The Washington times., 1905-08-14
BASEBALL :: ROWING : SHOOTING :: TROTTINC
Some Critical Comments
Upon National Regatjgl
PotomaCs' Showing in Senior Fights Was
DisappOintment-COurs Was Poor
and Rulings Unsatisfactory.

With the national regatta of 1900 a
matter of history the Potomac Boat
Club is considering plans of being rep
resented at the Middle States regatta at
Philadelphia on Labor Day.
This week a meeting of the regatta
committee will be held and then some
decision will be made in regard as to
what entries viii be sent for the regat-
Ia on the Schuylkil.
The Potomacs are badly disappointed
but not discouraged by the showing Of
the senior eight on the Patapsco.
While It was hardly expected that the
crew would win the big event that en-
listed the strongest club eights in Amer
lea, il was thought that it would be
well up at the finish. but the going was
too fast for the young and inexpeH-
enced oarsmen that represented Wash
ingt0n,
First of all the crew got away from
the mark poorly. After settling down
from the racing start the men lacked
the dash and spirit that is essential 10
a successful senior crew. The body
swing was good, very good. and the
blade work was even, but the telI-tale
smash on the catch and the rip through
was a minus quantity Captain Mueller
kept at the men throughout the race,
and he himself rOwed well. but during
the first half mile the Red and White
allowed their opponents to get away
from them and during the last part OF
the race their efforts to hang on We're
unavailing, and they were forced to
content themselves with last place.
Reddington and Daily Potomac's en-
try in the intermediate doubles. also
lost, but during the first part of the
race the pair put up such stiff fight
that it looked as though they would
finally win out Their rivals-the Ra-
Venswood double-resorted to strategy
on the way up to the buoys, and by
crowding the Washingtonians out of
the course gained such an advantage
that they were in a far better position
than the Potomacs to make a quick
turn. In the fight homeward the Ra-
yenswoods showed better stamina, and
in the squirt opened up enough to win
out by a comfortable margin.
From the point Of attendance the re-
gatta at Baltimore was an unqualified
success, as no less than 10000 persons
saw the races, despite the fact that the
heavy rain drove home spectators who
would probably have brought the total
on Saturday up to $4,000 or 40, coo.
But from a sporting standpoint there
is a different tale TO ten. The course IS
not adapted TO -and-a-half straight
away racing. Instead OF starting at one
point and going directly down the river
TO the 5inish, the eights were instructed
TO go between certain buoys close IT
toward the shore. Some crews followed
instructions and some did not On Fri
day the Argonaut intermediate eighI
failed TO so inside the course mapped
out for 1t, but was given the race, Three
Of the senior eights, including the PO
tomacs, We're disqualified for not keep
ing in their own water. Such rulings
by the officials were severely condemned
but that was not all. Dan MCGOWAN
the Potomac single scuIler. was fouIet
In his race before he had gone a fur
long. but the referee refused to enter
tain protest.
The time of the senior eight scullers
race Is disputed. The officials made il
minutes and 16 seconds. but the oars
men claim that the officials did not seH
the finish, and that the real time foI
the one and one-half miles was min
utes and IL seconds
The starting in some Of the races wa
wFetched- Robert PeltOn, OF the Sea