Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-17

| Boats Cut with q Saw-StrOnG Hints OF
Fraud on the Part of the Owner of the
Demolished Shells-Hanlan has . Walk
over But Is Not SO Certain of the Prize
! Evident Dissatisfaction of the Crowd at
Referees Decision Compelling the Race
at the Appointed Tmo-Ejghty- -Four
Hours Walking Notwithstanding ous
| & Sporting News.
| Ha,,La,a and Courtney.
| CROOKED BUSINESS.
MAYv111E, N. Y, Oct. 16.-The great boat
race came to most inglorious end. Late
this morning the air was filled with rumors
that Courtney's boats were stove, another that
they had been cut last night. A visit to
Courtney's quarters disclosed the facts, as
reported BY Courtney's nephew and Burt
Brown, who had been with him as attend
ants and taking care of the boats. Last
evening, about o'clock, they left the boat
house, locking it on the shore side with q
| paddock, and on the river side simply hook
| ing it and Thriving a nail over the hook.
| they found that the river door had been
forced open, the nail broken and the boats
both cut with saw. The one made for the
race was cut two-thirds through, II feet and
ten inches from the bow the working boat
was cut entirely through, six feet and four
inches from the stern. The two men kept
the matter secret from Courtney till this
morning. What will be done as to the post
ponement of the race or disposing of the
prize is unknown as yet. The referee and
hackers of the two men are now in consulta-
ton. 1t will take at least ten days to get
another boat built.
DOUBTS OF COURTNEY.
Many believe that Courtney or his men
are not in ignorance of the person who
ruined the boats. Frenchy johnson, it is
said, was at Courtney:s quarters at nearly
o'clock this morning and polished Up both
boats that were cut and knows nothing Of
the affair. There was found in the boat
house an old rusty CROSS cut saw, with seven
teeth large and coarse enough to cut a saw
log while the cut in the boats is close
one, evidently made with finer instrument
than the one found in the boat house. A
large number of people came in this morn
ing from different sections. Everything is
excitement.
Courtney was about noon sleeping, and
admittance was refused to every one except
Blackie, referee, Soule, who putiup stakes,
and J. H. Brister his financial manager.
None of these men will be interviewed until
they have consulted with Hanlan's friends.
Brister seems honestly dazed by what has
taken place and Soule expresses the deepest
regret at the turn affairs have taken. Han
Ian is reported in fine condition, although not
as good as at Lachine. Courtney claims
1ohrcop3o hoo 80 tor 1ioht
of Hanlan's, as being unsuited to him and
placing him at marked disadvantage.
Courtney's hackers loudly declare he himself
caused the boats to be cut. Courtney it is
understood asks from ten to twelve days
postponement. The lake was never more
beautiful than to-day and every train brings
large accessions to the already large throng.
The referees and officers in charge of affairs
are in session. No reporters admitted.
HAN1AN's ROW.
MAIv1LnE, N. Y, Oct. 16.-The great con-
test Of the oars between Hanlan and Court
ney, that great aquatic event which for
months past have been the one theme of
conversation in sporting circles, is now q
thing of the past. Hanlan rowed over the
course at S o'clock, at the rate of thirty
strokes TO the minute. The time wasn't
fast.
TROUBLE Is ANTICIPATED
over the prize. Courtney is strongly con-
demned, and should he make his appearance,
he would be roughly handled. About 5000
people will have to remain here over night.
Courtney, owing to both his boats having
been destroyed by malicious or interested
parties during the night, was out of the race,
there being no boat available that would suit
him, SO Hanlan rowed over the course and
claims the $4,000 purse. When it became
generally known that Courtney's boats had
been tempered with and rendered useless, it
was thought the race would be postponed to
some future date, but referee Blackie de-
cided that the race should take place at the
| time appointed. Hence the walk over by
Haulan. There was much dissatisfaction at
| the referees decision, and hundreds left the
lake by every train long before the hour set
! down for the race. Everybody except Han
lan's hackers and friends gave vent freely to
their disgust and disappointment.
meeting of representatives of the press
was called for o'clock for the purpose of
ascertaining what fraud exists at the bottom
of the fizzle. Soule was present and said
that the $4,000 would not be paid to Han
Ian unless Courtney rowed. The agreement
q
prize could be paid. Soule says this prize
was offered expressly for people to see one
honest race between the two men. The af-
fair has been branded by all newspaper men
as gigantic fraud. Soule, the giver of the
prize, has offered reward of 81 900 for con-
viction of parties who cut Courtney's boat.
A committee has been appointed of repre-
sentatives of the press to call on Courtney
and ascertain if possible the object for which
his shell was cut.
CoURrNEY's STATEMENT.
Tonight Courtney makes statement
that when he went to Rochester in Septem-
Der to arrange preliminaries for the race,
David Ward, of Toronto, and Hanlan called
at his room in the hotel, and after some talk
Ward said Hanlan would not go
to Chautauqua, that it seemed a
pity, for it was nice sum
to row for and they could divide the purse.
Courtney made no reply, and the visitors
| soon left. He did not see them again until
he met them here, when Ward said Hanlan
| could not be drawn out with log chain,
unless he was sure of winning, and proposed
to Courtney that if he would let Hanlan win
he would give him half of the purse, or 81, 900.
Courtney rejected the proposition, saying he
believed he could beat Hanlan and certainly
should if it lay in his power. He was viii
ling to stake his life that none of his men
cut the beats. It had always been the
! custom to leave the boat
houses ungusrded. Ward afterwards
offered Courtney the whole prize and
Wards being called npon to explain, said