Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-07-26
0ARSMEN 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 Will Attract
 the Most Attention-The Senior Eight
 Dared Contest.
 SARATOGA, N. Y., July %. This is the first day of America's 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 to- morrow in the Ma tional Association races. There are 4, 500 oarsmcn 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 Ot- 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. It is a great many years since the ruling body secured as many distinguished seat sliders for this eventS Hawkins, who lives here, but who carries the colors of the Manhat- tan Athletic Club, divides with Hedley the attention as a 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. It 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. It will be the one race of the year in which both men will have to row heart strain
 ing race from start to finish. It 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 g
 great deal to say when it comes to fast
 strokes. He is Edward Durnan, and he is a member of the Sunnyside Boat Club of Toronto, Ont He is a nephew of Ned
 Hanlao, and last year ill the West he won
 the junior and enior championships at Mississippi Valley and Northwestern re
 gattas in the same day. Hanlan says he will beat the best amateur in the world iI time. The question is whether his time l 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 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 3 to 1 that they will win.
 Aside from the senior singl le-scull shell race, the chief interest in the regatta will | center in tine senior eight-oared shell con- | test. The four crews entered for the | event are the best in the country Three | of them--tne Atalanta, Manhattan Ath- letic and the New York Athletic-come l from New York city. The other, the Nal la, represents Philadelphia and the | Schuyikili Navy.
 The Ataanta eight, with two eXcep l tions, is the same representation which | held the championship and beat the pick l of America three seasons ago. The men il l this boat are a trit1e rusty now, and should they start stand very little chance | of winning.
 The Malta crew is somewhat of an un | known quantity in the race, but the talent l does not think for second that the l Quaker City lads will beat either the l Cherry DldnlOnu or W lnSeu FOOU repre- sentation. The betting is lively on these l two crews Both have an army of sup | porters, and they are not a bit afraid oi producing the stuff that makes the mare | go. There is not sick man in either
 crew. All are brawny and ready to TOW for mans life. The crew of the New
 York Club was originally known the Chippie crew, and are rowing in first class l form.
 To night the Executive Committee of
 the association will meet to elect dele gates in the place of those whose terms will have expired. Every club in the as
 sociation has vote, and there will be few
 absentees. With few exceptions, all
 the clubs will be represented by active l delegates.
 | The committee has decided to call the
 first race at 3 o'clock to-day instead of 4.