Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-08-20

| IOui III Iate-SenlOr ShellS-COlum-
bias first, Washington Rowing Club
second, Potomacs third.
SECOND DAY.
First race-senior singles-Colum-
bias first, Washington, second, Salo-
macs third, Nolan fourth, Monahan
fifth.
Second race-juniOr shells-Rappa-
hannOcks first, Petersburgs second,
Elizabeths Of Portsmouth, third.
Third raco-senior gigs-Columbias
.rst, Norfolks second.
Fourth race -eights - Columbia
crew first Columbia crew second.
Owing to the withdrawal Of two other
crews Of eightS which had intended to
participate. the Columbias brought
down a second crew Of eights to com
plcte the entries and make the contest
interesting.
The day opened with a fresh breeze
from the southwest, which made some
Of the crews accustomed to rowing on
mill-pond look blue; but our boys
/ from Norfolk and Portsmouth pro-
nounced 1t "a good sailing breeze"
and went out for run over the course.
BY noon, however, the wind hal sub
/ sided and left the water smooth enough
to suit the most fastidious.
1t was at this hour the canoe-racc
was set. and the following boats were
On hand to enter for the prize: Clara
Louise Kellogg, Alice Parker. Talked
About Walk About, and Northamp-
ton, Of Hampton, Va. Combine, of
Crisi.eld, Md. ; Cape Charles, Of
Gloucester; Flora Elise, Of Norfolk
and Lizzie Linn, Of Old Point. The
boats assembled in front Of the IIygeia
Hotel at noon and took the positions
assigned them by the committee. At
fifteen minutes past l2 a gun was fired
from the fort as a starting signal, and
they got away well together. The
course was to red buoy off Sewell's
Point five miles distant, and return,
passing around tho Rip-Raps to the
point of starting. The tug Thomas NJ.
Balm, Of Norfolk, with the judges and
representatives Of the press, accOmpa-
MED the canoes to the buoy to see that
all passed around it az required.
The rowing races did not come on
until 4:30 this evening. Excellent ac-
commodatiOns have been arranged for
both boats and crews, andmuch satisfac-
tion rs expressed with the entire manage
ment Of the affair.
The Point is crowded with visitors
from Norfolk, Portsmouth. and other
points, some two hundred having arrived
here last night from the Eastern Shore.
The cups, medals. &C., which are on
exhibition at the hotel. are greatly ad-
mired by the visitors. The medal won
by the ColumbiaS in their recent con-
test at Boston is also among the dis
play.
Tne first race, for junior singles, was
called at 4:30 o'clock. There was not
a ripple on the water. Nowlan, of the
Albany Rowing Club Wade, Of the
Columbias, of Washington, and Lathrop.
of the Norfolk Gymnasium, entered.
Nowlan had walk-over. Lathrop and
Wade both dropping out before the fin
ish. Time, ll:l0.
In the second race, for senior double,
the Albany Rowing Club, Monahan and
Campbell, and the New York Athletics,
Smith and Hays, entered. This was
very close, no advantage being appa-
rent until within 4 hundred yards Of |
the finish, when the Albanys spurted |
and won by half length. Time, 10 |
minutes.
In the third race-junior four.oared /
gigs-the Norfolks entered White,
Prince, Kelly, and Old; the Columbias,
Of Washington, Browner, Johnson,
Woodward, and Green. Both crews
got away well together aad came down |
the mile-and-a-half course neck and |
neck, the dozen tugs from Norfolk /
making the air shrek with their whis-
ties. When about 200 yards from the
finish Rhea, the coxswain Of the Nor
folks, called on his men for squirt,
which sent them across the line win
ners in nine minutes by half a length.
the crowd in the mean tine cheering
themselves hoarse.
The fourth race was the senior four
cared shells, confined to Washington
crews, among whom much rivalry
seems to exist. The Columbas pre-
sented Kondrup, Wade, Kintner, and
Young; the Potomacs, Warden, Small
wood, kearney, and Fisher; the Wash
ington Rowing Club (which is an Off
shoot Of these two, Sweeney, Ryan,
Baker, and Smithson. The crews took
the water together and pulled for the
line for all it was worth, first one crew
in the lead, then a second, and after
wards third but in the last quarter
of a mile the Washington Rowing Club
came to the front and stayed there,
crossing the line in $40, the Columbias
second, a length behind, followed by
the Potomacs, two lengths in their rear.
The Washington Club are very much
elated at their success, and have pur-
chased two brooms, which they have
decorated with their colors and placed
in the Office Of the hotel. with the
motto, The Baby Can Walk"
The canoe-rsce lost interest in the
more stirring events Of the afternoon,
and it was not until 6 p. NJ, during q
Iull between the rowing races, that they
,sme TO the finish-the Cape Charles
first, followed by the Combine, which
was only half length behind.
The hotel is packed with strangers,
md the result Of the races is the ab-
,orbiDg topic of conversation. The
prospects of another fine day to-mor-
-ow are now very promising, which
will insure another fine days sport.
The money has been raised to secure
he professional race as a part of the
programme tomorrow, IT will be |