The Portland daily press., 1882-09-14


LAKE MARANocooK. Sept l3.-The admirers of
aquatic sports Were favored to ~ with superb Sep
tember weather. and that this was fully appreciated
was evidenced by the large crowd in attendance up
on the regatta of tho Dirigo Boat Club at Marano-
| cook, estimated to exceed 5000. Superintendent
| Tucker and his efficient corps of employees were
present. which was sufficient guarantee that every
thing passed off in a most satisfactory and orderly
| manner.
! THE RACES.
The junior single sculI race the first in order was
| called at 1890; NJ. f. Davis referee, j. B. Breslin
judge. The prize in this race was silver cup. In
drawing positions, Mclean secured first, Mckenzie
second, Manning third. Randall being sick did not
appear. Manning led to the stake closely followed
by clean, who turned second. Shortly after turn
| ing the stake Manning steered wild, and Mclean
went to the front and won the race by fifteen
| seconds. Manning seized with cramp in the
| hand. The distance was 11a miles, time fifteen
minutes.
DOUBLE SCULL AMATEUR.
Two crews appeared in this race-Anglin and
mate, and Greeley and Williams. They drew posi-
tions as above Sweeney and Pickering entered but
did not appear. Greeley and Williams pulling
quirk st oke took the lead turning the stake boat
two lengths ahead. On the way back Anglin and
McGlnchy had osed the gap to Iength. They
former gained little. Both crews pulled hard over
the last quarter. Greeley and Williams won, three
lengths ahead, time Is minutes; second, 13 minutes
10 seconds. Prize, two silver goblets.
SINGLE SCULL AMATEUR.
The third race was an amateur sing e scull match
between Sweeney of Po.tlaId, and Wees of Bidde-
ford. Sweeney drew first position and Wees the
second. Sweeney took the lead steadily gaining, be-
ing two lengths ahead on the half and turning he
lake three lengths ahead. They had the same po-
sition, the home course until half way when
Wees gained length, keeping the position well un-
i'll the last quarter, when sweeney had spurt
gaining several lengths then resting on his oars
while Wees pull several lengths. Sweeney won by
five lengths. Prize, gold medal. Time 13 80.
SINGLE SCULL JUNIOR.
The single junior entries No. L, red, Picker
ing; No. 2, white. Williams; No. 3, blue Greeley.
They got OFF well together. Greeley led on the
orst quarter, closely pressed by Pickering with
Williams hard after. All rowed well together and
maintained their relative positions uutil near the
stake, when Williams passed Pickering. They
turned, Greeley first. Williams second, Pickering
third. third of the way back there we're five
lengths between Greeley and Pickering. with Will
lams in the centre. On the last quarter Greeley
gained length on Williams and Pickering made a
length gain. Greeley spurted and rlssed the line
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PROFESSIJ JNAL SCULLERS' RACE.
The chief event of the dsy was the match be-
tween John Kennedy of Portland, and James H.
Riley of Saratoga, N. Y for $1,000. distance three
miles. 1t was the third race in which thess tive
noted oarsmen had been ptted against each other,
and this, as it were wa, the rabber. Kennedy is
well known and high respected in Portland, and
is 20 years of age, aud his rowing weight is l3S
pound; height feet S1a inches. Riley 10 36 years
of age; weighs 170 pounds and is feet. inch in
height The referee was W. II. Wood. The judges
we're, for Kennedy NJ. F. Davis, for Riley M. W.
Higgins In drawing for position Riley won, and
took No. 2, which was outside. The colors were,
Riley white, Kennedy blue. They started at 2.13
Kennedy took the lead and gained slowly az
steadily, leading by a lengthat the first buoy AT
the half they were rowing we together, holding
their relative positions They continued to pull very
fast and reached the mile and a half buoy, which
was first rounded by Kennedy in nine minutes and
forty seconds. Upon the b me stretch it was Ken
nedy's Riley fol owing AMI squirting frequent
ly, occasionally increasing his stroke to thrty-six
or more while Kennedy kept on with long, even,
swinging clean stroke of about thirty-two. Knne-
dy crossed the line some four lengths in advance
Time nineteen minutes thirtyfve s. conds as taken
by Mr. John S. Heald. This time was questioned
by Mr.. NJ. K. Davis and other gentlemen, VINO neld
watches and alleged that this must have mistake
of nearly one minute, in all probability there
wa. in the case of Courtney whose unprecedented
time was recently repor ted. Be this as it may, it
was very fast race from the start; the water was
favorable aud the oarsnen appeared to be in
superb condition. The reported time mate at
Maranoceok to-day is but three seconds less than
the extraordinary time awarded Courtney on Lake
Canandaigua last week. 1t is claimed, however,
that this time could not have been made. Mr.
Heald is very positive upon the subject and carries
a most reliable timekeeper.
FOUR-OARED RACE.
The following appeared for the four-oared race
Stars, white, No. Q; Portla ds, blue, No. l. The
Portlands got the lead upon the start the stars
rowing very poorly, pulling for the shore, which
stopped thom a trife They got away again, with
the Portlauds ten lengths ahead. When about half
way down, Gay, the stroke of the Stars broke his
oar, wheu they abandoned the race They were
pulling quite well then and doing good work. The
Portlands pslled over the course of mile and a
half much of the time at 80 strokes to the minute.
Time 1925
Mr.. NJ. F. Davis, the eminent oarsman, rendered
many courtesies to gentlemen of the press. We
must congratulate the Dirigo Boat Club upon the
very successful in which this regatta passed
off given, as it was under their especial auspices
Excellent mvsic was furnished by Glovers Band
and the dancing in the pavilion and other sports
were greatly enioyed.