Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-09
'OARSMEN DIVIDE
REGATTA HONORS
Canadians and Americans
Share Laurels at Boston
Races.
DIBBLE TWICE WINNER

BOSTON, Aug 9.-The first day OF
the forty-first annual regatta of the
National Association of Amateur
Oarsmen, held in the Charles River
Basin yesterday, resulted in the
American and Canadian oarsmen d.
viding honors.
Chief interest centred in the two
trial heats of the association senior
singles. r. Dibble, the sensational
oarsman from the Don Rowing Club
of Toronto, and ]. B. Kelly of the
yesper Boat Club of Philadelphia,
each won his heat in comparatively
easy fashion. Dibble's time was con-
siderably faster than that of his
American rival, and he is generally
considered the favorite for today's
final The winner of this event will
be entitled to compete later in the
day in the championship singles,
which carries with it the amateur
championship Of the country.
Dibble also won the quarter-mile
championship, in which he and his
Toronto rival e. B. Butler rowed
with their shells Tapped all the way,
Dibble finishing 1 is seconds ahead
of his rival.
In the more important crew races
the Argonauts and the Duluth Boat
Club shared the honors.
New York failed to win first
place. The Metropolitan Boat Club
finished second in the intermediate
tours, while G.. w. Smith, of the
New York Athletic Club, and T. J.
Rooney of the Ravenswood Boat
Club, each won a second in the as
ISOLATION singles trials. Summarizes
Senior quarter-mile dash (single
sculls)-Won by r. Dibble, Don
Rowing Club, of Toronto; e. Butler
Argonaut Boat Club, Toronto, Sec
ond. Time. 1874.
intermediate double sculls--Won
by Union Boat Club, Boston; I'm
dine Barge Club, of Philadelphia,
second; Springfield Boat Club. of
Springfield, third. Time, 1928 rs.
Senior quadruple SOULS Zone and
one-half miles straightaway)-
Won by Riverside Boat Club. of
Cambridge; Union Boat Club, of Bos-
of New York, third. Time, 1909 2-5
intermediate four-oared shells
Zone and one-quarter miles with
turn)--Won by Duluth Boat Club;
Metropolitan Boat Club, of New
York. second; Detroit Boat Club. of
Detroit, third; Malta Boat Club,
fourth. Time, 1859
Senior international four-oared
shells Zone and one-half miles
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES by Argonaut
Rowing Boat Club, of Toronto Yes
per Boat Club, of Philadelphia, sec
ond; Duluth Boat Club, of Duluth,
third. slime, 7:55. ~
intermediate eight-oared shells
Won by Duluth Boat Club, of Duluth:
Argonaut Rowing Club, of Toronto,
second; Detroit Boat Club, of Detroit,
third. Time, 6:37.
Four-oared navy dingies Zone and
one-fourth miles straightaway)-Won
by United States battleship Nebraska
crew; North Carolina crew, second.
Time 1928
Single-blade canoe race (five-eighths
of mile straightaway)--W by e.
F. Schmidt. Cochece Canoe Club. of
Dedham, Mass; Gordon Burrow,
Crescent Canoe Club, of Waltham,
Mass, second; w. L. e. French,
Samoset Canoe Club, of Dedham,
third. Time, 6:42 As.
Senior singles SOULS (association)-s
First heat. won by ]. B. Kelly, Yes
per B. c., of Philadelphia; g. w.
smith, N. Y. A. c.. second; w. Noir,
Detroit B. c., third. Time, 9:433-5.
Second heat-Won by r. Dibble,
Don r. c.. Toronto; T. ]. Rooney,
Ravenswood B. c., New York, sec
ond; p. Wilmington. Union B. c.,
Boston, third. Time, 1922.