The Sunday herald., 1886-09-12
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The Columbia crews-ihat Is, for the senior and
light weight shells and fOur.0ared ggs-arc made up
the ssth in the Jig regatta The senior az now con
stituted is Mute stroke, Kondrup 3, Wade ., and
sloan I. Wade will steer from his No. seat. as he
did In 1884, this change being found necessary In
order to strengthen tho sides Of the boat. 1t 10
very strong crew and one that l,izes its power to
e TSo ss crew. viii Ss % s extra *
four men Of their eight:-Mackall !, simmons ..
Lewis 8. and Young !. y is not dlsparagng the
shell crew bit when we state that this four ranks
In speed with them. The light-wclghta steadily
improving and are receiving much attention from
by the Columbus Tor this class, and they viii make
the others row faster than ever before. ZeIger is
stroke. Woodward 3. Yates .. and smith bow. The
reen will stroke and Rudy MI bow scat II the crew
ID made up.
The regatta cOmmitteeat Its meeting on Tuesday
evening attended only TO routine business and laid
out plans for The great event OF the 2sh. The Sec
retary reported that from indications there would he
more outside entries thls year than ever before.
The next meeting takes place on Tuesday evening
aud will be at the Potomac house.
One Of the weather prophets predicts cyclone for
September 2s. Well, 1t would be strange II clear
weather and good water prevailed, as for several
years Hoods and freshets nave been encountered.
Perhaps the cyclone expected Will be visited upon
one Of the over-sanguine clubs OF this city In the
shape OF defeats.
Mai Iiains Will cooperate with the regatta COM
miee the d Of me regatta TO zee that free ond
bc moved out OF the way.
The Potomacs are seriously thinking OF asking the
loan from some friendly club Of a fonr-Oared gig,
u chance to row IN the regatta With such material
AZ MindeleG, Dickinson, Noordsy, Writ, Onney,
Sprage, and others there IL reason to believe that
they could produce very fair crew.
The regatta committee early last week saked and
Jagged the course, In order that those In training
might avail themselves OF the regular course. The
impression IA that the crew having the virginia
| M M IAfIt AL a na "a
seemingly run toward that shore. This IN not NO,
as the narrow bend In the stream makes this a me-
Cessity, for the mile and halfand II In full
too La az straight AZ 1t is possible to get It. SIN the
committee deserve thanks for hiking II no early.
The Analos,ans showed their colors last week very
often on tho water sight the members OF the other
cubs hailed with pleasure, for made II certain that
representative crews would be forthcoming Not u
pleasant afternoon passed that there wasn't al least
two crews out from this pioneer club composed
soon az Boyd returns home the latter crew Will i'm.
medately commence active work. and, IN the opinion
OF Mr.. Azpel one OF their best men, they will send
out very speedy and fast crew. Capt. Wright still
yearns for that junior crew, and II hard work
will accomplish 1t he VIII surely succeed, az he de-
or not they viii send senior crew out this year ii
is now certain, and we are extremely glad Of H.
that two crews at least will ny the Anaostan colorf
on september ~.
Friday and they were placed IN the boat yesterday
by Plaisted It's expected that they WIN help the
| rowing twenty seconds In speed.
Entries close for the regatta September ~, and
must he addressed to Mr.. w. w. Boarfnan, score
tary, COS street northwest
1he following reception committees bas been 80.
lected 10 assist the regatta committees IN the recep
lion Of and caring for vising oarsinen aud thelI
boats during race week: POtonnacs, w. ID. Writ, E
s. IIutchlls, and =. A. Apln; Colunbias, v. N.
Ward, Y. ID. johns, and w. H. Is, Atkinson; Analos-
tans ii. Il. barbour, Dr. Charles u. Kennedy, aIid
James NJ. Durant
The Fredericksburg Club Will send a Junior crew
here ON September ~. Jack Liitrcll viii be the
stroke, while the Hazard brothers and some new
man will MI the other seats. Littrell will also row
In the senior singles.
Cumberland uow owns the fine four cared shell
that formerly belonged to the Washington Club.
10 secnre llrst-cIass craft The Messrs Oulnber-
land, father aud son, have lust returned from a
yisll 10 Now York