The Washington herald., 1913-09-07

That the showing of the Potomac
Boat Club in the Middle States regatta.
held Labor Day on the Harlem River,
New York, is a credit TO the boys in
every way and another sweet boast for
the grand old man and coach of the
crews, Pat Dempsey. goes without say
ing. Putting two winners across the
boards in the double scull race and
gig events were the featuring efforts
of their undertaking, but when they
came right back in the junior eight
cared event and rowed a dead heat
with Arundel q Baltimore, it showed
the Yankee critics and aquatic sports
men of the North that the boys from
Dixie can stiTl and always were able
to handle an oar. Getting of 10 a bad
start in the intermediate race, the crew
lost by a slight margin, and as this
was the rowing off of the Junior races
as well as the intermediate, the outfit
with the red shirt and white star was
forced to acknowledge a double de-
feat, after making such a brilliant
stand. Too much praise and too many
compliments cannot be handed :''e gig
four. which pulled the Red ana White
of the Potomac into first position in the
four-oared event. This outft, with
four days of actual training, easily
showed the stern of its boat to the
crack Vespers. Maltas, and Arundel
crews. All four boats got OF together,
but the Potomac four jumped into the
front at once, and Bill Chamberlin,
stroking the boat, hit up thirty-eight
to the minute, and the race was all
but over This outfit was without the
least doubt the best-lOoking four on
the river, and, although the Vespers
and Arundels hung on like leeches. the
race was never in doubt. Bill Thrall
and Ed Mueller made the double scull
race look more like a fancy exhibition
Of rowing than a real live battle be-
tween expert oarsmen. After the first
twenty strokes it was plain that the
Potomacs had a walkaway, these two
lads never being pushed.
The preliminary swimming races for the
closed championships of the Industrial
Home School will be held Wednesday
afternoon, starting at . o'clock, in the
outdoor tank at the school grounds. Two
hundred and sixty-seven youngsters
boys and girls-will compete for the gold,
silver, and bronze medals, and as this is
the final swimming event of the season
at the school, many featuring novelties
have been arranged. The finals are
slated to be run of on Saturday, Septem-
Der 20.
Three youngsters demonstrated on last
Saturday that youth shall not be denied,
when Fred Cherry, Carl Carrick, and
Harry Jones, all lads not yet seventeen
years of age, crossed the finishing linee
in first position in three different SWIM
ming events and established new records
in the South Atlantic for the distances.
To little Fred Cherry, of the Industrial
Home School, is coming the largest
amount of applause. In what was easily
the best race of the meet the Wisconsin
Avenue marvel, a lad not yet fifteen
years of age, was compelled to outdis-
tance some of the best local and Balti-
more entries in the 44O-yard dash. Cherry
lowered the mark by one minute and nine
seconds for this distance, being pushed
in a neck-and-neck race with Prete, of
the Royal Athletic Club. of Baltimore
and compelled F. c. Bammon, a football
player of Princeton in 1872, the former
title-holder,s to be satisfied with third
position. Harry Jones, the captain of the
Western High School team, made a walk
away affair of the mile race, easily out
distancing his nearest rival, Carl Car
rick, by 150 Yards. Carl Carrick was the
other youth to demonstrate his ability,
doing the half mile in one second less
than fourteen minutes, and taking it
quite easy when he outswam the large
field.
\Bert Ainsley is still clinging to the
South Atlantic title in the fancy diving
event and bids fair to hold on to it for
some time to come il his work in the
meet last Saturday can be taken for ex-
ample. Berts form and ability of light
splashing were easily the best of the
day, his closest competitor being his
teammate, Al Bennent
Water baseball has at last gotten
hold on the aquatic sportsmen in this