Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-08

twenty-foot racer owned by A X and G.
was described and illustrated in the
boating section of The Sunday Star
! August -. deserves place in American
f., yachting history second only to the ia
| nous Dixie ". The boat has been raced
altogether more than 1000 miles at
! worlds record speed, and her engine rs
as full Of business today as il was when
| first installed in the little llydroplane
| Her record for the past season is as
| follows:
Winner international speed trophy,
! Huntington bay.
| Winner seVent y-five-mile national long
distance open championship.
| Winper one-mile twenty-foot champion
| ship of United States.
| Winner thirty-mile twenty-fOot cham
pionship of United States.
Winner sixty-mile twenty-foot cham
pionship of United States.
Winner Delaware river championship,
Wilmington.
! Winner twenty-foot free-for-all cham
! rionship. w. p. B. A, Peoria.
| Winner twenty-six foot free-forall
Championship, w. p. y: A.. Peoria
championship. W.. Z. B. A. Peoria.
| Winner second in forty-foot free-for- all
Championship. same place.
| Winner twenty-foot championship,
great lakes. Detroit
Winner twelve-mile free-for-all Dupont
! trophy. Cambridge, Md.
| Winner southern championship Dupont
| trophy. Cambridge. Md
Winner tWelve-mile handicap and Du-
| FONT trophy. Cambridge. Md.
Winner Atlantic City championship and
| trophy.
| Winner ATOMS Harbor Yacht Club
championship trophy.
Holder OF world Is record for twenty
! foot boats in competition.
$50
| The Washington Canoe Club gave a
big smoker last night that could have
easily been termed a musical. such was
the caliber of the local talent assisting
In the entertainment of over 200 canoeists
and their guests. Shortly after $50
o'clock President Whipple in brief talk
| introduced every man in the ballroom in
a most unique manner and made all feel
perfectly at home by asking each fellow
to shake hands with the man on his right
and at the same time give him his name.
| This is an established custom al the
canoe club, and nothing could be done to
show greater hospitality. for at club
smokers members are too apt to stand
| In little groups with well defined lines of
| exclusiveness about them, generally pay
, ing littlo attention to strangers beyond
doing out to them an occasional mug of
| beer and a sandwich. But last night
every one knew every one else on the
floor before the evening was we'll under
way
After several splendid musical numbers
We're rendered by those whose names APP
| pear below refreshments were served by
the committee In charge.
| AS usual everything was brought to an
abrupt standstill at II 80 clock and by
midnight the first smokers smoke of the
| winter had cleared away. The officers of
the club plan to hold ladies' smoker In
the near future, when all the entertain
ing. such as singing. instrumental music
etc, will be left to the fair sex. The
club wishes to express its appreciation to
Herndon Morsell. Louis Thompson.
Evans Green. Roland Rodrick. w. A.
Morsell. the Apollo Male Quartet. the
Macleod Orchestra, Edwin Callow By
ron Blodgett, D. G. Pfeiffer, George H..
Wilson and Newton Hammer for their
services in providing music for the &C.
casion.
Commodore W. A Rogers of the Wash
ington Canoe Club is planning a cruise
up the canal in his fifteen-mile runabout
Auto. but it seems that some little trou-
BILE is being experienced in an effort to
make the boat run at the required canal
speed of four miles an hour.
If this can be done, the trip will be
taken before the last OF the month. other
wise the craft will probably be run down
the river.
1t may interest canoeists to know that
the Inter-Club Canoe Association has
planned to hold another cruise and two
| entertainments winch Will De given d.
soon as members of the l. C.. c. A. en-
tertainment committee all return from
vacations.
Il X X X
E. T. Thornton, a local canoelst, re,
! ports that he believes he has established
a .ong- distance padding record. He re-
! Gently embarked alone from Moore's
boathouse on a cruise to Indian Head II
| a seventeen-foot canoe. camped there two
or three days and returned. padd ing only
tVenty-four hours and ten minutes dur
! ing the whole trip.
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| The new home of the Potomac Gun and
Fishing Club promises to be vast i'm
| provement on the old house. There are
/ over fifty sportsmen In this organization
| all of whom own some sort OF boat
either a skiff or a power cruiser ane
| sometimes both, as one is almost indis
| | pensable to the other when either gun
ming or fishing.
. The officers Of the club are w. Z. Gar.
ner, j. NJ. Butler. Charles Sanford and
c. Garner.
Il *
Concerning the proposed race for al