The Washington herald., 1915-08-02
Crew NOT CAST
down BY DEFEAT
Showing of Potomac's Junior
Eight Was Good Under
circumstances.
LOCAL BOATING GOSSIP

LO(AL bUAllNG GUoSlT
Despite their defeat at the hands of the
Arundels at Baltimore on Saturday, the
, Potomac junior crew is not by any means
disheartened by the result OF the race.
While the local clubmen would have
, liked TO have crossed the line winners. the
conditions were not favorable for them
4 to do their best and under all the cir
~cumstances il Is considered that they
made a very creditable showing.
Upon their arrival Baltimore they
learned that the shell which they We're
TO have used had been damaged the night
before. While every attempt was made
to have the shell put into proper shape
by the Arundels. it was finally decided to
borrow boat from the Ariels.
The matter vas put up to the Ariels
and they furnished their best boat for the
Potomacs. the only fault the local oars
men finding with Il being the smailnesS
OF the oars, which handicapped them a
great deal in their efforts TO put their
entire strength into their strokes.
Coach Zappone will have the crew on
the water all this week in training for the
closed regatta of the club or the 18th
Coach Clarence Hecox, of Analostan,
has issued a call for the youngsters
under his wing to report tomorrow even
Ing at the boathouse at o'clock when
the crews will start training for the
Middle States Regatta on Labor Day.
Analostan will endeavor to put good
senior and intermediate crews in the
coming meet. and while some of the
best oarsmen OF the club have been out
OF town during the last week. they will
all be back by tomorrow ready for work.
A meeting Of the SchuyIkill Navy will
be held this evening at the Collrniade
Hotel in Philadelphia, when the protest
Of the Analostan-Undine Barge Club
race will come up for action. Ana
lostan will be represented at the gath
ering by former Captain Donald S. Ed
wards, of the club who is a practicing
attorney in the Quaker City.
The protest will be pushed to the limit,
as the local boys feel that they received
a raw deal in Philadelphia on their last
visit.
4 representative of William Glass &
Sons, Philadelphia boat builders. will be
In Washington this week TO complete the
work on the new quadrup!e scull for the
Potomac Boat Club
Plans are progressing for the a.nual
excursion of the Potomac Boat Club TO
Marshall Hall on August a. Claude R.
working hard and expects to make the
affair one of the best excursions ever
given by the club.
]. D. Vandegriff. of the Potomac Boat
Club, who has been visiting his parents
here for the past week. will return in a
few days to Leonardtown. Md, where he |
Is connected with the engineering depart |
'ment of the Bell Telephone Company.
Reports from Ithaca are TO the effect |
that George Schladt, a member of the |
Sycamore Island Canoe Club, who is at
tending the summer school at Cornell, |
cleaned up the canoe events in a recent |
water carnival held there. George won
the fitting contest. the quarter-mile race |
for doubles. and the quarter-mile singles
race.
L. o. Griffith. who was paired with |
Schladt in the fitting contest and the |
doubles is captain of the track team at
the University of " est Virginia
Schladt will return to the city about
the middle OF August.
Miss Agnes Wright. fulI-blooded
Chippewa Indian, was A guest AT the
Montgomery Sycamore Island Club last
Thursday, when she gave an exhibition
of swimming and the Indian style of pad
ding a canoe. Miss Wright was reared
on an island in the middle of Nett Lake.
and canoeist.
The members of the Eastern Power
Boat Club as we'll as the large number OF
boat owners who moor their boats in the
Potomac, are loud in their praise OF Pri-
vate Osterman. of the Harbor police. for
the efficient service he is giving them 1t
is not unusual 10 find this efficient and
alert officer anchored in the small police
boat at daybreak out among the feet OF
boats or tied up in some vacant slip at
one of the boat houses: in fact il is hard
to tell just where he will show up and
II is due to his thorough patroling OF the
Anacostia River that the boats anchored
there have such good protection. Mr..
Osterman, whose gentlemanly manner .
has won him friends among all of the l
boat owners of the city, is regarded by 9
the boys as the right man in the right !
place He has scheme on foot to have
all the small boys who insist on bathing
in the Anacostia River select some place :
where they can bathe under police pro- ,
lection. He has recommended that the
foot of Ninth street southeast be set aside !
for q bathing beach for the kids and :
that a lifeguard and a police boat be !
stationed there The number OF small :
boys who go beyond their depth and are :
drowned is quite largo each season sim
ply because there Is no one particular
spot in the Anacostia River set aside for
swimming purposes. The citizens OF the
section will welcome this
move
The Shackelford boys are having their e
boat. the Avalon" painted and over \
hauled at Bsiley's boat yard. The boat Il
is painted a battleship gray with white
trimmings, and makes a handsome ap- p
pearance. The new Automatic motor I
will be installed in this boat during the =
coming week.
washingtonians do not seem to realize e
that the Potomac River probably offers 81
the best facilities for rowing of any river i
In the country. but this is a fact The
has nothing on the Poto-
mac, but the lack of financial support by =
the business men OF Washington has c
made it a hazardous thing to stage a re-
Eatta here, 3
Conditions on the Potomac are ideal
There is practically no rough water, the :
river being we'll protected from strong
winds. while the tides and currents are =,
nothing to speak of L
the upper course from the Three Sisters 4
TO below the Aqueduct Bridge. and the
lower and longer course from the turn =,
In the river to Giesboro Point On the :,
last named course IL is possible to row n
rAcs with ten twelve shells and give G
of