fair were as follows: Food comm t.
| tee Gustav Thumm Fred bearing
/ John R. Robinson, Otto Weinert and
| George Duffner. Athletic-C. H. Dear
ing. Jack Tetlow. Mike Connell Pete
| Fogerty. Reception-John Amburn
Edward Madden, James Ellis. William
| PeckhaTn Thomas McKenna and Her
bert Short.