The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-07-14
HAD RoLLICKING TIME
At Presbyterian Outing at Caledonia
Park Saturday.


The Presbyterian picnic, held at Gale
donia park Saturday, proved to be one
OF the most pleasant outing trips of the
season, With about $50 men, women
and children present, and corps of Jolly
game and contest leaders, coupled with
extraordinary picnic weather, everyone
enjoyed very successful outdoor festi-
val. Old and young seemed to be in a
very playful mood and took hold well to
make the afternoon pleasant for each
other. Baseball, football, foot races and
three-egged races were interesting ath-
letie features of the afternoon The foot
large entrance to all of them.
The first race was for boys under the
age of five years. James McBain won
and William Cruickshank was second.
Margaret Black won the race for the
girls under five, with Gladys Bernie sec
ond. The race for the boys, five to eight,
was won by Francis Black, with Charles
Cooper and George Mcdonald following
second and third Barbara Hamilton,
Annie Watt and Dorothy Leith were the
respective winners of the next running
contest, which was for the girls between
the ages Of five and eight.
Boys under IL ran next, Wendell
Hurry winning and Bertil Soderstrom
and Leslie Scott coming in second and
third. Violet Mcdonald, Evelyn Watt
and Marjorie Watt were, respectively,
first, second and third in winning the next
running event. Percy Angwin breasted
the finish line about 20 yards ahead of
Charles Lynde and Peter Smith, who
were second and third in the race for the
boys of IL to Is. The girls race of these
ages was very close, Margaret Wilson
winning and Devina Stevens and Fannie
Paul second and third William McRae
and Leslie Mckenzie won the three
legged race for the boys, but Bertil Sod
erstrom and Newell Angwin, who nearly
tied the contest, led the race until the
last few feet. Russell Brechin and Law
renee Angwin were third in probably
one Of the most interesting races. The
girls three legged race was marked with
many tumbles, Misses Rooney and Phyl-
lis Hamilton winning, Jennie Smith and
Barbara Hamilton second and Alice Sod
erstrom and Violet Mcdonald third. The
young ladies' race was won by Miss De-
vina Stevens. Miss Fannie Paul ar
Miss Irene Midget were second and tn
prize winners. A race for the marin
ladies was well entered Mrs Duguid,
Mrs. Mcqueen and Mrs. Club were the
respective winners of this race.
After few minutes of general frol-
licking, baseball game was arranged
between the married men and the boys.
The youngsters started in strong but
after a few innings the HAS Beens"
pounded the young pitchers hard in the
five innings, piling up II scores against
the boys eight AT the end of the fifth
inning the umpire called the game, which
made the boys rather "sore" because
they felt confident of victory if they
could play few more innings. Geno
Sandri, William McRae and Percy Ang
win made up the battery for the boys
team Young, Mckenzie, Wood, j. Ang-
win, Smith and L. Angwin made up the
rest of the young team. Keast, Mcleod,
Clubb, Jack Robertson, James Robertson,
Mckenzie, Stuart, William Stephen and
David Stephen made up the married
mems team. In the last of the game,
Stuart, who was pitching, started for a
foul ball and met the catcher rather
solidly. Stuart suffered immediate i'll
effects from the collision but recovered
enough to toss out the last man in the
game.
A football game was arranged. Two
husky captains. William Black and
James Mcleod, chose sides and heavy
team for each side lined up for the first
l5-minute period, which tired the vet
eran players, as they played very hard.
Both sides were ready to quit at the end
of the second period. The game resulted
in a score of 4 to in favor of Mr..
Blacks team.
A number of times ice cream was
passed TO all of the picniekers. It.was
furnished by the Sunday school Anum-
Der of races and contests were arranged
from time to time, one of which was
the kicking contest. The football was
set and l3 ladies took part to see who
could kick ii the farthest, Miss Chris
tine Walker being able to do that, al
though a tie was kicked off between her
and Mrs James Mcleod.
A number of the children had a mar
row escape from injury when a large
limb fell near one of the sheds where
ch;Idrep had heeY ayinp nearly all dav