Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-10
Mound City Rowers Are Chartered
at the Analostan Boat
Club.
COURSE BEING MARKED
BY DISTRICT SURVEYOR
Rowing Association to Be Formed.
Eleven Starters in Senior
Singles.

aging the National regatta has COM
menced, the routine labor and the can
vass of the city for funds have ceased.
and every effort is now being centered
on getting the visiting crews safely
housed in the various clubhouses and
their boats properly racked, so that none
will feel that they have been sighted.
Chairman F. Russell Underwood, whose
duty is to look after such matters, made
switch last night in regard to the dis
position of the Argonauts Of Toronto and
their numerous entries and boats. He had
first assigned them to the Analostan
house, but as they have three eight-oared
crews, three tours two doubles and three
singles, it was deemed best to locate
them over at the Potomacs', in order that
they might be all together. They will az
rive early tomorrow morning. and with
their three hundred supporters Will be
domiciled at the Arlington.
Mound City Crew Here.
The Mound City four-oared crew came
in Unexpectedly yesterday afternoon. not
having notified the reception committee OF
their coming; nor did they bring their
racing shell along, having shipped it by
express, and consequently delayed same
nearly twelve hours. They were given
| lockers at the Analostan house and later
on, through the courtesy of the Ana
| lostans, got float in one of their shells
With the Mound Citys is Coach Wray,
| the great mentor of Harvard College, who
| for several years has given Kennedy at
J Yale his wash at the New London races
| Coach Wray was out on the course with
| the crew and expressed himself as de-
| lighted with its surroundings. and es-
pecially with the water conditions.
| The Central Club of st. Louis will ar
! rive some time today and. like the
! Mounds, will also be domiciled with the
| Analostans. The coach of the Centrals
| is Fred Plaisted, formerly in charge Of
| the Analostans, hence they will find 1t
| very congenial among the local Analos-
| tans.
| The New York Athletics. with their long
| string of entries, under the control of the
! noted coach, Giannina. will arrive here
tomorrow morning and will be quartered
at the Potomac boathouse. The New
| Yorks have made many important shifts
in their senior eight, and it has gotten
| back almost exactly to the crew that won
| the championship at Detroit last year. 1t
| is a crew made up almost entirely or eX-
! collegians, and naturally fast one, and
/ they expect to turn the trick again this
| year. The VesperS. who defeated them
| this year. are sanguine they will turn the
! trick again, and say the only crew they
| fear is the Ottawas. The Potomacs OF
day, are elated over the fast company
| they are in, holding that victory with
| such a field is worth the while. They are
| looking at the Vespers as the most dan
gerous crew in the race
Virginia Crews Coming.
Coach Clarence Hecox and his junior
and intermediate Fights of the Virginia
Boat Club of Richmond will arrive in
1o6
| from the banks of the James are to the
| effect that the crew is very much faster
| than the one of last year, which lost the
race on a fiuke, and that it expects to
| make win in the junior race. They
| are a husky set of oarsmen. these Vir-
| ginians, and >under the good work OF
Hecox have gotten down to form and
| are in the pink of good condition.
The surveyors of the District Com
| missioners' office, who are designated to
| lay off the course. started in at O'Clock
! this morning to finish up the work 10
| day. The surveyor in charge, j. H.
Ballinger, had six men at work placing
the poles along either side of the lane,
| and they will be topped off with white
flags so that there will be no installing
the course by the contestants. me
| course is also to be marked along the
/ sea wall in yellow. so that in case the
course is ever called on again for
regatta a new survey will not be neces-
| sary.
| The custom has been in late years.
where regattas have been held on tioai
or lake waters, to line crews up IN
row and start them when the starter
| considered them all in an even line. Inc
national committee did not take to the
Dlan this year, and directed that the
/ local committee have stakeboats at the
start with careful men in each boat, and
that they must have hold of the rudder
posts when the start is given. This is
4 oil
jockeying by some, which always causes
DELAYS and trouble. Everything in this
regatta is on the equity plan, and no
| crew will be favored in getting away be-
| fore the word Go" is given. In the
quarter-mile dash a different plan will be
put in operation. as it will be much
easier to handle the fleet of scuIlers. A
string will hold the singles at the quar-
| ter-mile dash, and on the signal it will
| be lowered
To Form Association.
The officers of the Patapsco Navy have
issued CALL through Commodore Thorn
as of that association, requesting a meet
ing of the clubs Of Annapolis, Baltimore,
Washington, Alexandria, Richmond and
Portsmouth. Va, at the Arlington Hotel
tomorrow night for the purpose of FORM
| ing Southern Rowing Association. The
| Potomacs at its recent meeting passed
resolution to acknowledge the letter, and
to say that it did not deem it ex-
pedient to enter into any such an asso.
men are still sore over the way they
were treated in regard to the Middle
i States regatta, hence the call for this
meeting.