The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-08

last. Bjornstad had pulled hardly a
dozen strokes when his boat snapped,
and he was picked up by a steamer
and brought to the boat house. His
boat had given away near the center,
and was useless. 1t was a bitter dis
gent, for they knew while Bjornstad
had little experience as a single soul
ler, that he would put up a stiff race
against the Canuck, who played with
Walker, and finally, after rowing leis-
urely down the course, hit it up
little in the last few hundred yards
and crossed the line a dozen lengths
IN front Of the Flour City sculler.
Time, 1920. Logan is a clever man
with the SOULS, has rowed for several
years, Isl up on form, but should have
been made to work hard for the vic
tory.
The excitement went up to fever
heat when the Lurline pair pulled over
from their Lake Park boat house to
nipeg, for the senior double event, the
closing event on the programme. The
Minneapolis men were fresh, and their
strength was known from their bruis-
ing race with the then Junior Winni-
peggers. The latter were just through
a senior four race as were the st.
PauPs SO the advantage lay with the
touted good enough to still beat them
out. This turned out to be a mistake
as the reds for some reason never
actually got in the race at all, but left
their Manitoba brethren to do battle
with the Lurlines.
Winnipeg drew the Lake Park
course. Minnesota in the center and
the LurlineS on the far side from the
boat.
The Wfnnipegers got away in the
lead closely followed by Minnesota and
the Lurlines in the order named. The
I.urlines, smartfng under the defeat Of
Friday, knuckled to business at the
very outset, and were soon ON even
terms with their former vanquishers.
Minnesota, with Tan Langford and
Percy Houghton in the boat, kept to the
middle course, Notwithstanding that
Winnipeg crossed over into their water.
1t mattered little, however, for the
Canadians were ahead, and were
watching the Lurlines, Christian and
Louden, pulling away from them The
Reds in their light shell, crowded al
most to the waters edge, were at a
disadvantage, and were soon hopelessly
out Of the winning, to the great disap-
pointment of their friends, who counted
upon them to capture the event.
Winnipeg was pulling 36 strokes to
the minute, with the other crews mark
ing up 81 each. The Lurlines went out
Of the narrows with clean boat length
Of water between them and Winnipeg,
and started away down to the Iafa-
yette. This lead was increased to three
lengths off Big island, with the Mime
sofas pulling apparently in good form,
but back nearly to the Judges boat
The Flour City pair were pulling 32
strokes to the minute at the mile, and
Winnipeg seemed to pull UP little on
them
When the Minneapolis cry went up
from the shore the Canucks put on
steam, and in the last eighth Of a mile,
put up as pretty a. squirt as has been
seen on Minnetonka for some time.
They ate up the distance between their
shell and the Minneapolis boat, and
when the latter crossed the line there
was not half a length difference be-
tween the shells. The time was 9:04.
The Winnipeg men had rowed a beau
tiful finish, and considering the fact,
that they had just pulled a hard race
before this one, they are entitled to
considerable credit for their game
work. The two self-same crews had
met the day before as juniors and the
Canadians had won. The Minnesotas
yesterday, were six to eight lengths
away. The crews were applauded when
they came to their boat house, later,
when they appeared at dinner, and later
in the evening when the badges We're
presented by George c. Squires, on
behalf of the association, to the win
ners.
The regular Saturday night hop at
the Lafayette followed the regatta, and