The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1917-08-15
Company | Has
Good Field Day
Field Sports, Ball Game, Carni-
val, Parade And Dance
Make Big Day
ALLIES WIN GAME
Proceeds from Field Day We're
Small But Carnival And Dance
Bring Good Returns


Friday was generally Gle
brated by Redwood Falls and vi
entity as a Company L day. AS
announced in last weeks Ga
zette and widely advertised in
surrounding towns the boys of
the Company staged a military
field day, ending at night with
largely attended dance at the ar
At the same time the la
dies of the town were operating
a carnival for the benefit of the
Company. Theday was ideal for
the company events and was
equally as ideal out in the har-
vest fields so that the antici-
pated crowds and combined re-
ceipts were comparatively small.
The program started in the
afternoon with a parade, led by
the Company, which circled the
business section of town and
then headed to the fair grounds.
In line of march following the
company were Colonel Jos. Ty-
son, distinguishing himself on
horseback, DR.. Sarchet with his
ball team in cars, two clowns
from the company, Privates
Harmsen and Mclean, with a
homemade steam calliope bring
ing up the rear, said calliope
pouring forth clouds of black
smoke from its tar-paper-fed air
tight and considerable calliope-
imitation music from the inter-
ior furnished by the company
feature sextette-Rasch, Darrell
brothers, Peck, Gather and
McPhee.
Field Events.
At the fair grounds the held
events began with a fifty yard
dash which was won by Scott
with Rogers a close second.
shorty Mclean, the company
contortionist, amused the crowd
for a few minutes with some
clever tumbling. The next num-
her was an equipment race with
first and second places won by
Sexton and Alexander. Sexton
paired with Winter took first IN
a three-legged race. Corporal
Shaffer and Private Scott put on
a couple of fast bantam-Welght
rounds of boxing. A hundred
ward dash followed in which
Rogers and St. Clair placed first
and second. The last event was
shelter-tent pitching contest
in which Sexton and Schlick as
a team barely won over Nielsen
and Johnson in setting up their
pup tent.
The Game.
The big attraction Of the at
ternoon was the ball game. DR..
Sarchet and Joseph Tyson two
weeks ago had organized from
the company two teams, which
thew dubbed respectively the
"Allies" and the 'Invincibles,"
and by a game between which
teams they intended to settle a
long-standing baseball rivalry.
Whether the latter has actually
, been settled is still open to ques-
( tion. The Allies were generally
conceded to be a defeated team
,-before they appeared on the dia-
mond, practically all the play
ers being unknown quantities:
Tyson's proteges looked good
from the start by running in a
score the first inning, but lost
all their prospects in the third
when with a few errors on their
part and we'll placed hitting on
the part of the Allies, the lat
ter chased six scores over the
plate. Colonel Tyson became
desperate, excited with fear that
! the crowd was being duped by a
! one-sided game and considered
i himself SO deceived in play
1 ers that he hoped his Invinclbles
i would fail to land another score.
i However, the game ended with
4 the Allies victors by only 3 to
l. 8 score, everybody happy. Dr.
Sarchet insists that one OF the
finest plays he ever saw in all
his years of baseball experience,
!, was in the ninth inning with his
opponents team at bat, the ba-
J ses full and two strikes on the
MON OF haf and at least a CHANGE