Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-25
Georgetown Oarsmen Scatter
for Their Homes.
WILL RETURN NEXT FALL
Another Great Battle Between New
York and Nationals Today.
FALKENBERG AGAINST CHESBRO
Good Racing Program for This Week
American League Batters-
Cricket Match.
WILL RETURN NEXT FALL
FALKENBERG AGAINST CHESBRO

The Georgetown University crew which
raced in Saturdays regatta of the Inter
collegiate Rowing Association left its
quarters in Poughkeepsie yesterday morn
ing, and proceeding to New York, the men
separated there to go to their respective
homes for the summer. The shell went on
direct TO this city, to be stored in the
Georgetown boat house. Coach P. A. Demp-
sey stopped off at Philadelphia, but will
come on to the university in July some
time.
All of the eight men who rowed in the
Georgetown boat expected back to
school this fall. Two are members of the
class of 1907, three members of 1903
and three of 1909. If all should return to
Georgetown for another year the nstitu-
ton will have experienced crew timber to
work with for next years regatta. and
there should be vast ference from the
showing made on Saturday, when George
town finished absolutely last of the six
crews entered in the race. Cornell won the
big event by nearly two lengths, with
Pennsylvania second. Syracuse third. Wis
consin fourth, Columbia fifth and George
town sixth.
1t is rather an unusual circumstance that
four of the eight men at the Georgetown
oars are residents of New York state and
ere not far from their homes while quar-
tered at Poughkeepsie. j. MICH. Stuart,
who rowed at No. 6, has joined his parents
at Albany w. r. Rice, at No. I. has gone
to Kingston, N. Y. where his family Ives;
y. V. Lynch, jr., No. /. has gone home to
Utica, while E. Fitzgerald, the stroke, com
pleteS the New York st. his place of resi-
dence being at Troy. d. s. Edmonds, who
was at the bow oar. is the only Washing
tonian on the crew. He returned to the
capital to take up his duties in the De
partment of Commerce and Labor. j. L.
Moran. No 2 lives in Uniontown. Pa; j.
B. E LaPlante. at Vincennes Indiana,
and F. NJ. Foy. No. ). at Pittston, Pa. j.
c. Landry the coXswain of the crew.
home in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia. Foy
and Stuart are scheduled to graduate next
year. Edmonds, Moran and Rice in 1908.
and LaPlante, Lynch and Fitzgerald in
1909.
Bitterly Disappointed.
While bitterly disappointed over their
failure to come one, two or three in Sat
urday's race, the men of the Georgetown
crew and Dempsey, their coach. were in
cl:ned to philosophical view of the mat
ter. The youngest and lghtest crew on
the river and having had the shortest
son of practice and more obstacles than
any Of the other oarsmen to work against.
Georgetown put up good fight.
IF l can but hold this crew together for
another year" said Dempsey. in speaking
of the race, mo one on the Hudson would
recognize us next year. The young fellows
in the boat are mere boys. Next year they
would have the advantage of one more
year in age, bringing the average up to
twenty years and would have flied out
materially as to weight. 1t was simply the
lack Of brute strength that kept us out of
the money. The other universities rcpre-
scented had the advantage of Drawn over
our skill. although l must say that all the
crews rowed in better shape this year than
l have ever seen at an Intercollegiate re-
gatta in many years. The race simply car
ried out my opinion that the crews on the
river this year Were more evenly matched
and in much better trim than last year,
when Cornell was allowed 10 run away with
the race by fifteen or twenty lengths. This
year 1t was a race from start to finish and
Courtney's men in the Ithaca boat had to
use every ounce of strength in them to get
70 the finish line ahead of the rest of US
Cornell and Pennsylvania were the two
heaviest crews. Both averaged above III
pounds. as against our los. The fact that
they finished first and second simply goes
10 show that a four-miIe race cannot be
won by skill. 1t is endurance that tells
In the end and the men must be trained TO
the hour and have strength in their arms
and limbs to carry them to victory
An analysis of the race, however shows
mat despite the fact that we finished last
this year and third last year our present
crew Is much faster than the one of Ia ct
season Last year Georgetown finished
the four miles in Il minutes and 40 sec
ohdSs saturday our time was 20 minutes
ana 30 seconds for the same distance This
shows that the crew which finished last
To-Day was one minute and IS seconds
raster than the one which last year fin
ished ahead Of Columbia, PENNSYLVANIA
and Wisconsin. The conditions on the
river Saturday afternoon were not so
favorable as last year. yet the time of all
the crews was much faster. Cornell won
In 1886 As on Saturday, as against 2O:29
In 1905. Pennsylvania. in finishing sec
ond, showed the greatest Improvement
Last year the crew fifth in 2i.59 As
Saturday the eight was second in 1913 As
difference of two minutes and sixteen
seconds. There is no reason why our
crew should not improve fully a minute
for next years race if the men can be
held together.
Showing Not So Bad.
"Our Saturday showing was not so bad
after all. Columbia finished only few
lengths in front of US, and yet they had
an average weight of more than 16s
pounds to the man. They had the advan-
tage of AN immense student body to Sc
lect from and were at their Poughkeepsie
headquarters the 1st of June, having
twenty-five days of practice on the re-
gatta course. We had but seven days.
The Washington people need not feel that
we were entirely disgraced. 1t was the
wonderful improvement in all the other
crews that set us so far back in the con-
test
race and stayed there for mile. Then
the men spurted and crawled up into fifth
position ahead of Columbia, and once their
shell showed its Prov in front of Wiscon-
sin well. great cheer went up from
the observation train and from the
shoFes as Georgetown made the SPLEEN
did squirt and IL was believed that from
very bad beginning the Blue and Gray
boat might become prominent in the con-
test after all The Georgetown men are
almost as popular any who go to
Poughkeepsie- OF course Syracuse and
Cornell have the greatest number of root
ers on the scene, and Columbia's colors
show up in great shape when the excur-
sion trains from New York arrive on the
day of the regatta.
Georgetcwns friends shouted encouraging
words over the water, but the strength OF
the young men in the frail shell was soon
exhausted. Before the two-mile, or half
way, mark had been passed the crew had
slipped back to last again. Even at this
stage of the race and although Cornell,
Syracuse and Pennsylvania In a bow-and-
bow struggle had opened up a great gap
OF daylight on the three trailing boats
Coach Dempsey expected to see the George
town men make a squirt in the last mile.
It was in this eventful last stage of the
journey that last years crew electrified
the crowd by rowing into third place In as
game a finish was ever witnessed on
the Hudson. But this years eight had not
the strength. although the will was strong