Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1912-09-05

Song--"The Land of the Buffalo, -
by Dixie Baseball team.
Remarks-Colonel Kinds.
Song" Idaho, O, Idaho" by Dixie
Singing society and audience.
Song-"My Own United States, z"
Messrs. Guinett, Austin and Hilliar;
Mrs. Hilliar, accompanist.
Remarks-Bert Darlington Austin.
Original Recitation-Joe Guinette.
Sacred Song-"God Be With You
Till We Meet Again." by audience.
The assemblage then marched to the
baseball grounds, where an exciting
base ball game between the Elk
Fats and the Leans, the victory going
to the Fats, the final score standing:
Fats 3, Leans 7. The Fats who scor.
ed were: w. Mcdonald, Fred Frank.
lin, Dan James, George Yahrus, Mark
jackson, s. r. Gayton, Joe Wade. The
Leans scoring were: Percy Burke, 8.
Peterson, John Mynear, John PARCEL,
M. Haney.
This closed the program for the fore
noon. Dinner was then served at the
Dixie hotel. The afternoon was devot.
ed to sports and there was something
doing from 1:30 clock p. M, until the
shadows of the pine trees cast their
lenghtening shade across the beautiful
Dixie townsite.
The feature event of the day was the
was the baseball game between Elk
City and Dixie teams. The teams are
old rivals and play two games each
year, one at Elk City July and the
other at Dixie on Dixie day, Aug. "a.
Dixie won the game on July and
also the game on Dixie Day. The
game was exciting from start to finish
Dixie winning in the last half of the
ninth with only one man out. The
score was Dixie Z, Elk City6.
The line up was as follows
Elk City-Hilliar, rf; Fruit, C; B.
Austin, 1b; Moses, p; Litchfield, 2b;
Merriam, eff; A. Austin, IS; Calvin, If;
Patterson, 3b.
Dixie-Burpee, p; Wandling, c; Dan
forth, 2b; Robinson, IS; Muldrow, 3b; F.
Cox, If; Hoffman, 1b; E. Cox, cf; Wal
ton, IF.
Elk City scored one in the first and
one in the fourth, one in the sixth and
two in the ninth. Each team got nine
hits and made four errors. Stolen
bases-By Elk City 8; by Dixie, l.
Sacrificed hits-Litchfield Il; E. Cox,1.
Struck out-By Moses Ia; by Burpee,
IL. Three base hits-Moses, l. Two
base hits - Moses, l. Umpire Joe
Wade of Grangeville. Scorer-G. T.
Hoyt of Elk City. Time of game, one
hour and twenty minutes.
After the game Colonel Kinds. in an
speech, presented the vic
tors with handsome cake, the size Of
a full-grown cheese, which had been
Galley 8
donated as a prize by Mrs. S. R. Gay
ton.
The field sports were next on the
program and Hessrs. Churchill, Frank
lin and Glavin were chosen as judges.
The winners were as follows:
Mems foot race, 100 yards-Elmer
first, George Burpee second.
Running jump-Elmer Wandling
first, ID feet inches.
Girls foot race-Won by Helen
Fat men IS race-Won by George Nc
Donald
Standing broad jump-Elmer Wand
ling, distance 9 feet, inches.
After supper the dining room at the
Dixie hotel was cleared and dancing
was enjoyed until midnight. Several
charges of dynamite were then explod-
ed on the surrounding hills and as their
echoes died in the far distant canyons
Dixie's second red letter day passed in
TO history.
Notes Of The Days Doing.
Five miles out of Dixie large ban
ner was stretched across the wagon road
On it was "Welcome to Dixie, Aug. "a,
1912" On the other side the depart
ing guests were told "Good-by, Come
Again.
The Dixie Commercial club is fitted
up for all visitors to the town. 1t
shows the enterprise of the Dixie boos-
tres. A fine ore display attracted
much attention.
The Dixie ball team generously di-
vided the big cake with the Elk City
boys.
Several hundred dollars were bet on
the ball game. Several ladies bet and
were the gamest enthusiasts of all.
Yell for Elk City B. B. g.:
Rip saw, rip saw, rip saw bang,
We belong to the Elk City gang.