The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-08-09
A. A. U. Standing.
FOR THE NATIONAL REGATTA.

The Preparations Being Pushed With
yigor-An Excellent Course Laid of.
The preparations for the National Regatta
are being pushed with vigor. 1t is going to be
one of the greatest aquatic meetings ever held
in America. The course, as laid off by the
surveyor, starts about fifty yards from the
landing of the Potomac Athletic grounds,
looking toward the Long Bridge, and is
perfectly straight one up stream to point
nearly opposite the Analostan boat house. In
order to make the course straight the lines
will be marked Off In different manner from
that heretofore practiced. Instead Of run
ming from points on the Shores there will be
flags in the river showing the start and finish.
The line at the finish, for instance, will COM
mence about four hundred feet from the
District side, and will end four hundred feet
from Analostan Island. This gives q clear
deep-water course from start to finish, and
will give every crew the same advantage the
entire distance. 1t is a perfect course and
the visiting oarsmen can hardly fail to be
satisfied with 1t. The crews and scullers will
begin to arrive this week and from now out
things will be lively. The medals, flags, etc.,
will arrive during the week and will be
placed on exhibition. The committees head
quarters at Willard's will be resort for the
visitors. The several clubs have appointed
reception committees, and they will be kept
busy receiving and looking after the guests
and seeing that their boats are safely housed.
The list of entries for the regatta is as fol-
lows:
Eight-oar shells-Atalanta Boat Club, New
York; New York Athletic Club New York;
Fairmount Rowing Association, Philadelphia;
Columbia Athletic Club, Washington.
Senior four-oar shells-Argonaut Rowing
Club, Toronto, Ont; Minnesota Boat Club,
st. Paul, Mimi; Wolverine Boat Club, De-
troit; Albany Rowing Club, Albany; Mutual
Boat Club, Albany; Columbia Athletic Club,
Washington; Paramount Rowing Association,
Philadelphia; Don Amateur Rowing Club,
Toronto, Canada.
| Junior four-oar shells-Potomac Athletic
Club, Washington, Arlington Boat Club,
Arlington, Mass; Neptune Boat Club Bal
timore; Ariel Rowing Club, Baltimore.
| Pair oar shells-Atalanta Boat Club, New
York, 2; New York Athletic Club, New York
2; Detroit Boat Club, Detroit five entries)
Double sculls-Vesper Boat Club, Phila-
delphia; Catlin Boat Club, Chicago; Albany
Rowing Club, Albany; Manhattan Athletic
Club, New York; Bayside Rowing Club,
| Toronto, Ont; Varuna Boat Club, Brooklyn;
Sunnyside Club, Toronto Can.
Senior single sculls-Bradford Boat Club,
| Joseph w. Bergin; Institute Boat Club
Edward j. Carney; Potomac Athletic Club,
| G. G. Smithson; Catlin Boat Club, james
Henderson; Metropolitan Rowing Club
| P. F. Sharkey; Vesper Boat Club Edwin
Hedley; Lawrence Canoe Club, VIM. Caff
rey; Manhattan Athletic Club, Fred
erick Hawkins; Mutual Junior Rowing
Grub William NJ. Aman; Wachusett Boa,
Club, Thomas W. Higgins Varuua Boat
Club, George Freeth; Argonaut Rowing
Club, A. p. Burritt; Argonaut Rowing Club
r. Mckay, jr.; John l. Ryan, Sunnysde Clul
of Toronto Can.
Junior single sculls-Atalanta Boat Club
William Pauton; Crescent Boat Club, o. w
Dyer; Seawanhaka Boat Club, John
Daley; Ravenswood Boat Club, j. Haggerty
Neptune Boat Club, Thomas j. Briefly; Al
bany Rowing Club, Peter j. McManus; Ney
York Athletic Club, M. j. Austin; Crescen
Boat Club, P. j. Fleming; Acquackanoul
Boat Club, James l.. Berry; Central Boa
Club, John j. Carey; Columbia Boat Club
w. j. Snyder; Argonaut Rowing Club (Can
ada, A. A. Mckay; Argonaut Rowing Clu
| (Canada), L. B. Stewart: Toronto Rowin
| Club Joseph Wright
Quarter-mile dash-Catlin Boat Club, Jane
Henderson; Metropolitan Rowing Club, e.
Atherton; Institute Boat Club E. j. Carney
Vesper Boat Club, Edwin Hedley; Bradfor
Boat Club, Joseph w. Bergen; Albany Row
ing Club, Harry Campbell; Lawrence Cano
Club, William Caffrey; Manhattan Athleti
Club, Frederick Hawkins; Varuna Boat Clul
George Freeth Argonaut Rowing Club (Tt
ronto,) r. Mckay, jr.
1t will be seen from this list that the que
tion of the entry of an eight by the Columb
Club is settled in the affirmative. The loci
entries are as follows: Eight oars-Columbi
A. c. Senior fours-Columbia A. G. JuniC
fours-Potomac A. q. Senior singles-C. (
Smithson, of Potomac A. G.. Junior sing es-
w. j. Snyder, Columbia A. G.