The maiden Sunday trip of the Steamship Shinnecock from Sag Harbor to the Connecticut shore was scheduled to take place on June 20th, marking the realization of a dream which hotel men and residents of eastern Long Island had waited for many years. Ever since the boat line between Sag Harbor, Greenport, and New London, Connecticut commenced operation every interest on the Easterly end of the Island had been hoping that someday Sunday service would be operated. Motorists would no longer be obliged to take the long and cumbersome route back to New York through heavy city traffic to reach the same destinations and could opt instead for this short and delightful thirty-mile sail across Long Island Sound.

It was good news for sports fans that baseball was being revived in Sag Harbor! The opening game with Southampton was scheduled for Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the park. The players were eager to get going in a real effort to put the village back on the map in the way of summer sports at home. A fire in the woods the week prior burned a large acreage at Chatfield Hill, jumped the East Hampton Sag Harbor state highway, and burned over part of the woods on the east side of the village between Rattlesnake Brook and Hempstead Street and the bay.