The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1922-07-21
Was kendrick at Elk River?


Juliaetta young men attended the
races at Elk River last Sunday and
all reported that they enjoyed the
affair greatly. The trip was made by
the way of Park on the way to the
saw mill town and, after the meet
was over, the party returned to Ken
drick by the way of Bovill ana
Deary.
Most of the members of the party
described the event as very peculiar
in many respects, probably because
of the strange actions of those par
ticipating. When the Kendrick-
Juliaetta aggregation arrived at the
field prepared for the races, they saw
at once that they were to be shown
something new in the way Of run
ming. The track was irregular in
shape, instead of oval shaped as Is
the case with most other courses,
and, tat the corners of each turn,
there were placed sacks of saw-dust.
1t developed that the runners in the
following events were supposed to
run wildly around the course and
touch these sacks as they came to
them.
The Elk River people were very
glad to see the young men from Ken
drick and Juliaetta and expressed
their Joy at the meeting by yelling
and other forms of noise making.
They insisted that the visitors join
in the sports and showed them to
the various points Of the field best
adapted for observation of the run
ners. 1t is true that they did most
of the running but at stated times
they indicated that the visitors
change places with them and try
their hands at the new kind Of sport.
This they usually did when they be-
came tired Of running around them
selves and really didn't much care
whether they went on without rest
ing for a little while. They took
these rests seven times during the
meet and then gave the visitors to
understand that they had enough for
a while at least.
At the beginning of the races, they
gave George Carlson, one of the young
men from Kendrick, a book and pen
ell and told him to write down his
impressions Of the sports as he saw
them. They told him that he could
take the book home with him as Z
souvenir after it was all over. He
didn't know exactly what was ex-
pected of him but whenever they
called terror, he thought it very
impressive and made a mark in the
book. This was done the most times
during the time that the Elk River
boys were running around and the
Kendrick boys all took credit fol
some of these so called "errors'
while the saw-mill boys were doing
something else.
After counting these tallies up, i
was found that every Kendrick racer
had at least one of the "errors" aftel
his name in the book and some hat
as many as three. Frank Boyd sait
that he didn't care for the thing
anyway and refused to appropriat
even one of them. Mr.. Carlson sav
that some would be left over so h
took three for himself, just to be lik
the most of them. The Elk River mel
didn't seem to care for such thing
at all and were especially glad to ru
around the course as many times a
possible and everyone yelled abou
it until they got hoarse. The boo
showed that they made the roun
trip twenty-five times and the Wis
itors only did the distance twice, i
fact, they didn't seem to want to ru
at all.
The Kendrick boys report that the
had the most fun watching the Ell
River boys hit a leather ball with
stick and that they watched them d
this most of the time. This was don
until nearly all of the balls were los
I'M the timber growing around til
race-course. The visitors. couldn't Sc
the ball when they got up to hit
while the other boys rested so the
didn't lose any themselves. AS 500
as they were all tired out, they gu
and the crowd seemed good-nature
about it although they did make
lot of noise. One Of the Elk Rive
men made one peculiar remark;
said that he hoped that Kendrie
would soon get over it's baseball daz'
We don't know what he meant
that.
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