New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
Outdoor Sports to
Lead August Events
Al Thousand Isles
Tennis aud Golf Tourna.
mems With FIoiorboating
and Polo on Schedule;
Villa Colony Increasing
Special Correspondence.

ALEXANDRIA BAY, N. Y. Aug g.
Three tournaments are scheduled for
the Thousand island for this month.
The golf tournament has been playing
during the last week, tennis at the
Thousand Islands Yacht Club starts on
Monday, and the Thousand Islands
Yacht Club Gold Challenge Cup races
viii be run the coming week on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and
ment at the Thousand Islands Country
Club will begin.
Each of these tournaments brings an
influx of house guests among the villa
colony, and many visitors to the no.
tells, especially during the motor boat
races. Social activities have been in
creasing apace since the latter part of
July, and numerous house parties add
to the gayeties of the yacht club
dances, and many little luncheons, din
ners and card parties and dances are
being given every day, either at the
yacht or country club.
Mrs. George c. Boldt, jr., gave a
supper Sunday at the Thousand Islands
Yacht Club. The guests included Mrs.
A. Raymond Ellis, Mr.. and Mrs
Charles NJ. Englis, Miss Dorothy Whit
ley, Miss Dorothy Block, Philip and
Paul Wiser, Lieutenant T. Brecken-
ridge Clemens, George C. Boldt, T. B.
c. Marke, Miss Ruth Englis and Err
nest b. Rubsamen.
Mrs. Shipman at Islands
Among the weeks arrivals at the
Thousand Islands was Mrs. Herbert M
Shipman, who spent the early season in
Newport, and is passing August with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Edison Brad
ley, on Wellesley Island. Other guests
at the Edison Bradleys are Emerson
McMillin, Sd, who was for the last
three years in Red Cross work in
Rome, Italy, and Captain Rutherford,
of Eng Many parties on the yacht
Wahtoke and dinners and dances have
been planned by Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley
for their guests.
General W. c. Heppenhemer, of Jer-
sey City, who was the guest of Commo-
dore Charles S. Rees at the Thousand
Islands Country Club, has returned to
his home. Miss Clementine Rees, of
New York, is at present visiting her
brother, Commodore Rees, at the Coun-
try Club
Mrs. Richard Fl. Eggleston, ir., and
her son, Richard Eggleston Sd, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Hufnaegle (the
latter is the former Doris Rafferty, and
q sister of Mrs. Eggleston), will arrive
Tuesday and will pass August on board
JNS1nOor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles d. Rafferty,
and Brendan and Kevan Rafferty, will
arrive at Alexandria Bay Tuesday and
VIII spend August as the guest of Mr..
and Mrs. Ewing l.. Rafferty, at Bonnie
Castle. Mrs. G. D. Rafferty, is Mrs.
Ewing l.. katferty's sister and thev
married first cousins
Many Seek Tennis Honors
The annual tennis tournament of the
Thousand Islands Yacht Club, which
starts tomorrow, has q number Of en-
tries, including Mrs. Herbert M. Ship
man, Emerson McMillin, CAPTAIN Ruth
erford, Miss Margaret Tavlor. Earl
Hayden, the Misses Virginia and Isabel
Mclean, Mrs. George C. Boldt, Mrs.
A. Raymond Ellis, ,~Nlr. and Mrs. Clar-
ence W. Honart, Mr.. and Mrs. a.
Graham Miles, Mrs. J. Miles Gibbons
and others.
Mrs. George Russell, of New York.
Will arrive Monday for stay of sew
eral weeks with her sister. Mrs. l. II.
Jenny on the houSeboat Idler.
MRS. Frank Taft and her son, William
H. Iaft, are spending the summer at
Westminster Park.
Ihe moto! boat races will be run the
coming week Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday. These races are for the
'housand stands Yacht Club old Chal-
lenge Cup, and are held under the au-
specs OF the American Power Boat As
soclation. The racing course is twcn-
9y1hine and one-half miles, from Harris
isiand' on which is located Boldt Cas-
'ie' around Whiskey Island. The races
ai"ays bring great number of per-
sons to Alexandria Bay. and prepara-
'lohs are being made in the hotels and
among the summer residents for nu-
merous visitors.
One of the most interesting events