New-York tribune., 1906-06-25
LONG ISLAND REGATTA.
Local Oarsmen VIII RO1C ON Flash
ing Bay on Saturday.

Metropolitan oarsmen looking forward with
considerable interest to the Long Island regatta,
to be held Flushing Bay next Saturday. This
will be followed by the Peoples regatta at PhiIa-
delphia and the New England Regatta at Boston
on July 4 To local oarsmen the first is of
chief Importance. because IT is home and
gives them a chance to enter without the expense
of the trip to Philadelphia Boston.
That the Long Island regatta will be greater
success than in former years seems assured by the
long entry list and the high class of competitors
Many of the winners the Memorial Day regatta
on the Harlem River will compete Saturday
on Flushing Bay. Secretary Brennan of the Long
Island association is well satisfied with the sup
port that has been given him by the Harlem River
clubs
The junior four-oared shell event for the Eagle
Cup will bring together good field. and lively
competition is anticipated. Prominent among the
crews entered those representing the Crescent
Athletic Club. the Brooklyn Rowing Club. the
Flushing Rowing Club and the Ravenswood Boat
Club The loving cup, valued at $500 which be-
comes the property of the club winning IL three
times is always the incentive for hard fight in
this race. The four from the CEescent Athletic
Club have considerable work cut out for them, as
they are also down to start in the junier four
cared gig race.
Fred Shepheard, the Seawanhaka Boat Club
sculler who made his competitors in the senior
sculIng race on Memorial Day look ridiculous. will
start in the senior single race next Saturday That
he will have a practical walkover seems probable.
other entries IN tnlS race 90 not appear 10
be in his class He will probably get another leg
on the Cassidy loving cup. which will mean that in
another wear 1t will become the property of the
Seawanhaka Boat Club
In order to prove that It is the better crew. the
Rayenswood Boat Club. which the senior four
oarAd she'll race in the Harlem regatta after the
PHILADELPHIA Barge Club was disqualified, tried to
get the latter to this in the Long Island
regatta but the Philadelphans decided not to make
the trip so soon again after the unfortunate affair
&c bOI1I6 ha a
ever. for the strong Staten Island Boat Club will
compete.
One of the developments last week was the an
nouncement that Fred Shepheard and John G..
IIoben both of the Seawanhaka Boat Club, are
training in a double she'll Both OF these men are
sterling single scullers and critics who have been
watching them work in a double say they will be
formidable competitors in this style of rowing
fore the season is over.
Local oarsmen will support July both the
Peoples regatta at Philadelphia and the New Eng
land regatta at Boston. The Metropolitan Rowing
Club will send senior four to Boston made up OF
the men who won in the intermediates Memorial
Day. Several entries from the Seawanhaka Boat
Club have been made in the Peoples regatta.
Constance s. Titus. of the Nonpareil Rowing Club.
will decide in few days whether or not he will
enter the single sculling game more. He is
having single shell built which will weigh. with
outrggers. sliding seat and other things in the
boat. less than nineteen pounds II will mean a
saving OF seven pSlnds the average single
shell. The boat is to be twenty-five feet long
with beam of eleven inches and depth of six
and one-half inches aft. the deepest part
The builder expects save two hounds IN The
outriggers and hve pounds IN the carlnes eun-
wales braces. crosspieees and for the Slid
The junior eight-oared crew OF the Ayonnarau
Rowing Club. which disbanded following the defaai
with few slight changes. Backus viii row ,rs
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