The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-05
st. Louis Crew Won After Dis
abling Mound City Barge
Crew Near Finish.
RACE CALLED NO CONTEST.
Umpire Rapp Ordered Event
Rowed Over and Set Next
Sunday as the Date
for Renewal.

Fouls. Interference ard a general ters.a
resulted In the rowing OF the Lempa
Plate race on the river yesterday. the az
fair winding up in 50 general a dispute
that Umpire Rapp declared it no contest
He assigned next Sunday as the date fog
the renewal.
Owing to the differences OF opinion be-
tween .he various crews. however. il
seems likely that the second race will
lack some OF yesterdays contestants At
least two crews have announced their in
tention Of refusing to re-enter the race
In both tangles over which disputes arose.
the 81. Louis crew figured. While appar-
emily the fastest barge crew IN the race, u
interfered on two occasions with other
competitors. winding W by palDably foul
ing the Mound Citys a few boat lengths
from the finish. opposite the Western boat
house.
In this latter foul. the Mound City crew
was thrown completely out OF the race.
two Of its oars were broken and the barge
just managed 10 finish the course In time
to get second place from the CenturysI
Foul was claimed, but owing to the tenn
porary absence OF the referee. the crew at
fault could not be officially known. UNI
pire RaTT. accordingly, ordered the race
rowed Over.
The plight Of the umpire was one Of ths
features OF the affair. The race started
from the head OF Arsenal Island and the
finish was at the Western boathouse. I'M
piTe Rapp went downstream in a SkiR to
witress the start. He then found himself
left behind by the barges as they started on
their Journey. and he had TO complete his
trip TO the boathouse on freight train
which happened along the tracks in timely
fashion.
UMPIRE On TRAIN.
Ry- tba time he he bOathorse the
affair was over. His decision on the foul
was reached on account Of his inability to
see just what happened at the close.
Six crews were carded to start IN the
esn The Gentugs decided to enter Go at
to the starting point and here decided not
to compete. Two OF their men felt in rather
bad trim, 1t is said, and a protest had been
made, moreover. over the weight of the
Mound City coxswain, who was accused Of
not being the requisite loo pounds in weight.
The Centrais then decided not to start
Almost at the start the St. Louis crew
bumped the Western second crew slightly.
They Strengthened ont. however. and the
race proceeded until close to the finish. AT
this stage the Mound Citys and the St
Louis crews were rowing in the CIDER
named. the Mound City's having lead.
The st. Louis crew was rapidly overhaul.
ing Them, however. and the remainder Of
the field was several lengths back.
Two river steamers passed at this time,
making rough water for the ST. Louis crew.
winch was OUTSIDE Inc CoAsWdil instantly
took the boat inside the Mound Citya.
swerved into the Mound City's water and
tried to come up inside. The barge succeed
ed, bug colded with the Mound City boat
a few lengths from the finish. breaking
Two oars.
Disabled as they were. the Mound Citys
managed to finish in second place. The
Centurys came next, and the Western senior
and Junior crews followed in the order
named. Foul was instantly claimed and was
allowed by Umpire Rapp. who ordered the
race rowed over.
This verdict was unsatisfactory to the
, Mound Citys. Frank Suerig OF their crew
claimed that the ST. Louis crew should
have been disqualified for the foul and for
! leaving their own water. and that the cup
should go 10 the Mound Citys. McCul-
serted that failure to claim foul at once
had forfeited the Mound City's claim to
the race.
The affair ended In n general wrangie
over the decision. but the umpire was firm.
and the affair will be settled week from
to-day. The makeup of the crews. in the
order in which they finished. were:
No. .: p. dig. No. ); Joe Dig. No. 4:
Henry LaDghening. No. 3: Louis Grosjean.
stroke: Frank Smith. coXswain.
Mound Citys-F. Jaeger. F. Suerig. ".
Yceger. Il. Slowing. o. Yacke. c. Amman
| and {. Hamilton. coxswain.
Centurys-W. A. Fissc. E. ]. Hess. Doctor
| Evans and A. T. Nasse and Coxswain Mey-
se1.berg.
western seniors-F. Mueller. L. Helm. g.
| Dietz. W. Fisher. c. lie Clerq. T. Dunn
merth and Otto Becker
Western Juniors-O. Boeher. ". Surblet.
J. Schott. o. Wolff, ]. Mauer. II. Bruehman
| and j. Karl.