The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-09-07
THE SHINKEL SHAME.
THE CORNELL BOATING SCANDAL.
Arrival OF The UnIueky Crew PHm
Europe The Charges Against
shinkeI and the Evidence
in support Of Them.

! NEw YoRE, September G,-Three Of the
members Of the Cornell crew arrived from
Europe last night on the National Line
steamship Spain, The vessel remained
outside the liar all night, and got to her
dock at 9 o'clock this morning.
A reporter found Mr.. Chase, who went
With the crew as manager, and the follow
ing conversation took place, Mr.. Chase
pniaeing his remarks by saying that the
crew had been met at quarantine by dis
patch from Ithaca asking the members of
the crew to say nothing to New York re-
porters about the disaster Of the trip or
about the scandal arising from the Shlnkel
episode.
I'VE now believe" said Mr., Chase, "that
the whole series Of defeats we met with
arose from Shinkels tactics. His conduct
has been dastardIy from beginning to end,
Il We may judge OF his proceedings in Lon.
don at the beginning Of the trip by what
took place in Vienna To come right 10
the giSt OF the whole business you will, OF
course want to know upon what evidence
we make this serious charge upon u COM
rade, Thu, evidence, unfortunate for him,
Is overwhelming, II will llconvince anyone
In the first place we have Il number OF aiFi.
daylts from persons in Vienna, who swear
70 Acts which cannot be explained except
by the theory Of ShinkePs guilt. After the
dispatch from Ithaca | cannot tell YOU
what these allidavits ChArge or By whom
they are made; but 1t will all come out
officially In a day or two, and then the
public will be able TO judge better than by
getting at the matter pieCemeal. We have
one affidavit from q member OF the Vienna
Rowing Association who swears that he has
positive evidence that Shinkel was bribed,
and that II necessary he will give the
NAMES Of the persons who bribed him.
I'VE found out among other things that
shlnkel, who had no money to speak Of
certainly not two hundred 1ollars--bought
q draft for one thousand dollars upon New
York two days after the Vienna race.
Where did that money come from? So
lar as we can find out he received seven
hundred and fifty dollars from the Vienna
sharpers, who bet their money against us,
and he also made some money directly out
OF the crew by betting against five hundred
tiOrins two hundred d0llars) which we put
on the Vienna race, fully believing that wo
could win that race II we never won race
betore. shlnkel put in soIne money, OF
course, with ours and won back what he put
in and our money beside. We have
credible evidence that our bet was taken up
by Shinkel's agent In Vienna,
"Tle strongest proof OF all to my mind
Is the fact that ShinkCl, when charged with
betraying his crow, had not word OF OK.
cuse TO say. We got him into room when
all these rumOns and accusations were
brought to us, and after locking the door 30
that hG could not back out, we charged
him with perfdy, All he did was to ex-
press Amusement that men could be found
bad enough to invent such calumnies, and
that we should put any faith in them.
He would not disproye any Of the charges
or meet any Of his acCusers The whole
matter was so disgraceiul and disheartened
us 20 completely that we did not care to
push the matter as far as we might have
done. To pummel him would only have
created new scandal and done no good.
We kicked him out Of the crew, and got
all the facts in order TO present u the pub.
lie at home. Shinkcl Is in London now,
and / suppose will crawl home sooner or
later; waiting, perhaps, for awhile, In the
hope that the storm may blow over. His
reception In Ithaca would be warm one
at present, | Imagine.
"ln addition to the draft Of thousand
dollars which shinkel bought in viennahu
purchased while there diamond ring for
. young girl to whom he Is engaged, pay,
Ing three hundred dollars for L. N1w.
young men In Ithaca beginning life on d
SALARY Of sixteen dollars week are not
likely 10 spend 40 much money upon rinss
unless they have some other means of pot
ting money besides their salaries. ITe will
not be seen here for some months, and I
doubt II he comes to Ithaca at ALL lie can
afford to stay In LondOn."
How did you allow such Il man To get
into your crew." asked the reporter "a
man Of such character usually gets found
out before long"
"Shinkel was not liked" answered Mr..
Chase, "by any Of the crew or the leading
college men. He owed bis position in the
crew to the TACT that lie was superb ath-
lete, probably the finest man physically
that WIS ever connected with our navy,
and his interest In boating matters at Cor.
nell seemed 10 be unbOunded. lie did a
great deal for the Cornell navy in the last
four years, and was well received among
the college men chiefly on account OF his
devotion TO the navy and his skill as an
oarsman. Speaking Of that reminds me
that his pretended iainting during The
Vienna race oughtto have aroused the sns-
piCion Of every one who knew the crew
well, because shinkel attributed II TO over
training, and he was the last man TO suffer
from entertaining. lie was never known
10 faint before, and II any one Of tis suffered
from overtrainlng II was not shinkel.
Eve 60 back To Ithaca tonight, and the
official statement will be published at once.
As you may Imagine, we are not in the
tayest Of moods and are anxious to have
,ir disaster forgotten as soon rs possible.
Il required considerable courage to coma
1ack and face the people at home, for we
ire not used to being sympathized with, 10
L.