Emmetsburg Democrat Emmetsburg, Palo Alto, Iowa 13 July 1910 The A.O.H. Picnic Sunday Members Had One of the Most Enjoyable Outings in the History of the Order. The A.O.H. picnic, which was private, was held in the W.E. JACKMAN grove Sunday, the members having attended early mass in the local churches. There was about 400 present at the noon hour, including the members, the auxiliary members and their families, and all sat down on the green sward beneath the shady burr oak trees for a feast of good things. They had well filled baskets and the society furnished free of charge an abuncance of ice cream, lemonade, cigars for the gentlemen, and candies for the ladies and children. After dinner, there was a short speaking and musical program. Mr. T.M. SCANLAN, state treasurer of the order, was present and spoke briefly but interestingly and earnestly. The Emmetsburg concert band played a number of selections, and the representatives of the Chicago Gaelic Dancing league, Messrs. Wm. HAGERTY, John RYAN, and Michael GRAHAM favored the audience with a few Irish reels, jigs and hornpipes. M.F. BRENNAN, James KANE, Mrs. P. LEAHY, and Mrs.M. JOYNT also danced an Irish reel. A game of ball followed, the town members of the order defeating the country members by a score of 5 to 4. There were also a number of other events that were good. Chas. GRACE won the 100 yard foot race, John E. BRENNAN was second. Myrle KERWICK was first in the boy's race and James FOY second. Lewine HAND won the little girls' race. Celia BURKE was second. The relay race was won by Tom NOLAN, Thos. JOYCE, Will JOYNT, and Chas. MAGUIRE. Chas. GRACE won the high jump. J.S. DENEEN was second. In addition to the other sports a ball game lent much towards entertaining the crowd. In an exciting and hotly contested game, the visiting nine from the country met defeat at the hands of the fast town aggregation. Two errors and a well placed hit in the ninth, netting the town club two runs, decided the game by a 5 to 6 victory. Both pitchers showed good form, MILLER for the town boys, allowing only three hits, while GRACE for the country nine was touched up for six, but succeeded in keeping them scattered. The feature of the game was a phenomenal catch by BRENNAN playing in the left field garden, who, after a long run, succeeded in raking in GOSSMAN's drive. A rally in the ninth was checked by a neat double on the part of the town team. Pitchers MILLER and GRACE secured ten strikeouts apiece. Two errors were made by the town boys, but these occurred at an inopportune time, while the errors of the country team proved costly. The game was characterized by fast, close playing throughout. The fans were pleased with the exhibition. During the afternoon scores enjoyed launching, row beating, and sailing on Medium lake, the picnic grounds bordering on the east shore.... 000525 Cathy Joynt Labath Palo Alto Co, IA USGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~iapaloal/paloalto.htm