The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-06
BOAT RACES.
Feeny, he Peterson Crew. and Foley the
Winners.

At IS o'clock the water front was lined
with people that had secured positions
on the several wharves from Browns to
Custom House wharf. The special at
traction was the rowing races, entries
for which were made by members of the
Cumberland Rowing club. Mr.. T. j.
O'Neil acted as referee. The novice singles
was called first. The entries were Frank
Feeney, Patrick Feeney, Thomas Craven
and Bernard Mcclure. Before start
was made Frank Feeney was forced to
crop out owing to an accident to his
boat. A better start could not have been
made. Feeney was on the inside, Craven
the center, and Mcclure the outside. and
from the judges boat there wasn't a
shade of difference between them. Fee
ney pulled steady stroke and took the
lead, but Mcclure followed closely in his
wake, and altogether it was pretty con-
test between the three, the men going
we'll together. Mcclure slowed up and
it was then fight between Cramer and
Feeney, MCGUIRE again went ahead, but
the turn at thebuoys was made together.
The racers were somewhat handicapped
at this point as they were so near to the
wharves as the island steamers, which
were passing in and out of the docks
made the water too rough for the men
too make much progress in.
Soon after the turn was made the race
was then between Craven and Feeney,
Mcclure falling back. Craven led, but
Feeney spurted and passed Craven and
went over the line long way ahead, hav-
ing had things all his own way during
the greater part of the last half of the re-
turn. The course was one mile and a
half in length and the time made was u
minutes.
The four cared race was then called
with three crews entered. The Peter
son crew, white; the McDonough crew,
blue; the Jacobs crew, red. This was
looked forward to as the race of the day.
The word 'go'' was given and the crews
started away nearly even. For short
distance this was maintained with out a
break and then the Peterson crew took
the lead, but it then became evident that
it was to be hard fought race, and their
lead was soon lost, and the boats were
in few moments side by side. At this
point the ferry boat interfered. and for a
YoinI1fo tho -.
held up. The Peterson crew still held
their lead and it seemed as though they
would win out at the stake boats. The
race back was exciting, Jacobs crew fell
back to third place, but there was as
spirited piece of work between the
other crews as has been seen here for a
long time. AT the last the third boat
pulled up smartly, but the space was too
great to overcome.
The contest between the leaders con-
tinued to the finish and the Peterson
crew won by scant half boat length, the
McDonough crew putting in some fine
work at the finish. Time 10 min. 80 sec.
The third and last race was then call
ed, the junior singles. The following
were the entries: j. F. Mccarthy, red
P. F. Foley, white; f. j. Smith, blue.
Time was lost on the start, and just as
"go'' was given Smith broke an oar. He
was taken back to the boat house and
took new pair of oars out, but after
making the start he found that he was
unable to row straight, and therefore
dropped out of the race. Mccarthy took
the lead and for time there was fine
struggle, but Foley spurted and went
ahead. Mccarthy was evidently dis
heartened as he then slackened his
speed. There was little interest in the
closing half of the race, although Nc.
earthly made final effort to recover lost
ground, and did succeed in making part
of it good. Foley was declared Il he win.
ner and Mccarthy crossed the line
second. Foley's time, IL min. 10 sec.