The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-08-31

quarter te earlier than at Saratoga he comes to
doubled up Ike asnkns Was s th ns' another eass
of double and quitY 1t surely looked ke It, for there
he lay on his oars but only Tor three seconds or so;
run wen upon his quarter, indeed almost collar
hm gu. now he is stroking away
aud the tired scullcrs looked pretty thick along there
Up comes the shout from the stand but he does
but those who knew HIM looking every moment for
the Quaker TO pass him out Somehow he did not aud
could not. for though the little dark skinned man
twice steamed up prettly to four or five more to the
minute, It was only Tor half dozen so of strokes
and then he would drop again, santalz,
yells and showing his pretty teeth in his most
sardonic fashion. Foxng along this highly inter-
esiing way suddenly, apparently without knowing it,
he stumbled across tho line IL length or SO ahead,
winner IN l2m 5ss. II any person thinks he tell
about how fast an oarsman Mr. Yates Is from this
tertaining performance he may congratulate himself
but Labatt the Tendon bow he found 1t IN another
way, for, out scung the other day, and looking aft
he saw this lively brunette hundred oet astern anu
turning on the steam began to draw away from him.
Yates next turning his head finding this out, thought
he would see how far his distinguished rival sculied
after few moments strict attention to business he
found himself almost in the gentleman embrace The
latter did not scu this afternoon and mentions as
reason that in his land scuiiers always pull IN crews
too and that they do regard II as fair 10 have 10
face men who scull only many OF our best sculers
and stiened and fitted tor this sort OF rowing
by work with the heavier sweep, theory Kennedy
heartily indorscs tbs also just TO Mr. Labatt to add
that after the Tour cared this afternoon, IN
which he pulled an oar, he could hardly be expected
to scuil in this heat, though II two hours
later
THE FOUR DARED FINAL HEAT
Now came the great event of the day. Of the week. In
eyes even of the whole meetipg-the final strug-
gle of the amateur four If occasionally
there appeared teams which had far better not been In
the way, there was no such annoyance now, or the
mete OF all these had been tested and mighty
thoroughly tested within the last sixty hours Tn
justly as this heating system works, and always
the Northwestern and Yale entirely out OF
the fight simply because they had already
mt the best stun there earlier in the week and
been vanquished, It had rstil managed two
good ones 10 put forward against the great foreign
enemy little body thought This time the Lon
don crew had at least to step out OF the inside track
and let else have tug at it. Beaverwyck being
the favored ship the London men having tho
middle station and the Watkins the outside Crews like
this never take long to start and as they sprang away
in fashion we had all learned to respect for
most interesting to behold What is London's plan
his timer viii she, as she ought haul away hard to
tarboard mako for the water, Just leaving
he Albany men room enough to row in, or Will she
put in unhcard OF number of strokes and actually
draw clear OF her favored her in
her wake? She does neither one, nor yet does shc
make track like a rifle shot straieh awuy down tho
river, but tactics come which show that whatever we
whom they get hold OF man they
shake oil very unwillingy, boring. actually
out to the eastward into what, If nothing
was on that side of her would be as it with tho
Northwestern four tho other day-bad steering She
the watch marks not iorty-four or forty hvc strokes
but simply torty-two, and now her purpose is pain
From the work OF the past two days she shrewdly
concluded that Watkins No. Beavcrwick, was the
TO look out Tor, and what she AT was pushing
her out to eastward and cutting all hope OF connection
with the forces The west, and better yet with
the short or poe track on which the
latter rowed. BIT this did not last long,
exasperaed Watkins might have resented IT, for early
in the second minute when she had drawn her out
Tar enough, London suddenly chops around to the
southwest and skips away Tor the shorter side in her
own delicious way OF rowing, or find her where you
WILL there you Will get rowing par excellence But
the gentry therelhave been mapping, Tor they
/ h,.+a l..au f,ufv arn,,a ,unr
along with devotion touching nj times almost
touching, to behold 1t was one OF tho prettiest
sights to-day, wcen London broke
suddenly. the Glen boys follow and for
minute the two rowed on parallel hines right Tor the
halt mile post that bank but when at last they
IN their normal places, just where they could have
gotten to earlier had they at once aimed Tor it, they
ind that the burly Beaverwycks are making them
very fine race. Indeed II somehow looks 5 1t they
little ahead, or certainly abr,as They had
gone away at forty, but now were down to thirty
eight and seemed well contented with it, but before
they get much further to the SOLDERING of the many
American Iaces they seemed TO be going to pieces No.
especially as he did only yesterday. leading
operation The effect looking at them stern on was
as II each man were trying as he swung back hard
his stroke to give his head such furious Jerk to one
side encourage the belief that he wanted to get
rid Sui there something tremendous about
THE SWUNG,
imprcssing the spectator with idea OF greater
than their smoother working and far moro skiliu
rivals As they shot past The half mile IN the fast limo
head all right and at the SAME Ame Watkins who til
now has sicered reasonably WELL suddenly shunls
on the pursuing seamels. who yell at her 10
back, winch they do. and actually it Is the
hp penny yet wuose race it is. Now, they be-
gin 10 work from the Western shore and
midstream the sight is really beautiful, each boat
skimning along swiftly and smoothly. each a hundred
feet from its ncghbor, and each battling any
prohing them TO say which leads Now Beaverwycks'
grows ragged, and much to the general regret all
think she is gone. May be so, but We shall See,
for as they up level to the mile takes sep
the like OF which we have seen before on this
sho sle for VIII her
had for distance bnck been straight and
natural, nov, without sign Of what was coming,
she Jerks her bow sharply to the and heaas
for London, who meanwhile has been gradually work
Ing close beside her. Now what will Gulston do
when he inds that for the female goose
equally vol Tor the male? Viii he, as he might keep
straight what he believes his water and II
any brushes him claim ioul? Not this time, for
scarcely the Ere canal boat headed above when
of steers too avoiding as IT looked what came
mighty near being a foul La another minute they are
straight again, and Beaverwyck takes fine
close along the bank OF Peters
Island, London staying IN tho middle Wat
kns Is annoying her now, almost
forgotten she had once had by this boring
her half a mile back Her ire to have departed,
and she rowing dead aft OF London getting the whole
benefit OF her wash. But what Albany There she
is beside the Island, and though larger than
either of the others IL has virtue none had thought
OF. A thousand nroats along that strand well Il gh
split in mentioning the name OF Beaverwyck.
that DINING right INTO ones ears hardly an oar
length oil might well make man row. II IT should
heave and raise The deaf 1t would scarcely
wonder at least not more so when old Jerlcho's walls
fell down under Ike treatment The tire was all gone
now. What the vew-haloo of Drysdale TO John
Hardy in Tom Brown when he, too, was mighty near
the finish OF his and nearly done to death. was
that yell 10 these sturdy sons OF the Fourth ward OF
the capital of the old Empire State They sprang
backward and forward till they hardly touched
their seats apd lifting their great heavy looking
boat, hurled her on There is certainly something
wrong with London, for while nearly neck and neck
with Beavcrwyck Watkins again creeping up, and
London, working over to tho eastward almost 200
feet away IRON her ormenior suddenly switches or