The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-08-10
The crews Of the. Analostan Boat Club
are still plugging away at hard practice

The crews of the Analostan Boat Club
are still plugging away at hard practice
in preparation for the coming Middle
States Regatta to be held on the Har-
| lem River, New York, on Labor Day.
Coach Hecox, Of the club, has the crews
out on the lower course every evening,
and the hardest kind of practice Ia put
in. and the boys are compelled to stick
to the strictest kind of training to hold
their seats. Hex does not let up on
the crews for one instance, and the
candidates have now found that they
must hustle all the time to hold a posi-
ton in any boat. The crew who are
rowing the intermediate boat are the
same lads who brought the colors of
the Analostan Club first across the
board in the Junior race at the Peoples
Regatta held at Philadelphia on July l.
Coach HecoX has shifted one or two
positions in this boat, but the make OF
the crew is the same as the one which
brought the bacon home in the race
against the Potomac on Decoration Day
The Ada B., belonging to Arthur s.
Wren, of this city, is taking an extern
sive trip on the lower Potomac and
Chesapeake Bay. The Ada B. is a
forty-fve-foot launch, with a twenty-five
horsepower Emerson engine, and can
well stand the heavy breakers of the
lower river and bay. When the Ada B.
returns to port, about the last week of
the month, she will put in at the Rock
Creek Boat House. where Arthur Wren
is one of the leading members for COM
plete overhauling.
W. F. Sunny. chairman of the ex-
cursion committee of the Washington
Canoe Club. planned quite an enjoy
able day for more than 1000 of the
members of the different canoe clubs
and lighthouses along the river on the
excursion of the Washington Canoe
Club to Marshall Hall last Friday.
All three boats running to the popular
down-the-river resort brought a good
sized crowd. and the entertainment
which was furnished by the Washing
ton councils of the Boy Scouts in the
different lines of Scoutcraft was the
featuring attraction of the day.
Owing to the swimming race which
was held on the course. the Potomac
Boat Clubs closed regatta was late
getting under way last Saturday, and
darkness caused the postponement of
two of the canoe races which were
down on the schedule. The regatta
was a success in every way and gave
Coach Pat Dempsey a chance of seeing
his large field of candidates in COM
petition. Pat was satisfied with the
outcome and was overjoyed at the ef-
forts put up by the boys, and spoke
words Of confidence to all present at
a dance later in the evening. Coach
Dempsey's knowledge of the rowing
game is considered supreme by the To-
cal followers of the shells, and
by him vouching that this il one
of the best squads Of oarsmen that
he ever had under his wing, he
has set the boys on their mettle and
placed the do or die confidence into
them.
It Is the plans Of Capt. Evans and
those in charge of the Potomac re-
gatta last Saturday to hold the canoe
races at some later date.
Prominent among the new candidates
out to capture set in one Of the Poto-
mac boats are Dick Sparnsey and Jack
Farnsworfh, two Cornell University men.
Sparnsey has seen service in the eight
at the Upper New York State College
and was one Of the men who wore the
colors Of Cornell at the intercollegiate
regatta this past spring. Farnsworth did
not go out for the crew at CornslL. bat
has q good knowledge Of the rowing
sarrs snS s-nu, hts physiuue and ability