The Lamar register., 1921-09-07
BIG ELKS PICNIC
Thousands Enjoy Days Outing Al
Queen Beach on Labor Day.


ed in the future the choice was the
wisest that could possibly have been
made. Not possible fault could be
found by even confirmed old crouch
up for the occasion. The day was
clear and the sun bright and yet the
thermometer refused to mount up to
uncomfortable figures. The road
Rhody's Boulevard-was in excellent
condition and made the trip one of
the special pleasures of the day.
Thousands took advantage of these
ideal conditions to lay off for one day
and visit with the family at the great
pleasure resort of southeastern Colo
rado. All sections of Prowers county
were represented strong, and eastern
Bent, Baca, Kiowa and Cheyenne
counties came in strong with large
delegations Of Elks, their families and
friends. II was estimated that dur
ing the day and evening about one
thousand autos loaded with people Wis
tied the beach. Frank Petrie, manag-
er of the resort, and the entertainment
committee of the lodge had done every
thing possible to arrange for the COM
fort and enjoyment of their visitors
but all were surprised at the size of
the crowd that came.
The morning crowd was not extra
large but still there was a fair rep
resentation from all sections. The
carnival attractions that had been
present at the Springfield fair came
up for the day and did flourishing
business entertaining the crowd. A
program of novelty and special races
was pulled off during the morning and
q number of interesting events were
in the list. The big basket dinner at
noon was also q very enjoyable fea-
ture.
Just after dinner the autos began
coming in from every road leading in
to the beach north, south, east and
west, and soon the grounds around the
beach were filled with parked ma
chimes. The various boats and espec-
tally the motor boat were popular
amusements for the crowd until the
regular program began.
The first event was a half-mile
swimming race between w. +. Fisher
and ]. d. Spooner, which Fisher won
by few lengths through greater en-
durance.
After this the main part of the
crowd drifted to the arena where the
boxing contests were 10 be pulled oil
and there was a crowd of almost
thousand inside the arena when the
two young sports, Pete, the Newsie'
and the Shoestring Wonder, were in
troduced as the curtain raiser The
boys put on real scrap for blood
and the crowd rewarded them with
a rain of small coins when the referee
declared It an even break.
Chas. Wooden acted as official an
nouncer and introduced Matt ober as
the Arkansas Valley Tex Rickard pro-
noting the contests. Victor NJ. Hovis
was introduced as referee and DR.. Pax
ton as timekeeper. Jack Huber ami
Daniel Boone were the judges.
The first bout was to be SIX round
go between Jesse Davis of Lamar ana
Kid Fries of Wiley, the latter was so
badly outclassed, however that ne
could not last out the first round but
took the full count in about one MN
ute and half.
Kid Mack Of Pueblo and Eddie ful-
len Of Cheyenne Wells were the next
pair and Pullen was almost as badly
outclassed so far as fighting goes, put
covered up and managed to stand the
punishment until the last Of the 1nth
round when he was awarded the figh'
on foul. This decision created mucl'
dissatisfaction and the crowd couid NOT
be quieted until Referee HoVis an
nounced that he was ready to back up
his decision after the regular program
by taking on all objectors. VIC TOT
tunately got by with this, as II ne
had been called on by all the opJe's
ors he would be the rest OF MS ~
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