The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-11-20
nuNPED BY A 60 TO SHOT.
vyyoRABLE BOAT RACE OF TIE
nEyyTNGTON,S CRACK CREW.

hAHn lANhhhh
-. Mediterranean when They Ran Up
..,o.t n Scratch Crew from n Yacht.
r,,,,xaroy. Nov. 19.-'In this game" said
n,i oTcer out at the BenninRs racetrack
-" thor jay. you get quick action for your
nov There's hardly any suspense. You
~ IL into the ring after you've been told
III is the right horse. you get @ to 10 or the
NnN nsnsr,usly picked out for you by your
h1- vou hustle into the stand. the plugs
trail by, there ure " ''"P" VI i""o o'e"N"'
snl"-
.lrd your horse gets of last, OF course.
.,Ionnd the luck ~ resumedt tho naval officer.
sv,,irp nm his field glasses. And you horse
~ 49, horse. at Q to 10 on-hurtles through
.n,ca with all the speed Of a broad wagon or a
.,..m r~oIler-look at him. Just caterplllaring
'S.nrd' And he's ten lengths In the rear at
A.. hslf-at 8 to 10 OH, you know-and he's last
y. N. stretch. and then you feel like hunting
- H.nr friend UP that advised you to put your
mon,y down on such a.
"si,ty to one shot wins by two lenEths!"
shouted the crowd
Ths naval officer put down his heldglasses.
..., a look Of deep disgust at the 3 to 3 shot
rIct al out for him as the horse pranced back
- ,he indGes' stand. and then fell into an
audible train OF thought.
.,s,ty 10 l shot beats the ~favorite. oil ?" he
,,tl 10 one OF the men along with him.
familiar odds, those-60 to /. This is the Sec
and time I've been dumped by &c to l shot.
last time, though. 1t wasn't a horse. 1t was n
hoat,s crew. But / had plenty OF company in
that upset-the whole betting population OF
The Hawaiian Islands, In fact. to say nothing
NJ the whole ships company Of the gunboat to
- .ll..lAl --,H 60 eos. AlnN chat
Was the dump Of my life. not so much because
n, the money l lost. as on account OF the hui
initiation OF the thing; but at that it was hard
money to lose. 1t certainly was hard money to
losa especially after our month of cocksure
eacllInC. our sure-thing talk, our tumultuous
numbering in the index. 1t was n bad job"
"~enp;ose you knock of mum bling to your
seIf and tell us about it, said one OF tho men
in the naval officers party.
oh, it was nothinG-only a boat race" said
the naval officer. Nothing OF all; but you
acc these gray hairs and these deeply scared
lines? Well. il happened down IN Honolulu on
tho Fourth o! ] July. 1895. The u. $. s. Bunning-
ton was my ship. We had been in port for six
months, and we were spreading it on thick
ashore. That is to say. we were 1t with the
nice folks down there. aud they thought We
were pretty nearly right in everything. They
believed in us; they accepted our dictum on
matters and so. when-the subject OF cutter
racing coming up-we told them that we had the
greatest cutters crew that ever was among the
enlisted men OF the Bennington they did not
gaze upon us with a wild surprise. but took our
word for it. Now, that cutters crew Of the
Bennington did seem to US to be good. TIL
racing coy'un was n chief gunner's mate-now
gunner-Scratch Kenyon, who had stroked a
hundred man-o'-war crews to victory all over
the globe. and he was considered the finest
handler Of a racing crew in the American Navy.
Kenyon had been serving on the Bennington
for Ave years or so. and he had organized a
cutters crew that hadn't been beaten up to
date. On the Bennington's Mediterranean
cruise our cutter had been in front all the
way. with Scratch Kenyon in the stern sheets
in every one OF tho many races pulled of
with crews from foreign warships. Com
ing around to the Pacific side by way OF the
straits. the Bennington's, cutters crew beat
the, racing. crews OF all the British. German
and French on the east ana R Res'
nington was overhauling at the Mare Island
Navy Yard our racing crew simply disgraced
RI ss Stream q. 4" We ine we e' had fpIcRRed Gnps an Y hone
&st pesetn all over the world specializing on
that cgtter,sSreiW y; p ana we Were o rat eIGSi co NJ
class all by itself. When we bet on it we con-
All right. The Honolulu folks celebrate
Fourth Of July. you know. lust like the people
Of this country: and q month before Fourth of
July. 1895. they decided to have some aquatic
sports in the harbor on the day Of American
independence. Amongl the aquatic sports was
tfis Be 20 ior s i stafs Of s s9g6. T &C. % Sees sm tt siI e we
gleoated. but, We were honest.
% our heather KanaKa friends said We.
cared | cutter ar race. - nosb.lsss "S You have some
! ieityof poi and Palms, well. dSn't hnmiii-
have a cutters crew. you know: and. we'll
Then we lust smiled in their teeth. We
wanted to be honest with them. you see: we
really didn't want to a K a long price on the
Bsnningtons crew: we wanted them to know
what q crack crew we, had. and we, wore con
nothing T1 she Short t" OF dishonest Hgn W we reflected dec to
take. say. 2 or 3 to | on the Bennington's cut
terS crew from these generous people;
But they didn't scare out. They took our
word for it that our crew was n world beater
but they said that was oil the better, that, it
would make the sport high grade. So the
ranged the race, There was one. regular
racing crew among the members of the Homo
t t6.m AQUATIC cIn6dyounG american men all OF
S%ar, too, all Of them: but, oh, how we, Gloated
hanak9 policemen; strapping,, Great-armed
men: deep-chestod. natural watermen, prac-
tlceu IN racing in the waters OF Honolulu har-
DOR: and yet We gloatedi Scratch Kenyon. our
coxIn. Just grinned from ear to ear when we
aoII MN what he was to take the Bennington's
crew m against. q
We're | TO 80 shots said Kenyon. = Ihope
tneydont bar, us In the betting
oh, they don't know ashore that we're so
od as all that, we toldt the KIN OF our racing
rev. and We'll probably get as good as even
men, anyhowy'
-Triw." said Kenyon. .Better than there's
sny need for them TO be. But I'll have a care.
honethe less, and ut them up. Ofcourse. there's
10. ne Ihne slightest danger OF n dump down here.
sutlll make the boys choke off their shore
Hlps and, saki, They'll be willing enough when
tthhey md out that they'll get even money on
themselves on the Fourth
well. those were the entries for the eight
9Ssred race the crew Of the Honolulu Aquatic
siuO. the eight Kanaka policemen and the Ben
a%Ihgton's outfit. From the day the race was
GGrangel We commiserated the Honolulu folks.
~ ePeyers; the Bennington's executive OH
IN, thook his head sadly and said 1t was n
Shahe 10 treat people who had received us 80
I'VE. III with so little consideration. entering our
S1SAe eight against their selling platter crews
oo UshI Thomas. our skipper. told us, we
ousnt az least to have the consideration to bar
for ' ~ Il the betting, and Just run the race
tSt the 300 stake; But both the skipper and
,Tt eAec.ttlye officer were inwardly gloating
,ho Aithree otthe crews got TO practicing over
III I'VE mile course. The Honolulu Aquatic
tL a eight and the Kanak policemen did
tTvm pest over the course every night. but
ttmeHyon. our coSun. didn't let tho Benning-
crew 90 any squirting at all; lie didn't