Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-13
INITIAL BOAT
RACES OF SEASON
Georgetown University Fights
to Row on Potomac To-
morrow.

The names of the officials for George
towns first boat race tomorrow afternoon
at > o'clock. and the first race on the
Potomac this season. were announced
this morning. Ex-Capt. Rice Will referee
and Manager Woods will act as starter
as Coach Vail prefers to give his time
solely to watching his prospective varsity
material instead of officiating in the prin-
cipal capacity Mr.. Claude Zapponi. Po-
tomac Boat Club: Mr.. Easby-S Smith.
Georgetown. and Mr.. j. H. O'Neil
Georgetown. have been invited to judge
at the finish. Timers will be Messrs
Moran. Spalding and Jeffs of Georgetown
There will be two events. The first a
race between two picked prep Fights for
mile, starting at 3 o'clock pm. owe: the
upper Potomac course and finishing at
the Aqueduct bridge. The second race
will be for college Fights. at o'clock, over
the new Potomac Henley course, one
mile and $50 yards. starting al the Ana
loStan boathouse and rowed up stream to
the finish off the Georgetown quarters.
The winners of this event will receive gold
medals especially designed for the race
besides the right to be called the first
varsity from now until Coach Vail
makes shake-up among the candidates.
GOOD progress mace.
The college candidates have been on
the river almost a month and the props
have been on the water two weeks. Con-
siderins the length OF time THE men have
been at work the results are surprising
even to the most loyal followers of
aquatic sports at the university. The
varsity candidates especially seem to
have entered into the sport this year with
a fine spirit and are training hard; The
changes from the Dempsey stroke as
hitherto rowed at Georgetown are slight
and the candidates learn readily. The
coach when seen by newspaper man
yesterday expressed himself as well
pleased with the progress made by his
crews. He stated that he liked the spirit
of the college men and sees no reason
why Georgetown cannot be well TO the
fore in the rowing world this year.
There have been several changes in the
makeup of all the Fights during the past
week, the most notable being the shifting
of Capt. Fitzgerald. the. varsity stroke,
from the lighted to the heavier boat. FitZ-
patrick of the heavy eight took his place.
and the crews now are more evenly
matched. Up to last Wednesday. when
lighter boat always beat the senior crew
by short margins In the daily brushes.
but Thursday the captains boat won out
in hard brush down stream for two
miles or more and the other crew turned
the tables on him in the row back to the
boathouse. 1t is safe to say that Sat
urday the two college Fights will put up
a very even race. Leahy. the big law
school third-year man came out early in
| the week and has been doing good work
at No. in the big eight. Madden has
been shifted to bow in this boat and
Cudahy to No g. Murray is now at No.
and Reilly at No. ).
With the exception of the change OF
Fitzpatrick to- stroke there were hardly
any changes in the other boat. Cudahy
was in at seven in this boat for one day.
but Bringardner is now back in his old
place Lee Kelley will steer one boat and
Charley Angule the other. The college
crews will use the first and second boats,
both starbcard stroked The Props, on
the other hand. will use their own port
stroked boat and a starboard stroke OF
the varsity's. The Georgetown crews have
always been conspicuous in>belng the only
eight at Poughkeepsie to use starboard
stroked boat influenced no doubt TO some
degree by the fact that Oxford. the usual
winner of the English championship. uses
no other but starboard shell. The Rob-
ert Collier was put in commission this
week and Coach Vail is now able to keep
I'D with the crews and watch the mlnutest
detail of every mans form.
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