New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
Senior Eight-Oared Shell
Contest Chief Event on
Regatta Programme.
DULUTH BOAT CLUB
PICKED AS WINNER
Dozen Cities Will Be Represent
ed by Crews in Eleven Races
for Championships.

Springfield will turn back many pages
in it's history on Friday and Saturday
of this week, when the National Asso-
citation of Amateur Oarsmen holds It's
annual regatta on the Connection:
River over the course which made the
old Massachusetts city famous as tho
foremost rowing town Of America two
generations ago.
II will be the greatest national re-
gatta in years if the preliminary fore
cast of James Pilkington, the peren-
NAL president Of the association, counts
for anything.
Crews from every quarter Of the
country, except the Pacific slope, Will
he on hand, together with talr repre-
sentation from Canada, which, despite
the havoc wrought by the war in the
leading Canadian rowing CLUBS, Is
sending a goodly contingent to the
races.
The entries for the eleven champion
shin races will not be made known
until after the winning crews IN the
Canadian national regatta, which was
held at st. GATHERINGS, on the Welland
Canal, yesterday, send in their entries
hut AT least dozen cities, represent
cd by sixty or seventy crews, VIII De
ON hand when the first race is rowed.
New York. Philadelphia, Boston, De-
troit. Duluth, Washington. Baltimore,
St. Paul, Springfield, Holyoke. Toronto
and Ottawa are the cities which VIII
send oarsmen to compete in the title
races.
Foremost among the events is the
senior eight-oared she'll race, IN when
the title for the last two years has been
won by the Duluth Boat Club, coacned
by James Ten Eyck, jr., son OF the
Syracuse University rowing coach, and
himself a former Syracuse oarsman..
Young Jim, as he is known to rowing
men from one end of the country to the
other, has had conspicuous success as
coach of the Duluth oarsmen, and from
the ease with which they disposed OF
all opposition in the Western regatta
last month there is little reason 70 be-
lieve that the Duluth crews Will not
repeat in the championship race on the
Connecticut.
The St. Paul Rowing Club is sending
a crew East for the senior eights, ana
il is probable that the Springfield Boat
Club, the Union Boat Club OF Boston
and the Argonauts of Toronto VIII also
he in the race. The Argonauts have
lost heavily in the war. No less than
ninety active members of the club en-
listed in the first call for volunteers,
and of these eleven have been killed.
among them some of the most promi-
mont oarsmen. Therefore it is green
crew that Joe Wright will bring down
from over the border. =,
There is also a chance that the I'm
dine Barge Club of Philadelphla VIII
have n crew in the senior race. VIVIAN
Nickalls. the University of Pennsylva-
mia coach, is training the Cndlnes, and
he has entered them in the senior eight
Dared race in the Canadian regatta
Their competing at Springhe Id IS de-
pendent on their success IN the Cana
dian race. The Undine crew IS MADE
I'D largely of members OF the CnlVer
sity Of Pennsylvania varsity eignt OF
this year and is stroked by larry
Marcy. who stroked the Quaker second
eight at Poughkeepsie in June.
The championship single souls VIII
bring together Tom Rooney, OF the
Ravenswood Club, of Long Island Cry;
]. B. Kelley, of the Vesper Boat Club:
Of Philadelphia. and Robert Dibble, OF
the Don Rowing Club, OF Toronto;
These three are the acknowledge
leading scullers of the country, and
they should furnish thrilling race.
Dibble is the most experienced OF the
three. and is the favorite, but Rooney
and Kelley have developed wonderfully
in the last year and will probably make
the Canadian put forth his best efforts
to win.
New York will be represented by at
least five clubs. which viii send singles
doubles and four-oared crews The
Nonpareil, Metropolitan, Ravenswood,
Nassau and New York Athletic Club
oarsmen will uphold the honor Of the
New York clubs. Boston viii be rep
resented by the Union Boat Club and
the Riverside Rowing Club. Phila-
delphia will send crews from the Yes
per, Undine, University, Barge and
Paramount clubs.
The races on he championship pro-
cramme are intermediate singles, Sc
nior singles, championship singles, in
termediate doubles. championship
doubles, intermediate tours, interna-
ton senior fours, intermediate eight
Dared shells, senior eight-oared shells,
quadruple sculls and senior quarter
mile dash. The Springfield Boat Club
has also arranged race for junior
eight-oared shells.
The course over which the races will
he rowed is five miles below the City
of Springfield and is the I'D intercol-
lcgate regatta course. over which
eleven college crews rowed for the in
tercollegiate championship in 1875.