Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17
CANOE CLUB WINS
PENN CLUB TROPHY
Westinghouse Successfully
Defend National Champion
ship at Bristol Regatta.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BRISTOL, Pa, August 16.-Ine
washington Canoe Club successfully
defended its national canoe champion
ship here today on the placid waters
of the historic Delaware in the annual
joint regatta of the Middle States
Canoe Racing Association, which was
sponsored this year by the Young Mems
Association of the Anchor Yacht Club,
Bristol
The boys from the banks of the Po-
tomac ran up grand total of 40 points
in the Junior and senior events to cap
ture the Penn Athletic Club Trophy,
emblematic of the national club cham
pionship while the Pendleton Canoe
Club of New York finished in the
runner-up position with "a markers, 16
points behind the two-time champions.
The Gothamites barely eased into
second place ahead of the Cacawa
Canoe Club of Tacony, which gained
third place on the championship laddeC
with a total of % points, one less than
the number scored by the Harlem
River bladesmen.
The Philadelphia Canoe Club was
next in line with Is counters to It's
credit, while the Bristol Young Mems
Association was / point behind the
Quakers with IA markers.
Potomac Canoe Club of Washington
with 6, Dundalk Canoe Club of Balti-
more with and Tuscarora Canoe Club
of Belleville, N. j., with /, closed out
the scoring.
A record crowd of aquatic sport en-
thusiasts lined the banks of the Della
ware from o'clock in the afternoon
until 8 o'clock in the evening to watch
the fast-stroking paddlers from the
District of Columbia gain national
honors for the second consecutive year
by scoring an even 20 points In both
the junior and senior divisions.
The winning paddlers exhibited their
best form in the junior grade double
blade event, when their crew flashed
home ahead of a fast field of rival
canoeists in the good time OF min
uteS 10 seconds
The victorious crew-composed of
Florence, stroke; Dunn, No. 2; Conner,
No 3; MawSon, No.. 4Etrailed the
Cacawa boat up the river until the
last Is or 80 yards of the half-mlle
pull, and then the stout-hearted lads
from the Capital City put on a great
sprint, which put them across the finish
line a scant 2 yards ahead OF their
Tacony rivals. The senior one-man
single-blade title was captured by she
fast-traveling Ernie Miller of the Poto-
mac Boat Club, another Washington
entry. .
Miller finished full length ahead OF
AL Bauer, representing the Bristol
Young Mems Association, who was sec
ond. while Spencer of Washington
Canoe Club took third money in the
event. Miller's time for the distance
was minutes Az seconds. Holland OF
the Entertaining Club annexed first
honors in the junior singles in minutes
II seconds, with McNutt OF the Phlla-
delphia and McGuigan OF Washing
ton trailing in the order named.
Parry and Carl Knight, members OF
the Two-Bdade Quad Shell which re-
presented the United States In the 1924
Olympics stroked their way to bril-
liant victory in the senior tandem
single-blade event, with a Pendleton
duo second and Dundalk third. the
time was minutes, 5 AS seconds.
Senior team single canoe-Won by
Washington Canoe Club. p. and II.
Knight; second, Pendleton Canoe Club:
third, Dundalk Canoe Club. Winners
time, 3 minutes AS seconds.