New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-11
NETWORK, FRIDAY, JULY II, 1879
Milwaukee ana St. Paul Road and will be known the
Racine and oLthwestern Division OF that line.
TIE SARA TOG4 REGATTA.
ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL DAY.

| ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL DAY.
! FIVE INTERESTING EvENTS-THE DOUBLE sCULL
RACE WON BY THE ATHLETICs-BURT BROWN
WINS THE FIRST HEAT OF THE JUNIOR SINGLE
| RACE AND WILLIAM MURRAY THE SECOND
THE FIRST HEAT OF THE FoUR-oARED SHELL
RACE WON BY THE wAH-wAH-sUMs THE SEC
oND BY THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES AND The
THIRD BY THE HILLsDALE CREW.
| lFRoM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE.l
| SARATOGA, July 10.-No regatta association ever
had better luck than the National Association has
had so far Both yesterday and to-day have been
charmingly clear and bright, and the water has
been all that the most exacting oarsman could ask
The experience of past years has shown that the
water on Saratoga Lake almost certain to be rough
IN the afternoons, and that il Is almost equally GER
tain to be smooth in the mornings. Ii is still
uncertain what will be the national race course OF
the future, but if the weather tomorrow should
prove as favorable as it has been for the last two
days, there Is little dOubt that Saratoga viii be
chosen by the National Association the course in
which 10 hold their regattas.
THE DOUBLE sCULL RACE WON BY THE ATHLETICS.
The first race this morning was the double scull
race, for which there were six entries, all of them
starting. There was very little betting on
this race, for comparatively little interest was
felt In il. The Athletics of NewlOrk were
generally set down as winners, and in this case pub
lie opinion was quite right. The Athletics won in
ON. S3is., with the Wah-wah-sums second and the
MInnesotas third. The race between the " Wahs !"
and the Minnesotas was closely contested and was
won by only quarter of o second. The
Minnesotas were ahead of the "Wahs ."
through nearly the whole of the race
but near the finish line the Saginaw crew
made a splendid squirt and beat the Minnesota mon
by only few feet. The Hartford crew was fourth,
some four or five lengths behind the Minnesotas ;
the Quaker City crew was some distance behind
the Hartfords again, and the Wyandottes were
beaten badly.
TIE MINOR SINGLE SCULL RACE.
In the first trial heat of the minor single sculls
the race was magnificent from start to finish.
Burt Brown a mulatto from Union Springs, was
the fayOrte and won il clevery In 1Om 26s. But II
was by no means q walk-over Seifcrt, the
second man. led through the first half mile when
the Springs went ahead, and in spite of several
superb spurts Seifcrt could not catch up with him.
At the finish Field made splendid dash, and came
very near taking second position, but Seifert man
aged to keep ahead Of him, and took second place
by only two seconds. Leonard, of the Watkins club
was badly beaten. He came in some twenty lengths
behind and almost stopped rowing. His record Is
so good in the past that it IS hard 10 account for his
being so badly beaten, unless something was wrong
| about his boat As concerns the second trial heat,
| it is impossible to say very much, for the press
! hoot which had been behaving badly enough
| through both days, managed to give out entirely
| lust before the race was rowed SO that all that
| we could Of II was the finish. Murray won It
| i'm 10 minutes 81 seconds, with Jackson second,
| Gear third and Ball fourth. The hnlsh was very
| close for Murray won by not over two lengths.
Jackson was hardly pushed by Ball.
| THE FOUR-OARED SHELL RACE.
1 r II. I.
shell race, for it IS in tins that most of the
! strong crews are entered. The first trial heat
| was az superb is often seen.
From start almost TO finish 1t was an open
| question who was going to win. There were six
| crews entered, and all Of them save the Zephyrs
| started The Saugerties crew got somewhat the
best of the start but about the half mile the Mu-
| tuals. who were alongside them, drew up, and were
about on even terms with them. However, up
TO the end of the first half mile there
was no open water between any Of the
boats, and from the press-boat, which ran
down Just opposite the contending crews,
a straight line drawn at right angles to the shore
would have crossed at least four of the boats. To-
ward the end of the mile the Mutuals of Albany
hogan TO draw up alongside of the Saugcrtes men,
and the Wah-wah-sums, who were pulling along
AWAY over on the West shore with splendid life and
fire. were showing dangerously near the front. As
they came up to the finish line, II was
stilI uncertain who was the winner, and
when the Wah-wah-sums won in 8 minutes
| 43l2 seconds the Mutuals were only about i
| seconds behind Them and the Saugertles crew was
| less than seconds behind the Mutuals. The Cres-
| cents were fourth and the Hope, of New-Orleans,
was last Bnt if the first trial was good, the second
| quite exceled it. The Friendship crew was
! drawn, and the Lachne. the Elizabeth, the
| Shoe-wae-cae-mette Che crew that went to Hen
| ley last year,, the Olympic and the the Mich
| ig9n started. The Shoes" won In the
amazingly good time of Sm. 354s. 1t is not the
| best time on record but considering that it was
| Towed on dead water, and with almost no wind one
4 way or the other 1T Is capital tllne Ihe SHOES
took stroke of about tOrty-hve TO the minute and
| kept 1t up throughout the race. The Elzabeths
| were a good second 80 close 10 the Shoes that
from behind one could scarcely tell who had won
| and the Olympics were third, the Michigan
| fourth, and the Montreal crew last well be-
hind. But exciting as all the other fOur-oared races
had been the third heat had still some greater sur
prses in store. 1t was conceded that the Atalanla
crow would win the heat, in which it was supposed
that they might perhaps be closely pressed 10y the
| Watkins four, aud possibly by the NyaudotIcs'
whose four beat the Shoe-wae-cae-mettes re-
| Gently. But the race Is not always 10
the swift. and whether IL was that the
Atalantas did not take the trouble to do their best
or that the other crew was too strong Tor them,
the race was won by the HIlsdale IA despised
Outsider) without any great apparent trouble. he
Atalantas were second the Wyandottes came in
third, the Watkins crew fourth, while the
Cohoes and st. John men the latter are
from New-OTeans) took the last two places.
The race was rowcd In minutes, f. Il seconds.
This regatta opened brilliantly enough, but its
close promises TO be more brilliant still. There mas
| probably never been any one days racing here
where there have been 80 many races that were so
exceedingly close.
I The trial heats to-day have not only assured a
close and exciting race tomorrow, butlt VIII GER
| tanly be rowod on time, honestly. Who the win
| ner will be Is an open question
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THE DUKE or ARGYLL IN BOSTON,
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