The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-05
1T IS GALA DAY IN TOWN
All Whitinsville Will Turn
Out Today-Big List
Of Sports.

Whitinsville, Aug. 4.-Tomorrow will
be the first field day Whitinsville has
had for some time. There will be three
ball games, the first one starting at
$50 o'clock and the last one at 4SO in
the afternoon. The other one will take
place at 1890. The altar boys of st.
Patricks church have worked hard to
make their field day big success.
The sports will start in the morning
at $50. The events will be 100 yards
dash, hop, step and jump, sack race,
90 yards dash, wheelbarrow race, po-
tato race, barrel race, three-legged race
and base ball game between the
Xaverians of Worcester and a nine
from st. Patrick S parish. Rev. C. A.
Sullivan will accompany the Worcester
boys. The Xaverians are phenomenal
team of athletic youngsters. In the
boys nine here which will line up
against them, Robert Houston and Wal
ter Tebo will cover the points.
The afternoon program win begin at
1890 with ball game between the Tx
bridge high school and the Neversweats.
After the ball game the seniors games
are on the card The events will be a
90 yards DASH slow bicycle race for
ladies, a sack race, three-legged race,
hurdle race, standing high jump, bar
rel race, fat mems race, broad jump,
potato race, wheelbarrow race, pail of
water race for ladies only, 100 yards
dash for ladies only, and slow bicycle
race Afterwards the greatest event of
the day will take place, the ball game
between the Heclas of Uxbridge and
the Whitins. The game starts at 430,
when the Heclas will be downed by the
Whitins
Whitinsville has the greatest conf
dence in Capt. Richardson and his men.
After the me there will be a gold
medal l00syards race and tug of war
between the married men and bache-
lors. Timothy Regain will captain the
married men and William Mccarthy the
bachelors. The entries for these events
closed today and large number were
received for each event. Refreshments
will be sold on the ball ground during
the day.
There was a pleasant gathering of
young people at the home of Miss Mary
kearnan of High street last evening IN
honor of Miss Effie Gately of Provi-
dence, who has been her guest the past
week About twenty young people were
present, and these had a very pleasant
time with appropriate games vocal and
instrumental music.
L. H. Kenney of Worcester was ar
rested in Worcester yesterday after
noon by Officer John O. Reynolds of
this place and brought here last even
ing and placed in the lookup This
morning he was taken to the district
court at Blackstone where he was fined
SIS by Judge Putnam Kenney was in
town recently selling clocks, and dur
ing his sojourn here he was domiciled
at the lower boarding house Kenney
always took care to tear the tags off the
goods that were shipped him by express.
In this way he managed to keep his
name secret and when he left he
went in hurry and forgot to pay his
board. That caused the trouble
Charles Robertson has entered the
employ of l.. b. Carr.
George Gleason of Cottage street has
returned from Springfield.
Miss Mary OBrien is confined to her
home by illness.
Miss Ella Young of Prospect street is
entertaining Miss Lila Streeter of Mill
bury.
Baptiste Moore of Church street is
spending few. weeks with friends in
Mortified, Mass.
Duncan Fraser, coachman for c. w.
Lasell, has returned from New York,
where he has been spending his vaca-
ton. He brought back with him a
thoroughbred English bulldog, the first
that has ever been seen in Whitinsville.
Mrs. G. Marston Within and family
have gone to Narragansett Pier for the
rest of the summer.