St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-28
The DULUTH RACES.
Review of the Greatest Boat
ing Event in the North
vests History.
Talks With Some Of the Aquat-
ic Kings Of the Western
Continent.
Correct Time of All the Events
and Some Comments
Thereon.
A Partial List Of the st. Paul
People Who Saw the Con-
tests.

1t would indeed be thoughtlessness
which would permit me to participate
In the features of the several regattas
which have been held at Duluth during
the week just past without presenting
retrospective sketch of events so nota-
BILE, so we'll managed and SO well at
tended as were those which constitute
one of the most successful regattas ever
held on American waters. Months ago,
when Duluth lay creaking beneath a
frozen crust Of ice and snow, from
which there seemed no prospective re-
lease. not even in the conscience OF
booming real estate boomers with their
verbal boomerangS in eXtolllng the
future of Duluth and commencing her
past, the festivities of the present Week
were contemplated with an ardor and
spirit truly characteristic of Western
councils. All of the great oarsmen OF
America and other countries were in
vited to competition, and liberal purses
and prizes were offered the profession
ais and amateurs of the world. The
city of Superior was called upon for
hand at the movement, and she gener-
ously responded with $4,000. There
was the foundation for the
Duluth-SuperiOr Regatta.
Duluth added her wealth and the par
ticipation of her boat club, of both Of
which she is very proud. The Mlssls-
sippi Valley Rowing association en-
tered the affair of regatta week, and
fv-n q
fourth days of the regatta, and the Mill
nesota and Winnipeg association COLI
Guided the carnival with its races on
Friday and Saturday. This mutual
Joining of association races made the
regatta one of the most extensive ever
inaugurated in America. Each associa-
ton provided its purse and pi ;, and
these, added to the fixed funu af Du-
luth and Superior, created stakes which
attracted the best ScullerS of the world.
The purses aggregated about $4,000,
and the amateur prizes and trophies are
estimated to be worth about $4,000.
The professional races, with the eXcep-
tipo of the double on Monday, were all
three miles and turn. The amateur
races were all one and half miles with
turn. and straightaway, the junior four
crews rowing straightaWay race on
Friday morning The boat laws of the
National Association Of Amateur Oars
men governed all amateur races, and
the international laws governed the
professionals. In the Duluth-Superior
regatta the officers in charge were:
Ray T. Lewis president; Fl. J. Conner,
vice president; j. A. Stewart secretary; f.
w. Paine, treasurer; Fl. W. Pearson, commo-
dore; w. IL. Robertson, manager: executive
committee, Ray T. Lewis. ii. w. Pearson.
Charles Hopkins, H. j. Connor, j. A. Stewart
TIac Mississippi Valley.
This was the thirteenth annual re-
gatta of the Mississippi Valley Amateur
Rowing association, and the officers in
charge of the events On Wednesday and
Thursday were:
Referee, Harry G. Avery; judges at finish,
W. b. Silvey. G. F. Gault r. S. Knox; judges
at the turn, Frank G.. Avery, George A.
Wheeler Thomas p. Mailman, timekeepers,
Q. NJ. Nelson, L. P. Mather. T. W. Hopes.
officers for 1890: President, W. R. Moore,
Moline, H.; vice president. Gov. Arthur L.
Thomas, Salt Lake, Utah; secretary and
treasurer, d. R. Martin, Pullman, ILL.,. COM
modore, Charles Catlin. Chicago, ILL.,; vice
commodore, W. II. Commons, Minneapolis;
ensign, j. p Donahue; Davenport To- Exec
utive committee: H. G. Avery. Chicago, ILL.,;
c. McQuewan, Grand Rapids, Mich; J. A.
St John. st. Louis, Mo; W. E. Bramhal,
st. peu Ton der Ale 81 fens Mo- ITman
B. Glover, Chicago, H.; D. R. Martin, Pull
man, Ill. Regatta committee: w. r. Moore.
/. b. Glover, j. A. ST. John, G. F. Schenck.
Charles Catlin.
The Winnipeg g. Minnesota associa-
ton had the races on Friday and Sat
urday.
Ina Gay City.
On Sunday. July 20, the city was
dressed in festal array, the visiting
hosts we're pouring into the hotels and
houses of Duluth, and with the approach
of the morrow the enthusiasm and
aquatic fever had taken hold of every
Individual and business was dismissed
indefinitely. On Monday morning the
positions for the days races were drawn,
and the 300 scullers who quartered
their boats and traps in The Duluth boat
house and the specially-built stalls were
an animated set i'll many colors. The
docks were black with people, and ev-
cry available tug and steamboat was
chartered or hired for transportation to
the course, which extended from point
half mile from the docks, one and
three-ouarters miles along Minnesota
point. Floating grand stands were an
chored about the starters buoys,
and thousands of small row boats
and sail boats, ''gondolas" and
scows. with here and there
a dilapidated raft. upon which trampS
and other notorious gentlemen had
perched themselves, were moving about
the bay, across the course, and every
place which afforded sight of the races.
The vendor and fakir of Venice, with
his gorgeously decked gondola, was
ludicrously initiated by the fruiterers of
Duluth and Superior, who filled their
IN iru nj
to cookies. Bands were numerous. and
the Mikado music was distorted into a
thousand improvisations, and the ear of
the multitude was constantly plugged
with cries, hurrahs and musical selec-
lions that were evidently selected by
inspiration. A grander sight and a
louder time Duluth and Superior have
never known, and all clubs were
Entertained as Gentlemen,
and many will be the delightful memo
RES of her first regatta No one will
ong er doubt the fitness of Duluth's bay
for regattas. Supplied with numerous
craft of all classes, S0,000people can be
transported and seated ON the course in
good view of every detail. There is one
drawback, however, to the Duluth
course, and that is its usual roughness.
Seldom is the water perfectly
smooth, even when the winds are
from the land. On Thursday
afternoon it was smoother than on any
previous day during the week; but If
remained so only an hour, in which
time j. F. Corbet made very fast
quarter-mile dash in 1:19. Two hours
before he and Ned Hanlan spurted oyel
the same distance in a practice pull and
Corbet passed his famous senior in
1:25. Hanlan acknowledged that Cor
bet was the fastest amateur alive and
complimented him on his grace and &C
ton in the shell. The Minnesotas, of
ST. Paul, now have the unqualified war
rant for feeling good-that emotion
which swells the bosoms of men when
they repeatedly conquer their rivals in
sporting contests. They have done
nobly, and the state may we'll be proud
of the notwithstanding that we al
home Judge it more as a social than a
boat club. IT'S true that much of the
old-time spirit is not now manifest in