Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-26
BUSINESS MEN ATPLAY.
Baron ]. Torkomian Was Tip
 ped Out in Tub Race.

The outing of the Waterbury Mer-
 chants association at Quassapaug
 yesterday afternoon was the most
 eventful epoch in the history of the society and will furnish the members
 something to talk about until the
 next annual meeting takes place. The spread was excellent and the athletic exercises furnished all an opportuni-
 ty to try their prowess at one thing or another. The festivities took
 place in George Abbott's meadow,
 where there was lots of room and
 little risk of injury in case anybody came to the ground
 The entries for the swimming con- test were William Larkin, Attorney Lewis, w. ]. Pape, c. H. Towle, Baron J. Torkomian and T. F. Barry. All worked hard to win, but Larkin was too much for his competitors and came in ahead without much ef- fort. Lewis was second and for time it was a neck and neck affair With the others except MT Torko- milan, who was nipped on the great toe by a turtle and was lowed ashore for repairs. W. J. Pape was seized with a cramp and was about to sink for the last time when his compan- ions grabbed him. He recovered quickly and few minutes later he was out in tub race with the same bunch and came in second, Attorney Lewis being awarded first place. Torkomians tub struck a breaker and tipped over, but the occupant succeeded in keeping himself afloat until he was reached by a rescuing party.
 John Sherwood, Daniel Conway. w. Makepeace, Attorney Beardsley and Arthur Langley took part in the sack race, which was won by MT Boards ley, after all his competitors had per- formed all kinds of stunts.
 In the fat mems race Daniel T. Harrington walked away from all the boys. A. J. Lallier, D. E. Fitzpat- rick, A. Trott, c. l.. Heron and c. A. Templeton pursued Mir Harrington, but none of them came within sev- eral laps of the real estate man, who appeared to increase his speed at every step.
 Harry Beardsley and D. E. Fitz- patrick won the three legged race.
 Robert Stone came off victorious in the 100 yards dash, Dr Marvin, T. F. Barry, Attorney Lewis, Arthur 1 Langley and John Sherwood giving him brush, but Stone said all were easy.
 pr John F. Hayes umpired a game of ball, which resulted in a score of IT to z. Harry Beardsley umpired another game, the score being 27 to l2.
 Probably the best number on tie programme was a bout between Xxi" Shea and Joe Smith, which was followed by two round go be- tween George Washington White and Benjamin Franklin Brown, two co., ored walters. Milton Well acted as referee and 1t is reported that Ralph Blakeslee, W. s. Jones and Cornelius Tracy held the stakes. The fight was at It's height when Sheriff Bronson of Middlebury appeared on the scene and put the champions of the roped arena and their votaries to route.
 Of course the thing would have been a sort of failure without the presence of the Hon George L. Lil- ley, who with two or three other mo- tables, made up the list of invited guests. Mir Lilley made the trip in his auto car and appeared to be in the best of spirits. He had a smile and hand-shake for everybody, but not whimper did he utter with ref erence to politics, or anything bor- dering on such a topic.
 President R. F. Lewis was on the ground from the opening to the close of the programme and entered into the spirit of the occasion with the abandon of school boy.
 In the vaudeville show, the band played; boy musician. Willie Jones, rendered violin solo: the Madison Square quartette, led by Joseph Dar- ling, sang; Mccoy and Ryan, two promising young local buck and wing dancers, stepped few. and a quln- tette of colored walters sang.
 The party reached Exchange place on the homeward stretch about 6 o'clock in the evening.