The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-09-25
OUR STEUBENVILI.E LETTER
SpOFL-TWO Races To be
IIOWed To-day, One between
Peal and E'edgriit aud tlIe
Other between IIerbSt and All.
COck.-The I'TCSby Ierinn Church
MuiilutOr Discovered

STEUBENvILLE, Sept, 81, 1875.
Correspondence Of the IntolllScnCCrl
Speaking from an aquatic ndpoint,
matters here tonight are what you might
call exceedingly lively among the boating
fraternity and their friends, who are
looking forward with anxiety pictured
on every feature to the morrow, when,
should no unforeseen accident occur, we
are to have two contests OF Chicago
against SIeubcnville in the persons Of
lIerbst against AllcOCk and Peal against
Pedgrift.
This morning we stated in the INTEL.
LIGESCER that John lIerbst, Of this city,
had agreed to row T, A. AlIcock, Of Chi
CagO, Immediately after the race between
Peal and Pcdgrift. The parties met last
night at the 81. Nicholas Hotel and ar.
ranged To row mile race straight away
down stream for 500 side, The money
was deposited in the hands Of William Il,
Campbell, EI., editor and business man.
agcr OF the Herald. The race is to come
off nt 3 =. NJ, sharp. These parties are
well matched, and We, in common with
our people generally, would like to see
Chicago "scOOpcd." The following per.
sons were selected as judges: For lIerbst,
Pete Snyder, Of StenbenvilIe, and Henry
Snclbaugh, Of Pittsburgh; for AllCoCk,
Cornelius O'NeNl, u Chicago, and Charles
b. DOty, Of Steubcuvillc, Referee, W.T.
Campbell
Robert Peal, Of Stcubenvilc, and John
l'cdgrift, Of Chicago, together with mum.
her Of friends, met ut the United States
Hotel for The purpose Of making final nr.
rangpments for the race tomorrow.
Among other things to he arranged was
the amount to be rOwcd for, There being
only Sion up at the present time, and
the choOsing0f final stakeholder, Judges,
referee, Ne. "OId Pap Ford" was nnan.
imously chosen rs final stakeholder,
John Campbell and Pete Snyder, Of
Steubenvilp, were chosen ~ Judges for
Peal, and El. Zimmerman and Z. b.
DOty, Of SteulHnvillc, for l'edgrilt. A
referee has not yet been selected. The
parties then agreed to row for 800 n
side, the Pedgriit party refusing to put
up any more. Peal won the toss for
choice Of water.
The course selected for the race tU.
morrow Il the same One rOwcd over last
Saturday, with the exception that the
buoy boats will be anchored one hundred
yards lower down, thus avoiding the MI.
merous whirIpOOls caused by the bridge
piers and to which il attributed Peal's
defeat by throwing him fOnl Of his buoy
boat.
The best Of feeling exists between the
parties al the present time, and has all
along, although many who are strangers
and unaCquainted with them suppose
they are al daggers' points; but such Is
not the case. Nothing Of an unfrendly
nature has occurred since the arrival Of
Pelgrift and his trainer in this city, and,
although the StenbenvilIe boys would
like to see their fuvOrite Rdi the last dol.
lar out Of the pocket Of the ChiCagOanS,
yet, should ii be .ltcOckcd and primed the
other way, they will show their acqnies-
cence by quickly handing over the dn.
cats.
Peal and Denmarsh Issued challenge
lllN ullcIHOOu l" lC'lBl ~ NIlA hllNVNh w
row them II tlonble.scull race, in best and
best boats, over the course ut this city,
for $500 a side.
Pools are selling rapidly on Peal to.
night at McCrystal's DeImOnicO by Jas.
Snyder, the lightning poOl-seller, Of
Pittsburgh. One party on the street
offered 10 put up $5O0 that Peal would
win the race.
The pprpctrNtor Of the outrage at the
First 'resbyterin Church on Wednesday
evening was discovered to-day to be II
little girl named Anna Fullen. She says
she did It on the way home from schOOI
at the Catholic Church, and that other
girls coa1cd her to do IL From her np.
pearancc We do not think in this case
that the Catholic Church should be held
responsible for the outrage, as the girl
cvilentlydid,i ,itmorc through thoughtless.
ness than maliciOusnesa, and we arc
therefore willing ogive her the benefit Of
the doubt. Bill"