The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-02-17
EVENTS ON WATER
At HAMP TON ROADS
Will be Yacht Racing, Motor
Boat Racing and Swimming
Contests at Expo.
PLACE FOR SPECTATORS
BOULEVARD ALONG THE SHORE
WILL MAKE 1T POSSIBLE FOR
THOUSANDS TO WATCH THE
AQUATIC SPORT.
BY John T. Maginnis.)


terest aroused among the amateur
oarsmen of the country embuded per
haps as much from a desire to see
the exposition and the great naval
and military spectacles as by sporting
enthusiasm promises a place to aqua.
tic events not second 10 any feature
of the exposition.
Despite some opposition to the selec.
ton of the Hampton Roads course the
National Association OF Amateur Oars.
men will row at the jamestown expo
sition and the throngs of visitors will
learn to feel an interest in something
they see talked or written about, but
have known nothing of in the way
that personal observation excites.
There will also be on the water,
yacht racing, motor boat racing and
swimming contests. The courses Sc
lected by a committee, which recently
went over the waters near the exposi-
ton in a steam launch. are two in num-
Der short course, lying along
side, inside Willoughby Spit and paral-
lei to the spit; the other at right
angles to it, along the exposition
grounds, toward the Elizabeth river
and extending from the government
pier at the exposition, to a point near
Craney Island light
These courses, within the protected
road and additionally protected, the
first by the spit and lying entirely
within Willoughby bay, and the other
with the long government double pier
acting as break-water, will afford at
nearly all times smooth rowing, while
the magnificent boulevard, making the
water front of the Jamestown expo
sition grounds, will afford advantage
to the crowds of onlookers unexcel-
led by any course in the country, not
those at New London and
Poughkeepsie, while the straight-away
is intellectually better than the Har-
lem river, with it's turns, bridges and
traffic.
The events must of necessity have
enormously larger crowds of specta-
tors that are continually drawn to re-
gates, 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 proportion are the
boat makers likely to profit.
The exposition boulevard along the
shore of Hampton Roads is more than
200 feet wide and on its front the
many beautiful state buildings with
their colonial pallared verandas, from
which thousands Of visitors may view
the races.
A very large number drawn to the
interest in the round of athletics I'M
der the auspices of the American
union.
On the aquatics, the inter-city races
will be looked to with great interest,
Boston, New York, Philadelphia and
Baltimore will undoubtedly have pick
ed Fights. President Pilkington has
taken up this matter with vim and is
pushing it to what must be a sue
cessful conclusion.
That the Varsity regattas are to
be held, means that generations of
college men are going to see the
jamestown exposition.
Boat houses are being erected by
he eApOSitlOu COMPANY, ana the oars
men can find the best accommodations
IN the grounds. The Inside Inn is
one of the finest snore hostelries on
he coast. The governments double
pier will be one of the attractions of
he exposition. 1000 feet long, its
,wo arms, 500 feet apart, are connected
1t the center end, forming a basin, the
walk around which will be 5000 feet
from this pier, which will be the ma
raj landing, visitors may also see the
BOAT races.
The committee from the National as
ISOLATION, while in Norfolk, were cared
or by the Portsmouth and the Eliza
,eth River Boat clubs.
The canoe trail, several miles long.
he Japanese and Philippine reserva-
ions and the Indian and Wild West
shows, the reproduction of "Old
JAMESTOWN the battle of the Moni-
or and Merrimac, reproduced on
Hampton Roads, under the direction
4 the navy. the countless congresses
nd, finally the War Path" will make |
amestown-by that is meant the ex-
osition on Sewells Point, some fifty |
niles from jamestown proper. the is |
and, where once stood the little vii |
age of the first settlers, a memorable |
ear to the oarsmen who have their /
egattas this year in Virginia waters. |