Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-05
CLUbMEN CUT Up
AT CELEBRATION
BurIesque Baseball Game
Amuses Large Crowd in
Nutley.

The feature of the independence,
Day celebration OF the Nutley Fielc
Club yesterday was a baseball gam.
between the Suffragettes and tn,
Sufferers. umpired by characters rep
~resenting Mutt and jeff. There wer,
many other forms of amusement, In.
Guiding races of all kinds. tennis
croquet and auoits. but the crownin,
event of the day was admitted by al
to be the baseball game.
The teams were made up of youne
men attired as women, the Suf.
fragettes representing the highly
modern, club-going kind. the Suffer
ers those of the old school, who gel
more pleasure out OF a gas stovs
than they ever could from a bushel OF
ballots. Mutt and JEFF umpired the
game.
The Mutt and Jef characters were
taken by w. J.. Berg and A. C. Carrie.
ton. The makeup was excellent ant
their antics and baseball decisions
with the aid Of a manuaD were
thoroughly enjoyed.
The winning team was led by Cap
tain Edward Dillon, the former
Princeton football star, and was com
posed of J. C. Bolger, W. s. Bou-
vier, r. B. Garland, s. H. Dorr, jr.
A. v. Leaman, jr.; E. Sergeant, L. 4
Thurston and D. WEIGH. The cap
tain of the losing team was B. Hurd
The other members were j. ". Bou-
vier, Sd; s. w. Bowker, H. s.. Car
land, H. r. Haskill, S. H. Dorr, ]. P.
Cough, c.. B. Royce and z. A. Tau
ebert. Five innings were played.
On account of the time taken by
the tennis finals in the morning the
remainder of the original program
was changed so that the croquet and
quot finals were played in the after
noon Mr.. King and M. H. M. Moore
won the mems doubles In tennis from
Mr.. S. II. Dorr and Mr.. Carleton.
Mems singles were won by Mr.. e
Dillon from Mr.. H. NJ. Moore. Mrs
c. Carlton and Mr.. E. Dillon won the
mixed doubles. Their opponents were
Mrs. Cortland and Mr.. B. Hurd. In
the women's singles Mrs. @. Carle-
ton won from Miss Dorr.
With the exception Of the baseball
game the gymkhana games were OF
the most interest. These were played
on court No. 4 of the club. The first
event was a sack race for men, which
was won by Mr.. J.. Wilson. An egg
and spoon rac for women was the
second event. This was won by Miss
Margaret Milne. S. Knowles and S
White, jr., won the boys backward
race. Mr.. ]. c. Bolger. with Miss
Riordan as a partner. won the thread
and needle race.
The last event of rolling the lemon
for women only. vas won by Mrs. j
B. Taylor and Miss Margaret Milne
In quoits the mems doubles wal
won by Mr.. NJ. T. Morse and Mr.
King. Mr.. E. Young won the mems
singles. Mrs. Carleton and Mr.. e
Dillon won the mixed doubles. Wom-
MS singles were won by Mrs. Garlic
ton.
Prizes were awarded to the win
ming contestants of the various con.
tests last night in the clubhouse By
Mr.. E. Dillon. Dancing followed
until a late hour. A large numbe,
of members of the club entertained
guests from out of town. Through.
out the day the house and grounds
were thronged and as early as
O'Clock, an hour before the tennis
finals led off the program, a numbe,
of guests were on the grounds waiting
for the first event.
The arrangements committee fol-
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A. Libby and Mrs. e. Dillon.