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The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



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last half of the last iuuing the score stood 

 S) to 7 in favor of All-Buffalo ami the 

 Hcotts to bat. In a few minutes D. I. 

 Seott came in with a run ; then two men 

 went out; two more got on the bases, 

 second and third; C. Eeish came to bat 

 but fanned the country atmosphere twice 

 and had three bad balls tossed to him. 

 1 1 was a momentous moment ; women 

 stopped their gossip; hearts throbbed 

 loudly; W. ilott walked toward the beer 

 keg overcome with emotion, but before 

 he found that the barrel was empty, 

 whack! went the ball into the left field; 

 two men came in and the game was won 

 and lost. 



L. H. Xeubeck officiated in the thank- 

 less position of umpire, and an able one 

 he made. I just want to say that al- 

 though a loser, Mr. Anderson had a hard 

 task to get a team together, but he did 

 his best, and he took defeat in a good- 

 natured, gentlemanly way that pleased 

 the writer very much. They were all 

 such swell players that I shall not at- 

 tempt to mention any of them in par- 

 ticular, only to say that if the manager 

 iif the New York National League Club 

 had been present I know ho wouM have 

 engaged Shortstop Bert Troup, Catcher 

 Stephen Jones for a kicker and coacher 

 and Carl Beiseh for his marvelous base- 

 running. 



Then for the programme of sjjorts. 

 President Braik was fortunate to have 

 at his call three eminent judges of seeds, 

 bulbs, florists' supplies, fertilizers, etc., 

 and they proved equally good judges of 

 athletic games. Walter Mott came from 

 .lamestown ready to enjoy himself and 

 laver whisjiered business. .Mr. C. B. 

 Knickman, of Rutherford, X. .1., shut off 

 ])alms, lilies and bay trees for the day. 

 and Mr. William Trillow, representing 

 the Chicago house of J. C. Vaughan, did 

 his best to suppress business. It wculd 

 show signs occasionally of breaking out, 

 and several times you could see his eyes 

 look up, and he would get as far as 



" How are you off for " when he was 



immediately conducted over to the re- 

 fieshment counter and was then profuse 

 with apologies. He said we must e.xcuse 

 him; it was so strange to him. 



I have already occupied too nuieh 

 space, Jlr. Editor, but I must tell you 



J. W. Dunford, President of the St. Louis Carnation Co., and only Nominee for Next 

 President of the St. Louis Florists' Club. 



that there was a 100-yard race, running 

 hop. skip and jump, bicycle race, three- 

 legged race, ladies' race (maiden fillies 

 to carry ten pounds extra), old men's 

 race (the idea of their calling a man 

 old at fifty-eight), boys' race, girls' race 

 and one-legged race. There were thirty- 

 two useful and substantial prizes. 



The fields were large in almost every 

 contest. The features of note were the 

 sprinting of Mr. Eeichert and George 

 McC^lure, the broad jump of D. J. Scott 

 and the great hop, skip and jump. 36 feet 

 6 inches, of Billy Greever. The -elderly 

 ladies present said that for a man so 

 recently married this was an extraord- 

 inary jierfonnance. I must mention the 

 splendid running of ilrs. Bailey. As the 

 writer was starter, we watched her from 

 the time she left her trainer's care till 

 she got the word. I could not see a 

 blemish in her. For her age she is most 

 docile, quiet and patient at the post, 

 while ether performers gave the starter 



F. B. Call, Secretary and Treasurer of the St. Louis Carnation Co. 



much trouble, but when she settles into 

 her gait she has her field hitched up to 

 the fence. There is no better place to judge 

 of action, style or form in this class of 

 race than from the position of starter, as 

 he views the flying field some tliirty yards 

 ahead of him, and he is always glad if 

 the race is run in heats. 



We were greatly in hopes that after 

 the supper we should be treated to a lit- 

 tle talk from President Braik, and the 

 distribution of prizes was to have been 

 made by another spouter ; but it was not 

 to be. Walter ilott had been told that 

 he was ex])ected to say a little about 

 something, and as soon as he got his ice 

 cream down he made for the door. Others 

 followed and soon it was a stampede. 



All praise to our worthy president. Cap- 

 tain Braik. and to the committee, C. H. 

 Keitsch, William Legg and the other 

 member, who so well arranged all details. 

 And the committee on sports likewise did 

 well, and they were Emil Bruker, William 

 Greever and W. B. Scott. One who was 

 not officially on the committee, but 

 seemed to do a lot of work, was J. Row- 

 land Clcudsley, Esq. 



In conclusion, gentlemen of the Buffalo 

 Florists' Club, it is perhaps not for the 

 old man. who can not much longer be a 

 participant in your sports, to mctate the 

 manner of your amusements for the an- 

 nual picnic, but I nuist beg leave to say, 

 cut out the baseball game. It has been 

 too much in earnest, occupies too much 

 time, is not of genera! interest, and, far 

 more important than any of the fore- 

 going, it engenders a spirit of rivalry, and 

 worse. It 's grand in its place, but not 

 at a florists' picnic. Let's have more 

 music, dancing, rolling in the grass, buy- 

 ing your wife and wife's sister another 

 bottle of sarsaparilla, a more general 

 mix-up, and we should have no cause to 

 regret it. W. S. 



The next issue of The Review will' 

 contain a report of the Asheville conven- 

 tion of the S. A. F. Send advs. at once- 

 for this number. 



Referring to their adv. the Poehlmanit 

 Bros. Co. write: "The Florists' Re- 

 view is doing the work all right." 



