The Washington herald., 1911-08-27

shell-walter Thall, who will enter in a
junior single scull, and a number OF
other members of the Potomac Boat
Club, including Coach Bob Slocum and
Capt. Frank Smith-will leave next Sun
day for Baltimore, where they will take
part in the twenty-second annual re-
gatta of the Middle States Regatta AS
ISOLATION, which will be held on the
Patapsco River, September 4, under the
auspices Of the Patapsco Navy, Of Balti-
more.
The juniors have been out practicing
for over a month and during the past
two weeks have been rowing daily for
the coming races, and judging from their
practicing spins, they should certainly
make a splendid showing. Walter
ThraI1, who is considered the best oars
man at the club, has also been out row.
ing every evening. Coach Bob Slocum
is confident his men will do we'll. The
only trouble is that one can hardly de-
pend on juniors, as they often get stage
fright when the race comes of, and be-
fore the race is half over they are 'all
in" But 1t is sincerely hoped by the
many followers of the Potomacs that
the men will forget the surroundings and
put up hard and steady race. If they
do this they will undoubtedly land a VIC
tory.
This regatta, which is open to all ANA
teur clubs in the world, is the largest
event of its kind in the East, and from
present indications it will be not only
the most successful. but the most en-
joyable event ever held under the aus
pices of the association.
The entries close Tuesday afternoon
at the office of Secretary David Brown,
Of New York City. The conditions
state that two entries from more than
one club are necessary to make a race.
The races will be one mile straightaway.
The list of races follows: /, junior single
sculls; 2, intermediate single sculls; 8,
association senior single sculls; l. senior
single sculls; 5, Junior double sculls; 6,
intermediate double sculls; s, Junior
quadruple sculls; 9, intermediate quad
ruple sculls international cup); 10,
Junior octuple sculls (Kent cup); IL,
Junior four-oared gig; r. intermediate
four-oared gig: 1S, senior four-oared
shell; IA, Junior eight-oared shell; 15 in
termediate eight-oared shell; 16, senior
eight-oared shell. The association single
race is open only to scullers who have
never won a senior single race.
Joseph Cohan, of the National Capital
Canoe Club, returned last Monday from
two weeks stay at Colonial Beach in
his seventeen-foot Morris canoe.
Thursday afternoon Messrs. Tygert
and Vets, of the National Capital Ca
noe Club, returned from Piney Point in
their seventeen-foot Old Town canoe.
Pat Dempsey, manager of the Ma
tionaI Capital Canoe Club. said that near
ly all the members will have returned
from their trips by Labor Day. This is
the close of the season.
Messrs Katterman and Hutchinson, of
the National Capital Canoe Club, re-
turned from a two weeks vacation at
Harpers Ferry last Thursday. They
came back on canal boat on the
and Ohio Canal. They had
with them a seventeen-foot Morris ca
noe.
Last Monday afternoon Messrs. Eyler
and Farmer, of the National Capital
Canoe Club, returned from Broadwater
in their seventeen-foot Old Town canoe.
Last Monday afternoon the Emerson
Engine Company, of Alexandria, Va, in
stalled a racing engine in the new twen-
ty-six-foot hydroplane owned by L. S.
Paddock, of the Corinthian Yacht Club,
and William Blair Motheral, who is the
designer and builder 1t is a 2O-horse-
power, two-cycle engine, fitted with the
new Edison batteries. 1t is very COM
pact and weighs only 800 pounds.
The boat is fitted with 200 special ST.
phons to draw air beneath the hull at high
speed. 1t draws three inches of water,
and when going at a rate of over seven
miles an hour draws no water, but runs
on air, leaving few, if any, waves be-
hinA The boat is pointed at the bow
and ten feet wide at the stern.
In the first trials, which were made last
week, the new boat, which is the only
one of it's kind in the world, created
big sensation in local boating circles, as
It made a speed of eighteen miles an
hour-a speed which no other boat of its
size and with the same horsepower en-
CINE ever did before. Mr.. Paddock and
Mr.. Motheral were greatly pleased with
It's performance. 1t is interesting to
note that Mr.. Motheral has worked on
this boat for fifty years and has just
realized his ambition of having the hy-
droplanes run on air. He deserves
much credit for his work. A name for
the new craft will be selected this week.
John Paddock, took a short trip to
indian Head, which is about twenty
1--WE miles down the river, last Wednes-
lay. The actual running time in re-
turning was one anu a half hours. Mr..
Paddock said the trip was most en-
oyable as we'll as most successful from
every standpoint.
The writer had the pleasure of TAX
ng a short trip in the new hydroplane
ast Wednesday evening. Unlike all
other racing boats, IN which the stern
sinks down in the water when going
It high rate of speed, the stern OF
his boat rises to level keel with the
BOW. The air from the siphons can be
seen in the water from the stern. The
'aster the boat travels the higher 1t
'ises from the water. Another inter-
.sting feature of this boat is that while
yoing at a rapid rate of speed IL is
steady and does not rock the
east bit like other racing boats.
Mr. Paddock said that IL the hydro
,lane was thirty-eight feet in length
Ind about seven feet wide at the stern
{ would make at least ten miles an
lour better time than II does at pres
mt. Mr.. Paddock expects to reach a
wenty- mile gait some time in the
,ear future. The two prominent CO.
win probably build another
lydroplane this winter for next season.
When the fisrt notice of this new hy-
Iroplane was published exclusively in
rhe washington Herald. Sunday, July
hat the new craft would be a
success, but now they are all con-
,fnced OF the fact that IL Is q wonder
nj invention and large croWds of NM