The Portland daily press., 1885-09-17
ner and Peterson second; Mckay and Hamm

mer and Peterson second Mckay and Hamm
third; Ross and Ten Eyck fourth. After
the whistles Hanlan and Lee were the first
to row out from the boat house. Hanlan
was in excellent form and as he afterwards
told reporter, tipped the scales at exactly
160. AS he and Lee rowed up to the stake,
by the spectators who thus had an opportu-
nifty to get view of some well developed
muscles, they drew forth rounds of applause.
All the professionals seemed to be in excel
lent trim except Wallace Ross, who evident
ly was not in his old time form. The start
was made at 1.22. All four crews took the
water well together. Hanlan and Lee pulled
the quickest stroke, l39 to the minute To
the quarter 1t was close race. Soon, how
ever, Hanlan and Lee shot to the front while
Ross and Ten Eyck dropped rapidly astern,
the other two crews maintaining their posi-
tions. Thus the first turn was made. Com
ing down Hanlan and Lee dropped their
stroke to "a, and pulling into the smooth
water rowed in excellent form a steady, pow
erful stroke. At the second turn Hosmer
and Peterson pulled away from Mckay and
Hamm and rounded the stake three lengths
and a half behind Hanlan and Lee. At this
point Ross and Ten Eyck dropped out of the
race The third turn was made in the same
order Coming down the home stretch Hanlan
and Lee rowed in shore, increased their lead
and finished five lengths ahead. Time: Han
Ian and Lee 1902; Hosmer and Peterson
1928 :; Mckay and Hamm 1881.
The Junior singles constituted the fourth
race. The men drew for positions as follows:
Kimbail of Bath, 1st; .Taher of Bath, End;
Frates of Portland, 3rd; Free of Biddeford,
4th; Corcharan of Boston, 9Th; Morgan of
Cumberland, 9th; Wood of Fall River, 7th.
All made good start. Taber at once pulled
to the front and turned the stake two lengths
ahead. Frates and Corcharan both turned
together and Kimball third, the other men
remaining in the rear. Coming down the
finish Kimball made a plucky squirt and pull
ed up even with Frates and Corcharan. In
terest now centered on the race for second
place as Taber would without doubt secure
first. The trio made the closest race of the
day. Taber finished in 1129. The contest
for second place was declared draw, and on
being rowed over was won by Frates in
11.32.
In the senior singles the following posi-
tions were drawn: Woodbury. of Pawtucket,
r. l., 1st; Conley of Boston, End; Ryan Of
Cambridge, Srd; Casey, of Boston, 4th
O'Conne1l of Portland, 9Th; O'Neil of Bos-
ton, 9th. To the turn it was fair race, but
after that it settled down to a contest be-
tween Conley, Ryan and Casey who were old
time rivals. Conley spurted near the finish
and crossed the line three-quarters of a
length ahead. Time "a mile and half 1918
Ryan crossed second and Casey third
-Four crews of Oldtown Indians then pad
died race while the referees boat repaired
slight accident to the steering gear
The professional four-oared race brought
out the following crews: The Forest Rivers
OF Salem, the Emmetts of Arlington, the
Ross Casey crew of New York, the st. John
went away in bunch. Soon the Hosmer
crew took the lead and kept it to the finish
Time three niles 1917. The Ross-Casey
crew, the Emmetts, the Forest Rivers and
the st. Johns made up the procession astern
in the order named.
In the amateur double scull, Ryan and Con-
ley drew first position and O'Neil and Wood
bury second. Ryan and Conley took the lead
and turned the stake length and half
lengths ahead in 939 mile and half course).
y Neil and Woodbury. met for the first time
this morning; considering this they made an
excellent fight.
The last race of the day was the eight
Dared amateur over a mile and half course
between the Dirigos and Cumberlands of
Portland, and the Crescents of Boston. They
pulled the first quarter all in bunch. The
Dirigos then took the lead only to lose it
moment later, first to the Crescents, and
then to the Cumberlands. In this order they
rounded the stake and came down the finish
At the boat house the Cumberlands put their
DOW even with the CreScents and from there
to the line it was nip and tuck, the CreseentS
crossing Gross. % only quarter OF length ahead,
Ned Hanlan then gave an exhibition with
marine shoes of his own Invention of walk
ing on the water The shoes which by the
way proved great novelty to the spectators,
three feet in length with hole in the centre
of each for the foot. Wallace Ross and Geo.
Lee rowed Hanlan out and he got into his
shoes, balancing himself with paddle He
walked and padded about with apparent
ease. Both Ross and Lee tried the invention
after Hanlan and both concluded to swim
ashore much to the amusement of the crowd
Paul Boyton's substitute probably didn't do
as well as Paul would have done himself had
he been able to attend-that is as far as the
submarine explosion is concerned. He gave
good exhibition Of swimming in the rubber
suit and building raft while in the water.
But notwithstanding his two trials and the
breathless silence of the multitude the explo-
sion would not explode.
A PRESS reporter had little chat with
Hanlan at his dressing room after the races.
He seemed in excellent spirits and has prob |
ably never felt better since he pulled his first
race: His Australian trip did him lots of
good, and his muscles are harder than ever.
He was emphatic in expressing his apprecia-
tion of the courteous manner in which he
has been treated since coming to Maine and
was much pleased with the promptness with
which the whole programme Of the day was
carried out. In reply to a question concern
ing the Maranocook course he said: sit is an
excellent one, and l will not put it second to
any have ever seen. 1t certainly is the
pest. The opinion of such man as Han
Ian is worth something.
/, Ross, Lee, Hosmer and Ten Eyck leave the
lake tonight for Massachusetts, Hanlan
will spend the night here or at Winthrop, 60
ing to Portland tomorrow. Immediately fol
lowing the last race the trains made up for
the return and by 6 o'clock owing to the
prompt manner in which the Maine Central
officials handle crowds, the shores of the
lake were soon deserted.