Show River River- St Steamers amers Ready for Race Rac Over Ohio Course I CIl CI CINCINNATI AT 0 O. July 16 AP AP- AP With steam up and stokers standIng stand stand- standIng Ing lug by b the river river packets Tom Greene and Betsy Ann lay Jay moored at the Cincinnati levee today awaiting their renewal of the paddle paddie pad pad- dIe dle wheel ra races es of oC a 8 generation generaU n ago In a a. dash to New Richmond 0 O. twenty miles Trines upstream at 5 S o'clock this afternoon Tom Greene 25 Is I is master of the boat bearing his name naT and a d Frederick Fred Fred- erick crick Way ay Jr 28 28 is captain of the Betsy Ann They They- are ale the tho youngest successors suCcessors on the tho river to to men m n nf f famed m me L in the l lore ro of of- inland nd water traffic when it reached its heyday and each drew drew- his followers Vers But the setting of or their rivalry Ia lacked led m much ch of f th the c color lor of oC the earlier stern wheel heel competition Formerly l gamblers guaranteeing ng extra fuel costs promoted the races which were ere staged for forthe the dh diversion erlon of t passengers ers on on the long Tong tedious Journey lourney from Pl Pittsburg t to tc New Neti Orleans Orleana If fuel ran ran short there always was a a plentiful of or highly combustible hams barns to be fed fedo to o the boilers b and there was vas no thought of cost cos st Th Thousands of f dollars dot dol lars Lar changed hands hand and the daring pilots pilot crowded their steam chests Lo to o the limit to tog gain ln the highest possible pos pos- pos poe i sible honors of the river Greene who c comes of f C a a. a long line linet sf ot t rn mother n Mrs Mary Tary Greene as ns his hI's assistant She Is the only woman on the river holding a license p The boats race for a a. cup b by merchants of New Richmond The s sister ship of tod today's oday's ys contest contestant nt beat the tho tho Betsy BetsyAnn tan Ann nn in in- inthe the first renewal of tho thoraces thoraces thoraces' races races' races aces last year ear |