Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-08-06
BELGRADE BASEBALL
/ TEAM WINNER OVER
Y, CAMP 1AcoNETT

feated Camp Taconett Wednesday after
noon by the score Of IS to 4. circuit was
in the box for Belgrade and famed II
batsmen, allowing hits. Flynn. the
young pitcher for Taconett. was very
effective in the early innings. but weak
ened in the 7th when Belgrade scored II
runs. Bartholomew, the Taconett
catcher, contributed fine running catch
of high foul in the fifth inning. which
was warmly applauded by the feminine
delegation from the camp. Kelsey. right
fielder for Taconett, secured the first hit
off circuit. a long home run over the
| cottage. This is Belgrade's second vic
tory this season in as many games. The
score by innings:
Taconett 80 Q o 0 Q i . 5 o. 1
Belgrade 100 l 0 l OIL ks II Q
Batteries-Flynn. Rice and Barthole-
Lawrence Hill and F. Webster Kelley.
Time-l hour and 50 minutes. Attend
ance, 500.
| The influx of summer guests has begun
At the Belgrade Hotel 10 guests were
registered yesterday which closely ap-
proximates the capacity Of the house.
| H. ~. 1ACAcy was III Augusta 4uuTSQdy
on business.
| There are 43 boys at the Pine Island
Camp this year. three more than Dr.
Swan usually accommodates. A baseball
team has been organized and has suffere /
defeat at the hands Of Camp Belgrade.
The absence of F. c. Wilmington, the
Harvard football man, who has pitched
for the camp team for the last four
years, is severely felt. Wilmington has
gone to Hawaii, his home, for the first
| time in five years, as he received his de-
| gree at Cambridge this year. Philip
Cate. Harvard, 1916, and member of the
staff of the Harvard Lampoon. the IA
| nous comic magazine, is at camp again
as counselor. A delegation of the boys
left on hike Wednesday for the An
! droscoggin river. They will return
Saturday.
Miss Edith Wilcox, Allen Spiller and
Miss Spiller Of Dorchester. Mass. are
summering at North Belgrade this month.
One of the first motor boat acct
dents of the season occurred near
Beams Wharf last Monday, and was
luckily not of a very serious nature.
w. A. Rosenbaum of Brooklyn. n. Y,
was approaching the dock in his boat
the Barbara and took too wide
swing into the shallow water. The
craft ran onto a stump with consider
able force, and when the Jennie NJ"
came to his rescue and pulled his boa,
free, he lost lis rudder and propeller,
and found q hole in tho bottom.
Tuesday. August ,, was announced
as the date TO-. the government inspec-
ton Of motor @oa-a. and considerable
activity an1oaS the guides and owners
q! boats who cor.y passengers was the
result The law FOR boats in inland
waters requires them to carry life pre-
servers to the e.tent OF their capacity,
at least one oar, a fire exiinguisher,
lights. bell or Whistle, and an axe.
Those who found their boats deficient
in some of these particulars were very
careful to borrow the needed articles,
and it is rumored that several oars
boat last Tuesday. Motor boat own
ers have always been skeptical as to
the reason for the axe. One old timer
suggested that perhaps it was meant
to throw at the engine when she re-
fused to mote But the law is the
law, and whether or not the axe is
useful. its presence is prescribed.
Guests summering at the Red Oaks
Lodge include: Mr.. and Mrs. T. o.
Roberts Of Brookline. Mass. Mr.. and
Mrs. William Boyd of New York,
Charles A. Baldwin of Winchester.
Mass. Mr.. and Mrs. w. n. Thornley,,
Providence, r. l., Mr.. and Mrs X. F.
Atticks of Brookline, Mass, Mr.. and
Mrs. F. G. Nichols of Rochester, n.
Y, H. C. Won Claim of Brooklyn, ~
Y, Herman Toussaint, Mrs. Thomas
Gregory, and Miss Marjorie Gregory,
also of Brooklyn. Mr.. and Mrs Thomas
Kerr of Norfolk, Virginia, Mrs. H. H.
Hawxhurst of Washington, d. c., Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel Dunseith of Borden
town, N. j., Mrs. H. MacMurray and
son, Miss Edyth L. Bookstaver of
Brooklyn, N. Y, Mrs. Mary A. Snow,
and Mrs. ]. H. Merrill of Providence.
r. l., Mr.. and Mrs. James j. hampton
of Washington, D. c., Miss Clara
Fisher Of Brooklyn. N. Y, and Miss
Eva L. Shorey of Bridgton.