Evening star., 1933-09-28
PRESIDENTS CUP
REGATTA RACERS
REGISTER TODAY.
Many Of $50 Boats to Com
pete Tomorrow and Satur- |
day Being Tuned Up.
RECEPTION AND SWIM
MEET CARDED TONIGHT
Races Will Be Run Over Course
in Potomac River on West
Shore of Park.

Gold Cup racing, got under way formal
ly at noon today with the first as
sembly of racing pilots and registra-
ton Of contestants at headquarters IN
the Willard Hotel
Many of the $50 boats which will
compete in 26 racing events in the
Potomac off East Potomac Park ton1or-
being tuned up and put through trial
runs in the Potomac and Eastern
Branch today.
Today's program includes special
luncheon for the Racing Committee
and drivers Of Gold Cup boats. held
at the National Press Club. an official
reception for officials and drivers at
the Willard Hotel at o'clock tonight
and a swimming meet at $50 pm. at
the Hotel Shoreham Venetian pool.
100 in Swimming Meet.
More than 100 contestants, repre-
senting athletic clubs from points as
far distant as Los Angeles, will be
entered in the swimming events tonight
at the Shoreham. The meet will be,
under auspices of the Presidents Cup
Regatta Committee and with sanction
Of the District of Columbia Amateur
Athletic Union.
Among the well known swimming
stars who will compete tonight are A.
j. Callaghan of the Los Angeles Ath-
letic Club, who swan on the national
championship relay team at Chicago;
Johnny Broaddus, Wilson Teachers
College. fancy diving expert: Rita Au-
gusterfer. women's free-style leader;
Lois Bates. exhibition diver. who also
is entered in the 100-yard breast-stroke
even, and Leonora Taube, another div
ing expert.
Program of Events
Events and entries for tonight's meet
Swimming. 50-yard free-style men)
Penn A. c., Philadelphia, j. A. Simon,
w. H. Mackey. D. E. Hogan, R. j. Hack,
John Lewis, T. j. Pooley and W. T.
Booth; Western High School, Robert
RaWls; Washington Y. M. C. A., Dean
Garrison, William Becker, George Ellis
and Miles Pouss; Baltimore Y NJ c.
A, Fred Nordenholtz, Roland Broom
Norris Vandenberg, Mike Paskauskas
and Homan Kinsley; Los Angeles A. c.,
A. j. Callaghan and Robert Clark;
Georgetown University. Hubert Treacy.
from the Shoreham Hotel. Joseph La
Sale. Alexander Macmillan, George
Croft, Joseph Kelley, Jack Kelley and
Gordon Leech, jr.. and from the Am
bassador Hotel. Alfred Goldschmidt,
Curtis Porterfield, Frank Mullen and
Robert Jordon.
Swimming, 1oo-yard free style (men)
w. H. Mackey. D. E. Hogan R. j. Hack,
John Lewis, T. j. Pooley and W. T.
Booth; Western High School, John
Raft; Washington Y. M. C. A.. Ernest
Boggs; Baltimore Y. NJ C. A., Fred
Nordenholtz, Roland Broom, Norris
Vandenberg Mike Paskauskas and
Homan Kinsley; Los Angeles A. c., A.
j. Callaghan and Robert Clark;
Georgetown University, Robert Treacy;
Alex Macmillan; Washington Canoe
Club, Robert Wrenn. Joe Molyneaux
Eric Larsen, Joseph Kelley, Jack Kelley
Gordon Leech, jr.; Ambassador Hotel
Alfred Goldschmidt. Curtis Porterfield
and Frank Mullen.
300-yard medley relay (men)-Penn
Athletic Club-Team A and team B;
Washington Y. M. c. A., team A and
team B; Baltimore Y. M. c. A.; Shore
Club, Western High School.
Fancy dive (men)-Knox Moncure,
Washington Y. NJ c. A.; William Reid,
Baltimore Y. NJ c. A.; Robert Knight,
Shoreham Hotel; E. C. Graves, I'd,
Shoreham Hotel; John Broaddus, Will
son Teachers College; Ambassador
Hotel, ]. Emory Wilson and Norman
Smith; Penn A. c.. Philadelphia,
Rugerio Flocco and David Russell
50-yard free style (women)-Penn A.
c., Philadelphia, Florence Peck; Shore
ham Hotel, Caroline Cox, Rita Angus
terrier. Annabel Whaler, Anne Tilson;
Ambassador Hotel, Ada Dineen; Mar
jorie Burch and Joan Mccormack.
100-yard back stroke (women)-
Shoreham Hotel, Leonora Taube and
Betty Klein; Ambassador Hotel, Mar
Jorie Chapman, Bette Burch.
100-yard breast stroke (women)-Penn
A. c., Philadelphia, Florence Peck;
Shoreham Hotel, Leonora Taube, Evan
geline Rice, Ellen Jones and Mariana
Trowbridge; Ambassador Hotel, Helen
Richardson.
Fancy dive (women) - Shoreham
Hotel, Leonora Taube and Helen Nc
Hale; Penn A. c., Philadelphia, Con-
stance Renninger and Nancy Rawles.
Regatta Starts Tomorrow.
The regatta itself will get under way
at noon tomorrow, when the starting
gun is to be fired for the first of 13
races. including the first heat Of the
Presidents Cup race, which will be run
off during the afternoon. The last OF
the Is races tomorrow is to start at
4:35 pm
All the races tomorrow and Saturday
will be run over course in the Potomac
River extending along the west shore
of East Potomac Park from Hains Point
upstream toward the railroad bridge.
Stands have been erected at Hams
Point, seating about 5000 persons
Tickets for these seats are obtainable
today at the Willard Hotel. regatta
headquarters in the Chesapeake & Po-
tomac Telephone Co. Building. or at
the offices of the American Automobile
Association, Seventeenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue.
For the first time in the history OF
the Gold Cup event here. spectators
will be kept fully posted on all details
of the races and the histories OF the
competing racing drivers and their
boats by means Of an elaborate public
address system. A new type OF radio
broadcast set-up is being made so that
spectators on boats anchored in the
river along the course also may receive
news.
Radio Club to Assist.
Throuqh the cooperation of the
washinrton Radio Club, composed OF
radio amateurs of Washington. and
vicinity. five-meter radio will be used
to carry information to those on re-
viewing boats. Small battery operated
receivers will be installed by members
of the club in each OF the reviewing
boats. under supervision OF Lieut.. Roy
C. Corderman. U. S. N. r.
Two strong contenders for the Presi-
dents Cup-George Refs, winner two
, years ago. and Bill Horn, present noioer