The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-10
TAXING A SHOWER.

The University race, though undoubtedly
the chief rowing event in the year in the
eyes OF the public, does not interest so MANY
real amateur oarsmen as the National re-
gatta at Washlngton in August, or even the
New England and Middle States regattas
in June and July. Within cannon shot of
tne Battery there are twenty three rowing
cups which are members of the Middle
States Regatta association, and most of
these will send some representatives to the
National regatta as well. Their aggregate
mem bership runs well into the thousands.
ana the number Of young men who cherish
the ambition to pull in championship crews
must be fully half Of the total.
The crews Of eight are not, in many cases.
( 1nlly made up yet, and interest centres for
Lhe present lnS the practice form of the
double ana single scullers. As good a team.
perhaps, as will be afoat, If no accidents
happen, viii be Freeth and PIatt. of the
Varunas. These young men Won pretty
nearly everything they tried their hands at
last year, put slipped up on the National
losing IL to the Toronto team, as they claim
through inability TO see their opponents at
the finish, owing to the sun on the water,
and TO little trouble about the finish line,
george Freeth is one of the most extra
ORDINARY oarsmen one ever looked upon.
AT nfst glance you might take him for
consumptive almost, thin, light. wang
chap, VINO weighs 40 pounds in training
ana less out OF it. But he is nervous, and
those VINO row with him in the four and
eight say 1t Is impossible for him to row
easy He simply cannot do it. In 1889 he
proved his mettle as a single sculler beat
ing everybody but Denny Donohue but
TINS year he will probably not row single
Platt, who Is much heavier man, will m
hold the Varuna's flag in the single shell
rank.
Inc Manhattan Athletic clubs best
singles are Pilkington, Maggie ana Hawkins,
ana the double Will be made up, probably.
OF the two latter. Pllkington and Maybe
were the champions of 1889; Nagle won the
Long Island championship single last year,
and hawkins is coming man, About
TINS same Hawkins there is good deal of
crItlclsIn anoat just now among the other
rowing clubs, whose members charge that
he is at least half professional. Hawkins
has the leisure to spend mis- entire time on
water, and oarsmen want TO know how he
can afford 1t, not being wealthy, and how
clerks and laborers who can only practice
lew hours each week are to contend fairly
with men like him. They would also like
to know why Manhattan Athletic club man
should practice on Saratoga lake. 1t is un
denied that the Manhattans have way of
saying to promising athletes everywhere.
Come with u.s. it shan't cost you a cent in
dues So, it is charged, were Pilkington
and Maggie lured away from the Metropoli-
tan Bicycle club. It is charged, also, that
the treasurer of the club will give MAJ.
like Hawkins his railroad ticket and 500
Tor expenses to go to regatta, when it
does lot cost him anything like that sum.
Inerels always more or less growing about
this sort OF thing among the poorer clubs
which cannot afford this generosity, and it
may break out into open war at any time.
However, professionals or not, the Manhat-
tan men will have to work for whatever
hOnOrs thew win