The Portland daily press., 1896-08-31
ANO THFR GALA DAY.
Interesting Races at Peaks Last
Saturday.

works.
Saturday afternoon was another gala
time ut Peaks island and as 1t was the
lasp Saturday half holiday for many pso-
ple the crowds which went to the island
on the Casoo Bay company's boats were
large and it is safe to say that they en-
loved the day greatly. Chandler's band
gevesa delightful concert i'll front of the
Peaks leland house all of the afterno on
and MeCullum's theatre and the rink
were well filled.
The referee OF the various events was
John j. Silver and to him Ia due a great
dealsof credit for the way In which
things were handled. The races were
watched by the newspaper men present
from the tug Fannie g. which was used
as a:judges' boat. On 1t were the follow
ing party: Referee. John J. Silver
judges, Thomas Cronin and Joseph f. F.
Conley, John MCCARTHY, Frank Nugent,
William Deehan, Jr., James O'Brien,
Daniel Silver, Frank Feeney, T. Fl.
Craven and Peter O'Neil.
The first race OH the afternoons pro-
gramme was the swimming match. The
course was 100 yards straight away.
Only two contestants sntered for this
avant q " Alaxa,der and q p Saw
yer. AT the word Alexander took a dive
from the raft and disappeared under the
water. Sawyer did not dive. When
Alaxander came 70 the surfaoa be hogan
s,voonin, eide s+roka vybich
scanned to sand him tnronob the wafer
,iba fish Sawyar ,.ua mn tho race
coon after starting and A1axener finished
an aayv winner Tho nr,za a fancy clock.
,y.s .~yordoa 70 him
The secono avsnt vas the race between
two four oared working boats The crew
known as che Jacobs crew was made M
az follows. r 7 Jacobs n r. Merrill.
p. Molonouob and r. r. Feeney. The
Peterson crew was oomposad of 6. Peter
son p r Foley. Charles Bairveather
and s. !. McCartv. The Peterson crew
was given tbe outside position while the
Jacobs crew took tbe inside pIace. The
course was a mile along the shore with
8 +prn The peterson crew hook the lead
az the s.art and. staadilv Increased the
distance between them and the Jacobs
buat. The turn was made first by the
peterson crew who started hack on the
second leg of the course with a good lead.
The Jacobs crew gave nm the race when
half way back TO the finish on the second
son GREW The time for the mile was ID
minutes The nrize of So was awarded tn
this crew.
The third event was the double dory
race. f. b. Webster. and George Lee
formal one crew and Frank T. Trott and
r, veratt Trott oo,onosad the other. The
Trott dorv got the better of the start and
Increased it's lead until the turn
was reaobed. Although the other Grew
made a nluoky fight they were clearly
on+-royad NV tho Vro+t boat and gave mn
tho raoa when half wav hack on the seo-
Opd half. The turn was made bv the
Trott boat in az minutes. Against the
wind coming hack TO tbe finish better
NINE WAS made and the whole mile was
r;med at q minutes. Seldom have better
oarsman bean seen than those In the win
r,-, dorv The nrize of 81 WAS awarded
20 tbe two Trott bova
T, tho doub,a working boat race the
f,rst crav was made up OF Peterson and
Mc,,ertv and tbs second crew was COM
rosed Of McDonoueh and Eeeney, This
turned ont to be one of the closest races
NJ the afternoon. both boats were sent
off hv Referee Silver in good shape. The
two boats CONT closely toeether until they
came near to the turning buoy when
MeDonough and Feeney having rowed a
noor course were some distance behind
in making the turn. They made he
roie effort to catch up in rowing home
and made an excellent finish but they
had lost tb. race. Peterson and MoCarty
won nv several len gths. rowing over the
course in nine minutes. The prize for
this race was two pairs of opera glasses
valued at $1e.
In the round bottom dory race Levi
Barker and W. W. Barker formed one
..o,x, oc5 To,,as Elo bortv and 6 Alav