St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-28

defend England'S position among the
aquatics of the world. Hanlan breaches,
teaches and practices an ideal stroke
a stroke and movement which all good
scnllers emulate. After grace, then
speed, and for speed you cannot hope to
stem the pillows of the ocean. With
this theory IN mind, Gaudaur laughs at
on the other hand, gets angry and
swears to his admirers and hackers that
he will beat Gaudaur if he has to train
five years. Then there is talk of Han
lan's retirement. This is all bosh. The
vivid imagination of the fakist must
vent itself. and the opportunity pre-
senting itself last week, the pen with
out conscience got in Its work. Ham
Ian is still in his boat and he says
he intends to stay there. However
he stays with the galaxy for reason
that, when it moulds into an effect, will
array against each other two cliques or
sets of the words fastest professional
oarsmen. Already there is the nucleus
of formidable set in the Hanlan four,
composed of Ned HanlaD, George Hos
mer. John Teemer and Hugh Wise.
The other root of an eventual feud is
supported by the Gaudaur four, COM
posed of Gaudaur, Mckay, Hamm and
Ten Eyck. These men are individual
rivals. They are now rivals as organ
lied crews, and they are the greatest
and fastest crews in the world. The ia
nous Erie crew of Buffalo, n. Y. does
not compare with them in speed, form
or endurance. Now then, with Hanlan
at the head of the crew which cham
piOns Teemer, and Gaudaur at the head
of his own crew. it will be interesting to
watch the next few years of such OF an
alliance. Hanlan is
ShreWd and Cunning
and good manager. Gaudaur is COM
placent and confident of the skill of his
men, and In all things passive. Hanlan
is aggressive, and Teemer constantly
goads him on. Hanlan is wealthy;
Gaudaur seeks wealth. Hanlan has
reputation and brilliant past record;
Gaudaur strives for both. Now what
will come of this is to be seen. The es-
arrangement and rivalry of these men
points to revival of a boom for some
of them, just such one as Ned Hanlan
created for himself in 1878. Gaudaur
roWed Saturdays race with stroke
which at no time exceeded 33, and the
greater part of the distance was rowed
with ~ stroke. Teemer rowed 81, then
80 and in the finish SO; yet Gaudaur beat
him over twenty lengths and 80 seconds
in time. The winning time was 1881,
Teemer 20:0511S, and Hosmer 20:25. The
worlds record is 1854. Gaudaur lowers
it % seconds and beats Teemer over a
half-minute. And in Gaudaur's con-
versatiou with me on Saturday evening
he said:
IF came among these men and beat
them fairly, squarely and with good
will toward all, and their envy and jeal-
III hot
nothing in their cOnquerOr but evil.
They malicn me, and Teemer has done
his best to injure my reputation, but
wherever I meet him in race man
age to defeat him with that ease and
contempt which the superior under
these circumstances always has for the
inferior"
In personally meeting and living with
these Oarsmen week, the opportunity
naturally came to me for studying the
character, status and personnel OF the
men who thus go from one land to an
other, and live by and In the racing
shell, Gaudaur is the talleSt, and Wal
lace Ross the heaviest. Gaudur holds
the worlds record for single SOULS,
which he made in 1856 at White Bear
lake. Last week he broke it twenty
three seconds in a course which was
full of logs and driftwood. He has
private record which he made in st.
Louis this summer.
1t rs Much Faster
than anything ever published about rec
ords in sculling, but have no author
ity to give it to the public. Hanlan is
the handsomest man and the most
graceful Oarsman alive. He is ladies'
man, but has wife in Toronto, as well
Of Tnh q
terrible brown eyes. wears his hair
clipped, and when he opens his mouth
and reveals set of large white teeth,
he is perfect and terrible picture of
madness. He Is distant, but once your
friend he becomes gentle, social and
very entertaining. He lives with his
family In McKeesport, Pa, where he
owns saloon. George Hosmer is
Boston boy, and perfect gentleman.
He is jOvial good-natured and generous,
and even his rivals like. him. As a
sculler he is q coming man, and he may
eclipse Teemer before another season.
Wallace Ross is the drollest fellow one
would care to meet. The nalvete OF his
English and the spontaneity of his wit
are something indeed entertaining. He
came into company Of chatting anna
teurs the other night, and as he was
at once by fifteen men. he
suddenly :said: ''Pll tell you,
boys. there is only one bloody way to
row." Then he went off on subject
entirely foreign to the one before the
company, and told them something
about a farm in England-about the
hedgerows and the stone walls and
the manor houses, while the crowding
amateurs were throbbing with the anx-
iety to get a pointer on how to row
from the great sculler. After he had
whirled his tangent about an English
gentleman's estate. one Of the bystand-
ers asked: ''Mr. Ross, you say there is
but one way to row. Now, for the
benefit of ambitious amateurs, and in
the interest of the scullers' craft. do
theory" He replied: ''Well, as l
said, there is only one way, and that is
to row fast" Not smile on his face,
nothing but a matter-of-cOurse look as
he watched his company explode. Ten
Eyck and Hamm are good fellows, both
| of them. Hamm is training the Lur-
lines this summer, and John Kennedy
has done well with the Minnesotas.
| Dan Murphy, another Boston-browned
sculler, is the trainer of the st. Pauls.
Mckay is a modest man and
A Polished Gentleman.
Hugh Wise is the most muscular fel.
| low of them all, and ahail fellow well
met. Before l left Duluth Hanlan and
| Gaudaur each agreed to row the proba-
BILE match crew race for S., 600, on White
| Bear or MinnetOnka, provided q purse
| of $4,000 can be raised for the winner.
The GLOBE was designated the medium
by which all ARRANGEMENTS could be eff
fected. Among those whom l met at
| the regatta from st. Paul were:
| a. H Horton and party, Miss Emily Gavin.
| S. d. Emery and j. W. Emery, Misses Marga-
ret and May :Dwyer, George Hall, j. j. Nc
IaCafferty and wife. John P. Sweeney and
wife, the Misses Drake, Miss NJ. E. Cowen,
Henry James, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. j. Parker, Mr..
and Mrs [: b. Maxfeld, Miss Bend. Mrs.
j. w Merriam, MISS Cooke, Miss Gordon,
| W. s. Alexander, j. 81. Gates and wife, A. 2.
Clausen, g; p; Flatley, Sam Nichols, G. =.
Hopping, F. R. Bigelow, Jerrard Howe, A.
Stark. Gus Zenzius. Ray z. Armstrong. Tom
Fulton, of White Bear G.. Il. Beaulieu and
wife, Leedom Sharpe, ". P. Todd, Paul
Engles, Judge C. E. F1andrau. G. n. Bell, W.
A. Van Slyke l., P OrdWay. j. p. Elmer, r.