The Washington times., 1912-08-31

days course in easy stretches. From
the start of the course to the finish,
the crews took three short trials, each
for about a third of a mile. No time
was kept In these nor was there any
effort made to get line on the rela-
tive speeds of the crews The whole
practice was for the purpose of pol
ishing UP rough edges, and in this re-
ly successful If the appearance of the
crews as they came into dock can be
taken as criterion.
There is a mighty hot argument al
quarters as to which Of the eights is
the faster, the junior or the interme-
diate. Their Is no gainsaying that the
juniors, although possessed of less eX-
perience Of an actual sort, are row.
ing smoother than their older club
rivals. This is easily explained as al
most all of the men in the Junior eight
are rowing this year for their first
time, and hence have been coached by
no one else than the redoubtable Demp-
sey. Dempsey is a coach who glories
In tuning UP green crew, and he
probably is more successful than any
other rowing mentor of the country in
his efforts to knock together quickly a
bunch of inexperienced youngsters into
a rafting, smooth-rowing combination.
On the other hand, the intermediate
eight Is composed of men who have
rowed for the most part during the last
under three different coaches in that
time, Slocum, Glendon, and Dempsey.
AS each of these coaches uses a differ
cnt stroke, the result Is that Dempsey
in the intermediate boat forget the
modes of rowing they learned from
Glendom and Slocum and keep to
Dempsey's famous slow slide, quick re-
covery method. AS a result, the crew
does not row as well together as the
juniors, but for all this they keep their
boat running well between strokes and
In this way cover lot of water in quick
time.
In regard to these crews, the juniors
are entered in all three races for eights
while the Intermediates are entered in
the races for intermediate and senior
eights. TIE plan is to send the juniors
to the mark in the race for the junior
and senior eights, scratching it in the
race for intermediate eights. BY fol-
lowing this plan, the Potomacs will
Rave two good eights in the race for
senior eights which event is always
the real classic of a big regatta.
Scullers Look Good.
The Potomacs should make strong
bid for first in the junior double SOULS
and on their performance in this will
depend their chances for going to the
rark in the intermediate doubles.
Mueller and Thrall, who are pulling
the sculls for the club, are both old
oarsmen with plenty of experience and
world OF endurance. They row nicely
together and look like real contenders.
They should also be well up in the
junior singles and have fighting
chance in the intermediate singles.
Since Brown has been taken out of the
Junior four-oared gig on account of a
bad attack of boils that crew has not
been doing at all well and unless much
improvement Is made IL will not be a
great deal in the running on Monday.
hits Is most always the case when a
change Is made in the lineup of a four
at the last minute, as it usually takes
considerable time for such small COM
bination to get working together
The fact that only the Ariels of Bal
timore and the Analostans of this city
in the race for junior eights, makes
that event more of local one than
any other on the program. The Poto-
macs and the Analostans have been
rivals for years and 1t is safe to say
that the race between them will be ex-
tremelv bitterly fought, regardless of
what the Raltimoreans may show.
This race will be the first in which
the two local clubs clash and on it's
| outcome will depend the championship
can trim the Potomacs in the junior
! eights, 1t is a safe bet that they will
also trim them in at least one of the
| other two races for eights.
Yesterday the Analostans left their
| float at about the same time as the
Potomacs, but rowed downstream to
the Long Bridge rather than give their
rivals chance to size them up. On the
way down Coach HecoX sent his men
over a mile stretch in a time trial.
Speaking of this test afterwards He
cox stated that he was not at all salts
! fied with the work of the day, either
with the time made OF the form of his
crew.