place of the autumn regetts which unfortunately bad, to be abandoned, two "informal" races were decided on Saturday afternoon. Only British and American crews were out, and as was expected the latter, having gone through ® regular course of training, won both events, and somewhat easily. There was quite " good number of rowing enthusiasts to witness the events, and a few house-boat parties made it an occasion for pleasant wookdecision only by a narrow margin &4.
The American (Mr. Newman's)
points. Wallace boxed well, and his coolness and deliberation were crew had been in training for three most perplexing. or four weeks for the scratch eights, decided over the mile course, but The first half consisted of five the English (Mr. Brown's) events, including an_ exhibition crew was only completed at bout by Peake and E. Berthet the last moment, and included The other bouts resulted as fob! two Danes. The American crew lows took the lead at the start and kept Tony Francos (115 Ib.) beat Ray-head throughout, winning comfort-mond Britto (112 Ib.). ably by three lengths, in 5 min. 40 R. H, Gale (162 Ib.) beat E. J. sec. The English crew rowed well, Brown (159 Ib). This was very but suffered from lack of training good bout, and in the first round together. The crews were:—Brown showed cleverness in ducking and side-stepping.
Mu. Newaan's Eronr.
J.J. Corbet (131 Ib.) beat J.
Bow—V. Olsen 2—C. P. McKiornan E. Cameron (123 Ib.). Cameron was the favourite, but it was soon 4—W. E. Sauer evident that he had met " much'
5-W. B. Miller better man. The gong saved 6—T. H. Aschmana him in the first round, after Lancaster he had been sent to the floor)" five times, and in the second the fight was awarded to Corbett, who was an easy winner.
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