The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-08-07

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Be Contested on Point Scores-Twen-
ty-six Clubs to Send Crews-35, 900
Spectators Expected.
approximately $4,000 will be spent
and more than $50 oarsmen will COM
pete in the forty-fourth annual regatta
| Of the National Association of Anna
! tour Oarsmen at Duluth, Mimi, Aug.
II and T. Backed by julius H.
! Barnes, the wealthy grain exporter,
! the Duluth Boat club and civic COM
mittees have planned to make this re-
gatta the greatest i'll the history of ma
tional club boat racing, and the mini
mum accommodations for $4,000 spec
tators, already arranged for. are hard
~ expected to be adequate for the two
days of the racing.
TWCuty-siX amateur boat. canoe and
barge clubs in the east and middle
west will send individual, pair cared
and eight cared boats for the national
competition. according to the entry list,
and Il half dozen other clubs from St
Louis, Philadelphia and Chicago are
expected to make later applications.
New York viii be represented by the
New York Athletic club and Oarsmen
from the Rayenswood, NOnpaYei and
Bohemian Boat clubs. Five entries
have already been made by Philadel-
phia clubs and according to r. b. Iig-
gctt secretary of the Duluth Rowing
.lub, which is staging this years event.
at least two more clubs in the Quaker
City will undoubtedly send oarsmen.
l The Philadelphia clubs are the Yes
pers. Pennsylvania Barge club. Uni
vcrSity Barge club, Maltas and IN
dimes. Springfield will also be repre-
scented by three clubs the Rockrim-
mons, Atlantas and Springfield club.
Other entries are from the ArundelS
and Aerials of Baltimore. the Poto-
macs of Washington. the Unions of
! Boston, two clubs from Lynn, Mass
the Celtics and Western Rowing club
! Of Buffalo. the Detroit Boat club. the
/ Grand Rapids NIichD Boat and Canoe
I club the Lincoln Park Boat club of
Chicago the Peoria Boat club. the Min
I ncsota Boat club of st. Paul and the
famous Duluth Boat club.
An innovation in this years event
/ will be the competition for the new
( trophy cup offered by Mr.. Barnes The
cup valued at.SFdOO~ WI be contested
7 similarly to the famous Sir Thomas
Upton cup for sailing craft. The club
winning the greatest number of total
4 points during the two days of the re
gatta will retain possession until chal-
lengcd successfully by another ergani
zation.
1 The races win he rowed over a mile
and n quarter straightaway course or
1 St Louis bay, which is divided by q
narrow strip of land from Lake Su
] perior at Duluth. Incidentally, this is
| the same course on which Ned Han
] Ian, Jim Ten Eyck. Sr Jake Gautiel
| and Charles f. Courtney rowed in Du
luth races several decades ago.
1 The Duluth Boat club has Just com
1 plcted the new shell house mt an ex
1 pense of $4,000. and the new Crane
stand, one-cighth of n mile long. will
be finished in time for the races
II II VIII Nv lllt III sOSL permanent SIfuc
ture for crew races in the country anC
will seat more than 10000 persons
Other seating accommodations arrang
~ ed to date include large ore freigh
- boats and excursion steamers. which
n will be anchored all along the course
and a sufficient number Of this kim
of craft has been provided to seat an
!. ot Thor o. OOO DarsoDS
Because of an unusually successful
year for the Duluth Boat club. who's
! | progress is linked somewhat to the tr
i umph of the Syracuse university crew
| in the intercollegiate regatta by rea
4 son of the Ten Eyck family Of coache.
. the Zenith City club is regarded as til
ii favoritc in many of the regatta
j events. Jim Ten Eyck. Jr.. and Ne
Ten Eyck have already given up the
yer business affairs temporarily to fms
to the work Of training their clubs ere,
IN men, and although some of their oar
lv men have been lost to the sport TIL
ro- year because of the border mobiliZatio
OF the Minnesota national guard. theI
are many Of the national sweep me
and scullcrs left for the competition.