St. Paul daily globe., 1891-07-12
The LUSTY SCULL ERS.
Indian Tan and Hard Muscle
Acquired by Minnesota
Club Hen.
Many Miles Of Soft Water
Covered by the Oarsmen
During June.
Preparations to Send Repre-
sentative Men to the
Big Regattas.
Trainer Kennedy Adds Some
Further Useful Infor-
nation.

During the month of June the Min
nesota Boat club cast 800 pounds of Su-
perfiuous adipoSe into the Mississippi
river. That is to say that about sixty
men were active in shell and gig. that
some of them wore off twenty pounds of
useless flesh and fab, that others train
ing off less grew into the very pink of
an athletes condition, an OarSman's
Drawn and an Indians tan. From red
faced, rip-handed fellows, about forty
have grown almost hideOuSly dark-as
the ladies aptly declared themselves on
regatta day. But therein broOdS the
glow Of vigorous manhood, and what
is shOckingly bruno to dolly-dude is the
tone of endeaYor to the brave fellows
who furrOw their frail splints up and
down the club course. ''Twenty-three
hundred miles rowed in june" such is
the log bulletin. Among the siXty-odd
fellows building this record, those who
rowed fifty miles and over are: H. w.
Brown, 1917 miles; Thomas Leslie
Wann, 120; Charles w. Gordon, 9e15;
RushtOn Peabody, 9015; Raymond Du
Puy, 80; w. n. Armstrong. S115; A. L.
Roberts, Sc; Leayitt Corning, 81; Gard
ner Corning. 70; G. Zenzius, "A; A. fl.
Paget, II; "A. F. Trappnell, 60; Ii. w.
Waek, IS; Lew S. Bigelow, 67; l.. De-
fiel, 81; c. \. Pettingill, 81; a. McQuil-
Ian, 81; f. ID. Biakeley. "a; A. S. Hall,
50; E. B. Young, "a; John Flanagan,
80; w. II. Yardley, 80.
Minnesota looks with pride upon her
active men. their number, condition and
records. Among the list are young
men of great promise in the aquatic
world. All of them able fellows, eXer-
cising phySiques that move ones ad-
miration OF form and color and courage.
There is no club in the country that
exists under a better and more con-
servative management and amid such
advantageous natural and artificial
facilities than the Minnesota. "SOme
day" 1--WE are singing St. Paul will hear
something drop" and soon there
after it will observe another some
thing rise up and shine. As all
progressive clubs contemplate their
own aggrandizement, so does Minnesota
peer into the future, past few more
years of success, and indulge the vision
of granite edifice whose towers and
turretS shall extend upward as a blaZ-
ing monument to Minnesota oarsmen,
their achievements and their destiny.
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and substantial interest such a realism,
there can be no doubt in the minds of
those who approve mans self-develOp-
ment upon such noble lines of method
and practice as define the oarSmanS
craft.
The most hearty turning out of glad
faces that ever busted the little island
was that on regatta day. Fathers and
mothers. wives and sweetheartS were
there in eager interest at every effort of
the braWny scullers. Mr.. Paget, club
captain, has heard the repeated express
sion of thanks for the wholesome spirit
which his direction infused. His idea
is that of boat club high in the plane
of responsibility and as high in its man.
ual culture. The social element in har
mOny with the latter, but not TO be
nursed to such weight that the man as
an oarsman shall be transcended by the
carpet knight, however suave and hand
some the latter may be. A Judicious
suffusiOn of the athletic with the
more gentle affairs of men. Scull-
ing is purely a gentleman'S sport
as practiced here, and no departure
should be animated from either element.
The primary object of boat club is
well stated by another as ''the physical
culture and skiliful training to speed
or pleasure of able-bodied men, whose
aim shall be to row for the benefit of
health, hOnOrS or duty, and whose con-
duct shall rank them as princes among
gentlemen" And that's how tits done
by Minnesota.
Minnesota is not only roaring at home,
but the state also will soon have an Op-
portunity to applaud its heroes. Be-
sides lis junior crew-the fastest the
club has ever trained-among those who
will row in the Winnipeg, Detroit and
national regattaS is a. III. Paget and
George O.Nettleton in the senior double,
and the latter and n. W. Brown in the
senior single. Paget and NettletOn
were very successful last year, and
Brown promises to make a splendid rec
ord among the strangers.
The 10th was Black Friday for the
scullers. Nine men stopped from their
boats into the river, one fellow falling
overheard near the upper bridge and
stemming the tide for thirty minutes
before the relief scOw hove in sight.
This is an unusual chronicle of diSas-
ters, the number on Friday alone eX-
ceedng the mishapS of the entire ag-
gregatiOn during its work in June. Twas
Friday. This unpleasant and highly sem
satiOnal feature of boating would lose
much of its delight to those on terra
firma who witness it and who per-
petuate the event by jest and scribble
in the log book, but for the rule of the
club which mulcts every man who falls
out of his boat. Under this code, desig-
mated as the "JadeX Inter calamitas, :"
| all bOaImen who spill out during the
season are charged to defray the eX-
penses of the annual up-cOuntry picnic,
to which all members of the club are
invited aud at which an unbounded feast
is destroyed-all at the expense of
the victims of poor Craftsmanship.
| This poW-wow is celebrated early in
September, and being confined to the
| masculine gender, it reignS merry day
of it. the devil Notwithstanding. So far
the list is a gay one, comprising, as it
does, the NAMES of some of the ire
| preSsibles.
The club trainer has been out of his
| boat for ten days by reason of an acei-
dent to him while coaching one evening.
In attempting quick turn an amateurs
boat punctured his shell amidshipS, and
with its brass PROV pinned the trainers
| foot in the Stretcher-cauSing painful
wound which lamed Mr.. Kennedy for a
week. A speedy recovery enabled him
| TO resume his boat Thursday. Chatting
with GLOBE reporter about the mod
ern racing shell and its perfection from
away back, Mr.. Kennedy said: