Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

D|BBLE HOLDS TITLE
Champion cIeyerly 0utrows
Kelly, Winning by One Length.
DuLUTH's GREAT RECORD
Scores Ten Firsts and One Second in
Eleven Starts at National
Regatta.


SPRINGFIELD, August 1.-THE sue
cessful defense of his championship sin
gle SOULS title by Robert Dibble OF the
Don Rowing Club of Toronto and an
other demonstration of Duluth's amateur
rowing supremacy closed the forty-third
national regatta over the Riverside
course today. Dibble cutrowed his last
years opponent. John B. Kelly of the
vesper Club Of Philadelphia. by obtain
ing full length advantage on the way
responding to every squirt by the chal-
lenger Waldo Smith Of the New York
Athletic Club who deprived Duluth of
the only first in the two days regatta by
beating Hoover in the senior singles by
quarter of length. did not take adj
vantage of his victory to enter the
championship event.
Four Of the Duluth crews established
new association records during the aft
ernoon. The senior tours rowed In s
minutes II 3-5 seconds. compared with
6 minutes 81 AS seconds made by the
1908. In the quadruple race. the Duluth
crew covered the course in minutes 45
As seconds, as against q minutes As
seconds made by the Riversides at Bos-
ton in 1918. The Duluth intermediate
eight swept down the river In minutes
81 AS seconds. the old time being s
minutes 3. seconds. made by the Argo-
nauts in Detroit. 1909. The senior Du-
luth eight closed the record-brcak!ng
day by rowing the course In minutes
minutes 5 seconds. made by New York
Athletic Club at Detroit In 1909.
Experts declared that the mile an hour
current of the Connecticut river 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 record. "A hundred
yards from the finish, Hoover, length
Yorker and was shooting alongside as
the shells crossed the line. Duluth went
home with record Of ten f1rsts and one
second in eleven starts. something UMPIRE
cedented in the annals Of the National
Association.
Summaries.
Senior International four-oared shells-won by
Duluth Boat Club, Duluth. by two lengths;
University Barge Club. Philadelphia. second:
Union Boat Club. Boston. third: Detroit Boat
Club. Detroit. fourth. Time, 614 3-5.
Senior single souls tassociattou)-won ~
ys hs m ha sssh i'T ca'
Toat Club. Duluth. second Thomas ]. Rooney.
Ravenswood boat Club; Long Island CITY. third:
MISS. fourth. Time. 5.35 2-J.
Senior quadruple scul!s-Won by Duluth Boat
Club, Duluth by four lengths: New York Ath-
letic Club. second. Time, 5.45 AS. This Is a
nc. Canoe eeG race-won By Springfield. Mass. Canoe
Canoe Club second crew, second Time. IA.
intermediate eight-oared shells-Won by Du-
lnth Boat Club. Duluth, by two lengths: Min
nexota Boat Club. st. Paul. second: Detroit
Boat Club, Detroit. third: Fdrragut Boat Club.
Lynn. Mass. fourth. Time. 5.S4 49, This is
new record.
Championship senior single sculls-won by
Robert Dibble Don Rowing Club, Toronto. by
one length: John B. Kelly. vesper Boat Club.
second. Time. TT 3-5 Kelly's
time, 7.29. Waldo Smith of New York did not
start.
Senior eight-oared shells-won by Duluth Boat
Club. Duluth. by i've lengths: Roekrimmon Boat
Club, Springfield. second; atlanta Boat Club,
new record