The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-09-07
1915 PLAYGROUND
SEASON CLOSED
ON LABOR DAY
Program Consisted of Athletic
Contests and Eyening Concert
JENNEY WINS IN TENNIS FINALS
Lists Of Winners and Awards of
Badges for Excellence Curing
the Year

The closing exercises of the Ben
nington playground were held Mon
day afternoon and evening in the
form of an athletic contest for boys
and one for the girls, games and
stories for the small children, the fin
ais in the mems tennis tournament,
the awarding of the prizes which had
been earned during the summer, and
musical given by home talent. There
were several hundred spectators at
both the afternoon and the evening
entertainment who enjoyed not only
the prepared programs but the yari-
Gus games and activities with which
the children occupied themselves.
The first part of the afternoon was
devoted to the athletic contests. Four
girls teams contested for the champ
ionshp banner which was carried of
by the Camp Fire team for the best
record in the potato race, yolley ball
and basket ball relay. This team CON
sisted of the following girls: Elsie
Sigworth, Barbara Robinson, Jennie
Levin, Margaret Pilling, Frances Car
yer and Eliza Stewart. An exhibition
of broad jumping was given by w. w.
Bartlett aud William Eiolister and the
former gave an interesting exhibition
of pole vaultmg. clearing the bar wen
over ten feet In the finals of the
hundred yard dash first place was
won by F96yG Barrett and second
place by Jacob Smith; time, 12.1 Sec
Onar.
One of Tie features of the, afternoon
was the last match of the mems ten
mis- tournament in which Samuel Lee
.vin and Edward Jenney played for the
championship cup which was won by
the latter in an exciting match by a
'score 6-1, 2-G, and 10. The first set
was won by Mr. Jenney with the same
ease that Mr Levin won the second
set In the final set Levin won five
straight games, only needing one
more to win the match, but, with re
markable control and nerve, Jenney
steadied himself and won the next
seven games in succession, winning
the cup. The games were scored by
Rev G. s. Mills.
Following the tennis match. the
prizes were awarded at the pavilion
by w. W. Bartlett as follows: Tennis
cup to Edward Jenney; baseball
league pennant to the captain of the
Playground Juniors, Earl Weeks, and
monogram to each member of the
team made up of the following boys
Earl Weeks, William Greenw ood, John
Brougham, Michael FRAZIER, Elmer
Pratt. Chester Youngs, Charles Ber-
geron, Tony Stoppellio, and James
Hughes; tennis monogram for the win
ner of the girls tennis tournament to
Miss Elizabeth Huling; athletic badge
tests, 1st test Earl Barrett, 2nd tests.
Leo Caldwell, Nathan Gold, Robert
Cummings, Leo Moran, William lie
vim, Robert Levin. Henry Mclaren,
Charles Bergeron. In athletic badge |
contest for the girls, monograms were |
awarded to Frances Mcbride, Rather
inc Riley. Marie Keelor, Mary FRAZIER,
Cordelia Maynard, and Lucy Brooks. |
During the afternoon stories were |
told the small children by Miss Flea
nor Sibley and the games were in |
charge of Margaret Pillmg and Miner
va Holmes.
The enjoyable evening program.
which had been arranged consisted of |
a musical by local talent The con
cert was given by young gentlemen of |
musical talent in Bennington and |
folk songs of Italy. Switzerland, New
England, and the Sunny South made
up the entertaining program. Those
who took part were Frederick lIurl-
burt, Edward Hurlburt, John McCor-
mick, Russell Carpenter, Roy Clum,
Blase Longo, Tony Martelle, Joseph
and Tony Mellace A Swiss
yodel by Mr. Clum was especially en-
ioyed The concluding number of the
was a cornet solo, The Star
Spangled Banner, by Ivan Hunter.
The base ball game last Saturday
between Bennington and the North vii
age ended rather disastrously for the
local players who went home with de-
feat of 80 to H. Some of the specta-
tors expressed the opinion that if
some of the Benningtonians had been
supplied with bushel baskets at the
of the game the defeat
would not have been quite so Severe. |