Evening star., 1909-05-02

Capt. Joseph Richardson.
correct Capt. Richardson is mapping out
very lively and interesting season for
the crews, and success will follow from
the fact of his skill, diplomacy and gen.
eral all-around good-fellowship. He is
the son of Mr.. James Richardson of the
we'll known firm of Richardson e Bur-
CESS.
There will be a big crowd Of boating
people within the Columbia Theater Mon
day night when the curtain rings up on
''The Three of U.s." 1t has no refer
ence to the three-cornered race at Annap-
oils yesterday. 1t is expected that Pres
ident Taft will occupy one of the boxes.
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Now that the first race meet of the sea-
son is over, that at Annapolis yesterday,
the Potomacs will begin to train the
same crew for its first appearance in the
!! American Association regatta, better
known as the american Henley" which
takes place at Philadelphia the 22d of
the present month. The race dates of the
Henley are rather early in the season,
set and arranged for the purpose of at
tracing all the college crews of the
country to their classy and well regu-
lated regatta. The Henley has been going
Tor only seven years, and was originally
started by number of true and ardent
devotees of rowing, who did not fancy or
relish the conditions and atmosphere OF
some of the other big race meets. To
their minds there was too much OF the
semi-pro. abounding. and they were not
far from being right in their conjectures.
1t is an invitation affair, and last year
the contestants came from such colleges
as Harvard, Yale, Cornell, University of
Pennsylvania. Georgetown, New York
University. and schools like Georgetown
Prep, Central High of Philadelphia, Cas-
cadilla of Ithaca, Boys Latin and Poly
technic OF Baltimore and Tech of this
city. Among the clubs invited are the
New York Athletics. University Barge,
Potomacs. Nassaus, Bachelor Barge. Met
ropolitans. Wyanokes, Staten Islands,
delphia Barge, Nonpareil and Crescents.
BY this array 1t can be readily seen that
it's contestants are classy" and the Po-
tomacs desire to put their senior eight
in against the best Of them. Capt. Rich
ardson is very anxious to get crew In
the Henley for he is confident with
the material at hand he can get out the
best crew the Potomacs have ever had
to represent them In any season. The
crew and other candidates will all report
for work Wednesday of the present week
call for all novices to report for work,
those who desire to fight for seats In the
junior eight-oared crew for the season of
1909 The Potomacs have been singularly
successful with junior crews generally
turning out very fast one every year,
and there is no reason why the same re-
suits will not follow this year. Among
those who will row will be Joe Spransy,
Waldo Pearce, w. ]. Bacon, George
Bean. Charles Hill Bowie. the Evans
brothers. James Fitzgibbons, Earl Coul-
try. Roy Cave, Ralph w. Howell, Gren-
vile Jones, Clifford Langley, Francis B.
Moriarity. w. II. Cady. Thad Norris,
Charles H. Wagner, James A. Thoney
and Robert Thelen. This Is indeed a
The project of Capt Townsend of the
Analostans and Capt. Richardson of the
Potomacs to revive club regattas Is a
move in the proper direction, and will, in
the end, create anew a decided return of
the latent enthusiasm in rowing. Years
ago when club regattas were the regular
set events of the clubs each organiZa-
tion had an abundance Of oarsmen who
always felt 1t their duty to take part in
these local affairs, hence there was any
amount of rivalry on tap, and the races
always made decided hits. 1t is proposed
TINS year to have races between married
and single men, ambitious young oarsmen
and the has beens, in eight oars, single
and double shells. and any number of
canoe races; each regatta to be followed
by dancing In the evening. Capt Rich
ardson of the Potomacs has a scheme to
divide the entire club into two divisions,
using the clubs coIors to designate each.
red and White-and by antagonizing them
to meet each other in races, thereby in
fuslng new life and spirit in the Organi-
cation.
The Old Dominions of Alexandria may
also get up a club regatta. a feature being
to invite the clubs of this city to match
races as an attraction for their affair
Such move would give rowing a boom
in Alexandria.
The official register and record book OF
the National Association had other errors
and mistakes than those noticed in The
Star of last Sunday. One of the fun
nest is crediting the winners of the
championship in intermediate doubles to
Messrs. DAILY and German Of the Potomac
Boat Club of this city. What makes the
mistake laughable lies In the fact that
they did not start in the race at all.
What's the matter with Secretary Fort
meyer this year, anyway.
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Capt. Douglas Spencer Bliss, one OF the
best oarsmen on the river. had to forego
training for the Annapolis crew on ac-
count OF rather serious case of illness.
He has been absent from the boathouse
for nearly three weeks. but hopes to get
out in time for the Henley
Next Saturday the Navy and Columbia
College of New York will try conclusions
on the Severn, when the New York col
leg.ans expect to wipe out the sting of
defeat recently received at the hands of
the Harvard squad. 1t will take an ex-
ceptionally strong crew to do the Navy on
their own water
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The Pacific coast oarsmen are going to
make heroic efforts to get the pick college
crews and club organizations to send
their best men out to the Alaska-Yukon
exposition that opens at Seattle, Wash,