Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-24

largest membership roll Of any strictly rowing
club on its river, exclusive Of the Atalantas
The events covered everything from single
scull race to an eight A is customary here
dancing followed the races
The annual club regatta Of the Triton Boat
| Club of Newark was also held last week and the
members made it the most interesting in the
| history Of the club but then the Tritons GEN.
orally do as they say they will.
| The Eureks Boat Club of the same CITY,
very active organization, has closed its house
for the season. This is the club which sent
senior four to one Of our Potomac river re-
gattas and gave such q grand exhibition of row.
Ing, but from whom the POtomacs' four won in
the last hundred yards. In 1888 it won the
| championship at the national regatta
The Manhattan Athletic Club, New York
city, on the 18th instant held its annual carni-
val OF sports on Manhattan field, and it was Q
regular athletic. bicycling and aquatic tourna-
ment and included everything from lawn tennis
and swimming and shooting and rowing and
base ball and foot ball and lacrosse to the fire.
works and lantern bicycle parade at night.
Think Of it! what grand days sport this is
Why could not we have q days sport like this
every year2 If once tried am sure 1t would
be a success and at once become a fixture
mean, however, to have it an open event. open
to all amateurs in all the sports. Let's try it
next year
Today the New York Athletic Club is holding it's
annual club regatta and, canoe and swimming
races at Travers' Island and will include single
SOULS and gigs and eght-oared shells, and Of
course 1t will be big affair.
FOOT BALL AMONG ROWING MEN.
In order to keep the rowing men together
during the winter and thus prevent their drift
ing away to other clubs foot ball is spoken Of,
and learn that the boat clubs on the Passaic
river at Newark making an effort to form
some sort OF foot ball organization and play
among themselves this fall. 1t is possible the
Iritons and the PASSAGES will start the foot ball
rolling with u game Of foot ball with each other.
Here on our river the Columbias have foot
ball team as a fixture and their success in the
past is well known. The other two clubs will
probably have teams this season.
INDIVIDUAL SHOWING TO BE PROUD OF.
One Of the most successful clubs in the
country is the Paramount Rowing Association
of Philadelphia. 1t is not very large club, but
it has q very earnest lot Of members, who
squeeze for their club all the time, and. besides
that. it has the benefit of good, careful manage
ment by competent and active officers. 1t does
most Of its rowing in ''fours" and ''eights," and
for some time its Senior" four crew seemed
invincible and in 1886 this crew won the cham
plonship at the national at Albany in
SOY for the mile and a half. which time
has only been beaten once in nineteen years at
the national and this one time by the Emeralds
OF Detroit, Of whom l spoke a week or two ago
as rowing the national in 1877 in $50 VIM.
Al. bIOWHeii, one Oh me pest sweeps ana DOW
men in the country, has rowed in every ''senior
four and eight that has ever left the Fair
mounts boat house and has won four national
championships in "four and Fights" and this
record has never been eXcelled. Snowden. this
years stroke of the crew, has won three
tional championships and is still a very good
man. This again shows what be done if
one only sticks to his task.
SOME OF THE "CHIPPIE" EIGHT TO RETIRE
For more than one reason Is it to be regretted
that three from among the best of a very re-
markable eight-oared crew Cthe ''Chi ppies'')
will retire from active rowing after The club
reglt today. The "Chippies' of the New
York Athletic Club are of the rowing
wonders of the season. They have been beaten
only once, and this once by Cornell University.
The crew last year and this crowned its effort
by handily winning The national championship
and were in many respects an exceptional crew.
he three members of the crew who are going
to retire Seth B. Hunt and C. Z. Knob
laugh, 'charter members of the crew, and
Capt. f. j. Giannini who came into the crew
last year. The latter and Hunt saw they have
had enough OF it." Knoblapgh is going abroad
and will be gone several years. At the end of
each season it seems the proper caper for many
rowing men to say they "have enough of il,
and when the next rowing season comes around
they are just as anxious rs ever for the fray
and let us hope that the great stroke Hunt and
the gallant captain will again have the fever
and next year again help to put the winged
foot in front on the water.
ANOTHER FAST EIGHT LOOMING Up.
Each season brings to the top some remarka-
BILE crew, and this year is no exception. The
Bradford Boat Club of Worcester, Mass,
long ago made reputation for sending out
fast crews, but in late years has not done any,
thing remarkable in that line until now, at the
very wind up OF its season, it comes in on labor
day, at Boston, with eight-oared crew that does
full mile and a half on slow water for Charles
river. in the remarkably fast time of 7.13 Just
eight seconds faster than Cornell did it at New
ark May 80 last. What a race these two crews
would make.
THE TRANSFORMATION OF SHELLS BY RAIL.
The fact that the Analostan Boat Club had
SO much trouble and annoyance in getting
their new cared shell here from New York last
week calls to mind the fact that other clubs in
various parts of the country had nearly if not
quite as much trouble in getting their
shells to and from regattas and from the
builders during the past summer. Now,
it seems to me that where clubs
are willing to pay reasonable
rate for the transportation Of their boats from
the builder to their city that the railroads
would do all in their power to assist them, es-
pecially as the railroads do not have any trouble
handling the boats, having simply to attach an
extra car to the train and the club paws for this
and handles the boat, as the Analostans did last
week.
of this kind of freight continues that the makers
of boats will have to build the shells and ship
them packed in sections, as they do with many
of the boats that are sent tn the Pacific cooot