The Washington herald., 1916-09-03

Aqueduct Bridge presented an animated
| scene yesterday afternoon when the
many visiting oarsmen, here for the big
, Middle States regatta to be held on the
Upper Potomac course tomorrow, took
their shells out for a trial spin.
| Boats and crews of every description
could be seen arriving or leaving the
Potomac Boat Club float. and the attend
ants at the club were kept busy assisting
the visitors out and in with their crafts.
The last big regatta held in Washing
ton was the Middle States regatta of 1917,
VIXEN an interesting program was com
pleted without mishap and thousands OF
spectators thronged the race course to
" ;tness the many thrilling races.
The regatta committee in charge OF the
regatta has been working hard TO per-
feet arrangements so that an AFFAIR
equal, II not better, than the one OF ISL,
may be staged.
Seventeen clubs in various sections of
the East have entered crews in one or
more of the races.
The race course to be used tomorrow
might be termed ideal both from the
oarsmen's standpoint and that of the Wis
ltors. The start will be on a line with
the east end of the Three Sister Islands
and the crews will row down the river.
through the Aqueduct Bridge to the fin
| ish line, which will be directly opposite
the foot of Thirtieth street. Each crew
will be numbered, starting from the
| Virginia shore, and numbers will be
placed in the arches between the piers
| through which the crews with the num-
Der corresponding to that on the bridge
| will be required to pass.
While the Aqueduct Bridge will fur
nish a suitable place from which to see
the crews as they leave the starting
point and pass through the arches, it
will hardly be considered an ideal place
| to witness the race, as so many races are
decided in the squirt at the finish line.
The committee has taken all this in
to consideration and has secured am
pie room for fully a thousand specta-
| tors right at the finish. The Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad has loaned the use
OF their Thirtieth street yard and have
removed all of their freight cars out
to make room for spectators and auto
mobiles.
The yard is situated directly op-
posite the finish line and one can get
an excellent view of the crews from
the time they leave the mark at the
Three Sister Islands, until they flash
across the line.
A large grandstand, that will &C
commodate fully 600 people. is located
in this yard. and one will be able TO
witness with comfort, the whole af-
| fair. Tickets for the gra-dstand can
be secured from members of the Poto-
mac Boat Club at the club house or
at the stand tomorrow morning.
The first race on the program will
begin promptly at 1890 a. m. and
races will follow at fifteen-minute in
tervals thereafter until 12:15, when
| there will be recess for lunch un-
| til 2:3O p. m The last race should
be over by $50. as the double referee
system will be in force. Such a sys-
tenn will eliminate undue delays, as
one referee will bring one race down
| the course while the other referee
will line up the crews for the next
event
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