The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-22
A RACE ARRANGED.
Thorne Will Row
Meagher and Hig-
gins Sunday.
OTHERS WANT TO RACE HIM.
Redtop Wins an Easy
Battle From
Bushylegs.
OTHERS WANT TO RACE HIM.


at the Wachusett Boat club that race
has been arranged for Sunday after
noon, at o'clock, between Charles
Thorne in the single working boat, and
John II. Meagher, president of the club,
and DR.. M. P. Higgins, in the double.
The match is the result of a wager made
a few days ago that Thorne could de-
feat Messrs. Meagher and Higgins.
These gentlemen, with true sportsman
like promptness, Immediately picked up
the gauntlet thrown down by the chal-
lenger, and the race was accordingly
arranged. The loser stands the expense
of supper for ten people.
The men were in active training yes
terday and will keep at it up to the
moment of the race They could not
work harder if they were getting in trim
for try at the diamond SOULS at Hen
ley.
Since this race was arranged, Thorne
has been fairly besieged with challenges
and has enough of them on hand to last
him well into the winter season, if he
accepts them all. In the event of a gem
eral acceptance, President Meagher
says that a company will be formed to
negotiate with the Russian admiral
that invented the ice crushing machine,
and the course will be cleared, if
Thornes races are not all rowed be-
fore Jack Frost seals up the lake.
1t is understood that Thorne will &C
cept the challenge of Jack O'Malley for
a race, to follow Immediately that
against Meagher and Higgins. O'Mal-
ley is the champion heavyweight sculler
of the lake, and he has been itching for
a race with Thorne all summer.
Thorne is famous in lake annals as
the only man who ever fell out of a
canoe and succeeded In getting back
without a drop of water entering it. 1t
is said by the veracious narrator that
gave these facts to The Spy reporter
at the Wachusett house, that when
Thorne pitched out of the canoe, he
managed to retain his hold upon it with
one toe crooked like a fish-hook.
Then with a dexterous movement of
the body he got back into the canoe and
padded away as nonchalantly as Paint
in his-stomach, the old-time Nipmuck,
ever padded to the upper end of the
lake to see Quintama, his dusky-faoed,
dark-eyed STEADY.
1t was suggested at the club than
Boyle and Rickert, the amateur base
ball oarsmen, could take lessons from
Thorne with great advantage to them
selves in the event of their attempting
to again add laurels to their manly
brows as canoe experts.
Thorne said yesterday that Meagher
and Higgins had great assurance to
send him a menu card, setting forth
what they like best in the epicurean
line, "just as it," to quote Charlie s
word, they already had the race won. "
lie retaliated by sending by return
mail menu that would tax Delmopico
to fill out. That there will be big
crowd at the lake Sunday afternoon to
witness the race is what Shakespeare
somewhere calls a foregone conclusion
Quinsigamond park is engaged fol-
Monday by the street hawkers and
fruit pedlers of Worcester for an out
ing. This promises to be one of the
biggest outdoor entertainments of the
season, and a big crowd is sure to &C
down. There are to be horse trots be-
tween tie two fastest nags that haul
vegetables through the streets and an
other between two of the slowest
The prize in the latter race is a bag OF
oats, and the oats will be held in full
view of the lackspeeds as an incentive
to energy. A member of the street de
partment jocularly offered to send
down one of the steam rollers to pace
the nags.
A party from Auburn has engaged
the park for picnic Thursday, and
North Grafton Sunday school pupils
and teacers have an outing there Sat
urday.
The show at the theatre in Lincoln
park this week is one of the best that
has been seen there this season. Yes
| terday a crowd of at least 1000 people
nIy r
bursts of laughter was the tribute paid
| the artists for the work. Particularly
| good was the work of John Barker and
| Gushing and Merrill. Barker is an old
| timer. and for years was at Keith's. He
also played engagements with Denman
| Thompson. He gave clever imitation
| of Thompson yesterday, but the work
| that made the biggest hit was his ex-
| ceedingly clever limitations with the
bones. The shaving scene in the BARBER
| shop, his portrayal of the shoe cobbler
| at work, and of an old woman at the
| washboard could not be excelled.
A heavily laden car on the Consol-
idated. making the uptown trip shortly
after 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon, was
treated to lively cock fight in a Lake
View barnyard. 1t was not announced
in the sporting papers, and until the
car came along, the only witnesses were
long row of hens and chickens. II
was evidently fight to a finish for the
championship of the coop, and the birds
/ fought with all the fury of regularly
trained scrappers.
During the brief time that the cal
was leaving two old lady passengers
the crowd had a good opportunity K
see the fight. Favorites were picked
and by the way of distinction one
rooster was called Redtop and the 9th
er Bushylegs. Redtop proved thu
gamier, and afterone round had Bushy
legs on the dead run, with the hen!
chasing after him, Growing as loud!
as they could, "Cut. cut, cut, skedad
dle!" Bushylegs is now in disgrace