Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-29
BUTLER IS A STAR
Wins Two Races in National
Regatta on Saratoga Lake.
DEFEATS SHEPHERD EASILY
Canadian Oarsmen Make Presence
Felt-Dead Heat Marks
One Struggle.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, n. Y, July %
Edward B. Butler Of the Argonaut Row
ing Club of Toronto, the rising star OF the
aquatic world, and rated by critics as the
greatest sculler since the days Of Ned
Hanlan, rowed to an overwhelming vic
tory over Fred Shepherd of the Harlem
Rowing Club of New York and Samuel
F. Gordon Of the Vesper Boat Club of
Philadelphia. in the senior sculling cham
pionship Of the national regatta on Sara
toga lake yesterday afternoon. Butler
simply outclassed the veteran Sailor
and as the race wore along it was only g.
question of how far he would win,
The victory Of the speedy Canadian was
all the more remarkable from the fact
that just an hour and half previous to
the race for the title he beat Fred Fues-
sci of the Harlem Rowing Club and
George Carter of the New Rochelle club
in the easiest kind Of fashion in the asso-
citation singles.
The meeting of the National Association
of Amateur Oarsmen marked the first
national fixture to be held over the Sar-
atoga lake course in sixteen years and
might be compared with the most brilliant
ever held. The races were started on
scheduled time and under the capable SUI
pervision of Harry Penn Burke of the
Malta Boat Club were finished without
single mishap.
Conditions Ideal.
Conditions for speedy rowing were ideal.
The surface of the broad lake was as
smooth as the prOverbial millpond
slight rain fell while the races were going
on. but while the gentle moisture made it
uncomfortable for the spectators. who
crowded the points of vantage, it had no
effect on the competing oarsmen, and the
races in some cases We're of the hair-rais-
ing variety.
Surprises were In order throug tiout the
afternoon. and of these the reverses suf-
fered by the New York Athletic Club
crew and the speedy Arundel Boat Club
of Baltimore at the hands of the four
cared crew of the .Argonauts came as a
bitter disappointment to those who We're
firm in the belief that the Mercury oFot
four would win handily. The Arundels
ruled second choice with those who liked
to wager. while the husky Canucks were
rated as outsiders. The Vesper Boat
Club double also went down in the spray
of defeat before the Union Boat Club of
Boston, after close. bitter struggle.
The race of the day for the spectators
was the intermediate four-oared shell.
After the most bitter kind of battle the
the stroke in the last dozen and managed
TO win by scant two feet The Western
Rowing Club crew made one of the great
est spirits see during the day and fin
ished in dead heat for second place with
the Ariel Boat Club of Baltimore.
1t was only after another desperate
fight that the Argonaut crew won the
senior four-oared race, and Taylor proved
himself to be great stroke. Conhdent
of the ability of the men behind him, ne
raced along until within fifty yards of
the finish, when he simply hit il up for
keeps and walked away from his oppo-
nents
The Summaries.
intermediate single sculls-won by W. y
ncr Riverside Boat Club Cambridge second;
f. NJ drew. Malta Boat Club Philadelphia,
ASSOCIATION senior sing.e sculls-Won by E. b.
Butler, Argonagt Rowing Club. Toronto; q. =:
Carter New Rochelle Rowing Clnb. second
ST. IL 10 = - : 80 ~ -.
Boat Club tRayLlond. bow: A. Edwards No =;
W. Neer No. g. and A. Mercer. strokel: dead
heat for second place between Western Rowing
| more. Time. 7.24.
| intermediate double sculls-Won by Union I'd It
strokel; vesper Boat Club Philadelrhia III
! Smith, bow and W. Smith str9ke, second New
Rochelle Row Ing Club Ht. Hiseoe, bow. and
7 Anderson. strose). thru. Time IA 3-5.
Championship senior single sculls-Won by +
i B. Butler Argonaut Rowing Club, Toronto; ..
r Gordon Vesper Boat Club. Philadelphia, see
ond Fred Shepherd. Harlem Rowing Club, third.
Time. 1855 30.
Senior four-oared sheils-Won By Argonaut Row
Ing Club, Toronto "a. Russell. bow; w. Murphy.
| No. q a. Sinclair, No, 4 and q. b. lave, Iaslor'
bow: r. Spaulding. No. 2: c. Quinn, no. D. and
r. aIagee. stroke, second; Arundel Boat CIV
Harry Oeheri No 3. and q. Parker. stroks).
third Time, los.