The Washington times., 1912-03-01
Great Activity Is Being
Shown Along Bank of
Upper River.
CANOEISTS AWAITING
FIRST WARM SUNDAY
Potomac Boat Club and Washing
ton Canoe Club Expect
: Big Season.

Oarsmen, canoeists, and yachtsmen
hall with delight the advent of March
as the first month of the boating sea-
son, and great activity is being shown
along the Potomac by devotees of the
sport, some being engaged in overhaul
ing shells, some recanvassing and gen.
orally repairing canoes, and others
tinkering with hulls and engines of
various types of motor boats.
over In Georgetown, members of the
Potomac Boat Club and the Washington
Canoe Club are only awaiting the first
warm Sunday to get into rowing and
canoeing togs and unl!mber winter
cramped muscles in preparation for rae
ing events already scheduled for the
coming season, and at the former camp
training Will soon be started in earnest
for the big Middle States regatta which
Will be brought here this summer. Local
rowing enthusiast need no introduction
TO this classic, which has not been seen
on the Potomac since August 1909, and
the eyes of the sweep and shell con.
tingent are at present on the wearers of
the red and white who will enter senior
and intermediate eight-oared shell
crews in this summers regatta besides
several promising sCullers. OF the lat
ter Walter Thrall, Ed. Mueller, and
Joe DAILY are the most promising and
thS tllO Will DeBln udllN workouts This
week If weather conditions are favor
able.
Will Draw Many.
The Middle States reaatta will bring
representatives of at least thirty con-
testing clubs to this city, and approx
mately 5000 will be spent in prizes.
Down at the CapitaI Yacht Club, 6Ians
are being made for the opening of tn
Yachting season as observed by that or
Eanization, which takes place on tnc
first day Of April. From that time on
there will hardly be a cessation Of ac-
uvity with the Washington annapolis
race Tor W1ndJammers on the Both Of May,
several club regattss at Annapolis dur
Ing June and the Zig Chesapeake Bay
Yacht Racing Association legatta which
Will be held at oxford On the eastern
shore of the bay during July.
Members of the club owning beats are
buSlly engaged in putting their craft in
commission and the .inSt boats to BE-
fcady for service will probably be the
yawl Nenemocsha, owned by Lyman +.
Hewins; the sloop Grace. owned by
the yawl Grace X owned by i. Clyde
CIuit. Mr.. Cruit has started work on
his Yacht and had all hands busy scrap
Ing spars this forenoon
Adopt International
The Capital yatchcsmen have adopted
the International code Of faE signals
for the exchange of messages between
the boats of the fleet this season and it Is
expected that 1t will prove to be invalua-
BILE during races and cruises. Several
members of the club have ordered or are
planning new yachts for the season and
probably what will prove 10 be the most
pretentious craft to anchor IN the local
harbor before long Is the eighty three
foot motor yacht, to be purchased by
Herman Hollorith The craft is driven
by a 1G-horsepower Standard engine,
reversible type, and is Guaranteed 20
make fourteen miles an hour. She will
be used by her owner as ferry be-
tween bis country place on MobjaCk
Bay and this city.
Judge Luke c. Strder, Of the Munich
pal Court, is having built a forty-flVe-
fbot raised deck cruiser at local ship
yard. and the craft will be launched
before the first of May. She will be
driven by a four-cylindcr, 70-hOrsepower
motor of the Emerson make, and is
expected to develop not less than twelve
miles an hour.
Scores of smaller power boats are
being built by amateurs about town
and 1t is now getting to be quite Il
common thing to see the prov of a
large raised decker peering over q back
wenCe, way uptown, far from it's natlI-
raj element, and it is thought that
with the arrival of spring at least fifty
new power boats will make their ap-
RARranCe on the river,