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Show YANKEES TOO FAST Defeat Crack Crew of Oarsmen on Mau- retania. New York, July 23. There Is a boat crew aboard the steamship Mauretania that until yesterday believed be-lieved it could out-row any other boat crew that ever pulled oarB. When tho German squadron was ln this port the Mauretania crew wanted to row the Teutons but for some reason the kaiser's sailors declined to row against the liner's men. This week the Yankee life-savers on the Hudson river piers got together togeth-er a scratch crew and manned one of the Mauretanla's lifeboats to give the Britishers a run. The distance staked off was a triflo more than a mile. The race began at C:30 o'clock ln the afternoon. Each crew pulled at the rate of thirty-nine strokes a mln-nate mln-nate but at the middle of the course the boat rowed by tho Americans was in the lead and when the finlBh stake was reached there were two boat lengths of gTeon water between the Yankees and their crestfallen challengers. chal-lengers. "Them as goes to sea 'aint always the best rowers," was the longshoremen's longshore-men's comment. |