The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-07-19
ATHLETICS AND ROWING.

The big National regatta is but one month
distant.
The regatta committee commenced real
work last week.
President G. NJ. Fague, of the Potomac
Athletics, has been down to Piney Point for
weeks rest.
Mason, of the Potomacs, believes he is a
10 IS man and is going to train for the hun
dred yards at Baltimore.
Dodge, the FAST sprinter of the G. A. C.'s,
is getting in shape for the A. A. U. meeting
at Baltimore in September.
The Potomacs will give their third dancing
hop on Friday evening next. series of
shell races will precede the dancing.
Professor Crosley, the Instructor of the c.
A. c., has returned from his vacation tour
and the athletes are again commencing to
congregate at the Island.
The regatta committee is again urged to do
something in relation to bringing the Post and
Star cups back here to the city, in order that
our clubs might gain possession Of them.
The junior eight Of the Columbia Athletic
Club is rowing in splendid shape and IL they
continue the good work they will surely make
good showing at the Staten Island regatta
In September.
Captain Zappone, OF the Potomacs, has re-
ceived very complimentary letter from the
Passaic Navy, thanking him for the perfect
manner in which he judged their races on
Decoration Day.
subscriptions have commenced to flood in
for the regatta. and the committee feel some
what encouraged at the prospect. If com
bined effort was made by the committee it is
believed that sum sufficient to meet all ex-
penses would be raised
A gig crew, consisting of Dyer, stroke;
Johnson, Baker, and Ryan, with Smith cox
swain, is rowing daily from the Columbia
house, and they are certainly pushing their
boat through the water. They roWed finely
together and it is about the best gig crew
ever seen on the river.
One Of the new men OF the Potomacs who
has just announced that he has had expert
ence In shell rowing Is Blair. He halls from
Grand Rapids, Mich, and as member of that
club rowed In several winning crews. He
Will at once be put in trim for the National
though he has not rowed for three years.
The two new shells ordered from Waters &
Son, OF Troy, N. Y, for the Columbia Ath-
letic Club, arrived on Friday and are now
safely housed in their boathouse. Both
craft, an eight and a four, are the latest
models OF racing boats and are supplied
with all the latest designs in rig and steering
apparatus. Captain Stinemetz and Lieuten-
ant Rainier wrote to New York and superin-
tended the transportation of the boats to this
city. Courtney says they are the most perfect
boats he has ever seen.
The Columbia Athletics are working their
senior eight as If they intended putting them
in at the National regatta, as the crew has
not been on the water together once since the
regatta at Baltimore on June rs. From the
men in the Columbia house q strong and
powerful eight could be produced that would
reflect credit, even though they did not find
first honors, on themselves and their club.
The Columbias should by all means get their
eight together and make them work for this
regatta, as It is the one where every eye,
aquatically inclined, will be turned. With
such goSnsdn men Las as Dyer, Janus, Ryan, Baker,