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'ml YACHT CLUB CRUISE. THE CORONA AND THE ASTOR COT FOR iCBOONERS. BELIEVED THAT SHE WILL HAVE A WALKOVER IF THE AMOKITA AND THE QUISSETTA DO NOT ENTER. Yachtsmen seem to think that the Astor Cup for schooners is going to the flagship Corona this year in what will be practically a walkover If the Amorita and the Quissetta do not enter. But the.

Quissetla is reported to be preparing for the racing, and has received a new mainsail from Raiser, in England. The Amorita has been out on the ways at the Robert Jacob yards. City Island, for several and went off yesterday. She will not be present at the rendezvous of the club at Glen Cove to-morrow, but may meet the fleet at an Eastern port. So far as the performance of the schooners this year indicates the probabilities, the Astor schooner $1,000 cup is the Amoritas if she sails for it.

accidents barred, as she beat the Colonla (now the Corona) last year on almost even terms, and she is much better this year than she was last. She has beaten the Quissetta in every race this year, and unless the new mainsail is wonder she can do it again. Now that The Tribune has exclusively shown that ihe fleet of 70-footers will be ready for the best racing of the cruise, and. as iliustratcd by repairs to the Mineola, can hive its recent damages rectified by temporary patchwork on the outside, it may be added that this fleet will have to meet w. O.

M-tooter Athene, finished by the Herreshoffs las'. fail. The Athene is much the same kind of boat as those la the fleet, and she hus received a number of improvements to fit her for the coming tussle. William Gay is a member of the club, and no amount of private agreement as to excluslveness in the salltnp of a one design fleet can prevent him from sailing for the Astor $500 cup for staple mast.i! veaeds and yawls. The four Newport seventies will have to meet the fifth Herreshoff seventy, and this is goinK to add a new and keen interest 10 this as the Athene has so far remained an unknown quantity.

Her owner is an accomplished yachtsman, ami it is not likely that ho would undertake lhe large expense of fitting the new yacht for the racing field unless he had satisfied himself that his chances were reasonably Rood. The seventies, however, have no such mortgage on the Astor Cup as may lead any one to think that the winning of it lies in this fleet. This cup race promises to be the greatest contest of the year, with many entries, and the man who could pick the winner at this stage of the game would have to be the best product of many generations of prophets. From the thorough testing that the Kar.an boys gave the Astrild at Newport lately, when this boat was sailed in company with the seventies, or at least near enough to gauge speeds, it is certain that they have their opinions on the subject, and if the Astrild can fairly hold the new fleet in fresh breezes it Is certain that the Isolde tan do slightly better with them in similar Besides these, and not counting the lately imported Hester, which Is admitted to be comparatively slow. there are the new Herreshoff fifty-ones and Shark and the Gardner design Syce, all of which can make the seventies hustle to plve them the required time allowance.

The GO-footer Queen Mab will perhaps not be running, but if she enters and gets the weather hard enough she will be finishing the course when the frail seventies are tied up in port. The Mali is a real yacht, and If the new fleet tries to May out With her in an easterly gale she can simply drown them. In 1 light weather contest the design Hebe, owned and sailed by J. Ropers Maxwell, win look for a large time allowance when railing at 43 feet racing length, and the Gardner design of the same class, will be there or Thereabouts if the airs move moderately. These last two are exceedingly fast boats, and they will get such a large.

allowance that either of them may win. even though almost out of sight when the first boat in finishes. The intense Interest in the coming races is therefore attracting large fleets to the New- York Yacht club cruise, which la going to gather strength as it proceeds eastward. Some of the Eastern boats will not come all the way westward to the rendezvous at Glen Cove to-morrow, but will meet the fleet later on. and at Newport the numbers of cruising vessels carrying the white starred red cross on the blue ground -n ill be greatest.

The first race will to-morrow, when the yachts will sail to Huntlr.gton Bay. twenty-one miles, on Tuesday the run will be to Morris Cove and on Wednesday to New-London. Prom the latter port the fleet will sail forty miles to Newport on Thursday. leaving again on Friday for Vineyard Haven, retracing the thirty-seven miles to Newport on Saturday. There will be nothing on Sunday, anrl on Monday the races or the Astor Cops will be the start being off the Brenton Reef Lightchip FLAT OR BAGGY SAILS.

THTS IS A QUESTION THAT IS AGITATING ENGLISH In Great Britain there is still a good deal of doubt to the relative merits of sails that sit flatly end those which are baggy. Robert McMillan, failmaker, cf Gourock, lately had an order to canvas a whole fleet of closely restricted 26-foot Clyde yachts. and he Intentionally one of them, the Mem Sahib, a mainsail that bagged like a pocket. The owner and were rlisjjusied. but the Mem Sahib, which bad not previously showri any exceptional turn of speed, proved to be the only one of tho fleet which could hold her own v.icii this year's boats.

The result many yachtsmen a thakeun In their hard and fast opinions. and anotlM experiment is now In progress v.ith the new sVrater Fife design Ratpey put a. ail on this yacht which was judged to be the very worst he ever turned out. It bagged so bad that the firs- ten feel of its kept fanning the wind all the time when the craft was close hauled. Th big clubtopsail never seemed to draw unless the boat had a ripping fall.

People have beer, waiting to see bow the sails could be coaxed into thape, but it now turns out that these sails were made on an agreement between Fife, and Ratsey to (rive this question a full trial. The other Cornter ordered from Fife has not come out. and trials of the Khan a have not been with vessels Of h. own class, so that the point is for Englishmen, undecided; but there has much heated discussion on the point, one party contendir.g that the Kiiama the fastest craft ever built la Var others arguing that the old Isolde down give her cards a spades and leave her hull Wy 6ails bet er than Bat ones, and if and ('( rigging can gain a victory the canvas away off to leeward, then have taken the Cop last year, tiit, just the man to go Into this experiment with Lhe Kfaaraa. All thrt.ugn the Shamrock's trials, and in the first of her rapes, he thought that a high a nOt cl filing would win The Tribune exclusively Pointed out to him that his boat not sail four points in her beating he admitted the truth of the report but still continued to think she could win through superior speed on a mere leeward course It is fairly F-afe to say that not on.

practical yachtsman lii America agrees with such views. relative values of flat baggy canvas have been proved f-etree of times in Beet of Newport social thirties a strictly one-design class, in which every owner discovered that he had no chance of winning es as his overused canvas bagged. THE 'RAFT AND THOME WHO SAIL THEM. VantferMK's jn-footer, ti). Kalnhow, is on the dry dork at Providence and it It reported that Bhe will there a good while.

The yachts of the New-Haven Yacht Club are on a cruise, with Commodore Morton F. Plant, on the flagship Ingomar, In The fleet also has Judge Coe's schooner, the Southern Cross, and Charles Child's the Titanla; the Trinket Vi flr the Gil st R. McAllister; the W. 8. WayJand: the Mai.

F. F. Brewster- HMH 8 Wayl the Kathryn. H. the Madrlne.

Walter Ferguson, and the yawl Rival, owned by F. F. Hammer. The following officers have been elected by the Point of Woods Yacht Club: Commodore. X.

Clay Fr-rris; vice-commodore. John C. Dempsey; rearcommodore; H. M. firewater, secretary; rover feumnrr; treasurer, C.

A. WiUetts, fleet capu r- ft: chairman -Regatta Commit Su-, Ii Jiob bin Board of Governors Dr Town W- Wlld W. J. Orlffen. W.

R. Robbins and Eugene V. Brewster The Queoa yacht, the Victoria and Albert, has bees) launched at after receiving xalteratione for ihe purpose of reducing her and getting the machinery iower in BU. The launch was successful, and the now floaie In a way to suggest that when Bh 18 iL ftr mMls arjd other topweights on she will be sufficiently stable in the water Walter C. Hubbard, of the New- York Yacht Club has had his centreboard yawl Paladin hauled out at Frank Wood shipyards.

City Inland aHered!" overhauled and The 89-foot steam yacht Rlalto. formerly called toe Bakonnet. has been chartered by Andrew Lean, of the Larchmont V'acht Club to Im.a,- i Jeanes, of Philadelphia. JSaac Toe schooner ya'-ht, longed to X. Weaver, has been sold for dtijt at Auckland.

The Norms hrs been purchased by K. nf Sydney. Now South Wales, and wiil now be used ns a trader. The scbootfsr yacht Ivanhoe, which was built at Northport in 1894. has been purchased by J.

EL Bawyer. of Paststt. from George H. Beeley. of New-York Yacht Clttb, nnd is now on her way to Boston.

The Ivanhoe a centreboard vessel, measuring over all. At Tebo's Barm. South Brooklyn, the auxiliary brigantlnc Satanella is being fitted out for the use of her owner, Perry- Belmont, of the New-York Yacht who will snil in her during the annual cruise of that club, to begin August 6. Charles Ar.cus. of this city, has bought the sloop Volante from Vaight, of the New-Rocheile Yacht Club.

Tiro vessel Nt Wew-Rochslle. where she lias been prepared commission. The new m.iinsnll Wttch whs ordered from Ratsey Lapthorne, in linnland, for the schooner yacht Qulsaetts has arrived at Providence. This is the seesad new mainsail that the owner, H. K.

Llppitt, has given to this racer this year in an endeavor to the besi possible with the bout. The mainsail so used could not be made to do the proper work. Mr. Onrdner. the designer of 'he Qulcsettg.

attributes lhe defeats at the hands of the Amcrlta chiefly to the bad lit of the mainsail used tills year. The new snll Is the best thut Ratney can turn out. At Providence It Is reported that Captain Harry Haff is preparing the schooner for the New-York Yacht Club cruise. If this is true the vessel Is Intended to race for the Astor Cup for schooners, valued at The Quissetta's topsails have been trimmed a little, but no other THE MANHATTAN BICYCLE SQUAD STARTIXG OUT ON PATROL DUTY, FIFTY-SEVENTHST. AND BROADWAY.

new sails will be put on her. The new mainsail is the samf size as the previous one. The eleventh annual regatta of the Horseshoe Harbor Yacht Club will be sailed over the club courses off l.archmont on Saturday. August IS. and the start will be 11:30 m.

The regatta open to different classes of yachts of 36-feet lacing k-ngth and less. H. Van Rensselaer Kennedy's yawl Petrel hap rx-en at Bristol in the last being fitted with a suit of This 78-foot over-all vessel Is a commodious cruiser with a 56.2 foot waterllne and 14 feet beam As a keel craft she draws nine feet watei and it is expected that she Tvill be back in time to Join the cruise her cluh. which starts to-morrow from Qlen Cove. The raci between the sloops Portia and Gyptey for which had been under proposal for some time, was sailed or the Souni last Sunday, resulting In a win by the Gyp6ey, with a lead of twenty Notwithstanding much persona! evidence 1 the contrary, lurther unwelcome Information concerning tho damageil condition of ihe Newport 70s continues to o-inir It', and it is now reported that when the Rainbow, belonging to Cornelius Vanderbilt.

was hauled out Providence her stem was fruml t(. be broken near the waterllne, and that she bad opened out that region to the extent of an Inch, and i half through the great upward strain. It la also that the planking in the after part of vessel had opened. A member of the New-York Yacht ruib has orderod a new to be by the Herrer-hoffs on the same design as 11. Kavemeyer's Pleasure.

The yacht will have a waterllne length of 46 feet and over-all oi 7" feet The Bristol people have begun the work on boat. Thr centreboard sloop Pleasure here referred to wa? launched In lnst week for H. v. Havemeyrr, of Xew-York. She is an extreme boat in repnrd to her draught, drawing only 2 7 Inches of water, posseenlug an over-all length of 70 feet.

Her rline length is 46 feot 8 inches and is in feet. Mr. Havemeyer will use her In Great South and i 1 the Bound racing. The American challenger Minnesota, which Is now In of races for the Beawanhaka ''vi) at St. Louis, near Montreal, is a type, and cannot be easily compared with the Canadian boatf Ins to d'Hii an estimate of her speed.

In outline th Minnesota tapers much man than any of the designs, and she Is much more expensively built, ing in natural wood colors and varnished. The principal difference In shape is thai the American craft la ten inches narrower than the defender. A high polish was pm on bottom of the Minnesota Before the first idherea to the old system of pivir.K a highly polished blacfcleadlng the bottoms of his racers, and he has reason to think that there Is better. Dr. and Clement Cleveland, who sailed from New-York on thf yacht Niagara with Mr.

and Howard Gould, have left Paris for England, where the will takr ship fur America. The historic old schooner yacht Madeleine, which successfully propped the- America's Cup when Major Gifford's Countess of Dufferin shook the pedestal In 1576. has been sold as a trader to the West Indies by John S. Dlckerson, of the New- York Yacht Club. This trustworthy old vessel now lies at where she will be altered to .1 keel bout before being taken south.

The fine- keel sloop Adelaide, belonging to Gordon Bennett Douglas, has been overhauled and launched from Wood's yards. City Island, to be put ii: commission after a rest of three years. The Adelaide was one of the- first of th' Herreshoff fin keel sloops, and is said to have been built on the order of C. Oliver Iselln. Messrs.

Tarns. Ixmoine Crane has bought as agents for a New- York yachtsman the steam yacht Admiral, lately owned by John D. Crlmmlns. This vessel was used as a hospital aid in the war with Spain, and was stationed at Key West. The Philadelphia sloop Fidclio and the sloop Banshee, owned by former Commodore Doacher, of the Yacht Club, have been hauled out on the ways at the Robert Jacob yards.

City Island, to have their underbodies attended to. SHARK TAKES! SLEEPY ANGLER'S BAIT. Alderman Peter Ehrhart, of Jersey City, while out fishing on Newark Bay yesterday hooked a large shark and narrowly escaped being dragged overboard. Ehrhart accompanied by Policeman John Donnelly and William Hleber, and as the fish were not biting well all three fell asleep. Khrhart tied his line around his wrist, and he.

was awakened by a sudden jerk on the line. He lost balance and his shouts awakened his companions, who taw the fin of a shark not ten feet away. The line was cut and the shark away, but not until he had dragged the boat and the anchor several hundred yards. A number of sharks have been notlcod -in New-York Bay and Newark Bay during the last few weeks. THIEVES WHISTLED WHILE THEY WORKED The Jersey City police were notified yesterday that a bold robbery was perpetrated Thursday at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Cavanagh, No. 89 Grlftith-ht. while the family was absent. The thieves were iMren by neighbors, who thought that they were delivering goods at the house.

There were three of them, and they whistled a popular air while they forced one of the doors. A silver watch a ring, a gold locket, two gold medals and other articles of value were taken. The thieves helped themselves to a dinner before they left the premises. TO ATTEND MILITARY TOVBXAMKNT. At the last meeting of the Hoard of Officers of the 4ih Regiment, N.

s. it was decided to two eonpanlM to the reglnent In the military tournament at Monmouth Park on August 24 and 2i. A Nature of the meeting was the presentation of a handsomely framed portrait to oloricl R. Smith. The portrait shows Colonel Smith mounie.i on the charger Kritz and waa j.reaeiut.ii i.y Cojnpanj of Bayonno NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE.

SUNDAY. AUGUST 5, L9OO. THE BICYCLE POLICEMAN. HOW BE CAME INTO EXISTKNCE. AND THE EXCELLENT WORK HE DOES.

THE WHEEL FOR PATROLMEN SUGGESTED BY GENERAL AVERT D. ANDREWSSCORCHING ALMOST STOPPEDDEEDS OF BRAVERY. Persons who know well the fact that ward politics in New-York Is responsible for the appointment of many of the servants of the city can rejoice that such politics is said to have played little part In the organization of the bicycle police squad. Possibly there are some policemen who look upon "Dick" Croker as the greatest man in the metropolis of America, but the patron saint of the bicycle policemen General Avery D. Andrews.

It was General Andrews, an enthusiastic wheelman himself, who originally, as a member of the Police Board of this city, suggested the bicycle squad, a department of the police service which has done excellent service for several years. It has been said that when General Andrews first suggested the squad to his coworkers on the Police Board they winked at each other, called him a "bike crank." tolerated the suggestion at first, and then agreed to try it. most of them firmly convinced that the pcheme to put policemen on bicycles would amount to nothing, and that the patrolmen would be back walking on their posts in a few weeks. That is how the bicycle squad in New-York got a start, a thing that has been copied in various cities and found to furnish one of th most efficient and praiseworthy annexes of the police force. The squad in this borough was orgmnised in ISJWT, and it consisted of four men.

three of whom are still in the service. They are John Lake, a. W. Brown and J. J.

(iillks. all roundsmen. Brooklyn also has a bicycle squad under the joint command of John J. Collins and W. F.

Boeltler. The present force in Brooklyn consists of twenty-five men, nearly double the number of a year ago, yet in the opinion of those who ought to know not half large enough to cover properly the large territory across the Bridge which they are expected to look after. More men could be used on the popular boulevards and wheelwayp, especially on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. Both Collins and Boeltler admit that fnrce should be larger. The New-York squad took headquarters at No.

I. Broadway on June 16. the body of nun at that time numbering forty-eight Now the force numbers ninety, consisting of four sergeants, four roundsmen, eighty patrolmen and two specials. Thomas McCormlck is the head of the force in this borough. He Is more than fifty years old, but rides a bicycle v.ith the speed and precision of some of the youngest men in his department.

MeCormiek was known years ago as "Terror Mack," for the efficient work he "Heirs Kitchen." He a terror to thieves, and he can show many marks received in hLs encounters with the ruttians of that district. McCormiek does not lay much stress on the Queen's English, but when he starts out after a thief, either on a bicycle or on his recor.i shows that he generally nabs his man. The post run of the bicycle squad, as it Is called, at present extends from and Becond-ave. WoodUawn Cemetery, and the numbers of the squad patrol that entire district every day. The little station house in upper Broadway is not unlike the regulation police staattempts THE VESPER EIGHT PREPARING FOR FINAL PRACTICE SPIN BEFORE GOIXG ABROAD.

tion. except that It is full of it differs from the other station houses only in that the are not compelled to sleep there and no prisoners are ever locked up In it. The men are separated Into two divisions. The men of the first report for duty at a. and after going through a simple drill in the station march by twos to the curb, mount their wheels at the word of command and quickly ride to their respective posts.

The other division goes on duty at 5 p. m. and returns at midnight. The hours of labor are not so long as those of the regular policeman, and it in said to be the ambition of f-very young polfetmstl In the city to on the squad. Ordinary repairs to wheels and are BMUst at the Htatlon the wheels going bark 10 the factory only when extensive are needed, such as twisted and forks and broken rims.

A veteran member or In talking with a Tribune reporter terday, lot Is not sin, ure bj anj The duties ol our position require Hiat must ever on the alert Our duttet at rirei mainly to atop scorching: and see that the rules of the road were obeyed. Those duties have increased wonderfully during the last few years. To-day real scorching below the Harlem Bridge is practically unknown. We pursued those fast riders so relentlessly that they found In time that If they wished to endanger their own lives and the lives of other people they could do so only outside the city There is more wheeling to-day than was the case a year ago. We are on the roads all the time and we know this.

Some of our men have done good service recently in chasing automobiles. The owners of the autocars have found, as the scorchers did, that the bicycle policeman knew speed when he saw it, and that he possessed enough of It to slop it in others. We all ride the same make of wheel to-day, and the handlebars of each machine must be of the same sort. We expect to get different wheels next season. John Schuessler is the ra ing man of the department.

He has won many races during the last two yearn, and there is talk of matching him against Houslr. of the Bnok'yn squad, 'n a series of races. Llebold. an old racing man, a member of the Riverside Wheelmen, takes no further Interest in racing. Charles Murphy, who rode a mile behind a locomotive in less than a minute.

Is an applicant for a place on the force in Brooklyn. The bicycle policeman is frequently seen at all large gatherings at night, and is always a conspicuous figure at the pretentious prize fights. He is selected for this duty on account of his athletic ability, youth and agility. Members of the squad have done splendid service at fires and. in making daring to stop runaways.

F. J. Kavanaph has received a medal and bar for meritorious service. Bchuessler has received two medals, and I). .1 Fogarty, Thomas Slatery, George M.

Ross. Richard O'Connor and John D. Ormsby one each, P. (J. Reilly was mentioned by the Police Hoard for his daring work In saving lives at a lire.

toe of most daring feats performed by a member of the squad fell to Kavanagh. He stopped a runaway in a driving rainstorm in First-avf. Those who have ridden a bicycle over the slippery asphalt can realize what that means. Tn Riverside Drive, a few days later. Kavauagh tried to stop a runaway team, and the borsas, truck, policeman and bicycle crashed together into stone coping.

KavanaKh was so badly injured that he was on the hospital list for a long time. Three nf his ribs were broken. CONDITION OF THE ROADS. RKPORTS INDICATE GOOD CONDITIONS FOR WHEELING TO PAT. The reports received at the headquarters of the League of American Wheelmen show that the roads are as a general thing in excellent condition.

With clear weather to-day the outpouring of riders of the wheel promises to be large. According to the report- sent in, all the train roads of Queens and Nassau counties are in excellent condition; rain of the last week ha.s left them fiee from dust and all repairs are in good shape. These roads cover the territory from bong Island City and Brooklyn to Amityville. on the South Shore; In the central section. Fnrmlngdale, Hicksvllle and Cold Spring.

The road through Islip and Oakdale is tine, and the improved slilcpath through Patchogue and Brookhaven to Moriches Is excellent riding. There is a side and edge path through to Quogue. and from Quoguo to East Quogue the road is in first class shape, as Is also the sldepath. Between Quogue and Good Ground the riding is fair, with the exception of a short stretch where there is an edgepath which Is very good. The new sidepath across the Shinnecock Hills to Southampton is being used ex- naively by wheelmen.

It affords an excellent view all around, and the scene is delightful. winding cycle path from Bridgehampton to Easthampton, through the woods, is pretty riding, but the path la somewhat narrow and It only in fair condition There is a good cycle path from Sag Harbor through North Haven to the Shelter Island The Shelter Island cycle path is in good shape, and brings rider to the ferry at Greenport. Tho cycle path from Bayshore, through Brent Wood to Smlthtown. which runs a great portion of the way through private property. is in good riding shape, and affords a short run of great beauty The cycle path from Selden to Lake Ronkonkoma la excellent.

On Hancock-st. between Howard aril Ralph ayes. there are no less than eight In the asphalt, all of which are four or five feet in diameter. These holes have been In dangerous condition for four or five weeks past, the contractor who caused them to be dug has neglected to have them properly repaired, and wheelmen cautioned to beware of these holes at night. is a dangerous crossing at the junction of Jamaica and Kushwick ayes.

the raised car tracks and the uneven stones have, caused numerous accidents and as Jamatca-ave. Is really the connecting link between the roads of Long Island and Brooklyn, this condition of affairs should be remedied without delay. Park Commissioner Brower and his associates are to be congratulated upon the way in which they have rectified the condition of aiTalrs at the Park Rest. The benches and racks are now arranged to as to do away with the congestion caused by the congregation of cyclers and bicycles at this section. The macadam roads of are good and the oa(ls fair, earth roads of Cornwall are In good condition, with little or no dust and no mud whatever.

Th. roads In the vlcinty of Matteawan afford good riding, although there. Is not much wheeling Indulged in In that section The lam roads of Newark washed off and In Perfect shape: earth roads are fair to good, me roads of Montclalr, N. .1 are In good condition ror riding; the local ordinances are Htrlctly enforced, espeolally the speed limit. The roads in the vlcinty are all good.

The macadam roads of Hsckensack are line, but dusty In the northern part of Bergen County the roads heavy with dust. There Is no sldepath riding In this Whetlmon are warned to be caremi riding throuKli the Saddle River Valley at night. A patrol has been organised on account of the numerous burglaries In this lection; and the ifjildenta art- siisploloua of ill strnnuers. The Btaten land loads are In the best Ot rkllnj on uitiun all over the Island. ROWING.

HOPES OF THE VESPER OARSMEN FOR SUCCESS RECORDS. -Edward Hanlan Ten EycU's refusal at the last moment to accompany the American oarsmen to Paris caused keen disappointment In rowing circles all over the country. In the minds of many people uninitiated into the mysteries of rowing it has also created the Impression that this country will be poorly represented In the international races at This Impression, fortunately, Is not well grounded. Of course, the absence of Ten Eyck In the single sculls Is a great loss, but It does not weaken the chances of the Americans to win the eight oared and the lour oared shell races, and probably not even the double sculls, because It is hardly likely that Ten Eyck would have rowed In any of these crews if he had gone abroad with them. To reassure the public that the absence of Ten Evck has not precluded the possibility of the Americans being victorious In any of the International races, except perhaps the single sculls.

It can be said that, in the opinion of the rowing world, the men who sailed on Wednesday constituted the best general representatives of rowing talent in this country that could be gathered. The Vesper eight that went from the City has never defeated, and It Is purely American from bow to stern. Every member of it It a Simon pure amateur, and he will do everything In his power to carry the Stars and Stripes to victory. Whether the c-ew succeeds In winning at Paris or not it will always be famous in the annals of rowing from Its past victories. Therefore the rowing fraternity of the country feels Justified In expecting these sturdy oarsmen to be equally successful with Americans In other branches of athletics abroad this year.

Each member of the famous Vesper eight has an interesting history as an oarsman. The makeup of the crew and the age, weight and height of each member are as follows: Height. Ago. Weight. Ft.

In. RJwln Hedley, bow 3.11 Edward Marsh. No. 2 iM 5.8 Roacoe C. Lockwood, No.

MB 5.11*4 William J. Carr, No. 4 IM ISS B.o}, John F. GelKer. No.

5 25 MB 6.2' i James B. Juvenal. No. 2fi r. Henry TH Baecke, No.

7 22 MO 6.1 John Exley. stroke 32 IC4 B.Hi L. C. Abell. coxswain 120 S.J»S The average weight of the eight oarsmen Is 166 pounds.

Every member of the crew, with the single exception of Lockwood, wa born in Philadelphia, and he first saw the light In New-Jersey, only a short distance away. This crew has never been beaten, and has won five races this year. eight also includes the Vesper four-oared shell crew, which Is as follows: De Baecke. bow; Marsh, No. Carr, No.

3, and Exley. stroke. There is also the double scull crew, Hedley and Juvenal. A peculiarity about this crew is that every man it is a sculler, and its success consequently into a cocked hat" the pet theory of many people that scullers, as a rule, cannot row An exception to this class is the elder Ten Eyck, who recently asserted that he would rather have a lot of scullers than any other material of which to turn out a winning Every man in Vesper eipht has bis; things in the rowing a.s will be seen by the following short sketch of each: John Exley is conceded to he one of the greatest strokes that ever pulled an oar. Although he did not begin to row until he was twenty-six years old.

six years ago, he immediately jumped Into prominence as an oarsman of grf-at ability. He joined the Gray's Ferry Rowing Association, and won his first rocs, the junior singles, at the People's Regatta, on the Schuylkill. In He also WOO in the four oared junior gig on same day and in the intermediate sculls and doubles. In all he has rowed in forty-four races, winning forty of them, mostly senior sweeps. He was a member of the Pennsylvania Barge Cluh until a year ago.

when he joined the Vesper men as stroke. Since he went to the Vesper club he has not lost a race, but has strokfd his brother oarsmen to straight victories as follows: Fight and four senior shells in Passaio River Regatta, eight and four In the Harlem lilver Regatta. June four and pair oared In the Schuylkill Navy Regatta, at Philadelphia. June 23: eight and four In the Peoples Keg.uta. July 4.

and two eights, tout and a pair oared in the National Regatta. July 19 20 and PfcJf VT ilr rlsl rs that Exley is the pride of the hiladelphla rowing fraternity. His record is one to be proud of. His kindly disposition and his marvellous way of timing his stroke to best suit his men has endeared him to all his rowing associates uniil a man could argue with them for a year and he would be unable to convince them that Kxley was not the greatest oarsman who ever sat In a boat. Edwin Hedley began rowing in lfcSl with the Vesper Boat lub.

With I. Parke. of the same club he won the senior doubles in the National Regatta on Saratoga Lake In UM against fifteen other crews. He has won forty-eight open prises mostly senior si nX and doubles. James Juvenal joined the Pennsylvania Barge Club in 1593 and transferred his allegiance to the Boat Club last winter.

He has won about rt rr ce ln open r-Kattas. He defeated Joseph McOulre. th- great Boston scalier, in the senior singles In the Harlem Regatta in 1897. and he has yon three National rhamplonshlps in the eights He defeated Jotin Rumohr in the singles at the People's Regatta this year. Edward Marsh began rowing with the Malta Boat Club in OK, At tho end of the season he joined the esper club.

He has rowed in about thirty races, mostly sculls. Marsh and Frederick Cresser won the International championship in the doubles in Canada, and the following year Marsh defeated Donegan in the senior singles at Newark. Marsh and Crasser, defeated Juvenal and Van Vliet twice ln senior doubles UK. Marsh went over to the Pennsylvania Barge Club In a member of the dubs senior eight, which won the NationaUchampionship that year. In the following year he rowed in the eigbi and four of the same club and won at the.

National Regatta. He re- turned to his old love. the Vesper club this year as a member of Ha famous eight CO Look wood Is an all round athlete as a K. "5 San rowing in 1196 with he ir st adel PhJa Boat Club and quickly took himself into fame. He was graduated from the ranks in UM at Washington by winning Junior singles.

In the same year In the Intermediate singles at Saratoga he finished second to Close and hard (ought race, Ms goo.i scullers finishing behind him He won the 2 doubles with Purvince at Philadelphia in IKS and stroked the Vesper Junior eight to victory aln9t other crews on Naw Day at Philadelphia this year. He was then put In the senior right and lias rowe.l in three victorious races with It Although only twenty-three years old. Lock wood spent a year and a halt In Alaska, where lie 'struck it so rich" that he can afford to the rest of his life paddling In any old beat. He prefers, however, to work hard as a member of the great Vesper eight. Henry De Baecke rtrst rowed with the Kalrmount Rowing Association in 189 ft.

The. following year he joined Vesper club. lie ha- won eighteen races, mostly He is a senior having won Junior and Intermediate singles on the Same day at Pitts burg last year, he rows No 7 In the Vesper eight and bow in four; also bow In the pair oared shell with John K. i has rowed with the Vesper men Since ami has won about ton r.ices. mostly eights and fours.

He la a yachtsman and a member of ihe water polo teara of the Unlver-4lty of Pennsylvania. He is football player and expects to play centre on the team next Mason. William J. Carr began his rowing career with the America Boat Club seven years ago, and four years later he Joined the Vesper club. He fa senior sculler, lie won in the doubles with Georsrt Loeffler.

and has won eighteen race 3in all. He so modest that he would not have anything more said about him. L. C. Ahell has been coxswain of the Vrsiwr crew for eight years, and has steered the eight la all Its victorious races.

ALL EYES ON CRESCFXS. GEORGE ETCH AM GREAT TROTTER MAY BE THE COMING CHAMPION. By his remarkable performance at the Columbus Grand Circuit meeting last week the chestnut stallion Cresceus supplanted The Abbot In the estimation of horsemen as the most promising trotter In training for prospective championship honors. At- present he Is more talked about than any harness in the country, and uppermost topic among followers of trotting is, "Will Cresceus heat the records of Dlrectum and Ever since Lady Suffolk trotted the first to sulky in 2.30. back in the trotting championship, as measured by minutes and seconds, has been a coveted distinction.

Th? horse that holds fastest record prominence which r.o amount of success In raring agii.iit other horses seems sufficient to create. 3o thoroughly is the Interwoven in the system of harness racing that the prestige of having trotted a mile faster than any other horse ever has done gives worldwide fame to the animal that does it and makes nis owner an important person la the wcrld. Enduring renown carried with th- title "King of th- Tuft." which that the horse to It 1' rigs has surpassed the performances of a'l predecessors and HI up a new advance line in progress of the breed. Hence the continued effort to lower the record and the always keen interest In any horse that so far wins his way to the front as be considered a candi.Ut* the championship. Just now Cresceus holds this interesting place among trotters.

As to what he will do, that is another story, for of all the charming uncertainties of life those of the turf still hold pre-eminence. His past is as Interesting as are his prospects, and his owner is about as interesting as the horse. The great young stallion belongs to George H. Ketcham. Eight or ten years ago Mr.

Ketchaia was one of the wealthiest residents of Toledo. Ohio, and though he was then on the suiwy side of thirty he was reputed to be a multi-millionnalre. He liked horses, and bought some of the bast trotters In the country. He paid to William E. Spier, of this city.

a long price for Robert McGregor. 2:17 1 4. one of the best stallions on the trotting turf twenty years ago and one of the greatest of sires. From Major P. P.

Johnston. president of the Natloral Trotting Association, he bought the bay mare. Miss Llda. whose record was then Mr. Ketcham trained her and drove her himself under the tutelage of John Splan.

and after giving her a record of he sold her to H. O. Havemeyer. About the time that brought out Miss Lida and bought Robert McGregor, a big black mare known as Anderson's Nightingale was sweeping everything before her in the Grand Circuit. She won the $10,000 M.

and race at Detroit, the JS.WO race at Buffalo, the Cfl.ooo Charter Oak Stakes at Hartford, and enough other races to make her the biggest winner of the year. She was not bred in the height of fashion, her being an obscure horse called Osgood's Patches, while her dam was a little old blemished black mare. Mabel by name, that was by General E. L. Howard's Mambrino.

a son of Mambrino Chief. Mabel was owned in Toledo by Jar Dortty. breeder of Nightingale. "Walter Magee. then ln the employ of Ketcham and now the manager of James McCreery's delivery service, bought her for the Ketcham farm for less than $100.

It is said that his employer was not pleased with the purchase, but he bred her to Robert McGregor following year, and in the spring of 1334 she foaled the chestnut colt now known as Cresceua. The three-year-old campaign of Cresceus won ths admiration of all horsemen for the colt and brought down a shower of criticism on his quasi-aasateur trainer and driver. Ketchazn's methods were certainly startling. At Springfield. Ohio, one week: after Cresceus had trotted his first race at Tiffln.

Ohio, he was started twice in one day, finishing second to Minnie McGregor in one race nd then defeating Senator L. in After days rest he was to start again at the same meeting, and was beaten again -by Minnie McGregor ia This looked like a severe ordeal for a three-year-old, but his performance at the Grand Circuit meeting on August indicated that he had only been jogging in his previous races. Starting against a big field of aged campaigners of high class, the great three-year-old finished second to Pat Watson in and -H. His race at Fort one week later, was one of the most remarkable races ever won by a colt of his age. Such agofl horses at Eagle Flanagan dr.

4 The Monk were among the thirteen starters. Heats were trotted in the remarkable- times of 4 1 2 12. 2:1114 and Cresceus won the last three heats after rlnUhlns" second to the winners of the second, third and fourth rounds. After this contest Crescswl was shipped to Syracuse, where he won from a big field on the half-mile track at Kirk Park, and then went to Boston, where he won in the 2:30 class at the Grand Circuit meeting, outfootine such old horses as Mediumwcod. Edmonla.

Charley G. and Emily in and 4 At Flettwood the following week he defeated the crack tfcreeyear-oW' trotters American Belle and Thorn, but the former turned the tables on him at Portland. on September SI, winning the second, and fourth heats after Cresceus had taken the first in 2:12. The colt threw out a curb about this time. In consequence of which he was retired for the season.

His campaign in IS3B did not fulfil th- brilliant promise of his three-year-old form. Starting first at Detroit- he won a cheap race in slow time. At Cleveland he lowered his record to 2.09-V but Tommy Britton defeated him in the race, owing cbJefir. however, to the careless driving of Kt-: rn. OaiT two races were placed to his credit during campaign, and in neither one did ha cijual If Fort Wayne performance as a three-year-old.

was then the common belief among horsemen tbat too much had been taken out of him as a three jei? year-old, and that he would never train on very low record. At the close of the campaign was consigned to one of the bis auction Madison Square Garden, where he was osiensiSiT sold for $15,000. But the colt went back to breeder, who still owns htm. His early year gave little promise of improvement, and Tommy Britton him Cleveland meeting, where he made hia first start. and Britton defeated mm.

again at though In faster time. By the time. Glens was reached Cresceus had struck his pait. and trotted there In in winning from and Louise Me. After winning" another race Boston and meeting with an unaccountable at Hartford, he came to New-York for the stallion race at Empire city Park, litre he his second heat in with such e.ise that horsey men at once pronounced him xo be the In training.

His last race In 1880 tS free for all at Lexington. Five heats were with Cresceus the contending horse in twry Dig save one. He forced Blnsei to the In 2:07 and the second In 2:09. and i cbwea The Abbot out In and For first time since Ketcham brought out tt-S wonderful trotter he gave him this year a careful preparation for the campaign. I was not kept in the stud, but was worked all winter and spring solely with a view to putting him In the best possible condition.

the time he started against Tommy Britton Plttsburg on July 4 he had trotted no fast but he was known to bo fine form. The chloasw stallion proved to be no match for him. and re won without beating 2:10. His next start at Cleveland, when? he defeated John Nolan. Boy.

Tommy Britton. Charley He it and in 2:074 and the fastest two heats eve. trotted by a stallion. This was less than weeks ago In his race at Columbus last he won the fastest three heats ever "2 i Stallion, stepping his first mile in repeatsin and coming back a third tin in the notch. The three heats average On iy four trotters have beaten the Columbus record of and Dim-turn is the only stallion them.

In year that Dlrectum gained mark or 4 he had not trotted faster tna" 2:10 up to the middle of Augu? Indeed, rot Aia Nancy Hanks. or Azote. equalled 3:06 at this stage of the oumpaisn in years when they made their goes well with the chestnut son of Robert Oregor. It is all but a foregone conclusion tfta? will yet Improve enough to out the ship record of Directuro. and good many men say he has a fljhtlng chance to beat ord of Alls His next engagement a race at Washington Park.

Chicago, inhere meet Tommy Britton again on next Saturday. t. resceus is one of the horses entered In $20,000 stallion race to be trotted at the land Breeders' meeting at Boston in 131 There is many a slip 'twist the cup and the nearly all the turfmen now he big race about as good won. barring It is said that Ketcham last week retojw 3 of for horse conditional winning the Boston stallion race. Individually.

Cresceus fills short of handsome horse, but viewed a raolaff he is almost without a fault in s'ructure. neck straight, hips are somewhat rouS" a.i« he lacks style. On the moat powerfully formed trotters in "Jack' Curry 3 hU mv.scular through the sttlfW profiling parts any boras be ever raw, Cremvus a to nut or sorrd. standing nearly 16 Tl action Is remarkably apparently when a moving at top speed He carries a iiV in his belns all the to the knees and the hocks. His owner him.

in raccw. an him ell his exercise. Mr that Crtscsus had never been driven a taalMr mile In bit work..