Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-19

the fact that another crew had been added
after they had made their bets on the
three-cornered race, but these kickers were
laughed down by their companions as well
as by the handbook men. They were told
that the Eleanor crew was only in the
race for fun; that they didn't have a chance
book men showed that they believed in
what they said in this regard by promptly
shaping up Is to 1 against the Eleanor
crew to win and to 1 against their mailing
second money.
The Eleanor crew put out in a tubby-
looking long-boat on the following day for
a practice spin over the four-mile course
two miles down the harbor and then around
whence the start was made-and, they got
the laugh over the way they worked. They
pulled like the veriest amateurs and the
handbook men who heard of their dismal
practice performance promptly hunched
the price against them to 20 to l.
+ On the night before the race most Of the
members Of the Eleanor's ships company
went ashore. and. digging UP the hand
at the 20 to 1 price on their crews chance
The Eleanor's bettors all pretended to be
picked In drink when they made their bets,
and the handbook men looked as If they
drunken men. 1t seemed purely a matter
of drunken sentiment on the part of the
yachts company to bet on their foolish
looking long-boat crew. But the money in
to have no end, and they kept thrusting
1t In, under the mask Of their simulated
souses, till the handbook men, beginning
to have the vaguest imaginable suspicion
that the thing didn't look exactly right, re-
fused to take any more Eleanor money
But when they called halt after cutting
the price against the Eleanor crew down to
Is, then 10, then and finally to to I,
thousands of dollars to the drunk -imita ting
Eleanor's men in the peculiar event of the
Eieanor's long-boat crew winning the race.
could keep on top of the water was out
along the harbor course for the race on the
following day, and the rooters for one or
other OF the Kanaka crews and the fowlers
Tor the Bennington crew kept I'D a din be-
fore the signal to go was given that could
have been heard almost at Diamond Head.
There was no cheering for the Eleanor's
crew, however.
Benningtons men observed a thing that
struck them as odd. The Eleanor's long
boat was nothing like the tubby-looktne
craft In which the Eleanor's crew had been
practicing. 1t was, on the contrary, a
mighty fine trim. racy looking longboat
with beautiful lines, and obviously, even
at the first glance Of novice, the finest
boat Of any in the race.
The pistol was fired for the start-and the
race was one colossal Joke. But 1t was
the Interest joke that the people who had
wholly overlooked the added starter ever
stood for.
died away when the Eleanor's longboat
shot to the front-all Of the boats started
at scratch-and after the first two dozen
strokes none Of the other boats ever got
near enough to the Eleanor outfit to hit 1t
with a rock. The farther they went the
greater was the margin of gain by the
Eleanor crew, and, at that, folks who held
glasses on the race observed that the Flea
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were only taking sort of mild breather for
themselves. and that they were all laugh
ing and kidding cheerfully as, in turn, they
rubbered to see how far they were in front
When the Eleanors crew turned the stake
their boat was at least a quarter Of a mile
In front of the Kanaka fishermen's crew,
with the Bennington crew laboring along
about a hundred yards in the rear of the
fishermen, and the Kanaka cops beaten off.
At the finish Of the race the E1eanor's boat,
pulled to walk, as the saying goes, was
good half mile In front OF the Kanaka fish,
ermens boat. which was more than 800
yards to the fore of the Bennington's crew,
who were dog-tired and all but collapsing
In their boat
The Eleanor's crew had to engage a spe-
cial sampan to haul the money they'd won
from the beach of to their yacht.
And then 1t leaked out that the Eaeanor's
long-boat crew was the champion outfit OF
that kind of the whole civilized world; that
the men of the crew had been shipped
especially for their prowess as oarsmeni
that In scores of races all over the world
the Eleanor's long-boat crew had never
once been beaten or anything like beaten.
and that the whole Eleanor's ships COM
pany had picked up unlimited thousands
Of dollars on the victories OF their long
boat crew In all of the leading ports OF the
world.
That was the most amazing case of an
added starters victory that the writer here
Of ever witnessed, and they talk about the
thing yet down in Honolulu with groanings
and repinines. @. I. 9.