The Washington times., 1905-07-31

With practically all the entries for the
national regatta to be held at Baltimore
on August II and II in the hands of Sec
retary Fred Fortmeyer. the indications
are that the list Of entries will be one
of the best in the history OF America s
big rowing carnival.
Washington's best entry Will be the
Potomac senior eight, which will go to
the mark with the best eights in the
country.
The Argonaut Rowing Club. of To-
ronto. has decided to be represented by
an interms1iate eight-oared shell crew.
by senior eight-oared shell crew. and
possibly by a four-oared crew. St. Louis
has made four entries in the four-oared
races, and in addition the Mound City
will send couple of pair-oared and
several single-scull oarsmen. New Or
leans has entered double-seuil crew.
pair-oared, and a single.
Philadelphia will be represented by
an eight-oared and an octuple crew, the
latter crew for the city against city Sc
nior octopede race, the first OF its kind
ever placed on a regatta program. Long
Island wifi be represented by the crack
senior four OF the 9eawanhaka Boat
Club and a patr-oared crew. The Harlem
river. among others. will have two Sc
nior double crews. Titus and Steinkamp.
of the NonpaTiel Rowing Club, and Null
cahy and VarIey. OF the Atalanta Boat
Club All the fast scullers of this vi
cinity have entered. and include Fred
erick Shepheard, G s. Titus. Frank
Wesley. Fred FuesseI John Hoben, and
David McEntee.
Under the rule entries bearing postal
date of July q are eligible, and Secretary
Fortmeyer expressed the belief yester-
day that by today several other rowing
cities will be heard from. Among the
St. Louis clubs that have entered crews
are the Century. Western. Northeast,
ana Mound City. One of the Century
crews is the four which Won last year :
championship Ernest J. Hess will ren-
resent the cub in the intermediate sim
gle scuils, and Herman Kirtman will be
IN the saEae class and race for the
Northeast Rowing Club. of ST. Louis.
The Mound City Club will send an inter-
mediate four, and William H. Fesse and
Frank NJ Lansing will carry the Cen
tury colors in the pair-oared event as
VIII a. Boeher and O. Wolff, for the
Will consist Of the Independent Rowing
Club. Altogether il looks as If the re-
gatta will be a great success.
John J. F Mulcahy and William N.
Varley, the Atalanta Boat Club oars
men. who won the double scuiis cham
pionship in the Royal International re-
gatta at Hamburg. short time ago,
returned 10 this country Yesterday on
the steamship Blucher. The oarsmen.
who earned the Kaiser cup, enbiematic
Of the worlds championship. received Il
welcome, which for size and enthusiasm
would have been hard TO equal. A big
gathering made up Of fellow-club mem
bers of the oarsmen and of reDresen-
tatives from all the Harlem crews and
the Long Island Regatta Association.
went over to Hoboken in a tug made
the pier ring with cheers. and then bore
away the TWO young men for a trip up
the Hudson and on the Harlem, where
the oaTsmen of all the clubs ran out
on the floats and cheered as the tur
passed. II was one continuous cheer
and dipping of flags all the way down
Sculler's Row.
Only the bare fact that they had won
had been cabled TO this country, and
their Atalanta Rowing Club cIubmates
heard for the first time how the regatta
officials withheld the trophy because of
another pairs foul Just as they were