The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-11-28
Rowing On Boom Here
Big Season for 1916
Potomac and Anaostan Club Oarsmen Plan for Big Events
Next Summer-Powell and ChamberEn Have
New Shel-Gossp.

4 number Of its sculIcrs have siGui-
fed their intention to go into the scull-
ing game good and strong the COMING
season and from the material at hand
AT least = double and two singles can
he obtained
Analostan oarsmen are impatlentlr
waiting for the time to roll around when
thew can again take their shells down
on the racks and start training for the
early season rcGattas Of the coming year.
But not alone l. the Analostan club in
its preseason preparations for the old
Potomac club house is the meeting place
this winter Of many an earnest worker
making plans for the coming season.
Committees have been formed to formu-
lat" ideas and discuss plans for many
Inidwinter functions such as smokers
theater parties. bowling matches and
many other social and athletic activi-
ties that will tend to keep together the
active membership of the club
By this method the old men will be kept
together and new rowing material may
he found among the guests on these oc-
cRsions.
At most all of these GATHERINGS the
subject of rowing is the principal topic.
Men who have had their taste of rowing
are looking forward ard planning for
the time when the greatest OF all sports,
as they term 1t. can be INDUCED In. while
those who have never sat in a shell be-
fore get their blood TO tingling with
stories of neck and neck finishes Of by
gone races as told by the old salts.
Rowing never had a brighter prospect
than IL has at the Potomac Boat Club
for the next season.
Oarsmen and scullers were never moro
plentiful and the CHARGE for winning
crews never greater than right at this
season of the year at the Red and White |
club. Enthusiasm and ability are there
galore.
The club will he well represented as
TO the number of entries it will be able !
to have in the seasons regattas ana |
as for the class of the entries just !
look at past records.
The Potomacs never enter a crew in |
race unless they are sure that the !
crew has the ability to come home 1, !
winner. so they can be banked upon !
to turn out crews that Washington will |
he proud to have represent it.
The Junior crew that surprised even !
its friends last season when It romped !
home a winner over the picked Vesper |
crew and the snappy Virginia Boat Club |
crew at the Middle States Regatta last |
September. will practically be intact |
next season and will represent the CLUB |
in the intermediate and senior races at |
Philadelphia on the Fourth of July |
coming.
The time SIT made by this crew in
that race. on the slow course in the i
makes it as one that will bear
watching lin any senior race N
might enter, for the winning senior crew
over the same course on the same day
and being pushed all the way, onIy
beat the Potomacs time by 4 seconds
But that will not be the only champion
ship crew that the Potomacs will have.
for the prospective Junior eight looks
on paper as though it ough to make
nearly. IL not as good. a showing as
the junior of last season.
Coach Claude R. Zappone who has
done so much for Potomacs in the past.
says that his Junior material will be
fully equal to that OF last year and he
can see nothing but victory for both his
junior and intermediate crews.
So much for sweep rowing at the club.
but did ever a club possess a better lot
of scullers?
Besides Chamberlin and Powell I'm the
senior class there Is Thrall and Mueller,
who last season rested up, but who have
now decided to come out for the double
scull championship. From past records
these four men should make Kelly and
Smith, OF the Vesper Club, present cham
pions. look to their laurels
In the Junior sculling class the club
has such men as Don Mac donald, George
Ted Quintard, Frank Smith,
Bob Duncan, Don Kinney. lKempsterl
Morgal, Mig Imirie. Lin Ashford and
Barrows.
The first four named rowed in the
junior squad that made such a great
last Labor Day at Philadelphia,
when they lost by a scant two feet TO the
of New York. in a field OF
eight entries. They lost this race through
Jack of training in steeding a squad. as
the men were all new at scull rowing and
had only been together a little over two
weeks. Much Is expected of them this
coming season.