Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-17
FIRST STEPS FOR 4
A LOCAL REGMTA.
Proposed to Have Boat Races
on the Potomac on Satur.
day, August "a.
Rowing Men of Georgetown Uni
versity Hard at Work Un-
der Coach Russell.

The first step toward holding an open
regatta in this city during the summer of
1907 was taken by the Potomac River Re-
gatta Association at a meeting Wednesday.
1t was decided by the committee in charge
Of this affair that it would be for the best
interest Of the city and the advancement of
rowing to resume the old custom holding
Potomac river regatta every year that
Washington did not get the national or
middle states.
The date was. Of course, not definitely
settled. for before it can be made public it
must be officially approved by the Ma
tional Association. This new rule Of the
beginning OF last season and was strictly
enforced throughout the country. 1t Is
good one and was heartily approved by
all. On account of 1t there is conflict
between the dates of different regattas, no
1ndecision as to whether to go to this
that regatta in different cities on the same
day; all of those old difficulties are done
away with, and there are a result uni
formily well-attended affairs.
The local oarsmen are anxious to get
date somewhere, or rather some time be-
tween the national and the middle states
and about the time of the Canadian Hen
ley. Saturday. August the oath is, there
fore. the date they have especially re-
quested
At the meeting there was quite little
said about the gossip that has been af1oat
of late regarding the probability of the
Analostans and Old Dominions entering
the association, and WHILE of course there
could not be any definite statement given
out. 1t is believed that all the members
would gladly receive the other local clubs
as co-workers for the aquatic glory of
The trophies which go with the medals
for several of the big events are unsur-
passed by any similar organization in Amer
lea. The most noted are The Evening Star
cup for Championship tours, the Washing
ton Post cup for Fights and the Casteberg
cup for intermediate Fights.
Coach Murray Russell has still large
number of applicants working every day
on the machines in Ryan gymnasium at
Georgetown University and his new men
are succeeding admirably for the time they
have been at work He has divided the
big squad and kept his last years crew prac-
tcaly intact. The new men are separated
according to their size and likelihood Of
making the varsity eight. He has frankly
told the new men that the division is by 4
no means to keep the old boys aIoof from
the greenies, and he has as frankly in
formed the members of last years eight
that they have to do great work to hold
their positions from certain few Of the
new huskies
Russell has been more than pleased with
the way the crew of 1906 has taken up the
training this year. In former years, when
q made the Poughkeepsie crew one
year. he trained when and as he pleased the
following year. This time. says the coach |
there are no men working harder nor more |
faithfully than the men who made up
Georgetown's plucky little eight last spring |
What time the coach has to spare he
gives to the props, who have taken quite |
renewed interest in the sport this year,
with the hopes of meeting Cascadila, the |
Philadelphia High and other prominent
interscholastic crews of the east.
The Analostans will hold their annual |
meeting in the early part of March, and |
not until then can any definite news be |
had of them. The general feeling of the |
members is that the club Will enter upon |
the busiest season of its existence They |
are all happy over their showing at the
big middle states here when, after but a
short training by their coach, Fred r.
P!aisted, they beat out the three out-of-
town crews and gave the Potomacs the !
fight of their lives in the last quarter.
The Potomacs will enter the season with
a rush, as Capt. Spencer Bliss will have
his oarsmen afoat as soon as the river
clears sufficiently of the ice gorges and
the weather moderates sufficiently to al
low the abbreviated costumes without a
sacrifice to health They all enthusi-
astic and sanguine of making this the
banner year of the club. There will be con-
certed movement to make this season the
most enjoyable far >for visitors and
alike. The house will be over
hauled and decorated and as far as possible
the damage done by detrimental neighbors
will be hidden until suitable location else
where can be found.
1t is probable that the club will give some
kind of entertainment at of the
Lheaters some time before the rowing season |
opens, and the members of the entertain
ment committee are considering what will
be the most popular. The dancing COM
mittee contemplate continuing the monthly
hops during the early spring and sun mer,
as these dances have attained the popu-
arity of the famous ones in the early
nineties.