Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-05-01
NAVY BEST OARShFN
DEFEATS PENNSY CREW
Result of Eight-Oared Race Sur
prises the Middies.
QUAKERS CONQUERED THE BLUE.
Coach Glendon's Rowers Show Effects
of Careful Tutoring Young Sailors
Are Beaten.

With weather conditions ideal. the
midshipmer's first eight -oarel shell
crew triumped over Pennsylvania on
the Severn Saturday afterr oon.
The Middies had a length of omen
water on the Red and Blue as their
shell shot across the finish line. after
one Of the finest brushes that has been
witnessed in local waters for a num-
ber of years. The sailor lads covered
the course. which was of the Henley
distance of mile and five-sixteenth.
in the fast time Of seven minutes ami
ten seconds. Pennsylvania time was
seven minutes and nineteen seconds.
Two other races made up the card
of events for the afternoon, and in
both the Middies bowed to the Quaker
oarsmen after only the gamest kind OF
fight. PENIS second beat crew won
from the Navy's seconds half a length
Time, 7,21 and 1928 AS Penn's fresh
men eight finished two length to thc
good of the Navy plebes or fourth class
men. Time, 7.2S and 7.35.
The varsity race was a corker ami
the work of the Middies showed how
carefully Coach Richard Glendon had
Drimed his charges for the brush with
a crew that won over Yale in a race
on the Schuylkill river last Saturday
The distance the Middies won Satur-
day was the same as that which sep
arated the Quakers and the Blue. Til
Navy coach is much pleased over the
victory and so is ever yone else connec-
wi of . no
for the Mid lies demonstrated that they
have the strongest eight Il at has rep
resented tho Institution in years
The crews got away to a good start
and. although the Pennsylvanians row
ed a somewhat faster stroke. there was
greater 5moothness in the work Of the
Sailor lads, The stroks of the Middies
while slower. showed great power and
Vytlacil, who hit the pace for the
Middies, gave a display of excellent
judgment. Within the first quarter OF
a mile the Middies began to forge to
the front. Before the half-mile point
was reached they were leading by near
ly a full length and they were capable
of holding the advantage, meeting
every challenge of the visiting oars
men, and still further increasing their
lead in the final squirt.
The races between the junior crews
attracted scarcely less interest That
between the second eights was nip mad
tuck, as the margin that separated the
crews at the finish indicates. As was
the case IN the varsity race, the Quaker
seconds also rowed "a faster stroke
than the junior Mibl.es.
In the brush between the freshmen
and plebes, the contending crews pull
ed along on even terms for the first
thre-quarters of mile, but after that
the visitors slowly began to pull away
front heir opponents. Lieut. Jonas H.
Ingram, a former Navy oarsman, acted
as referee and starter, and the timers
were Coach Joe Wright, of Pennsylva-
nia Coach Glendon, of the Navy, and
Lieutenant Rockwell, of the Navy. The
crews rowed as follows:
Navy Narsity-Vytyci. stroke; Lawyer.
:; McReynolds. G; Clark, 3; kercher, 4
Klein. (capt) 3; Avis. p Earle. bow
Fleming, coXswain. Average weight, eN
Guiding coXswain, 100 pounds.
PENNSYLVANIA Narsity-Ross stroke Chick
ering. : F; Pepper, 8, VOL, o, Gunther,
Gothana 3 Wirkman, >: {. Gels, bow
Foster, coNswaiu. Average weight 169 lbs.
Navy Second Crew-Holcombc. stroke
Flower. :; Rogers, q Need, 3; Cecil.
Schneider. 3; Buchalter, >; Hutchins bow
Thornton, coNswaiu. Average weight, 161
pounds.
Pennsylvania Second Crew - Brayton
stroke: Littleton, Z; Madeira, G CLAM ,
Filssen, 4; L. Gels, s. Bristinger. > :Schmid-
theiser bow; Jack, coXswain. The aver
age weight, 16I pounds.
Navy plebe Crew--Murray stroke: Net
ting. Z: Stevens, 6: Barrett, ,; Hicks,
HniupS- how KOhprfG
coxswain. Average weight 165 pounds.
Pennsylvania Freshmen-Little stroke
Wilson. Z Hingley. g. Turner. =: Gerald.
: Newton 3 Massey. >; Massey. bow: Pol
lard. eoNswain. Average weight 1G3 lbe.