The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-29
PEDLERS' OUTING.
Quinsigamond Park
the Scene of a
Great Picnic.
SHORT MEASURES men BARRED.
Base Ball, Horse Races,
Quoits and Other
Sports Enjoyed.
SHORT MEASURES men BARRED

mat particular night in the primeval
world when Eve roamed through Eden
in search of Adam, armed with a CLASH
fed list of leading questions to ask him
in regard to the reasons why he was
staying out SO late, was not stiller
than the streets of Worcester yesterday.
1t was all due to the fact that the
street hawkers and vendors were hav-
ing their first annual outing at Quin-
sigamond park. With the first flush of
the morning sun, a long procession of
nondescript wagons could be seen wend-
ing its tortuous course to the park on
the Shrewsbury side of the lake. 1t was
daybreak I'm China when the sports of
the day We're over and the hawkers,
tired but happy as meadow 1arks, made
their way home.
Quinsigamond park never was the
scene of a happier, more jovial or
happy-go-lucky, gathering than yester-
day. 1t was the genuine enjoyment that
comes from merry making devoid of a
single discordant note
They were rough and ready charac-
ters at the outing for the most part,
but they were men with hearts as big
as mountains and there wasn't the re-
notest suggestion of Alright. Had Che
weller, the great coster singer of Lon
don, been present he would have found
much material for some OK his charac-
teristic Sings, for the Worcester hawk
er is as mrch a type in his way as the
costernonger of London. He loves his
"eld Dutch just as much, too, and is
all right when you know him, but
you've got to know him first.
Not all the pedlers in Worcester We're
at the park, however, for there is caste
among these uncut human diamonds
just the same as there is among people
of other and more cultured classes.
Every man at the park yesterday was
a full measure pedler,' who now and
then throws in something for "lanyap''
WHEN dealing with a good customer.
Now don't forget to mention that
point particularly, friend, said Jerry
Moynihan, one of the most original
characters among the pedlers. eve
draw the line at admitting to our or
eleven for dozen and uses short weight
and measures. A good customer always
| gets somethin fer lanyap when he
| trades wild we 'uns.''
| The reporter having expressed curl
| osity to know what '1anyap" meant
| Jerry explained that it was something
thrown In to the good. IF one got Il
bananas for dozen. the tirteenth
would be fer lanyap. It's a word as
common down in New Orleans as Hey
Kube is up dis way said Jerry.
! Unselfish as he is to the core, the
hawker was not disposed to have al
the fun to himself while his wife anC
| children stayed at home drudging. The
men brought their wives and sweet.
hearts to the park and it is safe to say
| that no opportunities for pleasure were
allowed to escape The swings in the
| grove, the boats on the shore, the ice
! bathing could be enjoyed, all had
throngs of young people, shouting
| laughing and playing good natured
| tricks upon each other.
The program of sports included ball
game in the morning, another in the
afternoon, tug of war contest, creased
pig pursuit race, championship game o.
quoits, between the peddlers of Taylor
street and those of South Worcester,
and horse races on the track, the prin-
cipal being contests b., Ween the fast
est pedlers' horses and the slowest.
In the morning there was parade
around the track, each pedler shouting
his old familiar cry. Jim Maroney
took the prize for the best yell.
The base ball matches were between
teams of married men and the single
men. The make up of the nine follows:
Married men, Hurley captain,
Curtis catcher, John Hurley
pitcher, Rice shortstop Null
cahy first base, Vayo second base. g.
Vayo third base, Schofield right field,
Moynihan center field, Prev left field.
Single men, Flynn captain, Prewner
catcher. FIipper Flynn pitcher, Bulger
first base, Denublar shortstop, Kenney
left field, Beauregard second base, Shea
third base, F. Beauregard and Hughes
taking turns at center field.
The married men played all around
the single fellows, both morning and
afternoon. The morning score stood u
to II in favor of the married men, and
the afternoon game, 81 to in favor Of
the same.
There was some star work, and if
Manager Leonard of the Worcesters on
ly saw the games he would have given
some of his men their unconditional re-
lease and signed a number of the ped
lers.
"And we won't find our pitchers in
der base ball supplement, elder" said
Flipper Flynn, as he sent in an in shoot
that would give Klobedanz a fit of
jealousy.
The feature of the afternoon game and
indeed, the feature OF the whole days
playing was when Ironlungs Moynihan
who was playing center for the mar
ried men, picked fame off the air by
executing a stage faint, dropping grace
fully backward, and catching a fly sent
out his way by Cashprice Bulger. Iron
lungs caught it with his left hand and
the cheer that went up in reward for
his achievement made the welkin ring.
The single men were easy for the
married men, too, in the tug of war
struggle. Though the bachelors
strained, until the veins stood out on
their foreheads like whipcords, to use
the hackneyed comparison, the married
men simply took in large and copious
mutations of ozone, and yanked The
single men off their feet.
The women and children appeared to
enjoy the CREASED pig chase more than
anything else. A frisky little represent
tative of the porcine genus was released
and the whole party set out in pursuit.
The pig knew that he would get all that
was coming to 1t in the event of cap
ture, and probably seeming O. hot oven
in imagination, scampered off as fast
as his four little legs would carry him,
and squealing louder than boy whose
paternal ancestor was exercising with
the trunk strap in the woodshed
Zip Rich of Taylor street captured
the little rascal after some effort, amid,
the plaudits of the Taylor street gang.
In the game of quoits, the competitors
were John Vayo and Zip Rich and Flip
per Flynn and Jack O'Neil better
known as lack OF .anteru Vavo and