The New York herald., 1871-09-07


The Pousbkecpsse Crew or for Saratoga
Tho Threc- VILE Race ON the Pussaie River
To-day.
POUGHKKEPsIR. Sept Q, 1871.
Admirers OF aquatic sports along the Hudson are
deeply interested In the forthcoming regatta at Sara
toga, inasmuch - the HUDSON River sends two
TO contest for the prizes and, II possible TO
''dustn the English crews I have already
given you fun description OF the Josh Ward
crew, OF CORNWALL, now IN comfortable quarters
at Saratoga awaiting the day; therefore IL remains
for me only to ''write up" tho PouVhkeepsio crew,
They are strong, muscular fellows all ol them old
fashioned sturgeon fishermen men who have rowed
all the days Of their lvessunburnt, black and tan
sort Of chaps, Injured TO all sorts OF hardahpa
| Their names are IA fOllows:-Homer Wooden, Will
| liam stevens, william Burgher and Charles Buryheh
The former weighs ITS pounds stevens leo pounds,
| william Burgher 1856 pounds and Charles Burgher
| les pounds. Wooden, Stevens and william
| Burgher. aided by Ezekiel Benaray (since dead),
composed the crew or the old f0ur.oared bOas
Stranger, ownea one time in this CITY, and which
boat never was beaten. In July, 1866, they rOwed
hvemile race against the Biglin crew OF New York,
and were beaten two lengths and half--the time
Of the victors being 1890 The Pougnkeepsle crow
Gained q foul; but the referee-Mr. Charles 0aus-
man-declded against them, and gave the money
to the Biglln boys. Before his decision, how
III
near being terrible rdt Knives ana pistols were
freely drawn ond threats were made to burn the
houses and robbed people indlscrmiaately The
three named Wooden stevens ami Vim. Burgher-
have never rowed together In a race since till now.
They have been III training but fvc days, but dur
Ing that time they nave worked like beavers. BE-
sns WIN XIV me pow On, a. ana b wam Du,gner !ns
Ther boat is the Old Floy Fields, In which they
rowed With the Bixn boys In 1885, She s ro-ty-6ve
feet IN length, twenty.f0ur inches In width and
eight inches deep. Her weight Is l75 pounds, and
Bho II built OF Spanish cedar. i
The boys have paid no attention whatever 10 diet
hut have kept up terrible rowing. they % 1eisv. ~.
! year round to have good square meals at
fancy training and 1 strictly adhere TO the op;u
victory, but VIII pull Tor It all they know. Thls
morning, AZ SIX O'clock, they took an eight-mlle
ciotlies'' for Saratoga travel AT eleven A. M. they
left Tor the scene OF The race on the saratoxa train
after having lashed their boat to the roof OF the
I baggage car. "Poon Doheny" accompanies them
! TO attend TO outside matters.
Another contest attracting attention hcreabous IA
| the three-mie In shell boats Tomorrow De-
! tween Edward Smith, OF Cornwall, and Henry b.
Newars for a gold watch and the honor OF being the
champion single scull rover or the ALalanta bOai
CluD, to which organi1atlon bonn belong. LIE Kov
| Oarsman. He never drank glass Of liquor,
| never smoked, never chewed. he Is fisherman:
and has Deen ali hts life. In 1889 he rOwed against
Thomas Fearon, OF Yonkers. in three-mie race,
at New Hamburg Fearon coming on victor, In 22m
67s Since then lie Roy has picked up wonderfully.
and yesterday, according to his falher'5 statement.
yOwed three miles In 2yn. sos. He ieit New Ham.
burg win his boat tonight for New
ark on board the steamer River Queen.
II lie wins this race lie proposes again challenge
Thomas Fearon Edward Smith, his opponent, ls
also good oarsnan and Q healthy, wcltdcveloped
man. Both he and Le Roy nave been In active
training for weeks, and 1t Is expected that the
test WIN be d close One though knowing ones pre-
dict Le Roy Will have an easy Victory. Certainly
Fearon had TN easy Victory over Le Roy In 1892.
win II be easy next time Is u conundrum no Que
hereabOuts Will attempt TO answer.