Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-12-27
M|DD|ES STRONG CREW
Big Event Will Be TWO-Mile
Race With "Pennsy"
HARVARD STRUGGLE OFF
Yale Has Booked Several Additions To
Squad From Other Branches OF
Sport

The rowing season at the Naval
Academy is awaited with much in
terest and there is every indication
of one of the strongest crews that
has represented the Navy for many
seasons, as well as good junior
crews, including second and third
eights, the fourth class eight and
one or two fours.
An effort is being made to secure
some races for the fours, a contest
of the kind not having taken place
here since the early days of row.
ing at the Academy. The distinct
event of the season will be the races
scheduled with the University of
Pennsylvania after aquatic relations
had been discontinued for halt dozen
years.
Pennsylvania will bring its var
sity and freshman crews to Annapolis
on May 6. The varsity and the first
Navy crews will contest over the two
mile course, while the freshman and
fourth class crews will pull a half
mile less. The only other race def
nitely fixed is that with Columbia on
May IS. However, it is likely that
Syracuse and Princeton will both
send crews here, the latter
probably four.
1t is settled that there will be no
race with Harvard this season, but
Yale, though the chances of race
are not great. There is also a cor
respondence in progress with Prince
ton and it is hoped that the latter
will use its newly granted permission
to arrange one or two races by send
ing at least four here. Sy-
racuse will row at the Naval Acad-
emy if it straightens out it's aquatic
tangle and supports crew as usual.
The first and second crews have
lost but two members each by gradu-
alton, resignation and illness. Of
the first crew Brown, bow, has grad
uated, and King, No. 4, has typhoid
and will not be able to row. There
remain Weems, No. 2; Agrell, No. 8;
Merring, No. 5 Griffin, No. 6; ohm
son. No. 7, and Loftin. stroke. In the
second crew Ainsworth, stroke, has
graduated. The following are still
available: Booth, bow; Powell, No.
2; Whiting. No. 8; Meyer, No. 4 ),
Ertz, No 5, and Meigs, No. Z. Coach
Glendon will also have the men who
composed the excellent fourth class
crew last season and a number of
good men in junior boats.
The rowing squad will get several
notable additions from other branches
of sport. Douglas, the tall football
tackle, basketball and lacrosse player
is going to make a strong effort to
make the first crew this year. He
abandoned lacrosse for rowing last
spring, but did not get farther than
the third boat. This season he is
likely to do better. Brown, the big
football guard from the fourth class,
has decided that he will row, but
whether Glendon can find a place
for his 206 pounds is question and
he also needs to learn the art of
rowing from the beginning. Dali
ton, the husky haf-back who has
been elected captain of the football
team, and McReavy, the fourth class
man who did such fine work in the
backfeld, are both inclined to take
up the rowing game. Both are want
ed in other fields, however, Dalton a
hurdler on the field and track team,
and McReavy on the nine.
Richard Glendon, the coach, is
expected here about the middle
of January. Work on the machines
and in the tank will begin at once
upon his arrival, and the crews will
get on the water just as soon as
weather permits.