The New York herald., 1868-06-18
REGATTA ON THE MYSTIC.
Three Exciting Boat Rnces-GOod Time and |
Crowds of Spectators.

Three Exciting boat Rnces-GOod Time and
Crowds of Spectators.
From the Evening Telegram OF yesterday
BOSTON, June II, 1868.
An event which formed another important feature
OF the days celebration OF the Bunker Hill annver
sary was regatta on Mystic river, which was at
tended by large and interested crowd Three races
were in order for single and double SOULS and for
four cared boats and eight O'Clock was the hour for
the commencement The Judges were Messrs. VIII
lard Rice, Mailer Parsons John H. Burrl, Jr.. Henry
l.. Haines and John b. Mcdonald. Their boat the
yacht Bonita, was moOred In the usual place, near
Chelsea bridge, and the two judges last named were
stationed in the stakeboat near Maiden bridge, a
mile up the river. That the course was just mile
long there Is no doubt as 1t was measured last winter
on the ice.
The first race was for single scuils For this there
were six entries, and positions were drawn in the
side next the shore:-Undaunted (shell Charles
Blanchard, Chesea > Eliza tsheil. Leonard Kings.
sy OF %sm B. ss
Ellis Ward, Of Cornwall \. r The boats got oil
the water first and shooting couple OF lengths
ahead, closely followed by Fay, with Appleton third
the others being lengths behind. On the first
half mile Fay got even with Ward and finally passed
him, turning the stake about two lengths ahead,
The race home was chiefly between Fay and Ward,
The time of the other competitors was as follows
VIM. Appleton, 15:4o; L. Z. Kingsley, 1905; d. E.
~.
THE SECOND RACR
was for double sculls, and for this there were five
entries, as folows-GrOndele, crew, G. Butler and
NJ. +. Wells of the West End Club; Gertrude, crew,
the Holm Brothers, OF Charleston; the Francis Love-
crew, VIM. P. Bagnell, Jr., and Wm f. Lowe, of
Chelsea the Lizzie crew. y. j. Brennan and An
drew McKee, OF Charlestown; the Snarkey, crew,
E. 5. Tobey and Samuel Dyke. The boats got or in
very smooth water In the order of the positions above
named, the Snarkey taking the water first and leading
by a length for half mile, hard pushed by the Ger
trude The Girondelle, Lizzie and Lowe were mex ,
10 Nv N l1ft q ~ n
passed the score with lead OF twelve lengths the
Gertrude and Lowe being next while the Snarkey
was several lengths behind and the Lizzie dis
tanced.
The time made by the competitors was as fOlOws-
Girondee 1904 Gertrude, 1927; Francis Love- l6:44
Snarkey, 1924; Lizzie, distanced.
THIRD RACE.
The third and last race was for four-oared boats
and the following named boats and crews entered
drawing positions in the order named the first
toned being nearest the shore-Samuel Moody, Old
Thomas owens Thomas Scanlan and James Cheney
(stroke) 3 p Chase, lapstreak, crew, Thomas Scott
bow, NJ. Fox, III. Barry, NJ Driswold (strokel; The
Stranger tshelD crew, Benjamin Mealien bow,
Josep Riley, NJ. Muiony, Patrick Grady (stroke).
The boats took position in the order named, the
Samuel Moody being next to the wharf. splendid
start was effected all the boats getting of evenly
and finely In a few seconds the Moody boat led,
with ROahr second, the Aurora third and the other
three in the bunch. These positions were
kept by the boats during the first two miles they
rounding the stakeboat at the end OF the second
mile in the order given. There were few spurts In
the last two miles, but no important difference po-
sition was noticeable, and on the homestretch the
boats appeared as before, the Moody boat coming In
first and winning the in 25:49 amid loud cheers
from the friends OF the crew. The time OF the other
boats was a. follows:-
George Roahr $3.50; Aurora 1923; George T..
Wiggn, 20 40; stranger 29:44; S. T. Chase. 29;is.