The Washington herald., 1915-01-24
Pat" Dempsey Deserves
Great Credit for Showing
of His Shells.
IS IDOL OF THE BOYS
Potomacs Feel that in Him
They Have Greatest Coach
in the Country.

have had another win but for technI-
callty.
This shows Dempsey's worth and
with him as coach the POtomacs think
they can beat anything in America.
for they feel that Dempsey. with the
same chance as Courtney. MackaII It
al. would be the greatest rowing coach
in America"
Dempsey has beaten Rice in every
race. especially in the National at
Philadelphia in 1907. and in four dif-
ferent Middle States regattas. He al
so beat him at POughkeepsie when he
coached Georgetown"
Walter II. ThraIl refused to give any
opinion as to the ability of Rice, "a
he had seen but little of his work. hut
he thinks that Dempsey is the greatest
coach in the country.
"Rice's style of rowing and that OF
GlendOn. Of Annapolis are practically
the same" said Mr. ThraIl to the writ
er. and GlendOn has been very sue
CesSful. having won more races than
any coach in the country. but il must
be remembered that GIendon has prob
ably the best equipment and material
of any of them.
Il think that Ricc's style is easier to
get on to than Dempseys. as he teaches
the scullers' stroke which is easy to
is as effective as Dcmsey's.
when Rice came here, he changed
our style OF rowing entirely. After
the boys got to rowing his style they
did all right when going easy, but az
soon as they were pushed they dropped
back to Demsey's stroke Rice would
probably have done better with a green
crew"
Planning Big Year.
Plans are on foot to make the pros
cnt year a big one for the Potomac
Boat Club. and if Dempsey can be induced
to again take hold the Red and White
confidently expects to give a good ac-
count Of itself
The victories at Baltimore last year
graduated four men from the junior
class. something which Capt. John Evans
was especially anxious to see happen. as
there were already in the cluJ half a
dozen unusually qualified men whose in
activity had been forced through lack Of
cO-wOrkers or suitable equipment
After considerable trouble the Potomacs
were fortunate enough to obtain couple
Of excellent fOur-Oared shells and so kept
th"m working. but rowing four is very
different from rowing an eight. and good
fOurs are not produced overnight.
Now Potomac cannot only keep on de-
v"loping a winning four. but can turn
out a representative senior e.Eht well
that should be a credit to the club.
Chamberlain aDd Powell make a clever
intermediate double. and they will be en-
tered in at least two regattas this year.
and with Mueller and ThraII the Poto-
macs crack senior double. it is possibia
to mold quadruple scuIl Of national
CaIibCr.
\ spirited fight for place in the iunio,
boats IS sur" to follow the call for candi-
dates in the spring, as there are a numbey
OF experienced men on hand. and nanv
new men have signified their intention Of
coming out
The Potomacs have entertained tn.
National Association Of American
Oarsmen here three times. in 1881, 1891.
and in 1910
The present officers of the club. are
+. Richard Gasch. president: Claude r.
Zappone. vice president: Joseph T.
DAILY. secretary: 7. Russell Underwood.
treasurer: John 2. Evans, captain:
Walter II. ThralI. first lieutenant:
and Frank T. Chamberlain. ~econd lieu
tenant. while the board Of governors
consist OF John J. Nolan. Douglas Spen-
Ger Bliss, +. Richard GasCh. Claude z.
Zappone. F. Russell Underwood, Will
liam {. Mckinney, John HadIey Doyle,
Joseph T. DAILY. and John Z. Evans
Bill Bromley, who succeeded his
father at the old bOathOuse, is still
looking after the clubs interests and is
always willing to show visitors over
the building and point out with pride
the many trophies on the walls
don't know what the high sign {.
for the Club. but one Of its members
made this page up. ROUGH.