Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-06

II "uit uO tlltN row lOE!
Capt. Zappone hopes to enthuse the rowing
men in town by announcing a club regatta
which may be held next Friday, the 18th in
slant, when challenge race between tours will
take place. The &C. c. c." composed of Blair
| stroke: Roulette 3; Gaddess 2, and DOYLE, bow
have challenged any four in the club, and the
IN. /. L." composed of Oliver. stroke; Mccoy,
3; Smithson. 2, and Won Dachenhausen, bow
have accepted the challenge and are training
for the race, which will be mile straightaway
on the upper course and finish in front of the
boat house. The C. G. c. will row in the little
paper boat and the N. 1. i. in the cedar boat
| There will also be race between two
'eights" and for working boats and single
scull race, with Blair, Won Dachenhausen and
Smithson in one event and Maurice, Moore and
Loving in another. and tub and swimming
| races also announced.
| Whether the regatta is held or not the hop
committee. E. +. Riggs, chairman announces
! that the first hop of the season will be held on
the 18th. The boat house has been turned over
to the club by the contractor as being stronger
| than ever. Admission to these hops is by card
only. ard under no consideration will there be
any admittance without card, which may be
had OF members only.
Loving has returned from trip south and is
anxious to row.
The gig was out one evening this week and
| had Quinn, stroke; Spurgeon, 3: Maddert. 2,
and Maurice, bow, with Won Dachenhausen.
coxswain, and with little practice would move
well.
The club, at meeting to be held next week,
| will consider and adopt the new constitution
made necessary by the change to a boat club.
| COLUMBIA ATHLETIC CLUB.
As at the other boat houses, the cry at the
| Columbia boat house is the absence from the
city of SO many of the members and it is
very difficult thing to get out a crew of any
kind.
Capt. Wilson knows good thing when he
sees 1t and has his lines out for another club
regatta. which he hopes to hold about the time
| when enough men get back to town to fill the
events.
Speaking about the national regatta. he ex-
presses himself as strongly in favor of turning
races. having the course well tagged and bHoys
far enough apart. He believes that in short
while the oarsmen will be as well pleased with
| them the spectators now are.
| More than likely the eight will go up to Staten
| Island or labor day to defend the cup it now
holds. and with such a number of available men
to draw from there should be no doubt about
| the crew going.
Notice has been given the club that the
Staten Island course has been heightened to a
mile and half. beginning further up river
as to avoid the terrible current which rushes
down the course at the old starting point.
| During the past week or so barge parties have
had ''the CALI among them beng one by
| Mr.. Duhamel, another by DIR. Lee Harlan.
another by Mr.. Sturtevant and one by Mr..
kondrup. the latter being given in honor of
the Fencibles' winning drill team.
| The "Chippie' four-oared crew should have
been at the national, no doubt it would have
| made record and thereby continued to be the
hope and pride of the club in another class.
! ASALosTAN BOAT CLUB.
| The dizziness at the usually busy boat house
of the Analostans is almost as thick as at the
| other two boat houses. and the cause is. as
elsewhere, the absence from the city of many
members.
The members in town much pleased with
the report made by Capt Fischer about the
new eight ordered by the club. and which he
went to Troy to Waters about He found
the paper in the mold and hopes to have the
boat here about the 25th instant, and if the
lines selected and the promises of the builders
hold good it will be one of the best and fastest
"eights' ever owned on our river, and with the
large amount of material to select from there
will be no trouble to get out good fast eight
cared crew.
The men who are to row in the eight are
given much practice as possible in the gigs
| 80 that all newness may be rubbed off before
the new boat comes and thus get into the eight
in the best possible shape. Of course it is inn
possible at this time to say who will compose
the crew. but it will be good one.
Chandler has returned from his trip and the
Baltimore" crew will again take up its regular
practice.
The two gig crews out the past week were
evidently preparing for the club regatta, which
will probably be held in a week two. The
first crew was composed Of Robertson, stroke;
Webb, 3; TOrbert, 2, and Smith, bow. with
Lewis, coxswain, and the second crew had
Fischer, stroke; Pairo, 3; Stearns, 2; Mercy
nolds. bow, and ROdrique, coxswain, and both
crews worked well and showed considerable
speed.
The shell, with Perkins, stroke; Poesche, 8;
Dasknm. 2. and Stearns, bow, is doing regular
and good work.
Col. Flowers and Mr.. Pairo and Mr. Marshall
are sojorrning at Narragansett.
ECHOES FROM THE NATIONAL REGATTA.
some swallow does not make a summer, I"
neither docs one trial of new thing make a
success. Simply because under unfavorable
conditions and under adverse circumstances turn
ing races seemed to be partly failure. almost
every newspaper man present at the regatta
voted turning races failure, and quickly as
the operator could send off the copy filed by
these newspaper critics the people in every part
of the country were informed that ''this event
settles it., traces with turn failure, ~
and expressions of like character. The expert
reporter of rowing events did not give the
event a black eye, but made the proper allow
ances for first event. the success or failure of
which lay almost entirely in the hands of a
local committee that had never before tackled
such thing and being overcome by the enor-
nifty Of their responsibility were, in their efforts
to do everything just right, unable to cover the
most important points. There was trouble at
the turning stakes, and this happened only in
three out of the eighteen events. including trial
heats, which must be conceded is o splendid
showing. The only reason why there was foul
ing the three times mentioned was because the
local committee had placed the stakes seventy
) five feet apart, when there should have been at
least hundred and fifty feet between them;
and the third days races to decide fouls proved
this to be the cause il it had not in any other
way been conceded, for on this day each crew
had two stakes. and in one race there were four
crews and everything passed of as smoothly az
christening.
The crews who made good turns and rounded
away for home, even if they did not win, never
once kicked against races with turn. The
spectators were more than pleased, ~ the ma
tority Of them had never before seen 80 much
Of boat Nce. and of course they did not kick
against races with turn. The contestants in
the various events numbered nearly two hum
dred and fifty.