Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17

they received another strip of tick
cts. Pretty soon the strips of tickets
in reserve diminished in number and
it was decided to put one over on the
over-zeaIous Riddles by issuing them
at the gate. But the youngsters were
not to be beaten. Out one gate they
would walk and back in through the
main gate, where they would get
another strip Of tickets. And so it
went all day long. One of the boys
had - strips of tickets left when the
program closed at o'clock.
The races did not start until 1:3o
O'Clock The running broad jump.
BOYS carrying race, watermelon eat
ing contest for coIored boys, pie eat
ing contest and climbing the greasy
pole had to be stricken off the list be-
cause of the lateness of the hour.
The Argus had anticipated enter
tanning a large crowd, but it had made
provisions for taking care of larger
gathering than it expected The num-
Der of persons present was far be-
yond the dreams of the promoters,
however, and it is needless to say that
the newspaper is delighted with the
attendance.
w. S. Scott, circulation manager of
The Argus, was master of ceremonies.
The public picnic idea was conceived
by Mr. Scott and he was given COM
pIete charge of the arrang ements.
That he is a capable picnic promoter
no one can doubt He directed the
program at the park and the task was
10 easy one. A large degree of credit
belongs to him for the success of the
undertaking.
The results of the races:
years-First. Harry Giles, 1920 Sec
ond avenue, 81; second, William Cat
ton, 1852 Seventeenth street, so
cents.
Running race for girls under 16
years-First, Mildred Wiggers, 1401
Third avenue. 81; second, Ida Katz,
1923 Thirteenth street, so cents.
Special running race for newsboys
Only-First, Tony KOne. 1928 Eighth
street, 81; second, William Nichols,
Milan, 80 cents.
Shoe race for boys-First, Francis
Castery, 1905 Twelfth street, pair of
shoes; second, Marion Hart, 1112
Third avenue. 81.
Potato race for bOys-First, William
Cation, 81; second, Floyd Shutter,
1920 FOrty-fourth street, so cents.
Three-Iegged race for bOyS-F'irst,
Third avenue, 81; second; William
Keiser, 419 Tenth street, and Alvin
BerQuist, 1900 GIenhurst court, so
cents.
Sack race for Winners names
not secured.
Potato race for girls-First, Esther
Himbert, 527 Thirty-ninth street, 81;
second, Mary Ellen Kinney, 23G1
Twenty-fourth street, so cents.
Running high jump, free for all
First, William Johnston, 914 Fifteenth
street, 81; second, William Cation, 80
cents.
Adams race. free for a!l-First, Fred
alderman, 1881 Eleventh avenue, 81;
second. Carl ETbstein, 400 Third av =
nue., 50 cents.
Watermelon eating contest-First,
William Cation, IS cents; second, Har-
old Arndt. 80 cents.
Notes of the Picnic.
Thanks for the nice day, Mr.. Wealth
er Man.
In the middle of the afternoon a
panoramic picture was taken. Bat
there were so many folks there that
only a fraction of the crowd was able
to get in the picture. Less than one
bird Of those present were Snapped.
When the pie-eat'ng contest was an
nOunCed there was stampede. There
were more entries than pies. In or
der to play fair the contest was called
off
Can't beat the kids. In the water
melon eating contest MANY fooled The
argus. After getting 2 watermelon
each, some of the boys slipped off in
the shade and took their time aboUr
eating it, prefe-ring to enjoy the mel
on rather than hasten eating it in con.
petition for a prize. Bet there are
some "tummy aches" in town tCdav.
The crowd YVES purely representa-
tive People from all stations in life
were on hand
A pleasing feature from the view
point of the host was that there were
a large number of old folks on hand. |
They seemed to get as much fun out
of the picnic as the kiddies.
George NJ. Lukens of South Rock Is
land, the oldest newspaper man in the |
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