Evening star., 1903-07-20
THE PoroMAcs' REGATTA
Auspicious Opening Of the Renovated
Club House.

The renovated club house OF the Potomac
Boat Club was opened to the public Satur-
day a regatta followed by a dance opening
and marking the occasion. The club house
has recently been extensively improved. and
1t Is now one of the best of it's kind In the
country. The rooms are all tastefulIy deco
rated and handsomely furnished. The ball
room and parlOrS are especially commo-
dious After the regatta reception and
dance was rendered the guests. and the
merrymaking continued until late. Among
the guests of the club were Commissioners
MacfarIand and Biddle, Major Gougwer OF
Akron. Ohio, and Judge Norton OF Alexan-
dria. Va.
Long before the time for the beginning Of
the regatta the river was thronsed with
craft from the dainty canoe with its cuSh-
ioned seat and gaily dressed occupants, 10
the unweldy scow laden with small boys,
who managed their craft with skill that
far outshOne some of the efforts OF more
correctly attired young oarSmen who occu-
pied boats of more symmetrical design ana
beauty Of lines.
The day was one of the most satisfactory
for an event of this kind in the history of
local regattas. An unfortunate accident
spoiled the race between the Analostan and
Old Dominion fOurS. the AnalOStan crew be-
ing unceremoniously spilled into the river
but this was the only incident which marred
the execution of the program The inter
vention of darkness prevented the rowing OF
the novice and canoe races. which was
much regretted A revival of interest in
aouatics seems to have taken hold Of the
people of the District. The upper Potomac
is filled almost every afternoon with canoe
ing parties. Some handsome canoes are
owned by many good oarSm"n ana paddle
wielders and it confidently hoped that
the race in the Potomac regatta would
bring out the latest powers OF some OF the
deyotces of this branch OF aquatic sports
*, cd IA a
time the canoe races will be padded and
even a longer program of such events pre-
sented.
Aside from the rowing one of the dis
tinctiye features of this regatta. whlch
places it far ahead Of any others mat nave
been held during the past. was the enter
tainment furnished the invited guests 'y ''.e
members of the Potomac Boat Club at their
club house.
The course was laid from the foot Of '!st
street TO Round Rock half mile above the
Aaueduct bridge. The officials OF the re-
gatta were on the tug Bartholdl ana Win
them We're the guests or hoIlor ior .hT uaS
The regatta officials were J. Hadley Doyle,
referee and Mr.. Zappone. tfmekeeper capt.
Wilson Young had charge Of the program.
Mishap to Analostans.
The first race was for fours and two en-
tries app.ared crews representing the Ana
lostan Boat Club of this city and the Ola
Dominion Boat Club of Alexandria. va.
The crews were both in excellent condition
and both made good starts. The course was
so arranged that the AnalOstan boat was to
go under the second arch of the A4ueducl
bridge and the Old Dominion crew was 10
take the third arch. The directions were
misunderstood by the Analostan coXSwaln.
and when the bridge was reached he steer
ed his boat for the third arch. Hoth crews.
were going well at this time and In IA Few
seconds after the Analostan boat was head
ri n "
oars of their competitors and the AnaloS-
tans were spilled into the drink Ihe olu
Dominion oarSmen continued over the
course and were awarded the race. There
was much disappointment at the untortu-
nate mishap, because both crews were row.
ing we'll and the contest bid fair to be one
of the most exciting character. The Ana
lOstans do not consider the race real test
of the abilities of the two crews. and 1t is
believed that efforts will be made to bring
the two fours together at some future date
to try conclusions again. The crews were:
Old Dominons-Herbert. 1; Burke. z:
Bryant. 3; Bryan. stroke. Analostans-
Burke, /: Whipley, 2; Sizer, 3; Nevious.
stroke
The championship single scull race. the
next event on the program was one of the
most exciting Of the day. 1t was won by
Britt by three lengths EdmOnston was sec
ond. Redinton third and DAILY fourth. Britt
will be sent to represent the club at the ma
ttonal regatta, to be held at Worcester,
Mass In August The race for mixed
eights, between the Passaics and the Arun
dels, won by the latter, excited much inter-
est among the spectators. The Arundels
won by two lengths in 3 minutes and IL
seconds. The crews included: Passaics-
Young. 1: Lunsford. =: Brady. g. Hldreth.
4; Church. 5: Saalback, 6; Marean 7: He
cox. g; Moore. coxswain.
Arundels-Howell /: Scott. .; Herman. 3:
Elerback 4: Eaton. 5: Moses, 6; Chase, Z;
Mueller, 8; Hanecke, cOXswain.
Race Between Fights
The great race of the day was the con-
test between the Analostan and Potomac
eights. These two clubs have been rivals
for many year and have fought for su-
premacy on the Potomac In more than one
regatta, with varying success. In every
race in which crews from the two clubs
are pitted against each other there Is ex-
c:tement in plenty. The race Saturday was
won by the Potomac club In the hand est
manner by three good boat lengths But
the race not won until the last quar-
ter of th,. journey had been made and the
line crossed. Up to the last eighth of the
course the AnalOstans had a fighting
chance. and they fought hard to make up
the distance that separated them from their
rivals. 1t was no use, however The PO-
tomac oarsmen rowed with quick. easy
stroke that shot them over the finishing