New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-15
Oarsman of Don Rowing
Club Defends His Title
Against Kelly.
DULUTH AGAIN IS
MASTER OF ALL
Crews from the Lake CITY Set
Many New Records Over
Riverside Course.

Springfield, Mass, Aug. 1.-The SUE.
cessful defence Of his CHAMPIONSHIPS
single SOULS title By Robert Dibbls ~
the Don kowlng Club. Of Toronto, and
another demonstration Of Dulutb's
amateur rowing supremacy closed the
forty-third national regatta over ths
Riverside course to-day.
Dibole outrowed his last years On.
ponent, John 3. Kelly, Of the Vesns,
Club, of Philadelphia, by obtaining
full lengths advantage on the wav
back from the upper turn and gamely
responding to every squirt by the chai.
lenger.
Waldo Smith, Of the New York Ar.
letic Club, who robbed Duluth OF lie
only first in the two days by beating
Hoover in the senior singles By a quar-.
ter of length, did not take advantage
of his victory to enter the chamnion.
ship event.
Four Of the Duluth crewg established
new association records during The
afternoon. The senior fours rowed in
G minutes 1875 seconds. comnsr. II
with minutes 81 As seconds made bv
the New York Athletic Club az Detroit
in 1909. In the quadruple race The
\
minutes As 45 seconds, as acains.
minutes Z 40 seconds made by the
Riversides at Boston in 1913. The Du.
luth intermediate eight swept down the
river in minutes 344-5 seconds. the
old time being s minutes 8 seconds.
made by the Argonauts at Detroit in
1909.
The senior Duluth eight closed the
record breaking day by rowing the
course in minutes 80 3-5 seconds. The
former time was s minutes 3 seconds.
made by the New York Athletic Cub
at Detroit in 1909.
Experts declare that the mile-an.hour
current Of the Connecticut helped. but
admitted that the water conditions
were perfect
The defeat OF Hoover BY Waldo
Smith in the association singles was
one of the features Of the afternoon
and the only blot on the Duluth rec
ord. hundred yards from the finish
Hoover, length behind, began 10 over.
haul the New Yorker and was shooting
alongside as the two shells crossed the
line. Duluth went home with record
of ten firsts and one second in eleven
starts, something unheard of in the an.
MAIN VI the HdLlOudl ASSOCIATION.
The summaries follow:
Eight cared shels-Won by .Du,uh Boat Club by
i've lengths. RJcsrnmol Boat Cub Spangt.f
serord Atlanta Boat Club sprl sesd thlm.
Tine. 80 80. This Is new record
intermediate eight-oared sAc..s-Noa D. Duluth
Boat Club, Duluth. hy two lengths. Mrnes-ta Boa,
Club. -; Paul second Dctroi, Boat CUB Detroit.
third; Farragut Boat Club. Lynn Mass fourth
Tine. "a - This Is ucw record
Championship senior sing scIl.s-Won 81 Rob-
eu l.bOle. Don Rowing 3D. Toronto. by a..
length. John j.. holy. Nsprr Boat CUB Phlla.
dcipha. second. Time. 1'l-2-l KEYS tine
729 Waldo smith. Of New York ili no' start
Senior 4uadWpc souls Won ty Duluth Boa,
Club Duluih. b four lengths. Nev York Aih.etlc
Cu'. second. Time 5 ~ a.. New record
Canoe farr-N0u ty Sr- raed Mass. Canoe
Club trs' crew. hy hat q le.sl. spin asd CIaos
Club second crew. second Time 7 "a
Senior single SOULS tasscaauorl Won By
Waldo Smith New York A & Nes YORK. - haf
length. W v Hoover Duluth Boa, Club ~.
, luh second Thomas J Rooney Ravsnsa'o d Boat
club. Long Island CiJ. 'I.-I. Carey Faulkner.
Riverside Boat Club. Cambridge. Mas .olfth
Time. 7.35 2-j
Senior International f'ur-oirsd shss-won b
Duluth Boat Club. Du'l'h. by TWO lengths UriTsr-
siy Barge cub. Philadelphia. second Union Boa,
Club, Boston. third Detroit BoN Cub. Detroit
fourth Time tlt3-T