New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-09
ACCUSING HIS MATES IN TURN.

SHINKEL'S STORY OF CORNELLS LUCK.
HE DENIES THAT HE SOLD THE RACE IN VIENNA AND
SAYS UNPLEASANT THINGS ABOUT OTHER MEM
BEERS OF THE CREW.
j. n ID. Shinkcl, the stroke of the Cornell Univer-
sity crew, arrived from Liverpool yesterday on the
steamship Abyssinia of the Guion Line after a yoy-
age of twelve days. He is fine specimen of physi-
cal development. His face is handsome and his
manner prepossessing. reporter asked him to
make statement in reply to the charges of the OF her
three members of the crew that he had sold them
ont M the Niouua race. lie replied as follows:
The whole trolhie has arisen from discord among
the This started al Ithaca last spring. when
elected captain 10y vote of three to two. Lewis
rival for the position and after my election he
resigned from the crew. AS he the oldest of The
four, he thought be ought to he elected captain and
wa angry az thG result. Chase supported him
warmly, worked for his election, md tried to pledge
everybody to vote for him. | think the whole
trouble is due to Lewis and Chase. Well, when
Lewis resigned, did not want the crew to lose the
services OF so good an oarsman, SO | told him /
would give up the captaincy if he woud remain
with MS, and he promised to do so. After that We
had no captain. but there has been considerable ILL
feeling between him and myself ever since as he
did not forget his defeat After reached London
and began practising for the Henley race he would
oppose any suggestions of mine in regard TO the time
distance, ormanner ofrowing and he wasusually sup
| ported by the other members OF the crew. These
| quarrels consumed considerable time in order to
reach satisfactory conc fusion of the matters ill.,
| voved, and attribute to them much anything,
| our defeats in England, Lewis and Chase by con-
slant intrigues, influenced the against and
| paved the way for the Vienna outrage"
! what about the clalm that you pulled less than
forty strokes instead of forty-tour minute at the
| eff they made any such statement as that they
| say what they know to be untrue. Ny average and
that of the crew was forty-tour strokes minute at
start and toward the finish it gradually diminished
10 thrty-eight stroll es per minute. At the English
| a wilful lie"
They say you received 1000 gulden from
member of the Vienna rowing committee for selling
the race nth the Dona1hort crew."
" don't believe anybody told Chase that re-
crew confront me with the person who made such
| statementy Before the race l was not well aud had
6eTS OF the crew on reaching Vienna chat was aa
and the day before the race told Chase had eaten
nothing for three days: lie did make any reply SO
| standing my condition. | had as much pride /
winning the race as any Other member, and did my
| best. But when we had rowed tho first quarter
| was completely Frustrated and it utterly i'm
possible for mo TO finish the race. did not
9uainted with an Austrian who was a reporter ON
VIennese newspaper, who took me TO see the CALLER
him anywhere to receive 300 guldeno
The crew complain that You would not allow
inc men to search your trunk alter they charged
Il certainly did refuse to let them do anything of
Gowles, Chase and Allen visited my room in Lon;
go to Paris. replied that / had not in in
tended to go there. Then Chase said: They say
you sold the race in Vienna. There is man over
there who declares himself ready to swear that you
received 800 guden for the job and that with part
of the money you bought diamond ring denied
the charge most emphatcally. Then Chase coolly
proposed TO 20 through my trunks, and if he found
| a diamond ring and some money, he should consider
me guilty. refused TO acccde TO this proposition
because !, thought IT. qqeer that the crew should
OF an oifense which could have easily disproved IN
Vienna, and because il happened that had dia-
mond ring which had bought in Wen a. paid
Tor the ring out OF my own money and not out of any
money for sci ling the race. The ring 100 gull
den about SEQ and was for my sister and not for
| Miss Casey, daughter OF a huuor-seller in IthaCa.
mates from Chase's fertile brain. never knew any
thing about that until read tin the newspapers -
Chase says you deposited $15 with him on the
way to Europe for sale keeping, and said it all
the money you had"
q told him that white lie to keep him from Dor
| rowing money from for the crew. He was
, treasurer OF the association and was continually
| getting small loans from the crew, and he never
seemed 10 be in hurry to return the money he
| cash IN my pocket when / left this country and
with part of this money purchased the ring"
"How do you account for the crews defeats in
England
The principal reason was that we had TO row
with Davis patent oar, which put ont consider
ably. Our boat rugged by Davis, the Portland
scullcr, for short non while long men.
Think however, we could have won the Visitors
Cup II we had been allowed to enter the race, hut
through the mismanagement of Major Burbank,
the military professor at Cornell who had charge OF
the business, We were delayed until il was too late
i to enter the racer
+ Shinkel added that he should go to Ithaca last
Q night and consult counsel with view to taking
legal action against his alleged defamers. If the
thiug can he done he said, " | will make those tel
lows pay dearly for hlackening my character
Shnkel goes to Chicago this fail 70 pursue the study
I 4 OF medicine.