The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-05-01
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Again Gets Away with Pittsburgh.
The three milo race between John Reitg
OF tho First ward Of this city, mud Pete shy.
der, OF the Elaekmose Ieat Club OF pi.,s.
burGll, came or OIL what Is called the Flower
course" ut the latter city, Saturday after
noon, and attracted n large crowd Of Specin-
tors, among whom were three or four hun.
bred men with ncluntic tastes from this city.
Pool selling was u little slow, though the
Wheeling men Aah plenty Of money, Ani IN
vested freely on l'cii2 ut heavy odds, some Of
the pools being rs high Ms $40 TO s., and Sny-
der's hackers being II little slow In taking
hold OF ibls tempting offer.
The start was made few minutGa after six.
Some time before cS.Councllman William
Anthony, OF Pittsburgh, the referee, took up
his position at the suspension bridge, an1
immediately gave the contestants the signal
to come out. Rettz was the first to put IN M
appearance, but he was followed soon after
by Snyder. before the men 90, Into position,
however, IL towboat came down the river, untl
the wash from II almost swamped Rcitzs
boat lilo was compelled to row back to the
Columbia bdat.hotise, bail on. the water and
then row back TO the starting point. John
Ietwo acted as starting judge for Reltz, while
John u. FeneSy acted In the same capacity
| for Snyder. At the bHoy.boas joint Brtnndt
acted for Snyder, while Dan Cochran, Of this
| city, looked after the Wheeling mans inter.
Csts. .. ...H.ts 3d.
| At ten minutes past six the ncn got the
word go" Snyder catching the water first
and from the Suspension bridge to the Hand
street bridge, 1t was nip and tuck between
| the two. Between these two points Snyder
was pulling much the better oar OF the two,
l.ci!z pulling In u slightly nervous manner.
After passing the Hand street bridge, how.
ever the latter braced up, and, rs the two
men passed the Columbia boat house, he had
pushed himself slightly IN front OF Snyder.
From that point 10 the buoy beats lieit7
pulled steady stroke, lie turning the buoy
about two lengths in advance OF Sny.
der. After strai ghtening out for home he
took matters easy and allowed Snyder tC
creep up on him. When nearly opposite
the Columbia boat house, on the way home
Fatty Wcisgcrbcr, who wa. coaching ouI
man. gave the Whcelinsite tho word to "hii
her up" Reitz responded by bending down
to his work, ami he soon proved that he wa.
equal to the task, for before the Hand street
bridge was reached, he had taken the lead,
and from that time to the finish continued
to increase ii, crossing the winning line ioul
lengths In advance OF Snyder. Tho Official
time, ns given by the tine.keeper, wa.
for the winner Snyder's time was moi
taken
Eeisz's real hackers are said by the know
Ing ones to have been Ex.Mayor Lildell, oi
Pittsburgh, and several otherwcl known sport
ing men of thatcity. We are told by Wheeling
men who were present that 1t was bard Il
get takers for bets on leitz at any odds, an(
that very few OF the Wheeling boys made ex
penses. D..l
The Pittsburgh Ltatley says that after t!,'
finish the referee asked Snyder II he was sat
is!icd. Pete replied: "ics, Pm perfectly salts
fed Afterwards n friend asked him why
he had not pushed Rei,z harder. lie answer
ed Push Ill! Pm tired"
The same paper has the following para
graphs oflocal interest:
ut is needless to say that the Wheeling de
legation were in high spirits last evening. 1t
fact, toward midnight several OF them were
wandering around the streets with con
siderable amount of spirits within them. 1t
one way, however, they were cxcusable fol
being so hilarious, inasmuch as this is iht
first race that they have scored since thei
two memorable defeats by Boil in his engage
mcnts with Clator and Weisgcrber. The lat
UT gentleman, IL IS salI, IS lecHi.S 81 Eoo,
that Il match between Clator and himsel
would cause no surprise. It is currently re
ported that Clator IS willing to accommodate
! him with two.milc spin.
cit is whispered about among the aquatic
talent that Reitz will be looking for 0filan
Ion. II he does he will certainly find him
ms that oarsman it is said, will not 80 out o
his way. Barrett and knoke, of Wheeling
will more than likely come together in tria
Of skill with the spruces at un early day
The friends OF both parties say so, and the!
ought to know -
Nick Laybereer and VIM. O'Hanlon, Pitts
burgh men, both well known here, ar,
matched for u three-mile race over the lower
Allegheny course May 20.