The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-29
JAKE GAUDAUR CHAMPION.
He Wins the Title in tho Great scullinc
 Match at Halifax.

He Wins the Title in the Great Scullinr Match at Halifax.
 Halifax, July 28.-The weather was
 grand this afternoon for the opening events of the carnival regatta. It was cool and pleasant for the spectators, The single scull contest, the big event.
 was concluded about 7:3O o'clock. Thera
 were seven starters-G -Gaudaur, Hanlon. Bubear, Durham, Rogers, Casey and
 Lovitt. The prizes were $500, $50, and
 $100.
 It was pretty race and sternly fought near the end for second place.
 but it was an easy victory for the
 favorite. Jake Gaudaur who pushed his shell in front at the start and rowed quite Ieisurely over the three n1ile
 course and finished ahead without dis-
 comfort by more than eight lengths.
 The other men did not row very hard on the first half of the course, re-
 serving themselves until the turn. | On the way down Lovett fouled buoy and was upset. being picked up | by a rowboat. While on the way home Bubear, who was behind Hanlon, Dur | nan and Rogers, and knew that he had no show, rowed away from the course. Gaudaur made the turn with Durnan and Hanlon even and Rogers close be- hind. Bubear and Cosey were already out of the race. The contest so far as | Durnan, Hanlon and Rogers were con- cerned began as soon as they squared
 away from the finish. Hanlon and Dur
 nan were alongside each other for
 mile, straining every nerve to gain an
 advantage. Durnan proved to be the
 best stayer of the two, and when half a
 mile from the line gradually drew
 away from his uncle,
 l Rogers throughout the struggle be- | tween the Torontonians had kept we'll
 up and now began to row rapidly and gain on them. A quarter of mile fur 1 ther on the three boats were tapping each other, Rogers slightly ahead of Hanlon and Durnan only a few feet in
 advance of the Saratoga oarsman. It
 was splendid squirt by the latter, but
 had saved himself a little too long. It
 was nip and tuck for the rest of it. but
 the relative positions were unchanged
 when the line was crossed.
 l Durnan's boat was five feet ahead of
 that of Rogers boat, and the Iatter's bow only four feet ahead of Han1on's. | Gaudaur's time was 20:25. Hanlon | pulled the fastest stroke. reaching A at
 one time. Three of the men entered
 Hackett, Haines and Barry-did not start
 | The four-oared contest between the | Wanderers of Halifax, a crew from St. John and one from Dartmouth was ex- pected to be exciting but proved n be | procession, the Wanderers winning with ease and the St. John men coming
 in far behind the Dartmouth crew. Theracein Labrador whalers between a crew from the cable steamer Mackay- Bennett and the Young Edwards crew of Halifax was won quite easily by the l former, but the prize was awarded, to I the Young Edwards because the Mack ay-Bennett men went the wrong way | in getting around their turning point | The race in men, of-war gigs between l three orews from the British warships | in port was won by a boat from the Tartar.
 l An enormous crowd witnessed the races from excursion boats and from | the shore. Ten thousand people at- I tended the concert in the public gar- 1 dens.