The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-10-10
INTERESTING OAR DIPS FROM
AQUEOUS HEADQUARTERS
OF THE REGATTA.
THE CALIFORNIA CHAMPION
PADDLES UP THE LAKE.
Kansas City Thinking of Sending Men
and a Crew to Austin-What the
Hub Thinks About the
Big Affair.


the California champion, took a prelim
mary paddle up the lake. On his re-
turn he let himself out bit near Dry
creek and although he is some 20 pounds
over his rowing weight, he pulled long,
steady sweep for fully half mile at
a 80 clip without any apparent signs OF
distress. This bears out the champion S
statement that he is in excellent health,
despite the fact he has done no rowing
since he left here last year. He will
daily increase the amount of training
until he covers 10 miles a day. Here
is an item for speculation among the
curious. Two champion athletes from
California, Corbett and Peterson, are
now training in the same State, less than
100 miles apart, and for an international
contest.
The Boston Herald of October gives
the following excellent notice of the re-
gatta:
1t is expected that the English profess
sional oarsmen who are to contest at the
big rowing regatta at Austin, Tex, No
yember 4, 5, q and Z, will sail for this
country today. When the proposition
of the Carnival Regatta association OF
Austin was made to give large purse
for the best four men in England to
come over here and row a match race
with a picked American four, the Eng
lishmen accepted it. The reply was that
they intended to leave October l.
The English four will be composed of
Bubear Barry Haines and Emmett, who
are said to be the best combination that
could be put together on the other SIDE.
Opposed to them will be Jake Gaudaur,
the American champion sculler; his
brother Charles, John Teemer ana
'Ras" Rogers, who should make an eN-
.cellent crew. The Gaudaurs are Ca
nadians. so the crew will be an all-Amer-
lean one.
This race will be the first professional
event of the kind held in this country
since the Taylor-Winship crew. rowed
here in 1872, and, consequently, 1t should
excite n great deal of interest not only
at Austin, but in England and America:
The men will have something substantial
TO strive for in purse OF Sl5OO, ana IL
is very probable that good-slzed SIDE
bet will be made. In addition, the tltle
of champion goes to the winning four
The members of the American crew have
done but little sweep rowing, but they
are far from strangers to it. a good
sculler can be made a good sweep oars
man, while the reverse is true only III
exceptional cases. -,
Another star event of the program will
be a match race between Harding, the
English champion, and Gaudaur, VINO
holds the American title. The assocla-
tion has offered purse and there seems
no reason why Harding should not avail
himself of this opportunity 10 meet eau
daur, as he can get side bet A re-
fusal on his part to make such match
could only be looked upon by sporting
men as n positive indication that he was
afraid. And, as a still further INDUCE
ment for him to come over, Tom SUN
van, the Australian, now in England, mas
been offered $3.50 expense money 10
come across and row double with Har-
ding, which would give Harding a chance
10 win the larger share, or, ut least,
slice, of the $1,000 purse offered for that
race. This will probably come about,
for Sullivan is anxious to row at the
regatta. IN
In this double scull race there will be
the following, so far as known up TO
dat; Tcemer and Rogers, Gaudaur
brothers, Bubear and Haines, Hanlon
and Peterson, Barry and Emmett, and
probably Harding and Sullivan. Such
an aggregation of sculllng talent mas
never been seen in this or any other
country, and in the days when PROBES.
sional rowing was the popular sport OF
this country, a race of this kind with
such stars in competition would have
been the talk of the sporting world.
All the men mentioned will unques-
tionably start in the single scull race
for $1,000 purse-with the exception, of
course, of Gaudaur and Harding, in
case they are matched. This should
prove another deeply interesting event.
Several other scullers of lesser note
may enter for this. For instance, Hack
EFT, the Rat Portage phenomenon, who
opened the eyes of the amateurs at the
National regatta at Saratoga this year,
will undoubtedly enter as he has
turned professional by rowing match
race and defeating Dan Murphy, for
merly of Boston. Then jim Ten Eyck
and Jerry Casey are talking OF enter
ing, both in singles and doubles, with
the expectation of getting some part of
the money. They had n try at double
work at the Lawrence regatta to see
how they got together, and felt pretty
well satisfied. Vail of Philadelphia is
another probable entry in the single
SOULS.
Hanlon has challenged George Blu
bear for a match race at Austin, and
as both will be present at the regatta
it may be that they will row.
Ieemer is training from the western
Rowing club of st. Louis, of which he
has charge, and is said to be doing
three miles with turn in less than
20 minutes. Rogers is doing his prepar-
atory work at Lake Saratoga, and the
Gaudaurs around the waters of Orillia,
Ont. The record for the Austin course,
three miles with turn in 10 minutes >
seconds, made last May in the final of
the single scull race by Gaudaur, who
also covered the course in 1893. when he
beat Stanbury, the champion of the
world, in the finals in 10 minutes sec
onds.
Fred A. Paisted, the Portland oars
man. has accepted an invitation to be
one of an American four-oarcd crew TO
participate in the international regatta
Mt Austin, Tex, next month.
Kansas City is getting excited over the
regatta, and fired in the following tele-
gram:
Kansas City, Oct. ;, 1895.
Manager Regatta. Austin-We are
are thinking of sending men and crew to
Austin. Mail lists.
w. NJ. PHILLIPS.
Secretary X. G. Rowing club.
AN ACTRESS DEAD.
London, Oct. Ada Cavendish. the
actress, is dead. She was the widow of
the late Frank Marshall, co-editor with
Sir Harry IRVING nf s'I'hn Ery;p, Lo L, nc,