Milford chronicle., 1914-08-21
BOWERS

E Careful estimates of the great crow
that gathered at Bowers the past bii
Thursday placed the total at not less thai
twelve thousand people and never in il
history has this famous Delaware resor
held so many pleasure seekers Begin
ming Wednesday evening the teams con
sisting of all the latest improved model.
of vehicles, including the large covered
wagons drawn by four head of mules, tc
the runabout automobiles, continued &c
arrive all Wednesday night, and when
the sun arose Thursday morning, it look
I ed as If Delaware was mObOlizing its
] troops to repel some foreign enemy. The
automobiles were quite in evidence on
that day as there was estimated to be
eight hundred machines.
This immense crowd of pleasure seek
ers all seemed to have a good time, with
no quarreling or fighting during the dav
and we are happy of the fact that il was
quite different from the stunts that were
pulled of in the past, when law and
order was thing unknown below the
toLgate. The politicians of the county
were also quite conspicuous, and we pre-
sumo they put in overtime in explaining
just how things are going to happen al
this new primary election
The hotels were taxed to their full
capacity to feed this immense crowd and
at the Johnson Hotel the writer was in
formed that they fed over one thousand
people on Big Thursday.
VIM. +. Lynch and N. NJ Tomlinson /
Of Philadelphia, who have been spending /
two weeks at the resort, have left for .
their homes. While they are considered /
among the most expert hook and line
lshermen that come here for that pur-
pose, they not only carried awav the
aurels this season in catching trout. but
m last Saturday Mr. Lynch succeeded
n capturing, with his trout hook and reel
drum fish that weighed twenty-seven
nd one half pounds. Suffice to say thev
vent to their homes happy.
Harry Horlacher, ST., of PHILADELPHIA.
Tho is visiting his daughter near town.
lrs. H. Carey, observed his first Big
thursday last week, and he thinks il
worth going miles to see.
+. Wright, of Harrington, has been
ecured by the good roads people to
lough and scrape our Bowers road with
is large and powerful engine. Mr.. L. Z
Iorris, the road boss, claims that with \
lis engine he can make a road that will Z
EAR inspection. I
VIM. 5. Davidson is putting his factory y
working order this week and will be =
ady to receive tomatoes next week. N
Every year there is a sensational game y
this country, but one of the most sen y
uonal games ever played was the one 4
aged between the famous Milford Lum- y
r team and a team picked up at ran @
I'm at Bowers Beach to play two games L
base ball on Big Thursday No won y
r the scouts of the big league with the q
ormous amount of expenditure cannot L
ach all the stars" of the country. but y
this particular game the Bowers club g
icovered their phenomenal pitcher 10 L
ted in a lighthouse by the sea A V
ung man by the name of Jay Holdman. q
10 probably sets his foot on land once L
'ear, asked to be allowed to pitch for y
Bowers picked-up team. He went e~
o the box with his working clothing L
and exhibited some of the greatest Y
ives and drops that one could hope to u
; IN the worlds series, which fairly L
'stifed the Milford Lumber ball club. "
is enabled the Bowers picked-up team u
beat them with ease at a score 6 to s.
IS game goes to prove the old adage ~
Il baseball pitcher is born-not -
de. The Milford club was so astound-
that they agreed to play again in the
ernoOn when they were again defeat
with a score 7 to 6. Z