Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-30
AMONG THE 0ARSMEN
Trophies offered for the Com
ing Regatta.
SW EEPS KEPT BUSY
FIGHTS OUT ON THE RIVER
EVERY EVENING.
Many Anxious to Get Seat in the
Boats-Reports Regarding Crews
to Be Expected.

ton. the enthusiasm runs high. The crews
are all diligently at work. and the commit
tees are nightly engaged in their arduous
duties.
The committee in charge Of subscriptions
Is divided into several branches and 1t is
not possible to estimate the actual amount
contributed. The citizens are not coming
forward as it was hoped
In the past week there were six import
ant donations reported to President John
Hadley Doyle. Commissioner Henry B. F.
Mcfarland has given medal for the senior
single scull race. Gen. Geo. H. Harries has
donated a medal for the winner Of the
intermediate single scull race, Mr.. d. J.
Kaufman has offered medal for the junior
single scull race. the bureau OF engrav
Ing and printing has donated set Of med
ais for the winning juniors eight, and the
Georgetown Citizens Association has.
through Mr.. Smith Thompson, given set
Of medals for the intermediate eight-oared
race. The Riggs House has donated pair
of medals for the winning double scull
crew.
Other donations have in all likelihood
been offered. but as they have not yet been
turned in to the chief officials no note has
been made of them. After the big meetings
tonight and next Wednesday all the dona-
tons will be made known.
Mr.. Claude r. Zappone, the treasurer OF
the local regatta association. is out at st.
Louis serving in his official capacity as an
officer Of the National Association of ANA
teur Oarsmen. While there he held a con-
ference with the captains Of the eastern
clubs, and received many assurances from
them as regards entering crews in the local
event.
Early Entries.
In the last three or four days several
pioneer entries have come in to back the
promises The Malta Boat Club of Phila
delphia has entered crew in the race for
junior double SOULS. The Metropolitan
Boat Club of New York has entered an in
termediate double crew. From Richmond
comes word that the boat club Of that city.
under the captafncy of hurry A. Russell,
eight-oared shells. hurry Russell will be
remembered as the captain of last years
Georgetown varsity. which finished second
to Cornell at Poughkeepsie.
The majority of the entries are not ex-
pected until this time next week. Indeed
the most of them usually arrive on the day
the day after the entries are billed TO
close.
Of racing sweeps. They the exact cop
les Of those secured by the club last year
and they are judged by all to be beau
tiful set of oars.
The eight-oared crews of the Potomac
Club are on the water now every evening
and already show signs of improvement I'M
der the tutelage of Coach Pat Dempsey.
The men are getting into frst-class condl-
ton The next weeks work will be a hard
one, and then the coach will teach the tech
nicalitieS the last week.
The three Fights take the water every
evening at $50 o'clock and Coach Dempsey
in his single has his hands full giving them
the necessary attention.
/, The crews are termed the juniors the
seniors and the Intermediates" more for
the sake of distinction than aught else. The
Junior is the only crew wholly comprised of
oarsmen of one class. The other two crews
should be termed mixed crews, as men
from different classes are in them. But
for convenience they are termed "senior"
and intermediate"
There Is an abundance OF young ambitious
juniors out for the crews and. as there Is
a lack in the other two classes. all three
boats have oarsmen from the junior class.
The junior crew is made up exclusively OF
Junior oarsmen, the intermediate class Is
about half and half-half Intermediates and
half juniors The senior crew has five
Junior members, as only three or last year
crew are rowing regularly.
Dempsey's Coaching.
Coach Dempsey takes the crews up to
the two-and-a-half-m mile mark. rowing them
in fours During this time the coach can
watch the men more carefully and give them
pointers Then the crews turn and are
brought down in short stretches to the
Three Sisters. Here the coach starts them
off on their final row to the boat house.
These nightly races are interesting and
exciting and test the endurance and reserve
power of the men. large crowd of bal
cony oarsmen" Is always on hand IN the
cupola with glasses and stop watches.
The crews in their light work are rowing
about thirty or thirty-two strokes to the
minute, and they are taught to raise TINS
to thirty-four or thirty-six in the starting
and finishing spurts The junior crew has
shown up well in steady work and uniform
ness, but the Intermediates usually show
the youngsters the rudder when 1t comes to
a squirt The Senior crew Is still little
weak on form. but it will surely develop
during the last two weeks.
There is no certainty or even supposition
as to what makeup the final crews Will
working his hardest. No man is at present
sure of his position in any of the crews.
and 1t is this uncertainty, this striving FOR
positions that produces good oarsmen ana
winning crews
The members Of the club, and especially
those who took part in the recent lantern
parade were much elated to learn that the
carnival came under the observance Of
William Henry Moser. the artist. He was
SO enraptured with the sight that he set
to work to transfer the scene to a canvas.
The picture will be shown at the fall art
exhibit 1t depicts the parade as 1t was
forming above the bridge, and above all the
crescent moon. and as dark background
the Virginia hills.
Mr., MOSer has invited all those Interested
to visit his studio any afternoon of next
week, between and g. to view his paint
Ing.
The Analostan Club.
Captain Nevius of the Analostan club
is busy with his junior tours trying to re-
tain the enthusiasm and vigor which he
has aroused among them. The men were
for a while discouraged by rumors that
there were to be no other entries In this
event Assurances have been received.
however. from the Old Dominions of Alex
andria that they will enter in spite OF
handicaps There are three out-of-town
crews who have been heard from relative
to entering this event. and there will be
surely two out Of three Of these to back
up to the line. The Potomac club may. II
Coach Dempsey consents. also enter crew
in this event, so the Analostans need not
worry on that score
Their crew has been slightly handicapped
of late on account Of two things; the first,
that they have no coach Capt. Nevius be-
ing unable to give careful instructions from
his position In the stroke seat: the second,
that the crew has not been able to row
as 1t will in the race. Both Of these will.
however, be overcome during the following
week. From Tuesday on the crew will row
regularly with Capt. Nevius as stroke, Tod
Robinson, No. 8; Garnett. No. 2, and
Bourke, bow. At this time, too, Mr.. Louis
A. Fischer, one of the prominent Oarsmen