Evening star., 1933-08-06
HAS RECORD REIGN
AS SOULS CHAMP
Miller Tops PhiIIy Sweeps in
Triumph With Title Won
Fourth Time.
BY WILLIAM WEEKES,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

HICAGO, August 5.-Big Bill
Miller of the Pennsylvania
Y Athletic Club won his
fourth consecutive national
singles sculling title, a feat never
before accomplished in American
amateur rowing, as Philadelphia
boatmen won most the glory to-
day in the sixty-f1rst annual re-
gatta of the National Association
of National Oarsmen.
The husky Philadelphian set himself
Up as the first to make it four straight
by an easy victory over teammate, Al
Vogt, who yesterday won the associa-
ton singles title to qualify to meet
Miller Miller did most of his real
pulling at the finish and had one
length margin there. His time, 5:2l
for the three quarters of a mile, was
the best of the regatta.
Three other famous Scullers, Frank
Greer of Boston, Walter Hoover of Du-
luth and Philadelphia and Bobby Dib-
bic of Toronto. each managed to win
three titles, but none could make it
four in row.
Penn A. c. Wins Seven Races.
EILLERS triumph was just one
lN feature of the domination OF
Philadelp Tia oarsmen. The
Penn A. c. won seven championships
retaining the Julius H. Barnes Trophy
for the team championship, and the
Undine Barge Club took three titles
The other Philadelphia outfit, the
Bachelors Barge Club. won one.
The South End Rowing Club of San
Francisco won the four-oared shells
Park Boat Club kept Chicago from be-
ing shut out by winning the interme-
date eight-oared shell, and the West
Side Rowing Club of Buffalo, N. Y,
sprang a surprise today by conquering
Penn A. c. in the four-oared shells
without coxswain.
After the Buffalo club just barely
beat out the Penn club in the four
cared today. the Philadelphians went
to work The Bachelors Barge Club
defeated the Central Rowing Club, St
Louis, by three and one-half lengths in
the four-oared shells without coxswain
Miller ard Emanuel McGreal padded
in eight lengths ahead of Nelson Rob-
erts and A. w. Coggeshall Of the San
Diego. Calf, Rowing Club in the senior
double sculls
The one-fourth- mile dash. one of the
most trying events on the program, was
comeback triumph for Algernon Fitz-
patrick, another Penn A. c. star. FitZ-
patrick won his last title in 1926 and
today had to beat Joe Wright, jr
Canadian champion and former dia-
mond sculls title holder
In the quadruple SOULS, the Penr
Club sent out all the sculls champion,
for the year, Miller, Vogt, Fitzpatrick
and McGreal. to win another easy vic
tory. The l45-pound and senior eight.
cared boatloads finished up the after.
noon by stroking to decisive victory.
Little Twins Score.
TURTHER glory for Philadelphia
was added by the tiny. but mighty
Clark twins of the Undine Barge
Club. Tommy yesterday won the 145-
pound single souls and. paired with
Eugene. came right back today fol
their seventh 145-pound double sculL
championship. The pair weighed in al
127 pounds each, but, taking it easy
until the final eighth Of a mile. easily
defeated the Lincoln Park Club pair
Mike Ryser and Leon Kerwin, by a
length and one-half.
The regatta was held in Chicago for
the first time in its 61-year history. and
all events except the quarter-mile dash
were raced over three-quarter mile
course on the North Lagoon of the
World Fair grounds. instead of over the
usual mile-and-a-0l rter stretch