St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-31
MINNESOTA MUSCLE
As Applied to the Lusty
Spruce Wielders OF the
Boat Club.
The Climatic Rigors Have No
TepPorS for the Case-Hard-
ened Seullers.
Log Book Records That Leave
East ern Organizations in
the Shade.
Yesterdays Regatta a Pre-
lude to the Annual July
Fourth Events.

The Minnesotas have now fairly raised
their fluke. The log book for the month
ending to-day discloses the best testi-
monial of the clubs life which the lieu
tenants have been competent to report
for many seasons. AS early as March
80 George 0. Nettleton and Lew Bige-
low, staunch scullers. both of them,
were out upon the river cutting and
lodging ice with brass prov and phin.
Ill the month of April the club activity
registered S1215 miles rowed. In April,
go, the same record exhibits 597 miles,
or an excess for the present season of
2l512 miles. This, more than any other
fact, attestS the wisdom of union of
the MinnesotaS with the younger st.
Paul club.
1t has been matter of frequent COM
ment among the college youth of Con-
necticut, Massachusetts and New York
clubs that Western, and especially Man
itoba and Minnesota trained men, are
cut short in theii training during the
green season, by the early close of a
long, fast winter. A review of Mime
sota'S log book and work bulletin jams
the virtue out of such assumption. The
year 1890 has given TO Minnesota oars
men seven months for that delightful
In November of last year Mr.. Paget,
George Nettleton, B. Haywood Wright,
Mr.. Jaggard. o. NJ. Nelson, Trainer
Kennedy, Gus Zenzius and Messrs.
Flanagan, Kenna, Gall, MacLaren,
Blgelow, Roberts, Peabody and score
of others are down for continuous work
during the month. The ordinary in
clemencies of Minnesota November
have nothing to do with
The Case-Hardened ScuIIers
of the Minnesotas. The hot spirit, hard
palm and physical robustness of the
hardy oarSman laughs at everything
but ice and driftwood.
To-day closes the second months
work of the season, and lively term of
sport it has been. Capt. Paget being
suddenly called to the Pacific coast on
a matter OF personal business, the for
mer captain, A. L. Roberts, has had the
charge and conduct OF the active end of
yet been posted, Lieut.. ZenZiuS, who
has the custody of the rowing record,
declares that the club has piled over
LOO miles in the month. This is gratl-
tying. When men can maintain their Wig
or, their appetite and enjoy sound sleep
with such elixir, then aquaticS take on
noble aspect. That 1t is hard work,
we'll done and to great profit to the
doerS, can be seen from a personal OBJ
Servation of the active members of the
club. Tanned and thin, red and ready,
with palms blossoming with blisterS
and callouS, but with the hearts and
spirits of the race horse, the Minneso-
tian can be distinguished in the thou
cor Of htC f.ll
The lawyer, the merchant, the physi-
clan and the laymen, whose habit it is
to glide the ash and reduce the abnor-
NAL turgidity of burdensome paunch
and line it with bare-faced appetite,
is the man whose electrified brain
makes the best of time and occasion,
when you come to think of it,"
The Globe Coaches.
1t was the GLOBE IAN athlete of this
district) who first promulgated the idea
of the amalgamation of the boat clubs.
From the very inception of the thought
of such possibility the GLOBE urged
its realization. Now that the clubs have
unified interest and centered club cult
ure on one body of men, the GLOBE
feels personal and distinctive pride in
the welfare and prowess of the Mime
sofas. The GLOBE has from time to
time acknowledged the good work of
the MinnesotaS, and when Nettleton,
Wright. Brown, Paget, Nelson and the
junior crews of both clubs were doing
such admirable work in the Duluth re-
gatta of 80, it had a representative on
the spot applauding every worthy effort
and reporting the gratifying results to
the people of the state.
Now, the GLOBE being healthy ath-
lete itself, the fact that its performances
are in the journalistic field makes it no
less a fellow of the courageous amateur.
In wholesome recognition of the metal
of our reorganiZedMinneSo theGLoBE
extends its hand as an enthusiastic
coacher.
Yesterdays Regatta.
The threatening morning lessened the
attendance of the fair sex at the club
races. Many of the inactive and past
members were on the porch, however.
and revived their interest in the sport
among the juniors.
The firstrace was r0wed by the junior
crew, composed of Bigelow, Peabody,
Roberts and Armstrong, and double
with John Kennedy and George o.
Nettleton in the boat. The race was
two miles with turn and the double had
fifteen seconds start. The boats came
together at the turn and stretched home
evenly and closely until within few
lengths of the line, when the crew
spurted forward, winning by.three feet.