New-York tribune., 1900-08-20
RO WING.
MIDDLE STATES REGATTA NEXT.
PITTsBURG MEN SEEKING ENTRIES FoE
RACES AT THAT CITY IN SEPTEMBER.

RACES AT THAT CITY IN SEPTEMBER.
The Harlem River oarsmen are rapidly getting IN
shape for the next regatta on the seasons pro-
gramme, which Is the Middle States This meet OF
the followers OF aquatic sports will be held on the
Harlem on Labor Day. The programme for the day
Is interesting one. and the following races will
be contested: Junior single and double shells quar-
ter mile dash four cared centipedes pair cared and
eight cared shells
intermediate single and double shells. four cared
gigs.
Senior single shells. four Dared shells for chal-
lenge cup and eight Dared shells
The races will one mile straight away and the
entries will close with David Brown. secretary
treasurer of the Mddle States Regatta Association
No 100 West one-hundred-and-thirtieth August
Secretary Brown said yesterday that everything
looked most favorable for the success OF the re-
gatta- There are now twenty-nine rowing clubs In
the association. and both the Hudson and Friend
ship clubs up for membership. This will leave
only one club on the Harlem River In the as
soctation-the Crescent-and Secretary Brown Is
anxious that it should become a member
Captain Canavan Of the Nonparie Rowing Club
has junior and intermediate shell crew and a pair
Dared shell crew in training for the Middle States
The junior shell crew is r Haywood, bow: A. KrolI.
stroke. Tne captain thinks that they can walk
away with the junior contest. but whether they
win it or not they viii row In the Intermediates
The pair Dared crew is c. Hoffman. bow; A Craw-
ford. stroke.
The senior eight OF the DauntIess Boat Club will
resume training to-day under the skllfuI guidance
or 'Davy" Roach. whose energetic endeavors in
bringing them into shape were largely responsible
for their winning the Intermediates in the National
regatta and incidentally getting even with the
Fairmount o. the Quaker City The DauntIess
boys will give the veteran of the First Bo-
hemian Club hard race.
The Unions received their boat from Ruddick
yesterday. and will put d senior four in training
to-day. viii ais hava iptAr
double in the Middle States. The AtaIantas will
nave junior pair cared shell crew. consisting OF
MuIcahy and Kafka, for the Middle States and
possibly one or two other entries. The new four
Dared shell Of the Wachusett Boat Club Of
Worcester. Mass. which Ten Eyck's crew used
In the National Regatta is still at the Atalantas'
house. and the latter club will probably purchase
it. 1t was built for the fours race In the National
Regatta, but 1t is said thai Ten Eyck was so dis
appointed at the crews failure to win the race
that he has disbanded it, He stroked the crew
which, had it won. would have gone to Paris in
place of the Vesper four.
The race for senior single SOULS in the Middle
states should be one OF the most interesting Of
It's kind seen in many long day. Among the en-
tries already received are Mehrhof Of the Nassau
Boat Club; Rumohr. Of the Harlem Rowing Club;
Mcguire, the great Boston sculler and Titus OF
, {ne Young Mems Gymn4stic Club Of New Orleans
BROOKLYN @ of n that he has got dark horse train
s Io on @ IA b tne WIGS OF Sneepshead Bay somewhere
iem Rowing Cub, of which RumohT is a member
give the Judges purse jolt if he 9 shows an
nGlination 10 back his man on the day OF the race
Inc oarSlnen mad considerable fun at the ex-
per5e or captain Canavan of the NonpaFeil Club
yesterday, because Of the defeat of No / at the
Hoboken Regatta Saturday. No. l is the cap
aims pet double gig and he declared that it was
ever been beaten; He lent it to the Hariems on
Vo1sSt were bsaen STaGX y SgTsrs Sd M9ner and
Of the Nassaus anu ~'a"''lu'
c2p5451 c99ayaR 99 Io sat on on the Nona Oa
the waters TO him from every crew that passed
up and down the river. Many of the crews had
to insure the certainty OF reaching the captain's
ear lie tooI 1t all good naturedly and vowed
that ne would get by putting one of his own
crews in The gig and beating the whole river
among the visitors to the darten Yesterday
were ". Fl. Brown and Richard Bard jr Of Pitts
burg. and members of the Columbia Boat Club OF
that city. They were seeking entries 70 the re-
gatta which viii be held al Pitts5urg on Septen-
said that tine coming regatta was looked upon as
big thing In Pittsburg and that the arrange
nent citizens, including Harry Oliver proprietor OF
The Commercial Gazette: John Newell OF the
open one. and the programme of races Will include
Junior intermediate and senior single shells junior
cared junior and intermediate shells.
The New-York Athletic Club has a centipede
crew in training for the Middle States. The Wy
anokes' four, that won at Hoboken Saturday
viii row in the intermediate gig race in the Mid
die States. Wolf. the coach. is also trying 70 get
up a junior eight The Metropolitan Rowing Club
will have a pair cared crew in the Middle States
consisting or Goepfert and Btnzen Ormsby and
oio d OF t9e , Nets nave nav sG new SoSf rom
Smith.
Club. has two new men in the senior eight crew.
They Chrasti who will bow, and Be-
sculers the crew. Wesley will row in the junior