Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-04

money have, or think they have, sure thing
Courtney could get into his boat with his over
coat and beat Plaisted, yet on May 18th, whel
Hanlan and Plaisted rowed, his own neighbor
refused to bet more than three to one. Morri
would stand no chance with Courtney, yet whe,
he and Hanlan rowed June Goth the odds wer
only 800 to $40. Yet now, when Hanla1
80 to 81 and no takers. No possible improve
ment of the one man and falling off of tn
other could have made such a change. No goot
rowing shown by Hanlan and poor rowing BY
Courtney at Lachine could make such betting
Some persona have hired Courtney to this rae
or else job has been arranged with or withou
the connivance of Courtney, by which his boat
or outriggers, rowlocks, or SOULS will bt
doctored, 80 as to break down at the critica
moment.
The class of men who were, Wednesday even
ing, pushing into the New York pool rooms
pointing $500 to 1886 on ''the little fellow" dt
not bet their money on fair hazard, and Ger
tainly think they have sure thing. We firmly
believe Courtney to be honest and true, and II
there is any rascality in this race it has beer
arranged without his knowledge or participa
ton. He is now paying the penalty of grea
reputation, and in position compared to which
the fortunes of the inquisition would be child'i
play. He is matched against man who ii
a man who is thought by
many good judges to be the best in the world
and who has beaten with ease every man be
ever rowed against; yet if these rumors are al
false, if the race is rowed fairly and honestly
and Hanlan should win it on its merits Court
ney could not, should he live thousand years
persuade one-tenth of the American people
mat he did not deliberately sell himself and
friends to gang of thieves for the good name
OF the American people.
For the best interests of rowing everywhere
and Tor the reputation of man we cannot
think other than honest, we sincerely hope the
race may be finished without accident or foul
and that Courtney may prove winner. This re-
suit and this only can, under present circum.
stances, clear up this affair and confound the
robbers.
CoURTNEY's SELL OUT.
New YORK, Oct 3.-A special to the Herald
says: Auburn, the home of Courtney, is in a
ferment of excitement over seemingly we'll
founded stories that the Courtney-Ha race
has been surely sold to the Canadians. Suspi-
cions were first aroused bv receipt in Auburn
of two contradictory dispatches. One of
Courtney's main supporters at Lachine, tele-
graphed several Auburn gentlemen that Char
ley was certain to win, while a brother of the
same hacker received dispatch to bet on Han
Ian sure. This leaks out and sets the hetters
to thinking. The brother before mentioned
Immediately began offering heavy bets OH
Hanlan, which tended to strengthen suspicious
that all was not fair. One person who pro-
fesses to know all about the alleged bargain,
says of the put-up job: ''rhe Hanlan party adj
mlttsd that their man stood no show with
Courtney, and the only way possible to get a
match on was to sell the race. Courtney didn't
dare to do this at home, and the race was there
fore fixed for Montreal. Courtney was to have
$4,000 of the purse offered by the citizens for
losing the race, and in order to prevent him
giving gamblers the double cross he was re-
quired to place this entire sum on HanIan.
With other bets he could make on the
sure thing, he would be in fair way
OF making a fortune. letter from Courtney
to his brother is also mentioned in which he
states he could beat Hanlan with ease but adj
vises him to place his money on Hanlan. There
are other circumstances which are said to cor
this story. The excitement is at fever
heat and everybody is willing to bet on Hanlan
and nobody on Courtney. 1t is impossible to
hedge and the duped sporting men are going to
the Stockholders and protest against giving up
the money every minute. The condemnation
of Courtney. even among those who have stood
by him in all his previous trials, is open and
bitter
LONG SCHOONER VOYAGE.
NEW YORK, Oct. 3.-The schooner yacht Oko-
rest. of Cleveland, Capt. F. W. Edmunds, ar
rived in the Hudson river yesterday afternoon,
after a voyage of nearly twelve months. The
Okoresta is thirty-fve feet long and nine feet
beam, carrying a .aff topsail. 1t is the inten-
ton of Capt. Edmunds to stop IN Hoboken for
a few days at least. after which he will sail to
Troy and from there ts Buffalo via the Erie ca
nal. From Buffalo the course will be continued
down Lake Erie to Cleveland Capt. Edmunds'
home. He expects to arrive there about the
Goth inst. The Okoresta started from Cleve-
land, O., Oct. Is, 1877, down the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers, through the Gulf of Mexico,
Mobile Bay, and the Gulf of Pensacola to Flor
ida; thence to Philadelphia and New York. The
voyage is the longest ever made by any yacht
of her dimensions