Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-03
BOATHOUSE GOSSIP.

There will be one entry in the Peoples
regatta Monday at Philadelphia from
Washington after all. as the racing COM
mittee of the Potomac Club decided that
it would be a stroke of policy to enter
some one, so Carl Mueller will be sent to
represent the club in the intermediate
single SOULS.
During the week the members of the
Washington Canoe Club have Jeen taking
turns in giving exhibitions of their new
racing canoes that they recently pur-
chased from a firm in Canada. Both
craft are real nifty, and even though pro-
PEELED by novices they had seemingly no
trouble in beating anything on the river.
Now if some of the other clubs will pur-
chase one or two of these racing boats
and keep them alone for racing days
they will add a new interest in canoeing
in this vicinity. The members OF the
Washington Club say they may be barred
this year. but never again, as the mem
bers of that organization realize that the
canoe racer has come to stay. and no
first-class organization will be without
one in the future.
Scholes, one time winner of the 0,a-
mond SOULS at the English Henley, who
trained to go over again this year, failed
at the last minute to make good, as his
entry was not favorably acted on. You
have got to be something real good to
get in at the regatta. so since winning
the SOULS Scholes must have strayed off
the beaten path and offended his British
cousins. He will in all probability come
to Washington.
The Sycamore Island Club will give
regatta some time during the month OF
August up at the fine stretch of water
near their coy clubhouse.
1t is not improbable that some of the
cracks of the Washington Canoe Club
will be entered in the big canoe regatta
of the north during the present season
Commodore Roger is pushing the idea
with a good deal of energy.
The friends of Tom German would like
to see him train for the intermediate
SOULS for August, as they believe the big
boy would have an excellent show.
Quite a number of oarsmen of this
city will 'forego the canoe races and will
go over to Philadelphia to witness the
many rowing races in the Peoples re-
gatta.
The oarsmen of the entire country will
watch with interest the three regattas
that are to be pulled off on the Fourth,
for by them they expect to get a line on
the crews that will participate in the
three regattas. They take place at
Springfield. Mass. where the Connecticut
Valley Association is to race, and where
some of the best Canadian crews will
compete, also at Boston, Mass. where
the New England Amateur Rowing AS
ISOLATION will back the regatta, and also
are to hold forth. All the best crews and
scullers will be in the different regattas,
hence the ease to get line on their do
ings and gongs for the National.
Harry Ellis, one of the best sweep oars
the Potomacs ever produced, has stopped
rowing for good, much to the regret of
his classmates of the old tech crew and
his associates in the Potomacs Many of
his friends are urging him to make one
more go. and that for the American
championship under Glendon in the Ma
tiOnal.
Very little thought was given rowing
around the lighthouses last week, as
every one was interested in the doings
of the canoe fraternity and the prospects
of winning down at the tidal basin to-
morrow.
The friends OF the Analostans hope that
Capt. Adrian SiZer will now work up an
interest and get together junior crew
for entrance in the National. 1t is
rare chance for the club. and one that
should be taken advantage Of especially
as the club has such good material at its
command. Washington should win some
of the prizes next August, and il is all
most the duty of the clubs to make the
effort
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The Middle States Regatta Association
held an important meeting at Philadel-
phia today to consider plans and projects
for the annual regatta of this year. Both
Messrs. John Hadley Doyle and c. r.
Zappone. who are members of the COM
nlittee, attended.
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BuIlough and Dick Spransy, two of the
real good oarsmen of the Potomacs. will
come out for the senior crew now that
Glendon is at the helm and directing af-
fairs.