New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-28
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| Olympics ofsthst city snd' the Baltif1SiS &
The former received terrible thrashins'
heinz dAfeated By : score Of I6 ~
| They made but elk sbase hits in the passS
tine Baltimore nine did some poWe1
| hitting. spd felded admirably.
Tom Foley, Of last years White StoeA
ings. and Brsnnock have joined the Ems
Ed. Duffy has signifed his willingness to r..
come member OF the nine.
Office of president of the Chicago Base Bal
Association are Messrs. w. !. Culver, j. n
Tl{nchor and William Lyon.
The Baltimore Club played the Nationals
of Washington, lately, and administered y
shocking drubbiug, the score standing Z
the finish 81 to 4.
It il rumered that Abe Kleiman, the duehs
shooter Of the Calumet, intends challe1e.
ing Captain Bogardps for another match "a /
the championship.
We COPY the following from a late CT
cago. paper, concerning the international
boat race: ......
Nothing disheartened by the memorable
defeat Of the Harvard by the Oxford crew
in their celebrated rowing match OF 1862
when our Yankee boys boldly, crossed the
ocean and Travelled 5000 miles in search 81,
a match, another set of plucky young chaps
have already departed, and are on their
wav to beard the British lion in his island
den. You see the Yankee spirit is Of that
peculiar fibre that won't allow it to stans
beaten, though no" men IN the world A1e5
more ready, to accept and abide by tho
issues Of 3 fair and well fought combat
So that, although our college boys founda
they didn't carry quite guns enough for
the burly Britishers. the entire rowing COM
munity has not by any means been cowed.
The Harvard crew, it is acknowledged by7
all parties, did miraculOusly well, when tho
facts Of their long journey, their lack Of
familiarity with the course, and the I'M
possibility OF their becoming thoroughly
acc]lmated in the short time at their dis
posal, are taken into consideration. The
Oxford crew do not hesitate to give them
all the credit due to brave and gallant an
tagOnists, and admit that TO beat the col
legians was the toughest job they ever
undertook.
The boys who have now undertaken to
meet picked four Of the London Rowing
Club ON the tenth of June are all members
of the Atalanta Rowing Club, of New York.
They are all amateurs and gentlemen, not
watermeh or professional oarsmen. Their
names are Russell Withers, Theodore Van
Raden, Alexander Handy and Edward
Smith, with Leander Waterbury as substi-
tute in case Of accident to, or the breaking
down of either of the others. Agrand send
of was given by the lucky five. They left
on the iron steamer City of Montreal on
Saturday last, and were accompanied down
the bay by several steamboat loads of their
friends. 4
1t is said that the amount Of money n.
h rs -. j
thing almost beyond-belief. The knowing
ones assert that the English professionally
oarsmen have the advantage OF ours, IN
their continuous practice, and In the fact
that they are wateimen by trade, who are,
ip reality, bound. to the car from morning
till evening Of every day Of their lives. On i
the other hand, our men who row in Irofes- a
patiOns, and only meet for practice at such
few hours as they can snatch from their
regular employment. They instance the
Big1in and the Ward crews, the members T
of which earn their bread at something be- Il
sides rowing. This arises from the fact that i
there is very little use for rowboats herr.
Our ferryboats transport by steam power Il
all passengers who merely want to cross the 4
river; taking party for pleasure to ride i il
a rowboat is only done by some one of the II
party. never by hired bOstmen, and almoa I
the only boats that are constantly on the
water are the 'junk" boats, and thoss few
that hang about Whitehall ON the chanoe z
IF taking some belated sailor or sweet Il
hearting officer to his ship as she lies in the Il
stream.
But our amateurs stand on the same plat II
form with the English. All are gentlemen
TO whom rowing is simply recreation, NOT Il
a business, and as the amount Of practices 81
which either crew enjoys is only limited BY 81
the inclination of the members, both crews n
are morally certain to do all they know, II
especially when, as in this case. the national 7
feeling and the national emulation of differ
srent countrymen come into play.
The gentlemen spOrtsmen" of America
are wonderfully interested in this contest.
and there are several individuals who have
already invested thousands of dollars each
On the event. The city is full, too. Of en-
thusiastic John Bulls, who, believing that Il
n the way OF athletic sports. England can Z
never be beaten, and. moreover, having be- 4
ore them the precedent of the Harvard
oxford races, are ever ready to invest their b
money, to the bottom dollar, on their9cOun- II
rymen. The next two months will see "A
lively times IN the betting market: and the n
elegram that, on the evening of the tenth n
# next June, declares the victory, will de- II
ide the ownership of more gold than would
ufice not only to give both crews all they
Ould carry, but to sink both boats deeper
han did ever plummet sound