The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-18
Scond Annual Outing is En- joyed by Huge Crowd at
 Motor Club
REDS WIN HONORS
 IN ATHLETIC EVENTS
Relay Race Won by Rlues When Her bert Baum Gets Stuck in Hoop While Making the Ttrn--Har-
 " Jones Pulls German

Members of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday forgot the and made merry.
 Out at Edgewood at the Birmingham Motor and Country club the annual out ing of the civic organization was heid' and from the time the crowd arrived un- til late yesterday evening staid and dig nihed business men, captains of indus try and finance became iovial, care-free youths, captains only of their own good time.
 It started with the lemonade-barrels or it! They were sitting everywhere about the clubhouse grounds and verify they seemed to have been patterned out of the biblical barrel which contained the widows mite How much they had in to begin with is immaterial. Sufficient is it to say that the crowd drank and drank of the luscious sweet liquid and when everybody was ready Ito leave the spigots still answered to the turn of the handle.
 The lemonade came first because 1t was the first thing encountered by the ''picnickers" as they sathered They be- gan coming about Il o'clock, and by noon there were on the grounds between 30o and 400 gay and happy men and women. From then on things went with a whiri' and when everybody started home in the evening George Binn. Harry Jones. Hlil Ferguson and E. T. Wilcox were still ar guing over who had won-the Blues or the Reds
 As a matter of history it will have to be recorded here and forever hereafter however. that the Reds wen the day on points Nobody on the Blue side admits it, but so whispered the referee and judges among themselves They dared not say so to the contestants for fear of violence.
 By the time the crowd had gathered at noon with the hand leading the way everybody marched down the h.l and then marched back again. While they ws.e down the hill, however, the athletic games were staged On the level ground of the hollow below with the stars or the Blue and Red teams competing hke school kids for every honor.
 Estes Wins High Jump
 First was the running high jump be- tween the competing teams George Blnn, IT, captain of the Reds and E. T. Will COX captain of the Blues. The qualifying grind began and man after man fell out until finally Referee Hill Ferguson and Judge Bill Streit drew the contest down between Thornton Estes and John Me Queen of the Reds and Frank Hammond of the Blues. Mcqueen dropped out and after three jumps each both MT. Estes and MT. Hammond failed to beat each other Each time they jumped they kept taking off shoes, neclstlss, socks. and re- lieving thefr pockets Of such weghtS matters as handkerchiefs, matches ano toothpicks.
 As the second gruelling round between the two started. High Flyer Estes reached up to the top of his head and pulled therefrom a hair. frightened by the act. he approached the par with a Tusi and skinned over it like a Wright aero plane In vain MT Hammond tried to do likewise He discarded everything he could spare and started to abandon some thing which he could not have spared when a warning shout admonsshed hin there were ladies present
 Then he rushed the bar but failed. anc amid cheers that echoed from Shades tC Red mountain and back again "fiigf