The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-09
ALL HAD A GOOD TIME
Santa Fe Picnic Saturday Afternoon
and Night Was Grand Success.

ana Night was SEFand success.
Santa Fe officials and their families,
Russians from the shops. Irish from
the train crews. Mexicans from the
track gangs, all mingled in che spirit
of cooperation and enjoyed an all-day
picnic at Ripley park Saturday.
Whether they worked in the section
gangs or held down a swivel chair in
the general offices made no difference
Saturday. They all were working for
one of the greatest common carriers
| in the world, and that was enough; the
fried chicken and other picnic grub
tasted just as good to one as it did to
the other
The big thing in the afternoon was
the baseball game between the ~of-
fic.als fromsthe general offices and the
shops. Billy Collinson. chief clerk to
the general manager. captained the
office team. and pulled his team thru
with the long end of to score.
Batteries for the game were: Oberer
and Downs. for the shops, and Dean
Wells and Lehman for the offices
Other members of the teams were:
| office -Menninger, Gilligan. Good
now. Clark, Lawrence, McKibben and
Collinson. Shops-Davies, Swanson.
| Oberer. Leverage, Schefelbein, Lowe
/ and Luke.
Five round boxing bouts and a
wrestling match were held in the
morning Following were the results:
First bout; Riehey and Sarton, draw;
second bout, Paul Rankin and Carl
Bier, draw. Wrestling bout, Ted Ice
and Albert Cope. Cope won popular
decision
The water carnival attracted more
attention than any other stunt at the
picnic. More than 1000 of the pic
| nickers crowded around the pool. to
watch the matches. Eight boys strad
died the telephone pole which was run
! out from the bank to the diving tower
and tried to knock each other off with
broomsticks. padded with stuffed
gunnysa cks The contestants in the
pole fight were: Albert Anderson. r..
Elzel, Elmer Anderson. Albert Smith,
John -Goener, Harry Davis Emmett
Gear and Club Bailey. Bailey sue
| ceeded in knocking all other oppo-
nents OF the pole and won the cash
prize of 81 Other events in the
water carnival were: Girls under Is,
swim ocross pool, won by Annabelle
Gill; boys under Is. swim across pool.
| won by Albert Smith; girls unlimited
| swim across pool, won by AnnabeIIs
belle Gill; boys unlimited. swim across
pool and return. Elmer Anderson; girls
under Is, fancy diving, Annabelle
Gill; boys under Is, fancy diving, AL
bert Smith, first. and John Osborn
second Girls unlimited. fancy diving,
Anna belle Gill; boys unlimited, fancy
] diving. Robert McGiffin.
Miss Gill is IA years old.
| The picnic supper was well attend
ed. The picnickers brought their own
baskets and gathered around the trees
all over the park, eating and laugh
ing. After the supper, a crowd of two
thousand heard the band concert by
Marshal1s band, while another crowd
or about the same size. gathered
around the floor of the dance hall
waiting a chance to get on the floor
and dance to Ray Halls music
After supper, the baseball diamond
was the scene of fast track events
The winnars were: Fifty=yard dash
boys under 12--Rolland Wiser; So
Wassweiler; 75-yard dash, boys under
18-Glenn Claypool; 75-yard dash
girls under 18-Edlyn Wassweiler; rs
yard dash. women-Mrs. E. A. Mason
slow bicycle race-Q. Arens; boys
wheelbarrow race. Elmer Anderson
and Timothy Digginger; women's mai
driving contest-Mrs. Ellen Jones and
Mrs Mamie Johnson; horse and rider
wrestling match-CIay Smith and Ho.
mer Osborne, H. Gill and Q. Arens
chariot race, girls under 18-EdlyT
Wassweiler, Annabele Gill and Grace
Hickox; chariot race. boys under IS
Q. Arens, H. Gill, F. Smith and J
centiped race-Arens, Gill, Smith and
Jackson.
The old timers showed the younger
generation what a good contest was
in the old days, by instituting a horse
shoe pitching match that was a
"dinger." The winning four in the
contest were: E. Anderson J. F. Wal
ton, Bob Shields and P. Patterson
The winning tug of war team was: P
Ingenthron, G. Shoenfelt, W. Land
werth. ]. Baker. T. ]. Quinn, E. D
Swartz, J. Fengleo, c. Stramel, r
Thompson and Z. Beckwith.
Several city and state officials at
tended the picnic. Senator Arthur
Capper was kept busy in the after
noon, refereeing different athletic
events. Mayor Herbert J. Corwint
made an address from the pavilion II
the morning.
TT was a grand success said F. c
Fox, general manager of the Santa
Fe. Il never had a better time In
nv Iife:''