Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-14
KNIGHT, RODMAN
DOMINATE MEET
Figure in Six Victories.
Host Club Home First
Four Times in Row.
BY BURTON S. HAWKINS.

~ ALD-PATED Harry Pop"
- Knight, 47-year-old canoeist
and carrot-topped Everett
- Rodman. national high-point
champion, did the expected in leading
the Washington Canoe Club to an easy
victory in the twelfth annual Middls
States regatta yesterday on the Po-
tomac.
Figuring in no less than six stirring
triumphs over some Of the best pad
dlers in the East, Knight and Rod
man flashed across the finish line
ahead Of Jim Burch and Ernie Millar,
Potomac Boat Club, in the senior tan
dem single-bla race, one of the fea-
ture events Of the day.
Ebby Trilling and Jed Florence,
Washington Canoe Club. spurted in
the final so yards to take the junior
tandem double blade event from
teammates Dusty Rhodes and Russell
Swami in a hairline decision, cover
ing the half-mile route m 3:421s.
Long Easy Victor.
Johnny LONG, home club entrant,
" ran away with the initial race Of
the program, the junior one-man
single blade contest. to send the Wash
ington Canoe Club into the scoring
lead which was never threatened, and
Dick Acked continued to pile up
points early in the regatta when he
stroked to victory in the intermediate
one-man single-blade race.
Not until the fifth event did the
colors of the host club take bow,
Acked and Herman Vollmer being de-
feated by Cimokowski and Krick Of
the Cacawa Canoe Club. Tacony. Pa,
in the intermediate tandem single
blade contest.
Competing for The Evening Star
Trophy, Harry Knight, Dick Acked.
Johnny Long and Everett Rodman,
Washington Canoe Club, stroked their
way to a bitterly fought victory over
the Cacawa quartet in the senior
quad single-bla test.
The first and second place winners
in each event qualify for the national
padding championship to be held at
princeton next week.
Rue and Bell gave the Philadelphia
Canoe Club the fitting championship
in the junior class, while Smell and
McCauly poked the Washington
Canoe Club to another win in the
senior event.
Summaries:
JUNIOR TILTING-won by Rue and
pel1 fpbila !. SnrO0S EaVe0s and TrilliYQ
(W C. c.; third. Veach and Spear (Phfa J.
SENIOR TILTING-Won by Smell and
MMeCsu!y w, C. e. seeSSndt Ravens Haven. snd
W, JTSioE oNE75MAS SINGLE BLADE de-
lcacawa): third. Schultz (W c. c..
INTERMEDIATE ONE MAN SINGLE
Sol!@er w G. y c5 GA tSird 6ynes tehia
SENIOR oNE-MAN SINGLE BLADE
M scassvsI POt PTms-4 c1 third Haas
II, JUSIoR TANDEM ., SINGLE BLADEI
third, Holland and schad (cacawa).
NIERMEDHTE TANDEM SINGLE
tcaeaWa): second. AcEad and voiimer w,
SENIOR TANDEM SINGLE BLADE
Won by Knight and Rodman wv. @. CO;
second, Burch and Millar Potomac B. CO;
third iraf and McNutt (Phila). Time
JrNIoR Quad SINGLES Won by
stead, W Kornstead and Bell; second,
vile Romjue and PendletonJ. Time
SENIOR QUAD SINGLES BY
Long and Rodmanl: second, Cacawa Canoe
Club Holland, CImokowski. Krick and
1Rhoces Grant. Swami and TrillinE).
JUNIOR oNE-MAN DOUBLE BLADES
dleton W. G. CO; third, schad ICacawa).
SENIOR oNE-MAN DOUBLE BLADES
w. e. c.; third, Haas (cacawa). Time
JUNIOR TANDEM DOUBLE BLADES
| second. Rhodes and Swami wv. C. O.;
third; Al and Joe Schad (Cacaws). Time
sENIoR TANDEM DOUBLE BLADES
Won by Rodman and knight CW. g. O.;
second. Long and Schultz wv. G. c.;
third; Holland and Haas (Cacawa). Time
JUNIOR QUAD DOUBLE BLADEs-won
By WASHINGTON Canoe Club Gong. Swami.
NEhoaes snd Trilliag1: seeond, Bristol Y
and Belly; third, Philadelphia Canoe Club
GMcNutt, Spear Beach and Henryson).
SENIOR ofiAD DOUBLE BLADEs-won
schad. Holland and Krickl; second VS. Wash h.
nan nan. a9 95,h kpig69: thlTd; Ph!lsdeip65a
TEAM TOTALS = wasRinston Canoe
| Young Mems Club. S; Potomac Boat Club.
| b; Philadelphia Boat Club. 4.