Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-09-02
FISHING CONTEST
RACED HERCELY
At LONG LAKE
REPORTS FROM LEADERS OF
BOTH CONTENDING PARTIES
GIVEN

Wnen the Dig nSnlng contest was pull
ed off at Long Lake. At four a. m
the Hamman allies were sighted put
ting out from the south shore. They
were armed with cane and steel poles.
minnows (artificial and live), angle
worms and frogs.
The Bricker forces, four in number.
were already on the lake. Three OF
the team, Clarke, Fish and Lincoln.
were serenely sleeping at home and
dreaming of the fish they were going
To catch. With this handicap the
Bricker force went at il with rod and
reel, as experts do. Hamman and his
force were pulling in blue gills, and
suniish with cane poles From that
time until 1870 it was a constant
struggle to see who could bring in the
largest string Of fish.
Bricker, Madden, Friedly and An
gell landed first with fine strings of
black bass pickersl and blue gills.
Then came Hamman and his six
others-Orser and Mccoy with several
black bass that weighed up heavy.
John Dehn with so bluegills, Patter-
son and Wortley with more bluegills,
and undersized perch, (and by the
/ ley were with them the former to
keep Pats pipe lighted and the latter
to bait hooks). Hamman and Emory
( in the auto with several bullheads, one
/ or two perch that looked like dried
herring that had been soaked out for
the occasion. O want to make this
fact plain. All fisherman know that
bullheads never bite during the day
in Long Lake.. \ protest was made
against weighing them in. but the
weighmaster ruled in Hammans
favor. Bricker's fish were so heavy
they broke the scales. Hamman
claimed that Friedly had tied a can
OF sand to the string OF fish. No
decision was made as to the winners
and all of the contestants Except
Fish, who refused, but later ate seven
teen bluegills and three bass) joined
i'm and helped clean them
The tables were spread and plates
laid for As people. There was several
children i'm addition. owen Barker is
known To have eaten at least ten fish
but Frank Harlan says he beat him
by seven. (Harian was entitled to
them, though, he caught almost one
hundred. Less than half of the fish
were eaten. However, there were
enough left 10 feed as many more.
After dinner it was proposed that
the men have ball game. Hamman
and Bricker picked the men and the
contest began. This is the lineup:
Hamman. 2d base; Mccoy IT, Or
ser, 1st base; Barker, rf; Thorne, IS;
c. Thorne, cf; Friedly, c; Angel, p;
Emery, Sd base
Bricker, I'd base: Dr. Stanton, 1st
base; Dehn, If; Clarke, rf; Patterson,
IS; Fish, c; Wortley, p; Eek, Sd base.
Umpire--Madden. Score Keeper
Lincoln.
The game was fast from start to
finish Fish made several strikes and
one two-base hit. Several scores
stand 10 his credit Patterson i'm his
base runs with pipe in his mouth was
a scream, while Dehn was a batter for
your life He brought i'm lots of
scores DR.. Stanton would have mace
a home run but for the encountering
OF a yellow jackets nest The doctor
testifies that the jackets knew that he
called on them too. Umpire Madden
was almost mobbed because of some
bum decisions. but Mrs Madden APP
peared on the scene and he was saved
ct is fortunate sometimes to be
married).
Lincoln admits that he slipped five
runs TO Hamman's favor TO make the
tally even but he failed even then as
the scoreboard showed % 10 19 in
favor OF Bricker's team at the end.
Following the Bricker- -Hamman
game the ladies put on a game. The
attendance was largely made up Of
men Mrs Fish and Mrs. Angel were
captains Eek was the umpire. as
Madden refused after his being almost
mobbed i'm the former game. DIR.
stanton Ca suffragette) worked in as
catcher for Fish. while lady Fish did
the twirling. Lefty Bailey, with all of
his spit balls. is not i'm it with Mrs.
Fish. The whole game was filed
with brilliant plays Some features of
the game were two home runs by Mrs.
Angel, two scores by Mrs Harlan,
Mrs Orser had a good start TO first.
but fell down. Mrs. Mccoy batted
the pitcher out of the box aud made
a home run, Mrs. Clarke got two
base hit and did some sprinting. Eek
was fair i'm his decisions TO the fair
ladies. especially. The official score
was to Ii i'm favor OF Mrs. Angelrs
side.
After the games were over Bricker,
to he fair. made the statement that
his side was perfectly willing to ac-
knowledge that they had won. Ham
man and his allies refused to aclxnow-
ledge the fact that they were beaten.
BY unanimous vote IL was agreed to
meet at the lake next year and decide
the matter for sure.
Patterson says that If he knew who
the man was that stole the sparkplug
out OF his automobile causing him To
sweat and crank for an hour he would
make the fellow eat a crow dinner.
We dislike 60 cause trouble by squeal-
ing, hut we think Friedly could clear
Madden OF the suspicion that is being
hinted at by Patterson. Madden might