The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-25
WINNIPEG IN FIRST
CANADIANS WIN THE SENIOR -FOUR
EVENTS AT LAhE MIN
v. NETONkA.
MlNNESoTAS HAD NO BOAT.
CONTEST NARROWED DOWN TO THE
vICTORs AND THE DULUTH
CLUB.
HAD NO BOAT.
OTHER EVENTS LESS INTERESTING.
Rat Portage Takes the Senior
Double and Osborn the Single
ScuIl.

Winnipeg. carried off the honorS in
the second days races of the Mime
sota-Winnipeg Rowing association at
Lake MinnetOnka, yesterday. winning
the senior four and the junior single,
two of the three scheduled events. The
third race the senior double. was won
by Rat Portage. Duluth rowed in two
Of the races. but. as in the contests of
the previous day, failed to send its
crews over the line as winner.
The. Minnesota club also had two
entries yesterday, but in the only race
which its crew felt sure of winning
an unfortunate accident, consisting of
a broken stretcher, disabled their boat
before fifty yards of the course had been
passed and prevented them from fin
ishing the race. This was in the Sc
Nor double and caused untold regret
among the adherents of the Minneso-
tas. as it was generally conceded even
by members of the opposing crews
that the race would have been won by
the cherry and white.
AT a meeting Of the association before
the races were called the following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year: President, w. N Armstrong,
Minnesota; vice president, j. F. Calder
wood, Lurline; secretary and treas
urer, Henry Blakely, Minnesota COM
rnodore, George F. Gait, Winnipeg;
vice commodore, George Drewry, Rat
Portage; ensign, A. A. Andrews, Win
nipeg.
The executive committee chosen is
composed of T. L. Wann, w. N Arm
strong, Minnesota; w. A. Kerr, E. w
Murphy, Lurline; George Drewry, J.
M. Savage, Rat Portage; A. A An
dreWs, w. F. Alloway, Winnipeg; F.
III. White. George E. Gibson, Duluth.
A resolution was also adopted giving
the Winnipeg club an option on the
next regatta Of the association until
the meeting of the executive committee
In March. If Winnipeg should decide
that it could take Are Of the regatta
1t Will be held on the Red river at
Selkirk, Ont, otherwise the races will
take place at Minnetonka as in former
years.
The addition of another event to the
annual programme, in the nature Of a
race for light weight tours, was con-
sidered by the meeting, but no def
mite action will be taken in the matter
until next year.
The matter of the expulsion of Des
Brlsay and Brown, of the Lurline club.
the day before was not referred to in
the meeting and it was the statement
of several Lurline officials on the out
side, as well as by members of all the
other crews, that the best of feeling
now prevailed in the association and
that the action of the executive com
mlttee was wholly commendable.
AS the time drew near for the races
TO begin, spectators gathered in notice.
ABLY increased numbers over the prev
1Ous day. AT 5:45 the first race was
called and 10 minutes later the senior
tours of the Winnipeg and Duluth clubs
ieft the boat house for the head of the
course. The crews were:
Winnipeg. G. G. Armytage, bow:
W. j. K. Osborne, Chas. Johnston,
Chas. Marks, stroke
Duluth.-Sid. McPhail, bow; Geo. E.
Gibson, Mac. Thompson, Guy Calhoun,
stroke
Minnesota was entered in this race.
but the inability to procure a proper
shell prevented the cherry and white
from starting. The crew this year is
the heaviest, senior four the club has
ever rowed and it was found impossible
70 work them in the only four-oared
boat the club possesses.
When the shells had reached Lake
Park, the upper part Of the course was
choppy and rough and the strong
quarter wind blowing across the course
augured against fast time Starter
Armstrong assigned the boats their po-
sitions and with a little maneuvering,
got them evenly on the line At the
shot of the pistol, the Winnipeg crew
caught the water first with several
half strokes and then shot away under
o swinging IL stroke Duluth was a
little slow in starting, but a heavy
40 stroke got their boat under way
with less than half lengths disad-
vantage. .-aa.
In the first eighth of mile half of
this distance was regained and to the
N9Trows the race was a pretty strug-
gle. Both crews had settled down for
hard pull and worked their slide with
the precision of clock work Passing
the NarroWS 1T was an even thing
neither boat being able to gain an inch
Upon entering the open water again
Winnipeg dropped to 80 stroke and
Duluth came down to SO. Still the shells
retained their relative positions, though
the men in the Duluth boat appeared
to be working a trif1e harder than their
rivals. In the Winnipeg boat the spec
tators on the launches following were
being given an exhibition of the most
perfect form of the regatta. Four long
sweeps were raised simultaneously to
be followed by the forward movement
of the slides as though one man were
operating the entire apparatus of the
Shell. Then four glistening blades
caught the water together, and the
boat skinned over the surface like, "a,
swallow. The recovery was also reeu-
lar and easy, thus giving the she'll a.
free rein under the crews powerful
strokes. The Duluth crew was also
showing splendid form, but their stroke
was a little shorter than that of the
Winnipegers, necessitating more exer-
tion to hold their own. On down the
course the shells went almost like a
Catamaran. Every one was predicting a
hot finish and fast time at the end of
the mile when No. oar in the Duluth
boat went into the air. The pace had
been too hard and one of the port oars
was played Winnipeg saw its adj
vantage, and hitting their stroke up to
40, soon had the Duluth boat trailing
q length and a half of open water
Estern. From this on it was Winnipeg