Evening star., 1909-04-11
BoATHoUsE GOSSIP.

BOATHOUSE GOSSIP.
The Potomac Boat Club has been forced
to call off one Of its races with the Naval
Academy. scheduled for Saturday, May
1. at Annapolis. The reason for this hes
in the fact that 1t is impossible for the
racing committee of the club at TINS
early date to get the requisite number OF
men to make up the two crews. Many OF
the best men are students in the law
medical and dental branches of the sew
eral prominent universities, and as they
are now In the midst OF exams for
the final and important examinations
they will not risk any chances of being
conditioned by being absent from any
classes
Midshipman Benson, the manager of
the Navy has been notified that the Po-
tomacs will send down only one crew, a
first-class eight in every respect, and
that the club will be perfectly satisfied
to start against both the first and second
crews of Navy, thus insuring the second
crew sp end.d opportunity to show on
their mettle, which the m.dshipmen are
very anxious to do. as from this bunch
of oarsmen come the first crew of 1910.
The Potomacs regret the fact that they
| cannot get the two crews. In fact 1t is
the first time they have ever WEIGHED"
but the circumstances are of such an ex-
tenuating nature that it is proba-
BILE no i'll feeling will be felt by Navy.
1t expects to pick its one crew from
among the TO lowing oarsmen of last sea-
son: Ellis, Hart. Thrall. Bliss, Morse.
Richardson, Foster. Buliough, Ed Muel-
Ter, German. Mckinney, Rando ph and
Murray. With these in active work Pat
Dempsey could whip a fine crew into
shape In very little time.
Mr.. Frank Smith. one of the best sweep
oars of the Potomacs. has gone north for
his health, the close confining work at
produced an attack of nervous prostra-
tiOn.
The West Philadelphia Boat Club ex-
pect to. put out a crew of scullers In its
eight-oared shell this season and go after
the national championship at Detroit next
August. 1t is the liveliest bunch on the
Schuyfkill river.
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1t is pretty generally admitted on ali
hands that at the meeting of the Poto-
mac Boat Club Wednesday evening Mr..
Joseph Richardson will be elected to the
captaincy to succeed Capt. Mueller. whose
time expires this season. Mr.. Richard
son is q new man in the ranks, having
joined the club only a year ago. but he
has become in that time one Or the most
popular men of the organisation, while
as an oarSman he stands up In the
thirty-third degree class. He will make
fine officer, will entnuse the oarsmen
and hence the club expects to do great
things this year. Mr.. Richardson was
at one time a member of the Old Domin-
.onS Of Alexandria.
The Analostans are experiencing the
same trouble in getting out their oarsmen
that the Potomac are encountering at
present, as many of their members are
students in the various medical and law
schools and are hard at work in final
examinations.
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The west is going out after the Ameri-
can championship this year, as the clubs
of st. Louis and Detroit are all ordering
new eight-oared shells for the annual re-
gattas. The Detroit Boat Club, under
the lead of Duffie1d are welding together
an intermediate and senior crew that they
expect to achieve wonders with, and
make New York Athletics and Argonauts
take their wash. The Potomacs, that is
the active racing men, are going to en-
gineer several projects, by which they
| nope to raise money to get out to Detroit
| for the two days regatta. 1t will cost
something like 500 to make the trip. and
entail such burden. The affair will bt
started after the annual election of mex
| week
| The local clubs are determined to re-
vive the old-time club regattas that uset
| to popularize the sport many years ago
and which attracted large crowds to the
river banks and lighthouses.
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The many friends of Mr.. William C.. Nc.
| Kinney are very anxious to see him elect.
ed to membership Of the board of gov
ernors of the Potomac Boat Club. He is
one of the best posted men on aQuatics
in America and his standing here in the
community would add luster to the board
| of governors.
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| Reports received from Annapolis are to
the effect that the Navy crews. under
Glendon's good work, are rowing in
splendid form, and are up to the stand
ard of Navy's great crew of 1905 and
| 1906. when they beat every college crew
they met. The Potomacs have a large
contract cut out for them May l. and the
distance is a long two-mile stretch OF
| water, a distance club crews never at
| tempt to row. hence it looks like a
| 'matterhorn" to the Potomacs.
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The Analostans have long waiting
list, while the Potomacs have elected fif-
teen new members recently, with plenty
Of applications pending, SO it looks as il
| rowing was looking up in this vicinity.
The effort being made to have races
rowed on the lower course will hardly
amount to anything at present, outside OF
Georgetown class races. 1t was and is 8
beautiful course, wider and better than
| the one up stream, but the means of get
| ting there are too meager and wholly in
| adequate.
| Immediately after the annual election,
! the amusement committee Of the Po-
tOmacs will send out invitations for an