Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-16
VIRGINIA BOAT CLUB
GIVES MANY TO SERVICE
Richmond Organization Proud OF
The Large Number OF Men
Now Aiding Nation.
STELLAR ATHLETES IN LIST
Some OF City's Best-linown Perform
ers Now Serving With Army,
Navy or Marines - Seventy-five
Of Membership Now In Uniform.

Nowadays II has become quite the
custom for clubs and societies TO point
with pride to the number of their mcm-
hera who are serving their country both
on land and sea. The record that the
Virginia Boat club has set. though.
bids fair to eclipse any other Of its
kind. at least in this locality.
Out Of total active membership
OF eighty-sevcn men, the club has given
no less than sixty to the army and navy.
In addition to this. the club has sub
scrlbed to $4,000 worth of Liberty bonds
and given 500 TO the Army Y. NJ. G. a.
OF tho remaining members. only
about score or more are subject TO
draft. and every day OF so some one
or another enlists. and yesterday Score
tary Crawford believes the seventy
nth member enlisted. \ glance a:
the roll Of honor will show tho caliber
OF men that the Virginia Boat Club
has had on its rolls. men who have
won almost undying fame in athletic
circles here.
Bates. Rueben Burton. J. Il. Baker, NJ.
". Blair. T. r. Byrd, w. -. Bruner,
James J. Burke. K. 7. Burr. A. s. But
terworth. S. NJ. Bemiss. il. Norman
Cole. John E. Cole. ". W. Cottrell. Or.
NJ. b. Coffnan. 6. Stanley Clark. Daniel
i. Coulbournc. Il. q. a. Cushman.
Joseph 3. Davis. l.. Il. Davis. II. r.
Easley. Bruce Ferguson. NJ y. Fitz-
gerald. r. C.. Folger, T. Roy Grubbs
". Leslie Gray. Shirley l.. Hurt. l.. j
iiickerson. Louis a. Heindl, a. l.. Hart
Deanc iiaw, B. p. Hubbard. Joseph NJ
Hurt. Jr Charles G. Johnson. Jr., y. L.
Jcwett. A. a. VI. Keith. a l.. II. kcr-
shaw. Taylor l.. Lafoon, J. L. Logan
George @. Muacc. Warner Moore, Jr.
l.. r. MacdouGall. Charles II. Mason
Bernard Meredith. James \. Miller. Ice
J.. Nichols. NJ. r. Neal. T. ID. Newell
Jr.. William s. Propst. Charles Il. Rob
crtson. T.. ID. Robinson J. H. Rothert
Thomas d. steel. l.. b. Spencer. T. T.
rrevett. a. W. Valentine, c. *. Willis
Jr ]. y. Williams, G. c. Webster Life
members in army: J. i. Bright. W. w
Crump J. G. Sutton. Waverley King
and Gordon Miller.
Il. A. Newell. a. b. Pitcher, q. VI. Rich
ardson. Charles T. Tabb Maurice l..
Tyler. r. .. Curtis. J. II. Brock and
Workman Spilman.
Dandy Athlete. In List.
Dean Haw one OF The gr!;ticSt oars
men who has ever rowed for the RED
and White. is an athlete OF no mean
ability. Dean is attached TO in,elN-
Sence headquarters at Admission. Ala.
IN the capacity OF first lieutenant.
Oln Richardson. another a!l-around
man. Is In the navy; Alan Hart whom
Coach Van Nl!ct affirmed was tho best
man for his weight he ever saw. is
with the regulars: Reuben Burton
crack half-miler. is at Camp Lee. and
down the list.
Every man jack has wo... the Red
and White on some occasion or other.
and Uncle Sam need not have any fear
over the outcome when these boys
stack UP against tho Boches.
It was In 1918 that the club enjoyed
It's banner year. With 10 active mem
bers and hfty life members, things were
always humrninG at the clubhouse
that cleaned UP Washington. Baltimore
and who. on Labor Da. OF that year
made splendid showing a. the Erea,
Schuyskill regatta at Philadelphia.
The Mexican situation then took away
eight or ten good men. and still holds
them; Mason. steel Hurt. Teindi. etc
but somehow or other this didn't bother
the coach much IN breaking up his
combinations for he proceeded TO turn
out just as good crews during 1916 as
during the previous year But in April
1917, II was case OF with the club
on one day, in the army the next"
Bit by bit the club lost its twenty
one TO thirty boys, Unit! by fall it
was wellnigh deserted.
or course. there was George Beers
and BobaForrcst and Irwin Williams
They wsS' above draft age. but active
members for without them there
would hardly be any Virginia Boa,
Club. But the young fry. the aforesaid
twenty-one to thirty boys, were GER
tainiy few and far between. And from
present indications. when spring again
rolls around. there won't be any 10
gambol on the handball courts For
many are called and all are chosen