Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-08-21
LODGE MEN IN FIELD SPORTS
Odd Fellows Sprint, Jump and
Play Baseball.
Brfstoi Nj. c. A. Wins Game, ~ to 1
Hamilton Men Victors in Tug
of-Wnr--shoe Rnce Makes
Fun for Crowd.

The odd Fellows Field day which was
held at Centennial Field Saturday after
noon proved an enjoyable affair to a large
crowd which attended and was practically
the only event in the city to signify that
Bennington Battle day was n holiday.
The features OF the afternoon were n ball
game between the odd Fellows and the
Bristol Y. NJ. G. A. which resulted in n
victory OF II to for the latter, and many
track events, which proved very interest
ing. Sherman's Military band was on
hand and sincere attempt was evidently
made to give everyone his moneys worth.
1t was the first field DAY of the odd Eel
lows new athletic club.
There were cigh. events run off on the
track and the competition was keen in
nearly oil of them. Godbout was n par
ticular star in the high jump and could
have taken a high mark If forced to but
he rested a winner at the low mark of
four feet six inches. The events were
run off IN quick succession and there were
no tiresome delays. The shoe race for
boys was as much fun as any. The con
testants were to unite their shoes, r.:n 90
yards, go around n saw horse, return
and put on their shoes. The spirit of
rivalry was keen and in tho excitement
two shoe strings We're broken.
THE TRACK EVENTS.
\ summary of the track events follows
1oO-yard dash-First. Austin; second
Sylvester and third, Willis Time, 70 "a
seconds
Quarter mile-First, Oulmettc; second,
Sylvester and third, Chison, Time, 50
seconds.
Half mile-First, Ouimctte; second
Paulson; and third, Godbout. Time, 2:27
Fat men-First, Farr; second, Brainerd
and third. Cole. Time 12 seconds
Shoe race for boys-Joe Lafountain, win
ner.
Running broad jump-First, Godbout;
Sc ond, Sylvester, and third, Thomas
Distance. II feet six inches.
Running high jump-First Godbout;
second, Sylvester. Distance four feet six
inches.
The tug of war between Hamilton and
Green Mountain lodges was easily won
by the former.
GAME is BATTING PICNIC
The ball game between the Bristol Y.
NJ. G. A. and the local odd Fellows de-
veloped into a batting picn for the for
mer, who cracked Norman for Il safe
ones. The twrer for the local team was
| by no means in his usual condition Had
he been the result would have been far
different from 70 to | victory for the
visitors for the fielding of the odd Eel
lows was good as that Of the Bristol
ties The game was irrotrievably lost In
the first and second innings and although
! Norman settled down somewhat after
that five more rms were sent across tho
plate.
a feature OF the game was a double
play in which Norman, Thomas and Gil
lette figured. and the only other feature
worthy Of note was the tremendous slug
ging of the visitors O'Brien was diff
cult proposition for the odd Fellows and
they only succeeded in getting five scat
tered hits off his delivery. The runs were
made by Mott 3, Trudo .. Bosworth :, Nc
Knnon ., Prime. Durfec Buynen and
Thomas.
Innings al Z 8 6 s-R II p
Bristol ......3 0 3 ! / 0-12 II 3
/ odd Fellows.0 o 0 o 0 o o |
Batteries, Norman and Cole; OBricr
and Mott. Umpire, Lauzon. Time, two
hours 10 minutes.