Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-09-07
NORTH WILDWOOD

OhY Hull 6uklcECa ~ Ills hS0 AobAC 90
the corner of 25th and New York ave.
nues. The house was built some years
ago by Harry II. Hoffman, formerly
mayor OF Anglesea. Mr.. Mattera will
continue his place OF business at Angle
sea.
The North Wildwood Bungalow day,
like everything else last week on Five
Mile Beach. can be designated truly as
q bowling success. At least $50 chill
dren delivered the howl that such an
event, when interpreted with ice
cream and other daintles, including
prizes of solid silver and gold plated
watch fobs, can only produ ce and a
general good time was enjoyed by
everyone at the Wild wood Yacht club
on Saturday.
The occasional light showers did not
bother anybody and in fact improved
outing conditions, as the weather was
typically SUMMED weather aud the
showers tended to lay the dust and
cool the people off.
Two generous members of the club
furnished all the child rem and a good
many of the grown people with crick-
cts and whistles and when about a
thousand of these Instruments got to
going, there vas some noise around the
staid old yacht club.
An orchestra furnished dance music
for those who desired to dance. A
number Of visiting yachts laid at the
clubs docks, but owing to the d
coming at exactly the wrong time; low
water Immediately after dinner and
high water early in the morning, the
races did not amount to as much as
they would had the yachtsmen pre-
pared for q high water affair at 2
O'Clock In the afternoon.
Practically every bungalow family
was represented by n or more mem
bers of the family and the cottage con-
tingent was there with bells, especially
the growing generation.
The prizes consisted of twenty or so
medals and fobs in silver and gold; a
half dozen cups for the yachts and
wall PLAQUES and big doll babies for
the girl winners. The participants and
the winners II the various events are as
follows:
BOYS TUB RACES
1st, Joseph Con way, gold fob; I'd,
Clarence Let's, silver fob; Sd, Douglass
Armstrong; 4th, George Hannum; 9Th
Edward Franz.
Boys ROWING RACES
Ist, Joseph Conway; I'd, Clarence
Let's; Sd, John Horan; 4th, John Pea
cock; 9Th, Samuel Kern.
BOYS RUNNING RACES, 100 YDs.
LIST, Samuel Kern; I'd, Douglass ARM
strong; Sd Joseph Conway; 4th, Robert
Joseph Taylor incenkAma-
rosa, Leon Schenk, Ted Franz, Clar-
ence Let's, Karl Beck, John Croker,
Harry Preston, William Rainey, How
ard Maloney, Harry Beck and An
thony Beck.
Boys SWIMMING RACE, so YDs.
LIST, Bud Knighton, d. McNichol,
Samuel Kerns, Joseph Conway, and
Douglass Armstrong.
GIRLS RUNNING RACE, 100 YDs.
Alice Cromwell, Zelda Webster, Anna
McDonagh, Ruth Shupel z, Emma
Let's, Catherine McDonagh, Agnes
Adams, Elizabeth Conway and Emma
McDonagh.
Box's POTATO RACE, 100 YDs.
list, Joseph Taylor; I'd. Ted Franz.
There were twenty-five entrants in the
boys potato race.
GIRLS POTATO RACE, 100 YDs.
LIST, Zelda Webster, I'd, Catherine
May. There we're eighteen entrants in
the girls potato race.
SPECIAL 100 YARD DASH FOR GIRLS
Zelda Webster, of North Wildwood,
won the special 100 yard dash for girls
by eight inches from Anna McDonagh.
One of the special features of the
event, was swimming by Baby Bea-
trice Whitelam, of West Philadelphia.
This remarkable child is only five years
old, but has swan a mile on the Della
ware River in IL minutes. 1t is claim
ed by her parents, who brought her to
the Yacht club as a purely compli-
mentary addition to the program, that
Baby Beatrice is the worlds youngest
swimmer. She weighs SO lbs. and
stands 40 inches high. She swims
breast stroke, side arm stroke, single
we arm stroke, double over arm stroke
and back crawl stroke and is truly a
remarkable little water seal. Her
mother said that she developed the art
OF swimming in old Holly Beach two