St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-10
ZENITH CITY IN FRONT IN THE
CHIEF EVENT AT MINNIE
TONIXA.
RAT PORTAGE in SECOND.
MINNEsOTAs CROSS THE LINE
THIRD, WHILE WINNIPEG
WAS LAST.
A Row on Which May Disrupt
the Association-Profe
alism Charged.

Hackett, Rat Portage, won; T. L.
Wann second, A. L. Burlington third.
Time, 1:20.
Junior Four-Duluth won, Rat Port
peg last Time, Gas.
Senior Singles-D. T. Des Brisay
won, George o. Nettleton second.
Time, HOB
Junior DoubIes-Rat Portage won,
Winnipeg second. Time, 9:04.
Minnesota's colors are not waving
proudly over the Hotel Lafayetteth
morning in token of glorious victor
les on the bounding main. The
cherry and white We're hauled down
yesterday and struck by the gentle
manly Canucl1S from Winnipeg and
the wood choppers who live near
Hungry hall and the city which rests
peacefully under the picturesque and
musical name of Rat Portage The
brawny blacksmiths and haulers of
logs from the neighborhood of Hun
cry hall find that the rules of Mime
sofia society ait the lake exclude them
from crossing the threshold thereof,
so they hang around on the outside
with a broad grin expressive of the
sentiment, IF we can't dance and at
tend swell receptions in white pants,
we can scull a shell, and you know
it,
Those fellows who work on farms
in the summer and in lath factories
IN winter, went on that lake yester-
day and rowed against the scions of
the first families in St. Paul who are
as unfamiliar with manual labor as
nc is possible to be, and yet the fiabby
constitution of the rowing a.ssocia-
ton contains no rule that draws a.
distinction between these men. Thev
are all amateurs according to that
noth-eaten "con" and the big wood
cutter With his big feet and long
arms is as much an amateur as the
young fellow who devotes only two
weeks TO training previous to a re-
gatta
And these are the reasons whv tho
regatta this year is a failure. as If
T most certainly is. These are the roo
SONS why the members of the clubs in
stead OF 1ndulging in the society events
at the lake hand in hand, hold aloof
1rom each other and give expression
TO the most bitter things their minds
can frame. The bitterness that exists
VIII end in the disruption of the as
soclatlon, for the Minnesotas. are de-
termlned to have Rat Portage with
draw from the association, or else the
Wearers of the cherry and white will
pull out themselves and form a new
organization. Long John Hackett and
es Br1say, the Minnesotas say. are
professional in every sense of the
! word and had no more right to row in
those races yesterday than Jake eau
daur or Teemer or Courtney. They
were brought here because thew are
the fastest men in the country, and it
IS doubtful if there is an oarsman in
America today who can defeat Long
John Hackett.
The ruptureS between the members
of the association yesterday were fre-
quent and they were not particular
whether the quarrels occurred in pri-
vate or on the hotel veranda where
everybody was looking. A fresh news
paper correspondent from the Winni-
peg Free Press, with no idea in his
mind but to make trouble, sprung the
story on the hotel veranda early in the
afternoon that at the meeting at Win
nipeg the Minnesotas had made a pro-
position to the effect that Minnesota
would make no attempt to win the
Junior four provided Winnipeg would
hold off and allow the Minnesotas to
win the senior four. The story came
to the ears of the Minnesota men and
there was a storm of indignation and
hard words passed between the leading
representatives Of the crews and the
fresh young fellow who started
THE UGLY RUMoR.
Nor was this all. Another man who
has more tongue than brains, stated
that the Winnipeg and Rat Portage
crews came here with a contract which
was to allow each crew to win a GER
| tain event, and the price Winnipeg was
to pay for one was it's loyalty to Rat
Portage, when it came down to voting
on the status Of Hackett and Des
Brisay, who were under charge of be-
Ing professionals.
The chances are that this last story
was correct. Rat Portage did every
| thing it could to help Winnipeg and
Winnipeg secured the reinstatement of
| Hackett and Des Brisay so they could
| row in the events of yesterday. The
| men rowed: they were easy victors
because of their long experience and
practice. They are capable of meeting
| the best men in America today, either
amateur or professional, and their ap-
pearance here, and the attitude of the
Winnipeg and Rat Portage men, has
utterly spoiled the regatta as a So
ciety event. The men in the Mime
sofa crews have no desire to row.
They make no effort to win because
| they are pitted against men who have
nothing in the world to do in summer
but row.
There would have been no senior
single race yesterday had it not been
for George Nettleton. T. Leslie Wann
was scheduled to go against Des
Brisay, but Wann objected to Des
| Brisay, on account of his being profess
sional. Nettleton, in ord% to suppress
some of the i'll feeling, went in to row
the race although he had not been in a.
boat but once or twice this season, and
was by no means in condition to make
the attempt, especially against such
man as Des Brisay, who makes his
living by sitting in a shell. Nettleton
is a sportsman in the true sense of the
term, however, and sacrificed himself
/ in order to maintain the dignity of
Minnesota. ,-
Bit l..ere is a bitter feeling that
Will not down. The spectators know it
and a dozen times during the day they
witnessed little wordy wars that might
have had serious results had the men
been possessed of uncomfortable tenn
pers. Luckily, they knew how to hold
themselves In check. The races were