Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-07-27
Sports on Jaud and Water.
ARRANGING FOR TIE FALL REGATTA.

Sports on Land and Water.
ARRANGING FOR THE FALL REGATTA
The Potomac boat club hell a special meeting
last night, at which committee, consisting OF
J. j. Holli5te Geo. ]. johnson and =. 4 Wheat
ley, were appointed to confer with similar CON-
arranging the date. &c, OF the proposed fan re-
gatta.
THE STATUS OF THE Hrr1spALEs
Mr. Louis +. Saunier, secretary OF the National
Amateur Oarsmen OF America, has addressed
letter to the secretary OF the English Amateur
association, In which he expresses establishment
at the resolution casting a doubt upon the anna
teur standing of the Hillsdales and still greater
establishment that no reasonable excuse is given
for the action taken. He further says that every
member OF the Hllsdale crew is eligible under any
and all English amsteur definitions. Mr.. Saunier
further says: "Tlat the action OF the English
committee Is regarded as an insult to all amateur
o1rsmen in the United States" He says: SIN con-
cluson, we beg to say that our visiting oarsmen
are not receiving in England the cordial reception
ana treatment we in America are always ready to
extend To strangers, nor are they the recipients OF
that honorable attention they deserve or the fair
consideration we believe the body Of English clubs
would wish to give them"
Tie entry OF of the Hillslale crew for the Barnes
regatta, which takes place on Saturday, has been
accepted The Thames and London clubs are en-
tered for the same race.
TURF MATTERS.
The winners at the Long Branch races yesterday
were Jack or Hearts, Dlsdain, Giroda, Monitor.
Marathan and Ingomar
The winners OF the Cleveland races yesterday
were Joe Bowers, Loudon and Matte Hunter.
The winners at Saratoga yesterday were Standi-
1ord, Keller, Warficld, Wildfre and Rose
BASE BALL YESTERDAY.
AT Washfngtoa-War Department nine %, Inte-
rior Department nine 8; Government Printing
Office nine Q, Post Office nine 6. At Baltimore
Baltlmores s. St Louis T. At Philadelphia-Met-
ropolitans 8, PalladeIphias 6. At New York
Olympics Z, Alaskas 4. At Providence-Provi-
dences 6, Worcesters s. At observation-disclosures
rlstfir TROY Roc
TroyS d
SPORTING NOTES.
Members OF the Capital CITY Gun Club made the
following scores at twenty balls each, eighteen
yards RISE on their grounds yesterday :-Dufour IA,
FarnSworth II. StOdiarl IA, Peck IL, Hosford 10,
van Arnum 8. Mr.. Wagner, OF this club, is now
shooting in the tournament at Bradford, Pa.
Mr. John c. Collins, familiarity known as "the
to meet him for s1O0 with soft gloves in this city,
Marquis Of QueenSbury rules. Donnelly has Sig
hlfed his Willingness TO accept the challenge.
desperate Sang Of Thieves.
From the Pha. Press tRep.), July &C.
The thieves and perjured scounIrels who make
up the graceless gang OF star route consplra-
tors, driven into an ever-narrowing corner, are
eXhausting their ingenuity and using their plum
der with liberal hand to save themselves from
the penitentiary. Their open defense in court is
q small part OF their desperate game. Their
weapons and their methods are as various and
as yenal as the tOrtuouS paths they sneaked along
to piunder the public treasury.
They have men tied to them by the bonds of a
common crime scattered everywhere, glad to do
the bidding of the master conspirators to shield
themselves from punishment. On every expe-
dited route are partners or bonefici aries. They
have the money TO buy men to serve them
wherever and whenever the eX!gencioS OF their
strait demand. Their league spans the continent,
with lateral branches extending north and south
from British Columbia TO the Gulf of Mexico. They
have their newspapers VIGOROUSLY at the capt.
tai, coyertiy wherever their work Is to
be done and newspaper can be Scduced. They
have in their employ at Washington such writers
the task OF these is to smuggie into reputable
newspapers such star route matter as the unSuS-
ticular part OF their work they call making public
sentiment. By mail and telegraph they scatter
thelE Hes sinister 1nnuendo and bold accusation,
to defame the prosecution and break its force.
With threat, rdcule and calumny they pursue
the officers of the government, and set all their
dogs to barking in the same strain.
They have labOrtd with ScandalOuS industry to
make the country believe that the President has
ordered sham, and that the Attorney General,
enough to do his shameful bidding. Nobody
knows better than they that the President is In
crat. he wants unsparing justice done to every
guilty man. With well-merited confidence he
tegrity and zeal OF the Attorney General, and
We can say to those who do not know that
officer that honesty is bred in his bone;
fidelity to his client is the record OF more than 10
years at a circumspect and jealous bar. He is so
proud Of his profession and his fairly-won emf
nence therein that neither hope nor fear could
tempt him to put blemiSh on 1t. He has deil-
cate an appreciation OF his official obligation to
his country that he would serve that first though
tie ties OF warmest friendship closest kin stood
between This IS the man under whose eye the
star route prosecutions are progressing and it is
wei! that his cOuntrymen should know what kind
OF man he is.
But the Attorney General is criticised because
he has not been the active head OF the prosecution
i'm court; the very thieves themselves make use OF
this TO show that the government does not want
To convict them The Attorney Generals Office is
very differ mt thing from what it was when Writ
said he Carried the papers of his Office In his hat
The country has grown, and the Department OF
Justice with 1t. District attorneys, marShalS,
agents, witnesses, priSOnerS-the whole machinery
OF federal justice centers in the Attorney Generals
Office; and he must administer it. give directions,
ions for the guidance OF the government.
The Attorney General is the minister Of justice
or great country, and much as he may desire to
spend his time In court, it is his higher duty
to hold his hand on the whole department and
direct The trial OF these star route cases has
torney General, sitting In his Office is at the head
He accepts the responsibility. When he shall have
been heard in cOurt-aS he will be-there will be
no more doubt Of his earneStneSS than OF his
familiarity with the case. 1t is not strange that
the star route Villains have spread ScandalOuS StO-
r1eS about the prosecution, when they have not
spared the court Every ruling in their favor
Judge Wyiie, as honest man sits ON the bench,
was with them and would save them II he could.
The government case has been made out, the
evidence Is Straightforward and conclusive. The
government will lose no advantage in the closing.