The Portland daily press., 1885-08-14
AMATEUR oARsMEN.
Final Contests in the National AS
sociation's Regatta in Boston.
Some Very Exciting Contests Wit
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Boston, Aug. 13.-Between 10000 and 49,
600 people witnessed the final contests in the
thirteenth annual regatta of the National
ASSOCIATION of Amateur Oarsmen on the
CnarleS river to-day. The river was covered
with all sorts OF boats and the balconies and
yerandas Of the various lighthouses were
nlled with spectators, many ladies being
present. The conditions for excellent sport
were as favorable as could have been wished
Tor with the exception that ON the upper end
or starting point Of the course where the
WIND, which had again become gusty, had
free sweep over the river the water was
somewhat lumpy With these favorable cir
cumstances the second days racing would
nave been as successful as any in the history
OF the association had it not been for dis
agreeablei termination of the double scull
race. AS it was, however, the perfect sue
cess, of the day, and of the regatta was mar
red by most unpleasant squabble.
DOUBLE scULL RACE.
In the double scull contest were the fol-
lowing:
M. f, Monahan bow and T. H. Monahan stroke
representing the Albany Rowing Club of Albany,
@, J. Doan bow and G. j. Porter stroke of the
Middiesex Rowing Club of Cambridgeport Mass.
=. H. M; Nash bow and J. W. LAYERS Stroke of the
d. j. Murphy and J. II. o'Neii stroke of the
Crescent Boat Club of Boston.
The Creseents had the best of the start and
quickly obtained a lead of length over the
boats length in front of the Albany men,
with the City Points close behind on the out
side of the Albany boat. AS Murphy and
ONeil spurted to the lead the Middlesex
crew pulled over into the Albany mems
water while the City Points by flanking the
Monahans on the opposite side prevented
them from rowing over to avoid foul with
Mlddlesex, thus foul became inevitable be-
tween either one or the other of the local
crews and the .Monahans and Middlesex
crew made foul, one of their sculls striking
the wind sail on the Albany shell and
knocking it athwartship where it remain ed
an obstruction throughout the race The
Monahans stopped rowing when fouled by
tne MlddIesex boat, but as soon as they had
clear water they resumed the struggle for
victory. By the foul they had lost some
dozen lengths and although they did some
magnificent rowing over the remainder of
the course the lead obtained by the Crescent
pair was too great to be overcome. AS it
was they were only beaten by the Crescents
by two lengths. AS the foul occurred Just
after the start the thousands of spectators
near the finish did not see it and the winning
pair were heartily cheered The Monahans
at once put in a claim of a foul and Referee
Shaw after reserving his decision until after
the last race had been contested allowed the
claim and ordered the race rowed over.
There were exciting scenes among the
spectators and groups of interested parties
In the boat club houses when the particulars
OF the fouling became known and there were
many assertions that the fouling was the re-
suit OF combination between the three To-
cal crews to defeat the Albany crew and al
low Boston to take another victory. This
1eellng became very bitter, and nearly all
the visiting oarSmen were loud in their de-
nunciations of what they termed unsports-
manlike conduct on the part of the local
sscullerS III this contest. There are many.
however, who believe that the fouling was
simple accident. The Crescent crew refused
to row the. race over again, claiming that
they were leading when the foul occurred:
that they had nothing to do with it, and that
6hey had won the race fairly ON its merits.
Inc referee, however, thought that the foul
ing had destroyed the chances of the Albany
crew Tor victory, and upon the CrescentS
maintaining their decision not to row again
Mr.. Shaw gave the race to the Albany pair,
protest being entered by the Crescents.
SENIOR SINGLE sCULL RACE.
The first race of the day was the final heat
In the senior singles, in which the contest
ants were:
N. J. Monahan of the Albany Rowing Club of
Daniel J. Murphy of the Crescent Club of Bos-
Fred Gastrick of the Modoc Club of st. Louis.
of Toronto.
E. j. Mulcahey of the Mutual Boat Club of AL
day.
The men occupied positions as named. the
first mentioned holding the inside position or
that nearest 1.-THE channel wall. splendid
start was made, all five of the boats getting
away bow and bow and rowing thus for 500
yards, after which Mulcahey, by increasing
his stroke, got lead of four lengths with
the others still punched on nearly even line.
When three quarters of a mile had been
rowed Mulcahey wassstill leading by length
hU and ahn1n ,l,Nrv
terms and rowing hard for second position
Monahan had dropped two lengths to the
rear of Murphy and Scholes, while Gastrick,
who appeared to be giving up, was left
dozen lengths to the rear and was virtually
out Of the race. When half mile from the
finish Mulcahey had increased his lead to
two lengths and Scholes by squirting had left
Murphy a length behind. On the last quar-
ter of mile Murphy began to do some re-
marka6le sculllng with long sweeping strokes
and llghtnlng-llke recovery, and he not only
overhauled and passed Scholes but put him
self on even terms with Mulcahey, who had
been rowing with over confidence on the
home stretch, and the race to the finish was
MP and tuck between Murphy and Mulcahey,
but the former by tremendous efforts forced
his boat over the line half length ahead of
his competitor Scholes was a close third
and Monahan only length behind. The
winner was treated to an ovation by the
spectators. His time was 9m. 42s.
SENIOR -FOUR DARED RACE.
The contestants in the senior four Dared
race were as follows
phia
Columbia Boat Club of Washington D. C.
Nautilus Rowing Club of Hamilton, Canada
Albany Rowing Club of Albany, N. Y.
The Nautilus crew took the water first and
led all the way to the finish. The Fairmounts
rowed in fine form and with pretty stroke
to look at, but they did not possess power
equal to that of the muscular Canadians.
The Columbia crew rowed only quarter of
mile when they withdrew to reserve them
seves for their eight cared contest. When
on the last quarter mile the Nautilus crew
spurted handsomely and won by six Ilengths
over the Fairmounts, time, minutes and 80
seconds and that of the Albany men min
utes and 90 seconds.
PAIR DARED RACE.
The pair cared race came next with the
following contestants
Robert Mccain, bow, and W. s, Mosely, stroke.
representing the Mutual Boat Club of Albany
John ". ShreaVe, bow, and John D. Barr
sroke, OF the Alcyone Boat Club of Elizabeth,
J. D. Phillips, bow, and NJ T. Hard stroke. of
the New York Athletic Club of New York City
Fred Freeman, bow, and John Weldon, stroke
OF the Ariel Boat Club OF Newark, n j.
The Ariels pulled beautiful stroke as did
also the New Workers. and the race for
mile was an exciting contest. The Athletics
weakened on the last quarter, their stroke
oar caught several crabs and the Ariels went
half dozen lengths to the fore and won as
they liked by six lengths in minutes and
80 seconds.
junior SINGLE sCULL RACE.
In the final heat for the junior singles
there were:
:, Peter Snyder of the Mutual Club of Albany, N
John H. Kuyle, Excelsior Club, Paterson. N. j.
Matthew Quigley Institute Club of Newark, ~
J.
Kuyle was left behind from the start
Snyder and Quigley squirting together on
even terms at terrific pace and each strug-
Cling for the lead. For three qUrrters of a
mile:they kept up their marvellously fast
stroke OF AZ to the minute with the advantage
first in favor of one and then with the other
but Quigley perceptibly weakened as they
entered the last half of the course and
Snyder went quickly to lead of two lengths.
Towards the finish Quigley tried to squirt but
caught crab after crab and when he resumed
his lpulling Snyder was dozen lengths
ahead. Snyder won with ease by 20 len gths
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