, 1876-09-03
AQUATIC.
TIE INTERNATIONAL REGATTA.

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The rowing regatta at Philadelphia, which has
been so fully reported in The TRIBUNE from
day to day during the past week, contained at
least one unpleasant feature for Chicago, the
defeat OF the Northwestern Club four by that
Of the London Rowing Club. The telegraphic
| reports were full OF allusions to bad steering,
! which was something very little expected Of
Curtis; but tue New York and Philadelphi pa
pers give more ineligible accounts Of that part
Of the difficulty. The New York Herald explains
1t thus:
marked surprise for ell who saw the start was
the number each were pnlllng, for both crews Ind
actually run it up, sliding seats and all, clear to
forty-fouF, and were dasaing on at 3 pace which
to their mark all the way. But here showed
fatal error. Almost before they hud gone minute
Curtis instead, as he had fearcd Of erosding over
actually Tying oll ut tangent, as II heading for
the Eastern or outer BANK, and the reason Was
ob.lous. Easily, the most powerful man in the
power OF the others he should never have pulled
bow. Instead OF himself, in his easeraess
for the lead he was hauling away too harl and the
port could not keep their side up At last hc sees his
danger md circles back to his place; bur- closely
~ he stuck to his rival, anu though he Eoulu nut
be shaken, be Kept now pailins out, now work
and adding materially to mis- mile nmd q half
Beside his faulty steering one Of Curtis crew the
quarter, cAuSht u CraD nEQ II att AHtfln hnd kept
lis eyes in the boat he would have saved at lcaat
one, il not two seconds by it, and in the next half
mile they actually catch another among them, and
slucken almost TO standstill. But Lonuon DASH
ing remorsefy On, Steering magndcentiy, bursts
across the line in I,nutcs ID seconds, only I
seconds ahead Of the best crew An1crica could otter
to meet her I'M race for tho championship OF the
world. Had the track been alike for both. and had
the two steercd equally we'll. it would hive been
dead hest, or the tstern men would have Won the
race; but on one coa4ition-uanirly, that London
bad done her tCSt aud hence COuiU let d
Ii On general principles this is unlikely, one thing
qocs still point to it. for If not now cae te, far
down the h0nlcStretcn 10 slacGen her stroke till
it was barely ios
The strangcst part Of the whole regatta was,
however, the curious victory which ma,;e tile
Beaverw'ycks champions OF tue world By defeat
ing the London Club, Concerning this unlock
e1-ior endiug to the regatta, tile New York
1ri3u,~ says:
One surprising thing is that this race, which
makes the winners the amateur champions Of the
world, was won by crew which has been beaten
over and over by many OF the clubs which 1t has
sce,na an anomaly that crew should beat others
by going slower than thes tio but that is the fact
in this case. The winning time of the Beaverwycks
which gave them the Championship to-day has
been bcatcn in the course Of thu very by which
they have won the championship. twice by Yale,
twice by the Northwcsterns, and twice by the Lon
donera, Had the crews which went over the
course in the quickest time been chosen for the
final heat, it would have been Yale, Northwestern
Auu tuE LoHuou Cluo. l. tcele etla1!5t lu1At tHc
who won to day should have done so
in 13a seconds slower time than Yale made yester-
day, and OK seconds poorer time than Northwest |
crn made yesterday; and, if the English say that |
VIC hsvc not beaten their best crew, We tan be |
pretty safe in saying that it not onr best
lna1 beat t1cm One Of the most uncomfortable
surprises in this surprising affair was experienced
BY the betting men. Philadelphia is fresh at !
regattas; old hands do not bet on them; they are
too uncertain. No points Trustworthy ;but here
the London men were backed in the pool at 100 to
against the Beaverwycks TO aconsiderable extent,
with caAnitou8 rezults.