Elks Club of Muncie, Indiana [Cartoon]
Parade and Ball Game - Ralph Gray Hemingray Served as Scorer
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[Newspaper] Publication: The Muncie Daily Herald Muncie, IN, United States |
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· · The costumes of the Muncie players were designed by Chas. Murray of Murray & Mack's "Finnegan's Ball" company and are features of the day. Skirt dancers, a Chinaman, Trilby, a Dahomean, and a clown were depicted to a queens taste. A. V. R. Patton enacted the part of the clown and drove a diminutive donkey hitched to a cart. Charley Murray, the umpire, "made up" as a gentleman from "down about Luray" walked inside of a cage for protection THE GREAT GAME. Hundreds of people went to Athletic park after the parade to the great game between the two herds of live Elks. Billy Kirk sold tickets at the big [cartoon] gate and they were collected by Col. Chas. Woodruff and Phil Busch. John Sherry shoved paste boards at the grand stand where Joe Sawyer and Quince Walling were stationed. Harry Cates, Ed Boyce, and Harry Dungan officiated as ushers in the grand stand. Doctors Winans Bowers and Searcy were there as surgeons and Judge Carleton Shipley and Ralph Hemingray as scorers. Umpire Murray called the game at 3:30 o'clock. J. Rus Smith was unable to play on account of sickness. THE SOCIAL SESSIONS. Tonight the Elks will give a social session and the ladies will be entertained at the home of Mrs. Busch. · · [Missing text] · ·
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