Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-06
SPORTS AND OUTINGS
DIVERT HOLIDAY CROWDS
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the ball games at Shibe Park, where
tho Athletich and Washington battled
this afternoon. while hundreds OF others
watched the Middle States regatta from
the launches or the banks of the Schuyl-
kill at 2 o'clock The seventh annual
championship meet OF the Middle Atlantic
Association, In which some OF the best
athletes in the city started, took thou
sands out to the Central High School
Athletic Field, Goth and Cambria streets.
One of the biggest outings scheduled
for the day is the opening of the forty
second annual Volks Fest of the Cam
statter, in Central Park. II continues
for the two succeeding days.
The Philadelphia County Fair at By
berry had its biggest day, and hundreds
Of Phiddelphians went out TO see the
trotting races and the display of farm
products.
The Irish national games of the Gaelic
Athletic Association were held this after
noon at Point Breeze Park. and one
of the features was the intercity hurl-
ing Gaelic football matches between the
Sons of Kerry, of New York, and the
champion Emmett team, of this city.
Timothy Brosnahan, of New York,
participant in the games, was injured
when accidentally struck with a club He
was taken to st. Agnes Hospital. He
Veditz won two exciting two-mile mo-
torcycle races. He won the first race
against Armstrong in minute 2S seconds
Neditz then won against Wanderbery in
l minute % AS seconds. The two-mile
motor-paced bicycle race was won by
Clarence Miller, of Atlanta, Ga. Time,
minutes 26 seconds.
In the tug-of-war contests, open to the
Ancient Order or Hibernians and the Irish
county societies, New York was repre-
sented by two teams, the Cork Mems and
Tipperary Mems Associations, while this
city was represented by four teams, the
counties Tyrone, Wexford, Tipperary and
the Emmetts. The games started at 10:30
a. m.
At the DreXe Biddle Bible Class Home
Lansdowne, the day was marked by
sports. Gold. silver and bronze medals
given by Mr.. Biddle were awarded to
the winners. The annual relay race with
the huge silver cup as the prize was
the big attraction of the day
Labor Day was observed in at least
three of the suburban communities with
parades and addresses. In Lansdale fully
1900 workmen and members of fraternal
and local organizations, together with
three bands of music, paraded. In Tel
ford the celebration was under the direc-
tion of the recently organized Board of
Trade.
All Brookline and much of Philadelphia
expects to taste to the full the varied
offerings of pleasure at the Brookline
Country Club tonight. All the best fea-
lures of county fairs and of real, true,
sure-enough circuses win be gathered
there.
Fireworks. Charlie Chaplin, brass band,
fortune-tellers, cowboys, reed birds right
or the fire, balloon ascension, Indians
food of all kinds-what more could the
small boy, his sister. or, for that matter,
the grown-up desire? And to top it ali
some person born under the star of luck
viii ride home, not in a street car, but
In bright new Ford car, which will be
given away. The circus is given for the
benefit of the Brookline Fire Company.