List of Sport entries for Thanksgiving Occasion
Increases Daily; Start 10:15
Fair weather is all that Lakeside workers on the Thanksgiving day celebration ask; but rain or shine Chairman H. S. Kibbey says that the coming affair promises to be the greatest ever held in San Diego County outside of the city of San Diego.
The list of entries for the horse racing (confined to back country horses), bronco busting, riding the bull and flag pull contests and turkey shoot (these events open to everybody) is growing daily. Additional entries may be made up to the 23rd by applying to Wallace Phillips, chairman of program committee. Lakeside Cal.
It is now planned to devote the entire day to the celebration, finishing up with an all-night dance. At 9 o’clock the reception committee will meet the first trainload of visitors and conduct them to the grounds at 9:45. The opening address will be made by a prominent speaker, to be named at an early date. The field sports will begin at 10:15, the first number being the boys race, fifty yards, prize $1.50, followed by men’s race, first prize $3.50, second prize $1.50; ladies’ race, fifty yards, prize $2.50; girls race, fifty yards, prize $2; ladies’ egg race, prize $1; potato polo and ladies’ horse race.
At 12 noon, Dorothy McLeod of Lakeside will ring the old fire alarm to call the crowd of pleasure seekers to the barbequed dinner.
The first number on the afternoon program will be the 300-yard horse race, purse $20, followed by 400-yard horse race, purse $30; 600-yard horse race (dash) for a purse of $50 (only back country horses will be entered); novelty race, auto, bicycle, horseback and afoot, prize $15; flag pull, prize $5; ring tournament, $3; bronco busting, prize $25; riding the bull, prize $25; turkey shoot, all day, rifle and shotgun, prize $35.
A special rate of 70¢ for the round trip from Third Street and Broadway to Lakeside will be placed in effect by the S. D. & S. E. Railway.
Article from THE SAN DIEGO UNION:
SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 11, 1917