The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-08-14
HOME COMING
VERY SUCCESSFUL
BIG CROWD ENJOYED REUNION
AND ATTRACTIONS
Ball Games Were Considered Good
And Balloon Ascensions The
Finest Ever Seen Here.

We take it for granted that when
a large crowd Of people come to
town, see the sights for three days,
have a good time visiting, good
time dancing and a good time seeing
the ball games, they have had a good
time generally and that the occasion
which brought them together was a
success. Judged by this standard the
Clio 1919 Home Coming was pro-
nounced success. The crowd was
large from start to finish and every
body seemed to have a good time. AS
a general thing, too, the crowd was
decorous and if there were one or
two instances where people were dis
orderly it was no more than might
have happened under similar cir
cumstances anywhere. Unfortunate-
ly there are always few people who
cannot have good time without
making bad time for others. But,
really, the disagreeable features of
the occasion were hardly worth men,
tioning.
The ball games were perhaps the
main feature of the entertainment
and some of them were considered
extraordinarily good.
The ball games during the Home
Coming started Thursday afternoon,
Dawson team opposing the home boys
in one of the best and most exciting
games ever played in Clio. 1t took the
home boys twelve innings to decide
it in their favor. The game was lost
twice but the "never1give-up" spirit
won the game. Collard, who did the
twirling for Clio, never gave up and
the boys all showed the same spirit.
Dawson started right in the first in
ming by placing two hits down the
3rd base foul line that looked doubt
full, which coupled with two errors
gave them three runs, No more
scoring occurred until the Clio boys
got two men on bases after two
were out and Frencz purposely walk
ed Honick to get the pitcher who
promptly tripled to center field and
tied the score. Fisher singled and
put the score in favor of the locals
before the side was retired for the
fifth inning. 1t looked easy for Clio
until the ninth when French dropped
the pill on the initial sack which
would have made the third out but
with runner on third the score was
tied. Dawson came right back in the
tenth with three runs and the crowd
started for home, but Clio again fill
ed the bases at their turn at the
stick and when Fisher let loose a
three-bagger the score was again
tied. In the twelfth spasm Fisher
again came across with double with
a man on second who scored the win
ming run for Clio. Score, 7 to 6.
Fridays game between Burt and
Otisville was a clean, fast game, the
team work behind the pitching of
Mcnamara, the Burt hurler giving
them the verdict long before the last
inning was played. Score to 2.
Saturday mornings game between
Dawson and Otisville was a one-sid-
ed affair, Dawson taking the long
end of the score at % to 3, which also
copped the third prize.
The afternoon game for first and
second prize was brilliant pitchers
duel. The support behind Mason, the
mound artist for Burt, gave him the
credit of winning, but all who saw
the game were unanimous in the
opinion that the local pitcher,
Lefty" Remember, hurled far bet
ter brand of ball, but his support was
loose and Burt piled up five runs,
with only one earned, and the local
boys were unable to get to Burt's
hurler with enough punched hits so
lost the game and incidentally the
big prize. The score was to 1.
The money was divided as follows
Burt, $4,000; Clio, $25.00; Dawson,
$500. Umpires, Maginn and Tuf-
ford
The balloon ascensions given un-
der the direction of Aeronaut Riley,
Of Caro-, were perhaps the best exhi-
bitions of the kind ever given here.
On Friday afternoon lady and gen.
tleman made double ascension and
parachute drop which was very
thrilling, as the man had to cut loose
from the big bag when it was hard
ly more than hundred feet from
the ground in order that it might
rise so that his companion could make
safe drop. Saturdays triple ascen-
sion was beauty. The big bag went
away up into the clear blue sky and
then the aeronaut, suspended from
three parachutes, cut loose. The first
parachute opened nicely, when the
rider detached himself from it, then
repeated the operation from the sec
ond parachute and sailed serenely to
earth in the third, the three para
ohutac md tho holIoop itself all he-