The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-31
CRACK OARSEEH ARE BACK.
AND vARLEY ARRIVE
K y WITHOUT ,kASSERS cur.
Not SUCH Easy G0lng NJ Hamburg n's
Crowd Greets second Crew Victerious
Abroad In Last Thirty fears--De'
ncfluiion Of NAce on the Alster.

Crowd Greets second Crew vict0rious
Abroad In Last Thirty Years
scriptiOn Of Raee on the Aister.
John J. +. Muicahy and william NJ. Marley,
the ATLANTA Boat Club oarSnien. VINO won
the double sctills championship In the hoyai
International Regatta at Hamburg. o snort
time ago. returned to this country yester-
day on the steamship Butcher. The oars
men, who earned the Kalser's cup. embiem-
alto Of the worlds championship. received
welcome, which for size and enthusiasm.
would have been hard TO equal. big
gathering, made up Of fellow club members
Of the oarsmen and of representatives from
all the Harlem crews aud the Long Island
Regatta Association. went over to Hoboken
In q tug. made the pier ring With cheers
and then bore away the two young men Tor
Q trip up the Hudson and on the Harlem.
where the oarsInen OF all the CLUBS ran out
on the floats and cheered az the tug passed
It was one continuous cheer and dipping
of fisgs all the way down Scullers' Row.
OF the actual race. only the story OF the
bare result reached this side In coble des-
patches. For that reason, Mulcahy's ac-
count Of tho race was doubly interesting
to those who gathered on the second occasion
In thirty years to welcome homo an Ameri-
can crew which had triumphed In foreign
regatta. Not since the Columbia univer.
sity four, back in the early '7os. captured
the Visitors cup at Henley. has an Ameri-
can crew returned from across the water
with victory to Its credit. The pair. how
ever. did not bring back the cup.
Not everything was as pleasant at II might
have been on the other side. according TO
what the oarsmen said I'VE got to Ham
burg about I'VE or six days before the race"
said Mulcahy. who is captain Of the Atalanta
B. G.. "and for the first day or 80 we did moth
Ing. We had with US George H. Stegmaier.
a German American brewer. and former
oarsman. who was our fellow passenger
across the Atlantic. He was deeply inter-
ested in us, and helped us In our daily train
Ing on board ship. He carried pedometer
and 81 to 1t that We did our five miles around
the promenade deck every morning. and that
We had Q lot OF Other work all the time. The
crews in Germany are COACHED &, BY 6I;.t Ensl ,a
Rhs psip q the Berlin Rowing club which
was Coached 81 John Guelstons. an old Eng
h s ;a FIJI the Which %s.
was TIE champion Of Germany. never hayi1s
the then singles EssSs" Champion OF Germany. and
..,s ssss. e ssss G. sS %Ssb z.
Then later xs would 60 out on The canal.
f en- 90 ss d q chaps
speed At ali. the way you row on the lake.
Surely Sure you wouldn't have come here' 'ha's
But We didn't give them . chance to see
us until two dsys before the rae Then Ave We
deep anywhere that they row. We went
% shs WHICH o. fe
1 fssher the eondsn ou ne % place
ons Of the had done
minutes. meaning merely to be crafty; we
owned to minutes 50 hs re %a that
=. .hs ,ss s ss GREY: were SH
pairs OF Of the Msins. stettln. ,Gsrmanis and
Hamburg Ruder clubs. we had the center
The other crews beat us easily at the
and Of them h MT E shs sfrokf up
to tSe minute. While We looked slow. deIne
sSe start sna stayed there until
marx whsn ne up on ne
inf foa our " then ut out after The Berlin
r s sad .s sSs sSea a ses ons
nicely when tw9 q The crew. think NJ 1.-THE the
a. there seems e 6s rule thu. ne SSntesssPts;
right on. ieaiied out to Bill to start w again,
and We went after the Berlin peir: which had
and Won BY Two TWO len sths.
tod 1e That e
oA,l< hat m va tn ho
That j refused to do. inasmuch as we had
won fairly and 3d sauarely once e. pointed 1s
S Sopeiessly 'n out Of the race could not and
pears that the two crews which fouled rowed
a assd Ssa we sss enH tRa
we all should have to row again the, next
e ~as said they se ssa ss
ass to ths% s wesd n she tRs
There was lot Of TAX and DO oIF friend stes;
himself to our aid; Finally It was aereed
that we should get the cup It Y coming;
from pr; Rupert Of the North Berlin Rowing
"' The crews over there all row with very
short slide. something like eight or nine
inches. They have their boats rugged 80 that
they have very long leg drive. ana they get
They have q ioi Of fast crews over there. We
were invited 70 row In the imperial regatta
In Southern Germany, which takes place to-
the invitation.
"The Germans are going to send crew to
this country next year for our national re-
gatta They have promised Mr.. Fortmeyer
that they will send combination eight,
which will be split into fours. pairs and angles
to race here.
In the party that met the victorious pair
were Fred Kafka, president Of the Atalanta
Wism RHsShes former sahsT,
and s, Wiesbader OF the Lone Star b. c.:
Thomas Brennan Of the Long Island r. A.,
The champions were eager to get their shell
out Of the hold Of the ship to take with them
on the tug. but as II was classed a. cargo and
looked a. IL thew could not do It. Through