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GOOD PROSPECTS FOR ROWING
Season Seems Likely to Be Best in
Years.
NATIONAL REGATTA FOR AMERICA
Saratoga Lake Event May ne Chosen
NJ Permanent and Nationally
Patronised Affair for Row
ing Men.
ing Men,


NEW YORK. April PA rowing season
that will eclipse all previous ones is looked
for this year. Both the amateur and pro-
fessional outlook is the best i'm some time
and from the interest that is being taken
in the sport IT will be a big year on the
water. Besides the annual national re-
gattas which will be held throughout the
United States this summer, also the ma.
tionsl championships at Saratoga Lake.
n Y. in July, and the Canadian events at
st. Catharines, near Toronto, Canada
there will be two professional sculling
races, the winners of which are likely to
row for the worlds championship in either
this country England. In sydney ~
s W., the latter part OF April or early in
May Richard Arnst the present world
champion. win race against Harry Pearce
OF Australia. who a short time ago de-
feated William Webb, ex-worlds cham
pion. The race between Pearce and Arnst
VIII take place on the Parramatta river.
Australia. which has been the scene of
many famous contests.
In England, over the championship
course on the Thames, on Monday. May 1,
Ernest Barry, present champion Of Eng
land, will defend his title against william
be $1,000 side. 1t is probable the winner
will row against the victor Of the Aus
tralian race. Last summer in South
Africa, Arnst beat Barry.
In Toronto there Is talk OF Eddie Durham
being matched against an unknown, and
last year there was talk Of Frank Greer,
the ex-amateur American champion, row
ing against Durham, while there are many
former NV
who would enter a professional race II
inducements were favorable enough.
The Canadian Association of Amateur
oarsmen will hold its annual regstts on
Friday and Saturday, August 4 and 8, one
week later than the American fixture, at
which the Argonauts of Toronto, 1t is
claimed, have won more events than any
other one club in America At the meeting
of the Canadian organization the entry
Of the Ottawa senior eight-oared shell
crew, who intend trying to lift the grand
Challenge cup at the English Henley re-
gatta this year, was approved, as the
committee had investigated the status of
all the oarsmen. The entry, therefore,
must be accepted by the English authori-
ties. The Argonaut Rowing club of To-
ronto is getting its sectional eight-oared
shell and four-oared shell from Sims of
England, about June.
The Ottawa crew also uses a sectional
shell, which can be taken apart and re-
fitted The Ottawa. club also intends send
ing senior four to the Royal English re-
gatta, which will be held this year July
3, and 2. Other entries from Canada nay
include the Winnipeg senior four, which |
won the Stewards cup last year, and also |
E. b. Butler of the Argonauts of Toronto |
who will try for the Diamond Sculls. The |
Arundel senior four of Baltimore cham |
pions of the United States, intended to |
enter the English race this year, but their |
entry was refused, as the English authori-
ties have no agreement with this country |
as Is the case with Canada, Belgium Rus |
STA and other foreign countries
Following the lead of England and Cam
ada, this country may make the Saratoga |
lake course a permanent fixture for the |
holding of the national regatta. The Eng
lish and Canadian courses are one mile |
and $50 yards, and last year the national
regatta distance was cut from one and a |
half miles to mile and a quarter The
American regatta, annually held on the |
Sehuylkill river the last Saturday in May |
is over course Of one mile and $50 yards !
but is more popular with college crews |
II is reported an effort will be made to
have the eastern intercollegiate regatta de-
cided at Saratoga lake, instead of on the
Hudson at Poughkeepsie. A movement
with this object in view will soon b
started, II is said.
The intercollegiate regatta will occur at
Poughkeepsie in June The triangular meet
Cornell, Princeton and Yale var
sity eight-oared shell crews will occur
May % at Princeton. while on May q
Cornell varsity and freshmen crews will L
row Harvard at Ithaca. Annapolis will Il
row Columbia varsity on the Severn river,
Annapolis, May 10 and also expects to row
Penn and Syracuse on the same river
On the Pacific coast the annual fntercol-
egiate race between Leland Stanford and
University Of California varsity and fresh
men crews will occur on the Oakland
estuary, Saturday, May Is. The freshmen
,rews will row at o'clock and the varsity
ace will start an hour later. II will be
possible to run sightseeing trains along
he course.