The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-07-09

sreat Dag shot upward, the aeronaut
making gigantic swings backward and
forward, like the pendulum of a clock.
linen When high in the air he fairly
look away the breath of the people bv
hanging from the bar by his feet. and
performing other stunts while the bal
loon continued upward until the man
at the end of the rope looked no larg-
er than diminutive doll. When at an
'Itltude OF 1000 or 1900 feet the bal
'cohlst was seen to suddenly drop.
coming downward with fearful volo-
CITY AT last the parachute opened
and the descent gradually slackened.
Again, and still again he cut loose.
trusting his life to other parachutes
Inc big umbrellas worked smoothly,
ana at the first ascension the birdman
landed on the base ball diamond. only
a lew hundred feet from where the
balloon was turned loose. 1t was a
bold, difficult, dangerous iact most ad-
hilraDly performed. Mr.. Smalley went
up with the balloon once on Friday
and twice on Saturday. In each in
stance the trips were successfully and
safely made, he escaping without in
jury. At the first flight Saturday
morning he landed in the road near
the north end of the bridge across the
Okanogan river, and at the second
light Saturday evening, and probably
the highest and most interesting. the
wind carried him into the high grass
on the west edge of the East Oroville
Orchard tracts On that flight it look
ed for a time as though he might fall
into the river, and Smalley could be
heard at a great height calling for a
boat. He made a three parachute
jump Friday, but confined himself to
two parachutes on Saturday. And
considering the chances he took two
were enough and to spare.
Up to Friday morning it was expect
ed that ball teams would be present
from Chesaw, Tonasket and Keremeos.
but early Friday morning Manager
Hedger received word that the Che
saw team would not fill the date, and
before noon it was learned that To-
nasket could not be present. This
was a disappointment, but Keremeos
was present and it was decided that
three games should be played by the
two mines. Tom Daily, the regular
Oroville pitcher, who is a team in him
SELF pitched for the visitors accord
ing to previous arrangement, while
Manager Hedger went in the box for
the locals TIedger surprised his
friends by holding Keremeos down to
three hits, and really winning his own
game by negotiating the first hit for
Oroville in the sixth inning, leading a
rally that resulted in two runs. Taken
all the way through and it was the
best game that has been seen on the
home grounds this season. All three
of the games were we'll played, and
were probably about as interesting an
exhibition of the popular sport az
would have resulted had the other
clubs been participants.
The game Friday was so close ard
so uncertain as to be intensely eXcit-
ing. The locals came very near los
ing in the ninth. Petre led off with a
safety and stole second. The next
man struck out Then Hedger weak
ened and hit Tom Daily and Corrigan,
filling the bases. M. Daily's long fly
was caught by Prince, Petre scoring
on the throw in. The strain was re-
lieved when Powell caught B. Hills
| fv. The grand stand was filled to ca
pacity and the side lines were crowd
cd. The roofing was noisy and con-
hnuCus. Orovile has never played a
more snappy game. Not an error was
made by the locals, and only two by
the visitors, but those two came in the
sixth and contributed to the run get
ting. 1t was one, two, three ont at
almost every inning. Each side made
three hits. Newton, Prince and Hedger
qotting the hits for Oroville, and Petre
ard Tom Daily for Keremeos, Petre
Gathering two. One was in the first
inning. but the batter was gathered ia
bv a swift double play, Powell to Bar
tell TO Sailing. The following is the
score.
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