Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-06
BOATHOUSE GOSSIP.


| With the ending of the foot ball season.
| the oarsmen of the city commence to
| turn their attention to affairs relating to
| auuatics for the ensuing year, and, hence
| the clubs of the city are now at work
mapping out the program for 1909. The
| indications are that the season will be an
| extremely lively one. with both the Ana
! lostans ard Potomacs competing in all the
| nearby regattas, while each cub will hold
| several club regattas, by which they hope
| to raise d new interest among their oars
men.
There will be no open regatta held on
| the Potomac river in the year 1909. as the
| prospects are that the Patapsco River
and Navy of Baltimore will hold a big at
| fair presumably the National or Middle
States and it would be the height of fool
| iShness on the part of the Potomac River
Regatta Association to enter into a COM
petition to break the effect of the gather
! ing in Baltimore. They could not induce
| the big clubs of New York, Philadelphia
or Boston to make two trips south during
| the year. they are confident the oars
men would prefer to go to a regular set
regatta than to go to an extra affair, even
| though held here on the Potomac river
which is noted the country over for the
! fine regattas held on its course. They
will let the year 1909 lapse and will de-
vote their energies to the regattas held in
Baltimore Phi adelphia and New York.
AS usual the officers of the Potomac
club are bending every effort to rehabilitate
it's ranks with junior oarsmen i'll order to
| maintain its supremacy Ill TINS rank
among the clubs of America. They have
managed to turn the trick card every
year of producing junior crew that has
swept the country. and the aim will be to
again work the game on the oarsmen or
America. Already they have a strong
nucleus for crew as they have enrolled
about twenty candidates who have made
known their intention of coming out In
the spring for the crew. 1t is expected
that several of the oarsmen of Georgetown
University and also number of the foot
ball squad of George Washington will be
enrolled in January. With these men I'M
der his control, Coach Pat Dempsey will
have a much better chance for winner
| than he did last summer.
| The Potomac senior crew next season
| ought to be far superior TO the one of
| last season. the graduates from that
| wonderfully fast winning junior and in
| termediate eight will give the coach plen-
| ty of men to pick from. even though it
appears likely that two of the best. Brew
ster and Hart, may retire.
| Among the Analostans there is also a
decided inclination to push things along
| at rapid rate, and if Capt. Townsend
and his efficient assistants are given the
support that should be accorded their eff
forts to boom crew rowing there is no
DENYING that the crews of the club will
| need watching. A great many admirers
of the old club would like to see really
| first class coach paced in charge of the
rowing interest for one season, being
confident that such an innovation would
rebound with credit, and the cOlOrS Of the
| club would go to the front. they used
| to do in years gone by. The all-colege
/ eight spoken of last week has set the
| wise men of the club thinking. they
| believe it is possible. They have Town
send of Princeton Edmonds of George
town. Sheridan Of Lehigh and Houston of
| Pennsylvania TO start with. and these four
surely are good enough to get into any
| crew.
The Old Dominions down in a Alexandria
not to he behind in the game, are also at
! work with the season of 1909 looming up
as a very important affair for the destiny
of the club. They will procure eight
and with Capt. Douglas at the helm in
tend to make. the year brilliant one for
the people of their city.
Rankin one of Courtney's coxswains at
Cornell. is at present living in this city,
and may become fixture among the Cor
nell boys in the ranks OF the Potomacs.
The fine weather of the carly part of
the past week induced several crews to go
out on the water from the float of the
AnalOStan house. The river never pre-
scented Il pretter sight than it did during
the recent warm spell. as for several days
| there wasn't a ripple on the water. and
naturally shellboat rowing a perfect
dream.
There is strong likelihood that Balti-
more will have an active opposition in
its flight to secure the Middle States re-
eatta as several of the New York clubs
have already announced their intention of
voting 10 hold the regatta on the Har-
lem while some of the Philadelphia clubs
are also opposed to Baltimore. Washing
ton had some of this opposition last year
also, and 1t can be easily overcome by the
Baltimore boys if they get down to hard
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