The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1920-07-09
LEGION DRAWS
Big CROWDS

The biggest crowd that has ever as
sembled at Chippewa Lake Park turn
ed out Monday to take part in t he cele
bration given by Courtney Lawrence
Post No. 202 of the American Legion.
The day was ideal and the crowd
started coming early in the morning
and. long before noon the automobile :
were lined up as far as Chippewa Lake
village. Parking space. was at a
premium and fields all around the lax
for a radius of three miles were used
for this purpose.
Tickets sold at the gate numbered
1850 but there were a number Of
people who went in with the stead
stream who did not purchase tickets
Gate receipts amounted to $4710.00
and the concession run by the Legion
boys brought in $1750.00 making Il
total of $7959.00 from all sources. AT
ter the expenses are paid it is estimat-
ed that there will be between 100000
and $350000 left to turn into the Com
munity building fund.
Every part of the program planned
went off without a hitch with the ex
ception of the sea-plane flights. The
three ball games between Granger an3
Wellington resulted in Wellington win
ming two games. TIE prize fight
took well, Andy Anderson winning hi
bout from Bricker Of Chatham. Thl
main bout, a go scheduled for siy
round between Roy Moore of Medina
and Joe Phillips Of Cleveland wa
cut short in the third round whea
Moore went down for the count. Tive
otLcr preliminary bouts were fast ant
furious and drew rounds Of applauso
from the ring side. The fire works
in the evening were set off as soon
as it was dark enough on tho flat by
the lake were they could be seen by the
people on the hillside. The sets were
very pretty and every one was pleased
with he display. The Ford Sedar
given away, was won by H. Richard
Deimling of Valley City, on ticket No.
68A, one from the first. Mr.. Deim-
ling is now the proud possessor Of
two Fords. Harry L. Davis ex-mayor
of Cleveland was the speaker of the
day and took for his subject "Americ-
canism," he was introduced by Judge
N. H. Mcclure of Medina.
The lack of accidents was notable in
such large crowd, the one casualty
being the death of the aviator in the
morning. Fireworks, other than
those used in the exhibition, were not
allowed on the grounds and altho there
were explosions now and then, it was
not general and was suppressed where
ever possible. Every precaution was
taken by the Legion boys to make the
day a big success, which it certainly
was.
Following are the committees that
did the work under the able manage
ment of Mr.. Raymond Bennett.
Finance committee composed of Claire
Davenport, W. S. Seymour, Will Boley,
r. B. Bennett, Ford Cannon, Marshall
Bryant, Earl Arick, Boyd Davenport
and Harry Kern.
j. R. Moore, R. A. Brintnall, Joe
Seymour and Paul Bowman constitut 3,
ed the grounds committee.
Special police, under the direction Of
Park Bigelow were Joe Rompf
York Dudley, Carl Bricker, Tod Car
field, Walter Coleman, Robert Hard
ing, Harry Pearson, Wendall Lurch,
Bert Good, Mahlon Trout and
Lawrence Huff-all husky chaps and
mean lockers.
The various concessions were under
care of Harry Davenport Sa' -,
Brainard, Hugh Lamphear, Ralph
House, Harold Barger, Louis Coyle,
Parke Bigelow, Delsie Fisher, Lloy,l
Fisher, Clarence Rickard, Bernie Bov' =
man, Leland Longacre, George Frazie :.
Fred Boley, Clayton Randall, john
Munson, Joe Vittel, Emanuel Trinte-
man, Leo Bartunek, Cliff Bachtel.,
Charles Griesinger, Bob Mcdowell
Dallas Warner, Oscar Rinehart, Harry
Bachtell, Ad. Gibbs and DR.. Wise.
One of the concession booths was
operated by girls. These are Misse J
Constance Hanna, Bernice Best, Esthe r
Wertz, Lucille Offincer, Genevieve
Brintnall and Julia Bailey.
The Boy Scouts in charge of Ne |
Alexander and Ivan Ault handled
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