Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-04-08
MIDDIES WON BOAT RACE.
DEFEAT GEORGETOWN CREW
SIX LENGTHS.
intercollegiate Season Opens Wen For
The Navy Oarsmen-Easy Victory
Over a choppy Seattle Visitors
Not Equal To The Sailors.
THE FUTURE ADMIRALS SHOW
SPLENDID FORM.

The local, as well as the tntcrcol-
legiate, boating season was inaugu
rated here Saturday afternoon in a
two-mile race on the Severn between
the crews of the Naval Academy and
Georgetown University, which was
won by the midshipmen by six
lengths. Conditions were in no way
satisfactory aud the slow time, more
than two minutes below the record OF
the course, can be accounted for by
the fact that half gale of wind blew
directly against the backs of the oars
men and a heavy sea made good
blade work impossible.
The winning time was IL minutes
and 81 seconds, and Georgetown COW
cred the distance in ~ minutes, Is 5-6
seconds. The wind blew freshly dur
ing the morning and some doubt was
entertained of the possibility of pull
ing the race off. However, trip
over the course i'm the torpedo boat
Manley by Coaches Glendon and Rus
sell satisfied the two that the race
was practicable. At that time the
wind was from the east and the high
hills of the Severn sheltered the course
and made the water comparatively
smooth. In the time that it took to
crews over the four miles To the begin
ming of the course, the wind shifted
TO the south and not only made a
chopppy sea. but blew directly against
the oarsmen. Still, with the help of
the washboards that had been rugged
TO both boats, little water was shipped
by. either crew. The temperature was
low enough to make the wait before
the start decidedly uncomfortable to
the rowers
At the start Georgetown let out
fast stroke, rowing 30 or 40 to the
minute, and sprang ahead of the Navy
boat, whose occupants commenced
at 3S. Both crews soon dropped,
though Georgetown continued to keep
its stroke above that of the Navy,
but it could readily be seen that the
heavier Navy oarsmen were easily
holding their competitor while rowing
several less strokes TO the minute.
About a hale of q mile from the start
the boats were about even and from
that point to the end it was merely a
question of how far the Navy oarsmen
would lead at the finish. Georgetown
rowed a plucky race and kept in good
form to the end. Stroke Fitzgerald's S
work was particularly notable, but
there was not tho weight and strength
in the boat TO keep up TO the trained
Drawn of the midshipmen and they
were not able to respond to Coxswain
Hebron's cry for final squirt.
The crews were:
Naval Academy Leighton, bow;
Bagg, ? Prichard, 3; White, 4; Mont
gomery, 8 Rockwell, 6; Davis, a;
Inrgam, strokes Roberts, coxswain.
Average weight, l73 1-2 pounds.
Georgetown-Laplante, bow; Lynch,
2; Murray, 3; Moran, A; Woy, 5;
stewart, g.; Rice, z; Fitzgerald,
stroke; Hebron, coxswain. Average
weight, 1863 3-S pounds.
The officials were: Referee-G. G..
Lincoln, Yale. Starter-Lieut.- Com
mander n. T.. Irwin, u. 5. n. Judges
at finish--Mr. Woods, Georgetown /;
Midshipman Payne. Timers--Mid-
shipmen Stevenson and Gilmore.
The decisive victory won by the
Naval Academy crew has made it
clear that Coach Richard Glendon has
developed another of the fine Navy
crews that have marked each of the
three seasons during which he has
been at the head of aquatics. 1t is
believed that the fact has made it all
the more probable that the Naval
Academy will be represented in the
Poughkeepsie regatta this year. The
members of the crew feel that their
going depends upon the showing of
the crew and this is a strong incentive
to the best possible work.
The Navy oarsmen showed not only
splendid arm, back and leg work on
Saturday, but particularly fine head
work, and upon that depends the out
come of rowing race as much as
anything else. The light Georgetown
crew evidently realized that it would
have no chance in a waiting race with
the greater weight and strenth of the
midshipmen and started with a quick
stroke, with which they hoped tC
get sufficient lead to prevent the
midshipmen from catching up.
The Navy crew soon found that
they could hold their rivals with
four or five less strokes to the minu.
te and without perceptible increasing
the stroke were able to overhaul them
and TO pull rapidly away after the
mile had been reached. To such ar
extent bad the Georgetown oarsmer
exhausted themselves by their fasi
blade work early in the race that they
we're absolutely unable to make any
kind of a squirt SO us to close up the
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