Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-16
BIG EVENTS ARE
SCHEDULED FOR
SCHOOL PICNIC
Entries For Athletic Events to
Be Made on the
Field

Here we go-the biggest recrea-
ton day of the year-next Friday,
June 20, when the Harrisburg Tele-
graph gives it's annual picnic to the
school children of the city. Given
fair weather, this promises to be
the most exciting and gallant gath
ering of all that the Telegraph has
staged, for there will be new and
Jazzy features, such as longball
twHt girl teams, and every inch of
Paxtans Park will be a scene of
genuine and wholesome revelry.
| With Captain Il. j. Stackpole, Jr.,
chairman of the committee, and
V. Grant Forrer, assistant superin-
tendent of city parks, lending eff
clent hand, a program was mapped
out to-day, which may be changed
in some details, but will, in the
main. go through as given here:
children.
sSO7-Cars arrive at park.
1.0O-30-yard dash for boys;
tnlrd uan1l and fourth grades cheats if
1e:1o-SO-yard dash for girls;
third and fourth grades Cheats if
necessary.
-3O-yard race for girls:
nth, sixth, seventh and eighth
grades.
tO.So1 3O-yard egg race for girls;
third and fourth grades.
1O,4O-tPeanut race for small girls
(50 feet in lengthy.
10.50-Sewing contest for teach
ers.
11.oo-Long distance relay race
Tor Boy Scouts from Telegraph
Building to Paxtang Park.
! 10-ShOa raca for email hnVS
f1.20-Three standing broad
jumps; fifth, sixth, seventh and
eighth grades three standing broad
jumps, third and fourth grades.
11.30-50-yard dash for boys;
fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth
grades
11.S5-5q-yard dash for girls;
fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth
grades.
11.5O-obstacle race for boys. all
grades.
12.00-All schools massed on lawn
to sing The Star-Spangled Banner"
12.10-Tug of war by boys of all
1905 p. m.-Long distance run
around lake for seventh and
under direction of Professor Rose.
eighth grades.
2.3O-Mess call for dinner.
teams and vollyball games to be
Longball game for two good girl
run off at convenience of the field
marshal.
l to Band concert
2.15-Show in theater.
4.00-Spelling match; speakers of
the day; award of prizes.
6.00-Mass school singing pa
triotic songs.
Tho atblatic pNants will he RIM
off under Messrs. Beck, of the Trac-
ton Company, and Forrer, and it
was announced today that points
scored are to count as follows: First
place, 5 points; second place, 8
points; third place, points, and
fourth place, ] point. Points dou-
bled for place winners in spelling
match.
]. Frederik Virgin, of the local
Boy Scouts, promises to have IL vet
Grams from each troop in the dossy
relay race, which starts from the
Telegraph Building at II a. m, and
parents and friends of hit econtend-
ers are herewith asked to make ar
rangements to pick up the lads as
they fall out and motor them on to
the park, for it is hard hot trudge
after running a hard race.
Aviator Walter Shaffer, who
kindly volunteered to do cloud
stunts over the park, discovered to-
day that the Middletown aviation
plant was shy of plant, so this
part of the program must be elm
mated. The plane there is under
going repairs.
The traction company will an
nounce in good time just where the
special cars will pull up to carry out
the throngs; the names of contest
ants in all sors tof matches. from
sewing to longbail, will be pub
Hshed in this paper from day to
day. during the week, and by the
way, units are falling in now from
every school, the entertainment will
be both diverting and energizing.
Only seventh and eighth grades
will be allowed in track events, but
! in tug-of-war and other events are
open to the smallest.
1t is importan ito under satnd
that entries may be made right on
the field before the event starts;
this being done because of short
time in making preparations and
to give all school athletes a chance
to take part.
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