New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-08
Duluth Boat Club Wins
Four Dared Shell Race
in Fine Style.
THIRD PLACE THE BEST
ARGONAUTS CAN GET
Vesper Boat Club Captures
Senior Double Souls at
Philadelphia.

philadelphia, Aug. THE Duluth
Roat Club rowed 10 a well won victory
in the senior international four-oared
she'll race. which featured the opening
of the forty-sccond annual renewal OF
the regatta of the National Associa-
tion of Amateur Oarsmen, on she
Schuylkill this afternoon. The West
ern oarsmen crossed the line with the
crew of the University Barge Ciuo
trailing in their wake in second posi-
tioo and the much feared Argonaut
Rowing Club, Of Toronto, laboTins
along in third place. The boat from
the Mound City Rowing Club OF ST.
Louis was next in line, with the Po-
tomac Boat Club of Washington dead
last.
The Duluth crew, with the Moore
bows rowing, made a winning race
from the start. From che crack of the
starters gun until well past the troll
lev bridge that marks the quarter
mile. it laid off the pace set by
the Argonauts Then, notch b. notch,
until the stroke touched 80 to the mill
ute. the pace was driven upward, and
/ they came away. 1t was slow, hard
work to shake off such formidable OPP
ponents, but rowing with the perfect
/ rhythm of a machine the task was ac-
complished.
Driven hard, the shells flashed by
/ the head of the island in close order.
| The blades of Duluth flashed as one.
/ The finishing squirt of the Argonaut5
was answered, and with plenty left
the Minnesota shell flashed first across
/ the line.
It was a gala day for the Western
crews OF the six events contested
they won five. The Duluth Boat Club,
IN addition to winning the interna-
/ tional race, also captured the banners
in the intermediate double sculls and
the intermediate eight-oared shells.
The Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe
Club, coached by Jim Wray, of Har-
ward, won the junior eight-oared sheli
race, and w. A. Neer won the inter-
mediate single sculls. Neer also quail
i fed for the senior quarter-mile dash
/ by finishing second 20 Ed Butler.
The Vesper Boat Club, of Philadel-
phia, with Jack Kelly and Walter l..
Smith manning the SOULS, alone up
held the honor of the East. They won
the senior double SOULS by fair mar
gin over Bill and Carey Faulkner, of
the Riverside Boat Club, of Cambridge,
Mass.
The Harlem Rowing Club, of New
York, with Charley Quinn, formerly OF
the New York Athletic Club, and sew
eral times a champion, and the once
mighty Fred SHEPPARD, who has won
the American and Canadian cham
pionship several times, was a bad
third.
The summaries follow:
Intermediate double shells-won by Duluth
b. G. III L. Osman and A. p KenD Uni
versity Barge Club, Philadelphia. second
| Pennsylvania Barge Club. Philadelphia,
third. Time, Sis 2-5.
Junior eight-oared shell-Won by Grand
Rapids Boat and Canoe Club, Grand Rapids.
! second; Pennsylvania Barge Club, Philadel-
phla, third; Time. 7;l53-5.
Intermediate sinsles-Won by W. A. Neer.
Detroit Boat Club. Detroit; Henry Heller,
Metropolitan Rowing Club. New York. sec
ond; II p. osman; Duluth B. c., Duluth.
/ third. Time. 500 IS
I First heat-Won by Robert Dibble, Don
Rowing Club. Toronto: X. II. Pearse Non
pareil r. G., New York. second; Cary FaGk-
ner, Riverside p. C., Cambridge, Mass,
Senior international four-oared shells-won
by Duluth -. c., Duluth. Mimi; Argonaut
/ r. C. Grew No p, Toronto, second; Unit
yersty Barge Club, Philadelphia. third.
! Senior quarter-mile dash (singles)--Won by
| Edward b. Butler. Toronto 3. c.; w. A.
/ Neer. Detroit 3. c., second; W. H. Bergin,
illinois Valley y. and c. c., Peoria, third.
Time. 1 IS
/ Senior double sculls-Won by Vesper B. C.,
/ Philadelphia %. b. Kelley and W. l.. Smith
! Riverside II. c., Cambridge, Mass. (William
| Faulkner and Cary Faulkner. second; Har-
/ lem X. c.. New York Charles Quinn and
Fred Shephard). third. Time, 7:46.
Intermediate eight-oared shells-Won by
| Duluth b. c.; Argonaut r. C., Toronto, sec
/ ond; Illinois Valley Y. ana G. G., third.
/ Time. ga 3-5.