The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-15
THE BAYONNE REGATTA.
GOOD FoUR-oARED RACE AND TWO WALK
ovEgs--rHE NEW CLUB HOUSE.

A GOOD FoUR-oARED RACE AND TWO WALK
ovERs--rHE NEW CLUB HOUSE.
The opening of the new boat house of the viking
Rowing Association at Bayonne yesterday by four
between members Of the CLUB the OCCASION
Of large assemblagc Of the members Of the club and
their invited guests, ladies' and gentlemen. There
three regular races rowed and scrub race
Shortly after the arrival OF the 4l5 train IRON New
York the first Of the SERIES challenge single scull
race started, the contestants being Me.srs Dun
can and Elliott The course a full thres-q quar-
tiers OF u mile to The southwark and rc,urn, each to
their own stake II dead low water. aud Il
laid distance from the shore. During
this race there was u moderate swell ON, which, how
ever soon subsidized
TIE RAcK-A SPILL
At five O'clock tho bonts being got In line by f. W.
Giaard President OF tho club, who acted relereo
and starter, the word was gwen and they were oil.
Duncan took the water 1rst and led being closely ol
lowed by Elliott When half way up tho stretch Dun
cans shell was seen upset. and several snes aud
an ordinary boat pulled out to the place. He had
broken outrgser anu was out OF the He
taken into tho BOAT and the scull lowed Elliott
pulled over couse, winning the race IN I0m 57s.
The m;snap much regretted spelling what prom
ised 10 BIO good race.
THE rouR.oARED RACE.
for an elegant silver challenge plate, presented Tor
competition III the cluo by Mr.. Iugrsham. The boats
gig and barge, the colors OF the former
being white and OF the latter scarlet The competing
crews were as acknowledgements, C. II. Haisoy;
No. 3, II. +. .iorewood; No 2 A. Morewood bow. r. L.
Myers; coxswain, l. W. Kingsley. Barpe-Suo4e, +.
b lowell; No o. b. Babcock; No. 2, +. :. Pnneo;
bow, N. Harrison; coxswuiu, J. y. Cook. The
barge drew the inside the toss, the bong
tho same. A. twenly.six minutes past live r. " The
The gig drew ahead IRON the start tho power vi pull
Ing OF Inc stroke oar telling finely Tncir strose was
quicker aud erky than that the scariets who
were pulling long, swinging stroke. All along up TO
the stake the whites kept and increased their lead
being over . length ahead on rounding the stake
Both boats took long sweep around. On
the homcstretcn the whites pulled we'll Increasing
their load, crossing the hnsh line over four lengths
nnead OF antagonists ana winning the
38As. The time vi HE losing crew wns not taken, as
GSy sacseD sr. 0p Urr1re passrs me me ns WIN
alon gsldc OF the nost. Referee and starter-F w.
Ginard. Jadgcs-For he whites, Major W. f. Hoy;
for the scarlets, T.. b. Woodruff iinekecper-Frcd.
erck Lencrts.
siSGLg scrLLs
The single scull challenge gold badge, open
to members OF the cuu, was then called. TIE contest
ants were J. f. Cook who held the badge, ana Brad
ford Darra,h the challenger. As the boats drew up
in inc both men looked weil aud there seemed every
prospect OF u line race. Tnc course was the same
three quarters 10 the southwark and return The
word gwen AZ Two minutes 70 SIX 4. VI. Darragh
caught the water irs and got away slightly advance
pulling strong out somewhat nervous stroke This
iehu ne mtiutHiHcU TVr sOU0 DISTANCE, but
both rounded the stagos nearly together After
rounding stake Cook was tas closing VIZ tho slight
gap when everybody was startled 10 see his antAge-
INST fail back IN ms SHELL barge, when IN view OF
possible accidents had Kept IN the vicinity, pulled
quickly over TO the sculi Darragh came to him.
self and pulled slowly n. Cook, VINO had sacKcn cd
up slightly to see what had happened pu led over the
course, crossing the Iius IN Ion. 20s from tho
start rne was well pulled up 10 the mIshap, and
would have been hnety contested a. the nnieh Ret.
cree and Judges the same
THE SCRUB RACE.
Opeo IN Il 81 n n VEN " ths
four SCRUB race hastily gotten up Tue course
IRON below the boat house hat. q mile across Q
line IRON edge OF the boat The boats were the
barge and the gg used the former race The barge
crew wers-stroke, H. Norwood; No. 3, J. H. stod-
dard; No. 2 X. $. Brewster; bow, s. Randall;
ooxswain, r. ". G.Rard. In the gig were
stroke, =. Plnneo; No .. W. Harrison;
coxswain, H. f. Reynolds O. H. Halscy, the club
zspaIn acted referee The boats got away with The