River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-15
GREAT WITH THE OAR.


A Number of Excellent Races at the
Pullman Regatta in which Several Rec
ords Are Broken-The Atlantas Defeat
the Bradfords in the Eight Dared Con-
test
CHICAGO, Aug. 10-The regatta at Pull
man was continued yesterday morning, a
number OF entries being postponed from
Thursday ON account of bad weather.
The weather was cloudy, the wind had
died out, and there was hardly ripple on
the water when the first race was rowed
1t was the second trial heat of the senior
singles E l. Kilby, of the 0ttumwa oars
men, Ottumv a, Ia, won. Time, 9l5.
The second race between the following
Junior fours was rowed on time: Union
Boat Club, Chicago; Toronto Rowing Club,
Toronto; Don Amateur Rowing Club, To-
ronto, and Argonaut Rowing Club Toronto.
The Unions won by half length, the Argo-
nauts being second Time, $50
The third race, junior singles. was won
by half-length by IL Seaton Of the Excel
sior club. No time.
The fourth race. Junior singles, second
heat, was captured by Lee Carette. of the
Columbia club, who won by half length,
in 10 minutes and 3-5 seconds.
The fifth and last race of the morning
was the junior four oars Mississippi Valley
Amateur Association, three quarters of
mile and return The contestants were the
Union Boat Club of Chicago, Iroquois Boat
Club of Chicago, Athletic club of Aurora,
Ill, Pullman crew No. . of Chicago, Min
nesota club of st. Paul, Argonaut club of
Toronto, and Pullman crew No 2 of Chi
cago The Unions came in first by half
length in 9:54. The Minnesota club was
second
All but one of the amateur championships
at sculling for the ensuing year were de-
cided in the afternoon. J. B. Lowell carried
away the junior singles and Dennis Donahue
the senior. The Garfield Beach crew of Salt
Lake City were the victors in the pair-oar
race, and the Winnipeg rowing club of
Manitoba won the laurels in the
senior four-oars. In the great event
of the day the eight-oar race
between the SUo giants, the Atalantas, of
New York and the Bradfords, of Cambridge
port, the New Workers captured the banner
and medals after an exciting contest, cross
ing the line barely half length in adj
vance of their sturdy opponents One
event still hangs in the balance-the senior
doubles. This was one of the grandest
races on record, two of the COM
peting crews, the Metropolitans of
New York, and the Bay Sides, OF Toronto,
rowing dead heat The bow oar of the
Bay sides rowed himself completely out
during the contest and when the time
came to row over again according to the
orders of Referee Lyman B. Glover, he was
more dead than alive. Pilkinton, the
stroke and captain of the Metropolitan
crew. might have claimed the race by sim
ply rowing over the course, but he mag
unanimously waived the right to the cham
pionship under such conditions and agreed
to contest for the emblem again to-day
when the disabled crew will be in trim
The latter accepted the proposition with
every evidence of gratitude.
The pair oar race was something of a sur
prise, every body assuming that Standish
and Lyon, the Detroiters, would have a
walk-away. The two strapping lads from
Salt Lake, however, Osborne and Weber
had things about their own way and passed
the nag in 9:ls, their opponents being AZ
seconds behind
The double souls was battle of aquatic
giants There were the Metropolitans the
Farraguts, the Don Amateurs, Catlins, and
Bay Sides, the Ravenswoods and Winni-
pegs. The Metropoiitans and Ravenswoods
were the favorites in the pools For the
first three quarters of mile these two
stayed close together and then the Jersey
men fell away. The Farraguts put on a
squirt and kept level with the New Yorkers'-
for a quarter OF a mile, and then
they, too, succumbed Next the Winnipegs
made burst of speed that caused Pilkin-
ton to yell to his bow to sock it in, - and
the stroke went from thirty to thirty eight
like flash. while the Canadians went to
the rear. Pilkinton thought he had every
thing his own way, but when within a
dozen yards of the finish the white-shirted
Canadians hove in sight on the extreme
right with couple of spurts came up
with the Nets, and despite the hard pulling
of the latter succeeded in crossing the
line even. Time. S45. Ravenswoods, 3;
Don Amateur, 4; Winnipeg, 5; Farraguts,
@; Caulins, e
In the senior tours the Winnipegs won
by two lengths. The Delawares made a
hard fight, and Gastrick, the bow, keeled
over in the boat insensible 100 yards
from the line. Restoratives were applied
and he recovered in a short time The
Torontos were second and the Atalantas
third The latter, however, were disquali-
fed, and the New York Athletic Club got
the place. Winnipegs time, S:32; Toronto.
SAG
The Atalantas were the favorites in the
eight-oar contest, and they realized the ex-
pectations of their frients 1t was a hard
tussle, however. The Bradford boys got
away at the start, and at the three-quarter
buoy were over half length in the lead
They pulled too ierky, however, while the
Atalantas made fine, steady stroke
The latter drove to the front after the
three-quarter had been passed, but were
soon overtaken and the Bradfords went
to the front by length Then they eased
up again, the New Workers went to the
front like stroke of lightning, and al
though their opponents pulled for dear
life they kept the lead So the finish win
ming by half a length amid deafening
cheers and yells and the music of half ii
dozen bands. Two of the Atalantas men
dropped fiat in the boat as it went
past the flag Time, 7:4l; Bradford's, IA
This breaks the record of 7:46 made on
the St Charles river at Boston. The pair
oar record was also beaten 9:1S, on the
Pullman course, against 9:2i on dead water
at Watkins. n. Y. Darkness had set in by
the time the last race was over but the
city-bound crowds kept the trains waiting
I'm order to give the Atalantas a genuine
Western hurrah as they came ashore.