The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-07-26
OARSMEN AT SARATOGA
Opening Day of the National
Associations Regatta.
NEARLY 5000 AMATEURS PRESENT

Some of the Crack Events-The Race IN
Singles for senior oarsmen WIN Attract
the Most Attention-The Senior Eight
Dared Contest.
SARATOGA, N Y, July &c. This is
the first day of Americas biggest rowing
regatta, and hundreds of young men who
have been building frame of muscle and
sinew the last three months will learn
their fate to-day or tomorrow in the Ma
tional Association races There are 4,500
oarsmen in town, and such "a grand sight
as they make, with their bright colors and
lusty club calls, has taken the entire
watering place by storm.
Every train lands a small army of oars
men from New York, Brooklyn, Jersey
City, Newark, Yonkers, and the suburbs
of the great metropolis. A big delegation.
is here from Chicago. They are repre-
sentatives of the Farragut, Catlin, Union
and Iroquois boat clubs. An immense
delegation from the Modoc Boat Club OF
St. Louis, the Ottumwa Oarsmen of OF
tumwa, Iowa, the Garfield Boat Club of
Salt Lake City, the Minnesota Boat Club
of st. Paul, and the Detroit Boat Club of
| Detroit is also present.
The star event of the regatta will be the
race in singles for senior Oarsmen. 1t is a
great many years since the ruling body
secured as many distinguished seat sliders
| for this event Hawkins, who lives here,
| but who carries the colors of the Manhat-
| tan Athletic Club, divides with Hedley
the attention as probable winner.
These men have met so many times
| with such varying results that it is now a
toss-up as to which will win. Hedley likes
rough water. 1t was in rough water that
he learned to row on the Delaware River.
The Philadelphia crowd is here strong,
and they believe that their man will defeat
the Saratogian to a moral certainty. 1t
will be the one race of the year in which
both men will have to row heart-strain-
ing race from start to finish. 1t will for
ever settle the question of supremacy be-
tween the two men.
! But it isn't settled that either will win.
There is another man who may have a
great deal to say when it comes to fast
strokes He is Edward Durnan, and he
is member of the Sunnyside Boat Club
of Toronto, Ont He is a nephew of Ned
Hanlan, and last year in the West he won
the Junior and enior championships at
Mississippi Valley and Northwestern re-
gattas in the same day. HanlaH says he
will beat the best amateur in the world in
time. The question is whether his time
has come.
The Lau brothers, of the Atalanta Boat
Club, Harlem, are already listed as win
ners They are in fine shape, and unless
their plans are interfered with by Cody
and Delaney, of the Nonpareil Rowing
E Club, also from the Harlem, they should
win Several years winter wrestling has
left the elder Lau in excellent shape, and
their friends are willing to bet 2 to that
they will win.
Aside from the senior single-scull shell
race, the chief interest in the regatta will
center in the senior eight-oared shell con
test. The four crews entered for tn,
! event are the best in the country. Three
of them-the Atalanta, Manhattan Ath
} letic and the New York Athletic--com,
from New York city The other, the Nal
ta, represents Philadelphia and th'
Schuylkill Navy.
: The Atalanta eight, with two excep
: tions, is the same representation which
I held the championship and beat the picl
. of America three seasons ago. The men il
: this boat are a trife rusty now, anC
} should they start stand very little chanc,
of winning.
The Malta crew is somewhat of an un
known quantity in the race, but the talen
| does not think for second that th
: Quaker City lads viii beat either th
l Cherry Diamond or Winged Foot repre-
D sentation. The betting is lively on thesi
two crews. Both have an army of sup
Q porters, and they are not bit afraid o
producing the stuff that makes the mar,
| go. There is not sick man in either
4 crew. All are brawny and ready to roy
d for mans life The crew of the New
York Club was originally known as thu
e Chippie crew, and are rowing in first elias
e form.
Q Tonight the Executive Committee o.
the association will meet to elect dele
gates in the place of those whose term
will have expired. Every club in the as
. sociation has vote, and there will be few
absentees. With a few exceptions, al
, the clubs will be represented by activ'
= delegates.
: The committee has decided to call the
I first race at 3 o'clock to-day instead of