Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-29
Entry List Unusually Large and Com
mittees Easing Up in Their
Work.

p1o3A "OI0d lAfo pSOplc VI tuho SAty hAA'S
not responded to the calls made on them
by the Potomac Boat Club. and it begins
to look as II the club would have quite
deficit to shoulder. On Thursday a COM
mittee, consisting of Mr.. w. C.. Mckinney
and George A. Herman of the Plate Print
ers' Union Of the bureau OF engraving and
printing turned over to the committee
money enough to pay for the senior eight
Dared medals and banner that go to the
winners OF this contest. This was very
clever act on the part of the plate printers
and pleased the committee very much. but
this the committee states, Is the only do
nation received from any Of the labor
bodies. though they have taken up their
national holiday and will give them an
all-day celebration, which they all can
witness free. The subscriptions do not
come up to one-third Of the amount raised
last year for the G. A. r. regatta, though
this Labor day affair is two-thirds more ex-
pensive. There is yet hope. says President
Doyle. that during this last week OF the
time previous to the regatta that subscrip-
tons will come in sufficiently large to
square things
Great Interest Manifested.
Last Sundays New York Herald fully
bore out the statements made in the issue
of The Star Of the ed instant In regard
to the coming of crews to this city on La
Dor day, as 1t gave quite large space to
aQuatics, and among other things said that
Hudson made 1t more than apparent that
q recOrd-breaking list of entries would be
made by the clubs, as there was more in
terest taken in the middle states this sea-
son than ever before and completely over
Swallowed the national regatta. 1t spoke
OF the good work now going at the
Dauntless club. and especially with its
senior eight, which, being under the con-
troll of Coach Anderson, are coming down
solely for the purpose of getting a race on
with the Vespers and Maltas of Philadel-
phia. while yet anxious to meet any and
all corners. They will be coxswained by
Mr. j. c. Edgerton. who for over twenty
five years has filed that position and has
probably won more races than any man
who ever sat In a coxswain'S seat. This
senior eight-oared race is going to be a
great gathering of oarsmen. as. first Of all,
the celebrated Vesper club has a fast eight
out for this race and intends making a
great effort to win, thereby wiping out the
defeat 1t received last season from the
Dauntless 1t is said Exley Marsh, Had
ley. Lockwood De Beacke and Jouvenal of
that wonderful Paris crew will be in the
boat. which, If so, will bring its crew up
again almost to a world beatkr The NAL
tas of Philadelphia have wonderfully fast
eight, which Won both the intermediate
and senior races at Philadelphia on July T.
and which by many rowing experts is re-
garded as. next to the Argonauts of To-
ronto, the fastest eight-oared crew of
America. If this Is SO it speaks volumes
opposed them at Philadelphia, for it will
be remembered that Malta only beat them
out scant length. and only by that mar
gin In the last fifty yards. when the Poto-
macs Tell on IN form. The Coumbias of
Allegheny will send a senior eight, but
little Is known of their ability to row
pushing race as this one promises to be.
Competition Very Warm.
1t will equal the famous race of last
October when VoSpnrc nd Eair
mounts gave an exhibition of rowing sell
dom seen on any stretch .of water, as the
winner. Vespers, only got the decision by
foot. and 1t is not improbable to see these
three again pitted against each other in
this race. for If Potomacs should win the
intermediate they will go into the seniors
with a vengeance and blood 1t Is very
probable that the celebrated Atalantas of
New York will send strong eight for this
race. as 1t Is known they have tried very
hard this season to get chance at the
Dauntless, and their president, Mr.. Fred
Kafka. an old Potomac oarsman. is push
Ing the scheme with vim What a race
this will be and what throng of people
will be on hand to see these sturdy trained
athletes yank their frail crafts down under
the Aqueduct bridge to the goal off Poto-
mac float. 1t will be to the devotee of
rowing worth travelling across the big
ocean to witness. and yet this race is oniv
one OF the many that will be just as at
tractive. For Illustration, take the junior
eight-oared contest. an event regarded
by the controlling spirits of aquatics as
the most important event, all things con-
sidered. as juniors the safeguards to
all well-regulated boating clubs, and the
club that has good supply of this class
of men on hand Is generally the most pros
porous. Take the field of probable starters
In this race and you have as fine a collec-
ton Of clubs as ever waited anxiously the
dropping of the flag at the finish announc-
ing the winner. New York will send down
the MPtrOn0IjfaDS ITDjnpS tala
First BohemianS, while Philadelphia will
send Maltas. Pennsylvania Barge and Mon
trose; from Allegheny. Pa, comes the CO.
lumbias, and then the Potomacs of this
city. and possibly the Analostans. and the
rowing expert will see a race that is a
race. 1t is the same way all through the
various classes. from the junior singles
down through the senior eights as in no
event will the starters be less than five,
while in some it will run up as high
as nine. an almost unprecedented number
But as In all the mile races there is plenty
Of room there will be little or no trouble
in getting the men in position and off The
entries will close on Monday night at New
York and the Middle States Association will
hold its meeting on Tuesday to announce
the same, and Mr. Claude r. Zappone the
representative Of the Potomacs. will attend
to look after the interest Of his club
Making Room for the Boats.
The work of preparing for the coming of
the clubs and boats was commenced last
week at the Potomac house. and Superin-
tendent Brumley was busily engaged with
his assistant, Mr.. George Goodrich, in erect
ing the necessary rests for the eight-oared
shells and other craft that will have to be
placed within the house. This is quite a
huge piece of work, but the Potomacs are
getting everything arranged ahead so that
there will be no congestion at the last day
The floating bouys have all been made the
various colored flags affixed, the mile course
surveyed. and all that remains to be done
now is to get the boats safely from depot
to boathouse and back after the races with
out any accidents The first crews that
will arrive will be the Arundels of Balti-
more, they have notified the committee
that they will be here on Wednesday next
and will be quartered at the Potomac
house. They will row junior and interme-
riate doubles. junior four and junior gig
Local Clubs Backward
In local circles, as far as rowing is con-
cerped there is somewhat of a falling Off
and 1t begins to look as If there would not
be as many crews from this section as
were anticipated The Anaiostans gave up
rowing their eight-oared crew entirely and
were devoting all of their spare time to the
four oared shells, and 1t Is whispered
around that they will only enter a junior
four. This is to be regretted as Captain (
NeyionS has worked like a Trojan among