Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-19
GAMES, RACES, SWIMMING AND
BOATING A PART OF PROGRAM
At Big MERCHANTS FIELD DAY

Two hundred Waterville Merchants
and their associates went to Lake
wood park on Hayden lake yesterday
10 hold their annual field day and
picnic. Early in the morning before
3 o'clock the cars began to gather
on the square and a few minutes
after the hour the first load started
toward the park. From then until
noon trucks. autos and all kinds of
motor conveyances could be seen on
the Skowhegan road all headed to-
ward the scene of enjoyment. In
honor OF the event practically every
store in the city was closed all day
long.
The program filled out the after
noon with games, races, swimming,
boating, baseball game and dancing
while in the evening many stayed to
see the play Mice People" The
weather was fair but in the city hot
to an almost unbearable degree and
even at the. park only an occasional
cool breeze brought relief. The sun
shone but through a thick haze of
smoke.
Lakewood park is about 25 miles
from Watervile and five miles
| above Skowhegan toward Madison
situated on the western shores of
Hayden lake. The park itself is al
| most completely surrounded with a
summer colony. A fine road leads
| from the main thoroughfare to the
| center of the park. When one an
| rives there he feels that he is in the
| center of a pretty village on the
shore Of lake. There is a theatre.
a dance hall. gardens, stables with
riding horses, bath houses, stores,
plenty of pretty cottages. Besides
there Is a playground, with base
ball ground, tennis courts. swings,
slides and benches under the shady
trees. From the shore OF the lake a
| wharf has been built out and beyond
this is a swimming raft with diving
| stand. Row boats and canoes are
| plentiful and near the wharf ny
| droplane stands ready to give amuse-
ment seekers the thrills OF rlde In
the air.
The forenoon was passed in en-
| loving the amusement facilities OF the
| mark. practicing for the basepall
game and getting acquainted with the
| mark. Everyone brought lunch ana
nj noon a picnic box dinner was en-
| loved. A little while after dinner the
contestants for the row boat races
were called out and the singles race
started. This race afforded great
| amusement for the spectators. Jones
finally came in first with steele a
| close second. The winner got away a
little quicker than the rest and then
by skillful maroeuvering managed to
| get in front of his opponents when
anv one of them tried to take the
lead. The distance was about oV'
yards. A.,
Jones and w. Palmer won th me
doubles rowboat race of 300 YARDS
by a good margin with Pomerleau
and Michaud taking second.
| The Skowhegan and Waterviile
| nine started practicing on the dia-
mond and about o'clock. Otton
Larsen. the umpire called the game
The first idea was to make nine
inning game, then after look al
the thermometer which was soaring
above 80 degrees the mutual agree
ment was to make it five innings
and some even suggested that three
was enough. The game started IKE
big league affair with the wafer
willie men dropping the bat in one
two. three order. The Skowhegan
| wilIowmen Jared better and before
the first inning had closed the Wis
itors had put three men in the score
column. nj the second inning the
Elm City boys Jared better pushing
| their lone tally across the plate
! Skowhegan frightened up in the third
and kept Waterville scoreless. Some
| one yelled to Caron, the Waterville
| boxman, to use his dope ball on
Bouford. 1t proved an unlucky sug,,
| geston as Bouford put the doped
sphere far over the head of the CEN
terfielder and it came very near
| rolling into the lake. while Bouford
romped around the circuit and sat
down to rest before the ball came
back to the diamond.
The real fun started in the last OF
/ the fourth when Caron went into the
skies with two out and nine Show
heganers trotted around the four
| corners before Moreau came to the
! rescue and struck out the third man
| This practically ended the game. al
though Waterville put two men on
| bases in the final inning. AS the
| third man famed the air for the
| last strike the tired and perspiring
/ crew heaved relieved sigh in uni