Evening star., 1933-07-21
SPORT IS REVIVED
AFTER TEN YEARS
Evening Star Plaque Prize
IN Club Competition on
! Potomac Tomorrow.
By FRANCIS Z. STAN.
DECADE Of rowing dor
NANCY will come to an end
\ tomorrow when the Po-

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tomac Boat Club digs up
from the Capitals sports grave
yard the ancient and honorable
art of sculling and provides it with
new stimulus with the staging OF
the annual Southern Rowing As
sociation Regatta, to be staged on
the Washington Channel off Hams
Point.
Not since 1923 has the Potomac been
sliced by rowing blades in formal COM
petition, but stepped in rich tradition
and background is the host club, one OF
the favorites to win The Washington
Stars plaque, emblematic of the COW
eted team championship.
With the staging of the 14-event pro-
gram, which will find Potomac crews
competing in an even dozen races
aquatic devotees of the Capital are Wis
ioning a return to popularity of what
perhaps is the most arduous of all
sports.
Regatta Open TO All.
TOR the first time in the history
of the regatta-it has been thrown
open to all amateur oarsmen in
the world. AS result many Of the
best oarsmen in the East, including the
present national singles champion, will
compete
The Potomac Club men. determined
to win the team title, will be called
upon to test their skill and stamina
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Athletic Club. Penn Athletic Club, YES
per Boat Club of Philadelphia, Univer-
sity Barge Club of Philadelphia. Arun-
del Boat Club of Baltimore. Virginia
Boat Club of Norfolk and the Old Do
minion Boat Club of Alexandria.
Leading the red and white shirted
paddlers of the Potomac against the
imposing field will be the veteran Gran
vile GUIDE. defending champion in the
senior singles. Guide, along with Paul
Brewer. teammate, will be called upon
to answer the challenge of the national
singles champion. Walter Miller of the
Penn A. c. By only few seconds did
Miller miss gaining the Olympic title
in the last games He was nosed out by
Bobby Pearce, Australia's great sculler
Quakers Send Crack Four.
A CREW which will come In for a
~ deal of attention is the Penn A. c.
senior gig. which consists of four
of the eight men who last year at Wor-
cester we're defeated by only two sec
onds by the powerful, University of
California crew, which later won the
Olympic title at Los Angeles.
Because it invariably produces the
keenest competition and has drawn
more entries than any other race, the
airyI,{ lie RI 1od
as the feature event. In this race the
Potomac crew will be faced by shells
of the Old Dominion, Virginia and
Arundel Clubs.
The first and only District boat club
with rowing as its primary interest, the
Potomac Club first took up the sport IN
1869, the year of the clubs organlZa-
ton. The first race rowed and won
by the Potomac was gig race against
an Analostan crew on November .,
1869. According to newspaper reports
of the time, this was the first real race
on the Potomac River and was over
q 3-nlile course. with turn, from tne
Aqueduct Bridge down.
ScuIling Still King Sport.
"A THOUGH canoe racing and other
"a sports have made deep inroads
4 = into rowing at the Potomac CluD.
eculling still IS that organization's S
ma ior snort. and by means of proving
r. the Georgetowners have entered
representatives in all except the junior
double sculls and senior elgnt-oareo
shell. ~. c,,,,h ~
Alexandria, which, like the PoIomacs,
have been training diligently ior ol,e
test. will have its share OF followers.
THE Old Dominion stalwarts loom as
dangerous rivals of the host club for
The star plaque, having formidable
entries in four events. , -,
The washington Canoe Club, prl,
,narily a canoe racing organlzation, VIII
con,nete only in the canoe fitting, In
which art the Washington CLUB long
has produced proficient exponents::,,
The first Of the IA races Will pc
started promptly at 2 o'clock. Ine
events and entries follow:
Single shell, 44o-yard dash-Penn
A. c., Potomac. VII
Junior singles-Old Dominion. VIZ
ginia, Potomac. x. 1.,,-
Junior four-oared g1g-Olo Dodhin-
ION. Arundel, Potomac.
Association singles-Potonac. Arundel.
Junior uuadruple sculls-Vrglnla'
University Barge, Potomac.
senior double sculls-Arundel, Po-
intermediate single scullS-.New YORK
A. c.. Potomac. =; ~ 1,,,,x,
Junior double sculls-Old Dominion
Virginia. Vesper. y..
senior four -oared gig-New YORK
"A G.. Potomac, Arundel.
senior single sculls-Penn A. O. 70
Junior eight ht-oared shell-Old Domin-
son Potomac. Virginia, Arundel:
canoe tilting-Potomac, washington.
Senior quadruple sculiS-
Potomac. ,,,-.,,,.
Senior eight-oareo siieh-'h
Arundel.
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