Evening star., 1924-07-13

IL VI SOOu competition.
J. s. Douglas, who is handling the
mana gerial reins for the Virginians
in connection with the regatta, is
enthusiastic over everything in con-
ection with the regatta except the
failure Of the Baltimore members of
the association to get their entries
in so that he can work out the order
of events and have the program
printed
We are going to have another good
regatta and everything should be in
shipshape to handle the events ane
the crowd, says Douglas. IF the
regatta is not run off well and if the
visiting oarSmen and spectators are
not surrounded by pleasant circum-
stances then it will not be because
We are not making every possible eff
fort to look out for their welfare.
We have worked out plans for patrol
ling the course. have the course laid
out, made arrangements to handle the
crowds. for entertainment Of our
guests, and, so far as We can foresee.
done everything possible to insure
success of the affair"
Potomac Club Is Entered.
Potomac Boat Club is to be Wash
ington's lone representative in the
regatta. Its crews are being coached
ny Andy Hutterly. captain and vet
eran oarsman Of the club. The Poto-
macs are expecting to get their share
OF victories and possibly more than
their share, which they nearly always
have done.
Other members Of the association
are the Virginia Boat Club Of Rich
mand, the Old Dominion Boat Club OF
Alexandria. the Ariel Rowing Club or
Baltimore and the Arundel Boat Club
or Baltimore. The Southern Rowing
Association. Of which these clubs are
members, was formed several years
ago at meeting in "A local hotel for
the aVowed purpose OF furthering the
interests of rowing in the south The
championship regatta. since that time
an annual event, has done much for
rowing and has kept interest in the
sport alive in some clubs where
Otherwise il probably would have
died.
One former Georgetown man and
a present Georgetown student are
making good in the Olympics and are
carrying forward Georgetown's fame
for accomplishments in track and
held. as well as did Duffy and some
other Blue and Gray athletes on
foreign tracks in years gone bv.
lie fendre has set record in the
rrunhlng r broad Jump which may stand
Tor good while. The record which
was broken last year and again
broken this past spring resisted the
onslaughts of athletes for score of
years ana there Is fOretelling
when another man will be able to
pass the Georgetown mans mark
Then again il may be the record will
go within month. Any man who
can jump around twenty-four feet
always has chance to get in the
phenomenal performance which hap
pens just about once within his life
time and thereby set up new world
mark. Norton. former Kansas star,
is the other Georgetown man who
stood up despite the st-enuousness
of Olympic competition. He finished
second in the decathlon contest, his
teammate, Osborne Of IlltnSis. win
ming.
When the University of Maryland
foot ball squad takes the field in the
fail for its opening practice il W il
find its fine backfeld of last year a.
most wiped out. Groves. McQuade
and Branner graduated with the 1924
class and viii not be hack. Groves
did the dropkicking and good deal
of the forward pass receiving. He
was one of the best men handling
a pass that foot bail produced last
year. McQuade was great defen-
slve player. Il fine man to throw a
pass. and generally good man.
Branner probably was consistently
the best man of the three, although
he never got credit for it. Branner
was the one man who was ALWAYS
fenSive and offensive foot ball, the
kind of foot ball which seldom gets
the appreciation of the spectators. but
which is the delight of every coach.
1t is needless to say that Maryland
will not replace these three men and
if its team is to be as good as 1t
was a year ago it must work out
some scheme TO counterbalance their
loss. McQuade has one more year of
college foot ball, but is to enter the
Marine Corps.
When Lowe, the English runner
who won the S00-meter run in the
Olympics. appeared a the Penn re-
lays as anchor man on the Oxford
Cambridge relay four he was not
given the attention that his per
formance really deserved. He started
so far behind that he had no hope OF
winning, but. at that turned in one
of the finest performances on Frank
lin Field that day. 1t was pointed
out in this column shortly after the
Penn relays that Lowe was a greater
half miller than any man who ran at
Franklin Field and that if any mem
Der of the team which was to repre-
sent the United States in the Olympics
expected to beat him there would
have TO be a good deal of improved
running. Loves victory in the
Olympics in the 500 meters justified
what was said of him at that time.