Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-17
BENCH AND BAR CELEBRATE
Second Annual Field Day is an
Hilarious Success.
ELEAzAR wAKELEY OLDEST MAN
Supreme Court Justices Play Great
Ball Game and Speeches
Are barred.

With the supreme bench of Nebraska
ana Judge Eleazar Wakeley, celebrant OF
his seth birthday sharing honors as
guests, the Omaha Bar association held Its
second annual field day yesterday The
games and the banquet at the Field club
in the afternoon and evening were pre-
coded by a luncheon at noon given to the
members of the district bench and the
supreme bench at the Commercial club.
The big event of day packed full OF
good things for both bench and bar, was
however the dinner in the evening at the
Field club. In the spacious dining room.
which was cleared of everything else,
covers were laid for close to $50 guests.
The dinner was elaborate but informal.
with one exception there were no set
speeches.
r. w. Patrick presenting a beautiful
bouquet of flowers to Judge Waheley in
behalf of the Bar association, in an
eloquent speech paid tribute TO him as
1.-THE nestor of the Douglas county bar"
II a distinction were to be made between
the supreme judges and Judge Wakeley, 1t
would be entirely safe to say that the
latter carried off the lions share of the
honors.
Supreme Court on Hand,
ate Justices Fawcett, Root, Letton, Barnes,
sedgwick and Rose, and all the judges OF
the local bench were called upon for
story and a few remarks. Without ex-
ception all had some highly complimentary
incident in reference to Judge Wakeley.
Otherwise there was no method or pur-
nose in the stories of the evening; they
were simply meant to raise laugh ana
they did.
AS an appetizer and a fun-maker the ball
game in the afternoon was bowling sue
cess. Everybody from the chief 1usuce
down to the lawyer with his first case to
win participated. The game started on
scientific basis, clint" Bronze and Jess
Palmer choosing up" For about four In
nings it was fast and furious with honors
even between the younger members VINO
composed the two teams. Then gradually
the common hoi polloi, such as the judges
of the district bench, successful pracu-
tioners with prosperous embonpoint, assoc
ciate justices and the chief justices, drifted
into the game and such thing as team
work and a score card became obsolete.
II was then a matter Of bright, individual
starring. bowling partisanship, reversed
decisions and appeals from the alleged
arbitrary rulings of Justices Fawcett and
Root as umpires. The number OF strikes
allotted each man grew from three to seven
and then as many as he wished.
OF all the old-timers on the diamond,
Judge Sears OF the district bench probably
covered himself with the greatest glory
and "came back most completely. Bat
ting and fielding he performed with the
gusto of a high school lad. His most sur
cd Wh he WI
in the pitchers box. A liner, red-hot from
the hat of n. o. Talbot of the Daily
Record. came at him like a bullet. He
reached out and gathered 1t in with as
much aplomb as a society butterfly &C
cepting a cup Of tea. He didn't have to do
it either-possibly he could have got out
OF the road.
Judge ben" Bakers work in the box
Was flawless in the matter of delivery
his wind-up excited the admiration of all,
but he had a strange penchant for hitting
every batter that got up before him at
least once with a pitched ball. He caught
Justice Fawcett squarely in a place where
the Justice did not want 10 be caught.
Judge Estelle he struck three times with
the first three balls. The latter stood up
like an Horatio before the fearful fire, re-
fusing 10 take his base The fourth ball
over he hit on the nose for a perfect safety.
Bob" Patrick stepped up to the plate
only to be greeted with shouted admoni-
lions not to let his whiskers get tangled
up with the bat Ziegler pitched a delicate
slow fade-away that was tanalizing. Judge
Kennedy played a strenuous game but
missed a beautiful fly squarely in his
hands James Raft, playing short turned
and ran from the field when "Jess" Palmer
sent a sizzler across the diamond that
scored his face. Justice Fawcett hit a
hot one TO Page at second, which the latter
stopped, but Immediately wished he hadn't
been so heroic.
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