The Whites beat the Reds at basketball, score 5 to 1.
The basketball team of which Walter Keyes was captain won the boys' game, score 14 to 2.
George Herman's pony, Frank Elske up, won the pony race.
The Shetland pony race was won by Harold Wing's pony, ridden by himself.
The foot race for boys, 13 years old their last birthday, was won by Hugh Putnam.
The race for men over 60 was won by Joseph Sheehy.
Morris Keeler carried off the prize for climbing the greased pole.
The tug‑of‑war was not carried out as advertised, but Peter Zink said if he could not win the foot race he could pick up the winning side of the tug‑of‑war and his side won, so Pete evidently knew what he was talking about.
Next came the ball game between Carrington's second nine and a team composed of players from Barlow and Rose Hill. It was the best game of ball seen in a long time in this vicinity and was won by Carrington in the last half of the eleventh inning, score 4 to 3.
The officers and especially the president, H.A. Soliday, and the secretary, T.N. Putnam, are to be congratulated on the success of the affair, as it is always the first picnic that is the hardest to conduct, and valuable experience was acquired for future guidance.
The officers elected at the business meeting held in the afternoon are as follows
President, Geo J. Backen
vice‑president, commissioner first district, John Murphy
Second district, A.D. Parker
Third district, John Indergaard
Secretary, E.T. Halaas
Treasurer, John Buchanan, Sr.
Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 64