Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-06

the heavy debt the regatta will cost the
local people.
The committee has requested the mill
owners whose waste water empties into
the big sluice at 33d street to shut down
Monday during the races. and the Amer
can Ice Company and the George w.
Cissell Company have notified 1t that
they will do so, leaving the District of
Columbia Paper Mill Company the only
one in operation. 1t was at the mouth of
this sewer that the deplorable accident
occurred in 1905. and to guard against
trouble loaded barge will be placed at
the mouth to break the force of the waste
water.
The first visitors to arrive were the soul
lers from the land of Emperor William.
and their presence on the river served to
attract a large number of interested spec
tators. All of the incoming oarsmen and
sculers were anxious to see Won GAIA.
the champion sculler of Germany. espe
cially since at the Olympian regatta he
signally defeated Lon Scholes the Cana
dian. and the only man outside of Ed
ward Ten Eyck who ever won the dia-
mond souls from the English at Henley.
Every one had his field glasses leveled
on the big. sturdy German, and while his
style of going after the stroke is some
what different from such champions
Greer. Bennett. Shepherd and Titus. there
is a tremendous lift with each stroke that
seems to carry his boat along with great
rapidity. and yet with smoothness that
is remarkable. He Is of magnificent
physique and has legs on him muscular
enough to drive a steamboat. much less
frail single shell. The knowing ones.
after seeing Won GAIA at work predicted
he would give a grand account of him
self In the two races in which he will
start, and the regret was expressed that
Greer the champion. was not here to con-
test with him and thereby make it an in
ternatiOnal championship. His associates,
Vladimir Sands and Lemke. were also
out in a double scullng craft. and. while
they moved along very we'll, they did not
draw the crowd AS did Won GAIA.
Another eight-oared crew came out of
the Analostan house with shirts of red
and white and moved up stream. and at
once the cry of Here comes the Nir-
ginias! was taken up and every one
rushed to see the Richmond crews style
of rowing. considerable amount of in
tereSt centered around this crew from
the fact that w. c. HecoX of this city was
the coach in charge. He has a husky
bunch of sons of the Old Dominion at
work, their blade work is excellent. while
their recovery is as clever as any crew
seen here this season. They went up
stream with beautiful, methodical swing,
the stroke being long and free from any
bad washing out at the finish of the
stroke while they planted their legs in
fine shape and kicked out in d way that
caught the admiration of all. They were
given the glad hand as they sped under
the bridge. and Coach Hecox and his at
PENDANTS on the motor boat also received
attention. The consensus of opinion was
that they would have to be considered in
the junior eight-oared race.
The New York Athletic eight-oarded
crew. which is uuartered at the Potomac
boathouse. made its appearance on the
river at dusk hence little could be gaug
ed of its merits. it was too dark to
measure it's work when it came back to
the house. This is the American cham
pion eight-oared shell crew and great
things are expected of 1T in the race to-
morrow. 1t is an unbeaten crew for 1908
and has won the leading prizes of the
year in every regatta it has started
in. viz. American Henley. Peoples re-
gatta at Philadelphia, and the National
regatta al Springfield. With one excep-
ton. every member is an ex-collegian.
and has had training at the universities
where rowing is part of the athletic
curriculum. 1t is great crew. every man
is proficient in the art of sweep rowing
and the club that heads it over the finish
will know what a boat race is ct its con-
clusion. The crew has a powerful reach
and rushes its stroke through the water
with the force of a steam engine II will
go out again this morning and its work
will he scrutinZed very keenly, as there
is quite large crowd around the Poto-
mac boathOuse who imagine it is now
time fer the New Workers to get a trim
ming and the Potomacs are the ones to
do the act, like they did last year at the
National