The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-02-24
INTEREST AMONG AMATEURS
Exposition Company Erecting Numer
Gus Boat Houses-Governmen is
Erecting Double pier for Use
Of Spectators.
Ardmoreite Special.


OF the country imbued perhaps as
much from a desire to see the exposi.
tion and the great naval and mill
tary spectacles as by sporting enthu
siasm promises a place to aquatic
events not second to any feature of
the exposition.
! Despite some opposition 20 the Sc.
lection of the Hampton Roads course
the National Association of Amateur
Oarsmen will row at the jamestown
Exposition and the throngs of visitors
VIII learn to feel an interest in some.
thing they see talked or written
about but have known nothing of in
the way that personal observation ex.
cites.
/ There will also be on the water,
yacht racing, motor boat racing and
swimming contests. The courses Sc.
lccted by a committee which recently
went over the waters near the expo.
number-a short course, lying along.
shore inside Willoughby Spit and
parallel to the spit; the other at
right angles to it along the exposi.
tion grounds toward the Elizabeth
river and extending from the govern.
ment pier at the exposition to
point near Craney Island light.
These courses, within the protect
ed roadstead and additionally pro-
tected, first by the spit and lying en-
tirely within Wiloughby bay, and the
other with the long government dou-
Bile pier acting as a breakwater will
afford lat nearly all times smooth
rowing, while the magnificent boule-
ward along the water front of the
Jameatown exposition grounds will
afford advantage to the crowds of on
lockers, unexcellei by any course in
the country, not excepting these at
New London and Poughkeepsie, while
the straight-away is intellectually bet
ter than the Harlem river, with its
turns, bridges and traffic.
The events must of necessity have
enormously larger crowds of specta-
gattas, and the sport must inevitably
give a great spur to rowing among
people who have not had their inter
est sufficiently aroused to take it up
and in the same propc. tion are the
boatmakers likely to profit.
! The exposition boulevard along the
shore of Hampton Roads is more than
200 feet wide and on 1t front the
many beautiful state buildings with
their colonial pilared verandas from
which thousands of visitors may view
the races.
A very large number drawn to the
exposition by rowing will find espec-
ial interest I'm the round of athletics
under the auspices of the Amateur
Athletic union.
OF the aquatics, the inter-city races
will be looked TO with great interest.
Boston, New York, Philadelphia and
Baltimore will undoubtedly have
picked eights. President Pilkington
has taken up this matter with vim
and is pushing it to what must be a
successful conclusion.
That the Varsity" regattas are to
be held means that generations OF
college men are going to see the
jamestown exposition.
the exposition company and the oars.
men can find the best accommoda'
tions on the grounds. The Inside Inn
is one of the finest shore hostelries
on the coast. The governments dou'
BILE pier will be one of the attrac'
tiOns of the exposition. 1000 feet
long, it's two arms. 500 feet apart
are connected at the outer end and
forming basin, the walk around
which will be 5000 feet. From this
pier which will be the naval landing,
visitors may also see the boat races.
The committee from the National
Association while in Norfolk were
cared for by the Portsmouth and the
Elizabeth river boat clubs.
The canoe trail, several miles long,
the Japanese and Philippine reserva-
tions, and the Indian and Wild West
shows. the reproduction OF "Old
jamestown" the battle of the Monitor
and Merrimac, reproduced on Hamp.