The Portland daily press., 1885-07-30
A. o. II.
Their Picnic and Regatta at Lake
Sebago.

Although the weather was not particularly
propitious in the early morning yesterday
Tor the seventh annual picnic of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians' at Lake Sebago
the rain falling in torrents about the time
OF starting both morning and afternoon Port
land u Ogdensburg trains for there-neyer-
theless there was an attendance of some five
hundred people, and despite the damp sur
roundlngs everybody was in good humor
Chandler, who was along with quadrille
band promptly enlivened the occasion with
music and had party dancing beneath the
shelter of the spacious pavilion. At noon
the hungry found an excellent meal at Head
d Sons Lakeside restaurant in the station or
at Kimball's eating rooms on the grounds
The base ball match for purse of $25 was
commended for by the. Portland Reserves and
the Saccarappas. The game was long and
very close. The Portland boys won the game
by score of 10 to the Saccarappas' IS. G.
A, Flaherty umpired the game very satisfac-
torily.
THE REGATTA.
The event of the day was the four-oared
race in shell boats for which three crews en-
tered, two from the Cumberland and one
from the Dirigo boat clubs. The water
was in good condition and very pretty race
resulted. The boats were aligned off the
Gibbs wharf and Mr.. Timothy Twigg, the
referee, took position in the trim little steam
er Lucille, Capt. Shaw, and gave the word at
twenty minutes past four. The distance to
be pulled was supposed to be two miles, but
as the course was not measured it was evil
IDENTIFY something short. Each crew had
stake boat of its own to turn and hence the
chances for fouling were very slight The
Dirigo crew drew position No. /, nearest the
shore; Cumberland crew No. 1, second posi-
ton and Cumberland No. the third and out
side berth.
The start was excellent. the Dirigos and
Cumberland taking about 81 strokes to the
minute, and Cumberland thirty nine. This
latter crew met with mishap at the third
stroke, the bow disabling the shoe by which
the rudder is controlled, and the steering for
the remainder of the race had to be done
solely by oar. Two new men were in the
crew, and there was considerable splashing
and rocking of the boat before Weber could
get them down to work. Cumberland /,
known as the Buckley crew, soon worked
to the front, pulling steady stroke and
steering for their stake boat as straight as
an arrow. The Dirigos, OF Barry crew, were
doing good, even work on the inside, but
could not stay with the Cumberland 1. This
crew was first to reach their stake boat and
made pretty turn. The Dirigos and Cum
berland arrived at their turning points
about together, but the latter steered wild,
and turned around two boats. Before they
got settled it looked as though they were out
of the race, but they put in some beauty
strokes, and being railroad boys pulled the
throttle wide open and made gallant strug-
gle for second position, which they came
near winning, as the Dirigos got too far in
shore on the home stretch and therefore had
to row longer course than was necessary.
Cumberland No. crossed the line the VIC
tors leading by some half dozen boat lengths.
The Dirigos were second, leading Cumber-
land No. about two lengths.
1t was very satisfactory race and the re-
suit was accepted without any question. The
crew of the winning boat each received
good watch. They were John Buckley, bow;
Morris Hallerbra, 3; Thomas Mcmahon, 2;
Davis, stroke.
The Dirigo crew take second prize and
each received valuable ring They were
/, E. Barry, bow; j. McNulty, Q; NJ. F.
Myers, 8; P. H. Joyce, stroke.
The Cumberland, No. 2 crew were j. E.
Mason, bow; VIM. Stone, 8; J. N. Riggs, 2;
John Weber, stroke. But for their mis-
haps this crew might have made better
showing in the race.
The regatta and base ball match were fin
ished at about the same time, and the COM
pany anxious to return. The special train
was not arranged to start until about seven
o'clock, but Conductor Holmes by general
request communicated with. Superintendent
Hamilton, who kindly started the train at
once, so that all who desired reached the city
shortly after six o'clock
The A. o. III. committee are deserving of
praise for pluckily carrying out their pro-
gramme in its entirety without regard to
weather or attendance.