Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-12-26
BRITISH AMAzONS'
Women Who Could Pull an Oar With the Best of Men.
WON FAME ALL OVER EUROPE.

Ann Glanville and Her Champions Eai
 Only Beat Their Own Countryren
 but Went to Aavre and Outrowed
 Half Dozen Crack French Crews.
 In the boat races that have from HamoaZe. the estuary of the Tamar and the Tavy that forms part of the harbor of Plymouth. the women of Saltash have often distinguished them selves. In Around and About Saltash'' r. F.. B. Porter writes of Ann Clan vile. whose amaZonian feats of oars- manship made her famous all over Flu rope:
 Some sixty or seventy years ago the crew of Saltash women was often seen not only on the HamoaZe, but wherever aquatic sports were held. It was not often that Ann and the crew that she stroked were beaten in match-never by other women.
 They competed for prizes at Hull Liverpool. Portsmouth and Dartmouth, and it must not be supposed that a crew of men ever yielded the palm out of masculine courtesy, for. as a mat ter of fact the men did not at all relish being beaten by q parcel of females.
 '.In some of these contests Mrs. liar. riet Screech. q daughter of Ann Clan Sille. who had fourteen children, row ed with her mother. As she was the youngest member of the crew she pulled bow oar. the least arduous post in the boat.
 "Once this crew, rowing Il match at Fleetwood in the presence of Queen Victoria. gave the men so sound beat ing that her majesty asked to have Ann presented to her.
 However. the most famous event of Ann's life took place in 1850. when Captain Russell of H. NJ. s. Brunswick suggested to her that she and her crew should go to Havre to the regatta there and challenge the Frenchmen. q pro- posal to which she readily assented.
 When the Frenchmen heard of the challenge from les Anglaises de Salt ashe they shrugged their shoulders. for they scarcely regarded it as se- rious. And when the women appear ed in their white frillcd caps prinked out with blue ribbons, in their short petticoats and white dresses. with blue neckcrclicfs tied over the shoulders and crossed behind the back. they look ed puzzled.
 ''The challenge of the Englishwomen created a stir not only in Havre. but for miles along the French coast and for many leagues inland too And in England the greatest interest was aroused
 When the day of the regatta came there was q vast cOncOurse of people to witness the contest. Every quay. hilltop and housetop from which Il view of the course could be had was crowd ed. Every one was on tiptOe of ex- pectation. Before the start the Salt ash crew had pull round to show themselves Their steady stroke. the way in which they bent their backs to their work and the perfect ease and grace with which they pulled made the French open their eyes.
 Ann and her crew had not the best have the advantage. Five minutes aft CT the start six boats were ahead of them. But they soon tested their op- ponents' nerve. Ann. who had the stroke oar. gave the word:
 ''.Rend your backs to it. maidens. and hurrah for old England!' .
 'One by one. with cheer from old Ann. they passed the six boatS.! At last they drove their boat. with the British color flying gayly at the fore. into the lead. It was a long course and q hard pull. but they soundly thrashed the Frenchmen. Ann and her 'maidens' beat them by 100 yards. The Ann Glanville. Harriet Hosking. Jane House and Amelia Lee. A man acted as cOXswain.
 Mrs. House was so elated at the victory that on reaching the commit tee boat she plunged into the water. dived under the vessel and came up with dripping and dropping cap on the opposite side.
 "Ann Glanville died ;n 1880. at the age of eighty-five. dignified. vigorous and handsome to the last. Her char acter was summed up by neighbor in these words:
 '''Her was honest to farthiug. clean as snlelt and kind hearted as q Gneen.'"
 Rose to the Occasion. "Do you know. Miss DoOhes." asks the earnest young man, "that if one were on Sirius the orbit of the earth would look just about the size of q finger ring?'
 Il beg your pardon, Harold" she futters. ..I was musing for the mo