Outing . strip of open water along the shore, sothat access to the main body of ice could behad only by boat. The regular races werepostponed, but the assembled skaters arrangedtwo matches, which were contested on a nar-row strip of good ice. Handicap match, a guessed 200 yards—C. McClave,8 yards, 1; A. Y. Morgan, scratch, 2, by 8 yards. Match race, same course—C. McClave, 1; A. Y. Mor-gan, 2, by 3 yards. The third day brought somewhat coolerweather, but the ice was still too weak for thecrowd that would have assembled, and it wasdecided to abandon the Cove Pond, and bringoff the remaining rac
Outing . strip of open water along the shore, sothat access to the main body of ice could behad only by boat. The regular races werepostponed, but the assembled skaters arrangedtwo matches, which were contested on a nar-row strip of good ice. Handicap match, a guessed 200 yards—C. McClave,8 yards, 1; A. Y. Morgan, scratch, 2, by 8 yards. Match race, same course—C. McClave, 1; A. Y. Mor-gan, 2, by 3 yards. The third day brought somewhat coolerweather, but the ice was still too weak for thecrowd that would have assembled, and it wasdecided to abandon the Cove Pond, and bringoff the remaining races on Silver Lake, StatenIsland, Jan. 26, 27 and 28. A few of the skaters met at the Cove Pondduring the forenoon of the third day, and afterlaying out a half-mile course, brought off onerace and two exhibitions. 440-yard match—A. Y. Morgan, 38 2-5S.; C. McClave,2, by 10 yards. Quarter mile professional exhibition—H. Moshier,361 5s. Amateur exhibition, a guessed half mile-A , im. ig E. A THOMAS. SKA TING. 605 The original programme had included sev-eral professional contests, but these were nowdropped and the programme lengthened by theaddition of more amateur races, so as to fur-nish plenty of sport for three afternoons andevenings, as the lake is surrounded by electriclights, and racing could be comfortably car-ried on in the evening. January 26th, ice in fair condition, windfresh, weather cold, track a fifth of a mile in•circuit. Half-mile—E. Reynolds, im. 15 4-5S. One - mile handicap — B. McPartlan, scratch, 4-5S. One-mile championship—First round; lirst two ineach heat to skate in final. First heat—B. McPartlan, Verplancks, N. Y., 1-5S.; E. Reynolds, Chicago, 111., 2; S. M. Phillips,New Vork Hockey Club, 3. Second heat—T. Cooney, Cornwall-on-Hudson, ,3m. 6 2-5S.; S. OBrien, Royal Arcanum Wheelmen, 2. Third heat—A. Y. Morgan, De La Salle Institute,2m. 58 1-5S.; G. W. Boock, Tarrytown, 2 ; T. Barron, S. C., 3.
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