Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-08
HOOUer Diamond
ScULLS Victor
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previous to the rowing Of the Diamond
Sculls. At the finish the crowds was
too busily engaged in scurrying for
shelter to accord the American much
cheering, but the band played the Amer.
ican national anthem on it's waterlogged
instruments as It did to acclaim Hoov-
er's victory in the semi finals yesterday.
Hoover was the only ono Of the string
OF foreign oarsmen to survive the
elimination process. establishing his
right to enter the final by defeating
Baynes. The winning time Of F.
better today. The winning time Of +.
L. Eyken. of Delft University. last
year was 3 minutes &c seconds. Eyken
did not compete this year.
Bcresfords Famous Oarsmen
In Beresford the American cham
pjon met an opponent who has de-
scendcd from n family of oarsmen. The
Englishman has rowcd the Thames
since boyhood and his gray -haireh
racing shell. That Beresford did not
win the diamond SOULS last year was
not due to any lack Of speed. He was
eliminated In heat with ID. II. l..
Gollan, a deaf and dumb Leandcr Club
sculler. who ran into n boom.
Bcresford stopped rowing until
Gollan could start again. and therefore
lost the race. Beresford himself hit a
boom in the first heat Of the present
regatta. but recovered and won easily.
The Stewards Cup was won by the
Viking Club. Of Eton. which easily de-
feated the Grasshopppr Club of Zurich
Switzerland. in s minutes oJ seconds. .
The Leander Club won the grand
challenge cup in the. Royal Henley re-
gatta here today. defeating the Thames
Club by length. The time was !
minutes 36 seconds.
The Thames Challenge Cup was won
by Worcester College. Oxford. which
finished two feet nhcad Of Glare Col =
lege. Cambridge, in minutes 80
seconds.
The final for the ladies' plate was
won BY Brasenosc College, Oxford, This
ford. by length in minutes A
seconds.
The Silver Goblcts and Nickalls Chal-
lenge Cup were won by G. o. Nickalls
and X. s. G. Lucas. of Magdalena Col
lcge, Oxford. who defeated II. f. West
and X. Vernon. Of the Thames Club.
by one and three quarter lengths in 8
minutes ~ seconds.
Walter Hoover, who is the third
American winner in the history Of tho
diamond sculls event, is twenty seven
years old. six feet tall and weighs ap.
proximatcly 100 pounds when in con =
dition. He has been rowing in com
petition since 1913. performing during
that year. in the Duluth Boat Clubs
junior eight -oared shell. which won the
national championship in Boston.
Broke Many Records
lie won his firs' scaling honors a
year later at tho northwestern regatta
ut Kcnora. In 1915 he set n new mark
of 0S in winning the senior quarter
mile dash event at the Springfield
championships, but was forcrd to trail
second in the asSociat,on senior singles
later in the meet, being beaten for first
place by Waldo Smith, of the y. Y.
4. G.
The next three years were spent by
the Duluth star in the service of Uncle
Sam. first on the border and later in
the World War, in 1918 he returned
to sculling. only to lose in the national
regatta at Worcester to Jack Kelly in
the quarter mile race and then to Pau!
Costello in the association senior sin :
giles event
The year Of 1920 found Hoover train :
ing assiduously and in 1921 he bios =
somcd out as championship contender.
He came to Philadelphia last year to
race Kelly again. but the Vcsppr on :
tries had been withdrawn from the rc :
gatta in which he was compcting and
h" was forced to he content with lesser
opposition. covering the quarter mile
distance for n new record and then
taking the senior singles rae" with ease.
At the national Championships Mt
Buffalo last August he defeated Belyea
and Costello in the heats md finals for
the senior singles national title. This
year he challenged Kelly for the Phil
adelphia Gold Cup honors. but the lat =
ter had gone in retirement for business
reasons and Hoover met Paul Costello.
Of Nesper; Gilmore. of Bachelors
Barge, and Belyca, Of tho st. Johns
, Boat Club, in the cup race, winning
after the hardest kind Of a struggle and
setting new time for the mile and a :
quarter distance on th' Srhuylkill
Costello. later in the year. clipped
l9Si seconds from IloovCrs mark and
the return engagement between these
two. which will probably be held in Du
: luth in September. when Hoover has
! announced his intention of defending the
cup, will be interesting.