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Programme of the llarvcat Festival.! The following includes the programme arranged for the harvest festival and tournament, to be held at Wall Lake, August 17th, 18lh and 10th :: try fee, $2.00; free h^ll- Time one hour —the man catching tVe largest number of tlsh receiving all entrance money.Fishing match (for ladies only)—entry fee, $1.00; free to all. ladlcSr-Tlme, one hour, and the lady catching the largest number of fish taking the pool—gentlemen to act as attendants.Also fishing from boats at anchor off the beach (as above rules).Target shooting—free to all—at least 3 to enter, and the sume rifle to bo used by . all participants. Entrance fee, ♦*2.6*0; lirst I prize, $10; second, $5.00.Chicken shooting—ti to cuter—3 men I from Sioux Falls and 3 from Yankton, each man to furnish a doc; ull game to winning three. Entrance fee, each side $0.00—the winners taking-pool. *Swimming match—free to all—distance, 200 yards, from buoy to buoy. Entrance fee, $1.00—winning man to take all entry money.Single rowing match—with skifls—tree to ali. Entrance fee, $2.00; 80 rods, from buoy to buoy and return. Premium, $10 to winning man.Double rowing match—with skiffs—free to all. Entrance fee, each bout, $5.00; dis-UUice, 80 rods, from buoy to buoy and re* turn—winning crew to take all entry money.Foot'race—free to all. Entrance fee, $1.00; distance, 200 yards—winner to tnke pool. « \Trap shooting match—free to all—score, 5 birds. Entrance -fee. $1.00; two-thirds of entry money to best shot; one third to sec-I nnd le.st shot.C:| Punning horse race—free to all. En-‘ ; trance fee, $2.00; distance, half mile dash — 1 j winning animal to take the entire pool.^ I Ease ball match—^YankUmd^aMj ball clubs iagainst a picket! uinc of Dakota, for a purseof fifty dollars.Sculling mutch—distance, 80 rods—open s to nil. Entrance rec, $1 00—w inning man •s to take all entry money.1 | To follow with a tub race and a sack race. »• | Other matches will be made during the s: tournament days, and a large number of : our most prominent citizens will lie pub-j lished as a committee to net as judges nnd J committee of arrangements—the dny-nnd j I hobr of each match to be decided at the„ luke.[ [ Secn(iri/--A. .). Sweelser. Yankton..Ui( Stcrthiry—J' I). Cameron, Sioux }\ Falls. —tj Trotxunr—Q. K. Howard, Sioux Falls.
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Yankton Daily Press and Dakotaian
Yankton, South Dakota, US
Sat, Jul 31, 1875
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