The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-21
SANTA FE TO HELP
Shops viii Take a Hand in City
Park Pageant.
History of Transportation in
Kansas to Be Depicted.

a spectacular feature of the final
playground exhibition at City park.
the evening of September 3, viii be
a pageant depicting the history Of
transportation in Kansas. It Will be
put on by Miss Lulu Mckee. of the
East Side playground.
The Santa F'e has taken an interest
in this pageant which viii be on an
elaborate scale. Major NJ. J. Drury,
pointed committee of which T. W
Thomas, supervisor, is chairman The
Santa Fe will spend considerable mon
ey in making the event a success
Indian days and the early years of
white settlement will be represented
by the children of the playground,
whose fathers are practically all Santa
F'e employees They will be attired
in appropriate costumes. The young
sters are working hard in prepara-
ton for the pageant
There will be an OK cart to repre-
sent transportation in the early
days There will be model which
viii show the first type of railway
locomotive used in Kansas Repre-
sentative of the latest Atlantic type
of engine will be a model brought
here from the Panama Pacific exposi-
ton Santa Fe ticket office. Its cost
cost was several thousand dollars.
Ben AIileham, Santa Fe artist, is
This will be but one of eight
pageants that will be presented the
evening of September 3 by the play
ground children.
Final Athletic Tournament
The final general playground ath-
let1c tournament OF the season was
held late Friday on Harrison street
between Ninth street and Tenth ave-
nue. II was under the direction of w
P MacLean, director of physical edu-
cation for the city schools. To pre-
vent vehicles from interfering with
the events Harrison street was roped
off. permission having been given by
Harvey Parsons, chief of police.
The races were novel in their ma
tUre- They were for pushmobiles, go
cycles. tricycles, bicycles, etc.
Next Monday the unsettled singles
and doubles in the tennis tournament
for the championship of the city will
be played off at the various play
grounds.
Results in the Friday afternoon
tournament:
Unlimited boys pushmobiIe race
Pope and Rigby. City Park. first; Lar
inner and Hare. Westlawn. second;
Noble and Short. Chesney, third
Express wagon race-Painter, Bur-
dette and Hill. Lincoln. first; Noble.
knowiton and knowlton. Potwin, sec
ond.
1OO-pound boys pushmobiIe race
Hare and Larimer, Westlawn, first;
VilHpigue and Gordon. City Park. sec
ond: Garden ard Groom, Lincoln,
third.
Girls slow bicycle race-Edna
Quail. Chesney. first. All other en-
trants failed to finish
Go-cycle race-NobIe, Chesney,
first; Langston. Polk, second; E.
Boyd. Lincoln. third.
S5-pound boys roller skating race
Cohen, City Park, first; Burge,
Polk. second: Noble, Chesney. third.
1OO-pound girls roller skating race
-Jeannette Schwart, WestIawn, first;
SaraCohen. Lincoln, second; NJ Dreb-
ing. Chesney. third
12O-pound girls roller skating race
-Jeannette Schwartz. Westlawn.
first; Sara Cohen. Lincoln, second; NJ. |
rebing. Chesney. third.
12O-pound girls roller skating race
Alice Kanode, Chesney. first; Grace 1
Darling. Chesney. second; Lamberta 4
Mcdowell. East Side, third
Peanut race-CarI Schwartz, West I
coin. second: William Sheard. Potwin, /
third.
Boys slow bicycle race-F. Thomas, T
Polk, first: r. McCauley. WestIawn,
second; r. Irwin. WestIawn. third
Unlimited boys roller skating race
Kerns, Polk, second; E. Ortman. City /
Park. third
Tricycle. race-Jannecke. Lincoln. /
first; McCarter. Chesney, second; I
Rogers. Chesney. third
Boys hoop race Burge. Polk /
first; o. White. Polk. second; j. I
Swartz- Westlawn. third
Girls hoop race-Vera Smith. /
Chesney, first: Jeanette Swartz, +
Wesclawn. second; Nina Goodwin, /
East Side, third.
S5-pound boys pushmobi1e race
kearney and Gordon. City Park. first; I
Jones and Brockey. Westlawn. sec +
ond; Burge and Eaton. Polk third. I
I0O-pound boys roller skating race /
WestIaWn. first: Bruce +
Westlawn. second; Niliipigue. City /
Park. third.
1G0-pound boys roller skating race f
-LarIIner. Westlawn. first: Bruce (
Westlawn. second, Vuipigue. City 1
Park. third.
Horse and rider contest-Pope and /.
Gordon. City Park. first; Rogers and /
Larimer. Westlawn. second; Macarthur /
and Noble. Chesney- third.
120-pOund boys pushmobile race +
Shoch and Chamberlain Chesney +
first. McDade and Burdette. Lincoln I
second; Cohen and Ortman, City Park /
third
The ranking of the Fairgrounds in +
the pushmobiIe races is as follows: I
WestIawn. first. with IS points; Ches- /
ney second. with Il points: City
Park, third. 81; Lincoln. fourth, IS: /
Polk. fifth. p; Potwin. sixth 5; East /
Side. seventh. =