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The combination of a beautiful day, au ideal meeting place and 

 an abundance of enthusiasm made the annual outing of the Chi- 

 cago Lumbermen's Association, which took place on Tuesday, July 

 17, highly successful. About two hundred individuals representing 

 the local trade, their families and friends, gathered at Eavinia 

 Park, north of Chicago, on the shore of Lake Michigan. The ma- 

 jority of those in attendance made the trip on the Chicago & 

 Northwestern Railway, but many came in their own machines and 

 '\-ia the electric line. 



The various committees which had been assigned the jobs of 

 -working up enthusiasm and entries in the numerous athletic events 

 were eminently successful in their work. Each event brought out 

 a large list of contestants and each offered its share of amusement 

 and excitement. 



The feature of the day was the ball game, which is an indis- 

 pensable factor to any outing of this character. This was played 

 by two teams composed of young or near-young lumbermen chosen 

 by captains who had been either self-appointed or had secured 

 their positions through some undue influence. At any rate, they 

 chose their teams and fought out the battle on the field at Eavinia. 

 The two teams were designated respectively as the "Hickories," 

 and the "Yellow Piners," and after a close and fierce contest, 

 the Hickories finally turned out to be the winners by a score of 

 5 to 3. 



The line up of the two teams was as follows: 



Yei.i.ow riNERS Hickories 



W. D. Kimball P I. C. Margroff 



J. H. Dion C W. L. Margroff 



Mr. Ory IB E. W. Dierssen 



"Bob" Sullivan 2B E. E. Skcele. Jr. 



Fletcber March SS . '. W. Dw.ver 



Robert Tbompson 3B D. S. Flctcber 



Will Burns LF E. F. Dodgo 



William Eager CF Gus Larson 



Glenn llolloway RF Al Wallerstein 



Ofllcial umpire — Tom Moore. 



Tom Moore, umpire for the day, won the acclaim of the gallery 

 by his masterful work behind the pitcher. His success as a sales- 

 man of lumber was accounted for by the qualities he displayed in 

 the capacity of umpire. He demonstrated that he could unflinchingly 

 look a batter in the eye and manufacture strikes from sky-high balls. 

 With such a front he should have no trouble in making year-old stock 

 from lumber right from the saw. 



One of the essential qualifications of a successful ball player 

 under ordinary circumstances is speed in getting about on the field, 

 but it is said there is an exception to every rule and the excep- 

 tion to this rule was conspicuously present in the lumbermen's 

 ball game. In fact, most of the sensational and successful plays 

 were put across because of the fact that most of the contestants 

 were so lacking in the usually essential qualities of speed that they 

 were unable to get out of the way of the ball, and necessarily 

 had to stop it. But withal, the game furnished considerable excite- 

 ment and amusement, and for a contest of this type was very well 

 played. 



A feature of the contest was a home run pilfered by W. Dwyer 

 of the winning "Hickory" team on a hot single over short. "Bill" 

 in center field for the ' ' Piners ' ' made a valiant dash in the direc- 

 tion of the ball but was too "Eager" in his play, and it got by 

 him. In attempting to retrieve it, he figured that he would be the 

 center of attraction a little longer if he retained the ball somewhere 

 within his field of duty. So he light heartedly booted it to the 

 woods in left field. By the time he finally had it in his grasp, the 

 batter was across the plate. But Bill made up for this miscue later 

 by stopping a high fly a la Cobb — only he did not hold the ball. 



Combined with the regular baseball game was an indoor-out- 

 door game which was played between pick-up teams of the more 

 sedate members of the association. There were no oflicial titles to 

 the two teams, but the contest was nevertheless bitterly fought. 

 Unlike the real ball game there was absolutely no appeal from 



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the decision of Umpire S. P. C. Hostler. Mr. Hostler's word was 

 law and even in the event that he put down the score of one 

 team to the credit of the other, the fact that he ruled in this way 

 was considered by the contestants as absolutely final. There were 

 eventually two scores in this game, one being 4 to 2, and the other 

 11 to 2. Mr. Hostler's original method of tallying accounts made 

 it possible for both sides to claim victory. 



The shoe-race participated in by a dozen lumbermen offered no 

 little amusement. In this stunt the contestants had to pile their 

 shoes at one end of the twenty-yard course and it was seen to by 

 the ofiicials that the shoes were well mixed. The participants in 

 the race started from one end of the course, the object being to see 

 who could get to the pile of shoes at the other end, find his shoes, 

 get them on and tie them, and get back to the starting point first. 

 One entrant was ruled out because he had the foresight to wear 

 white sneakers, believing that he would be assured the first prize on 

 account of the fact that he would have no trouble in getting hold 

 of his own shoe.s. The first two winners were respectively. ,1. H. 

 Dion, W. D. Kimball, and Will Burns and Fletcher Marsh tied tor 

 third. 



Thirty ladies entered in the ball-throwing contest and demon- 

 strated the fact that there are all kinds of ways of throwing a 

 base ball. Those who threw the proper way were Miss Margaret 

 Wistar, Miss Beatrice Wilcox and Miss Margaret McGlone. 



In the peanut race for children each entrant had his or her own 

 particular friend "pulling." Georgiana West was the winner in 

 this game, and the second and third prizes were taken by Helen 

 West and Eobert Maisey. 



The absence of anyone who could legitimately call himself a "fat 

 man,'' made the fat men's race a real sprinting contest. In fact, 

 in the absence of ligitimate entrants in the first race, it was de- 

 cided not to count this contest, and a canvass of the field was made 

 in order to secure enough avoirdupois to make the game of suffi- 

 cient "weight" to gain oflicial recognition. In the real run N. T. 

 Hand was first and Thomas C. Shaw, second. 



There was an evident reluctance on the part of married ladies 

 to perform before their husbands in the married ladies thirty-yard 

 dash, as only six entered the race. Mrs. H. B. Darlington came in 

 first, Mrs. P. S. Fletcher, second and Mrs. W. A. Herbert, third. 



In the single ladies race there was a large field, this event being 

 finally taken by Miss Euth Skeele with Miss Margaret McGlone, 

 second. 



A race of small boys was entered by five contestants varying 

 from about two years to seven or eight. Herbert Brink was first, 

 Eobert Maisey, second, and John Fountain, third. 



Five teams entered the three-legged race for men. One of the 

 teams came to grief at the very start, but the others ran a close 

 race with Eobert Thompson and H. D. Welsh, first winners, while 

 the second went to W. L. Margroff and Fletcher Marsh. 



Fletcher Marsh again distinguished himself in the one hundred 

 yard dash by men, by winning this event with ease. E. E. Attley 

 and E. E. Skeele, Jr., were respectively second and third. 



After the outdoor contests, the scene of the battle was trans- 

 ferred to the dining room. An endeavor was made on the part of 

 the committee to furnish a little entertainment during the meal, 

 but unfortunately Bill Eager started to sing his famous "Slippery 

 Ellum" song during the soup course. He gave it up as hopeless at 

 the end of the second stanza. 



The Theodore Thomas Orchestra offered its usual highclass con- 

 cert in the afternoon, and the attention of the visitors was divided 

 between this performance and a second game of indoor baseball, 

 which was being played over on the athletic field. 



The lumbermen, their families and friends gradually drifted away 

 during the entire afternoon, and by sundown the outing had prac- 

 tically come to an end. The unusual success of the event gives as- 

 surance of its being repeated next year. 



