Evening star., 1937-09-05
SEASONAL CLIMAX
1NEVENTSS SUNDAY
Last Chance to Show Team
Strength Offered D. c.,
Virginia Sweeps.
BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE, JR.

~ ARSMEN from Alexandria and
Washington climax their sea-
son next Sunday with the
~ venerable Potomac Boat
Clubs annual regatta, its SiXty-eighth,
scheduled off the Georgetown boat
house and playing host to the Old
Dominion Club from nearby Vir-
giniA.
It will be something of last chance
OF the year for oarbenderS, this in
vitatlon regatta, to prove their abil-
fty at team rowing. The Potomac
outfit, in addition to defending the
eight-oar title won last month off
Alexandra, will be striving to even the
score in four-oar gig and quadruple
scull events captured by Old Dominion
In the latter's regatta in August.
Revived after an interval of seven
years, the Tin Can Sweepstakes leads
of the card of eight events around
1.30 pm. It's the affair in which
youngsters under Is compete for the
first time in single Shells James
Burch, Jr., who is following in his
dads footsteps as an oarsman, and
young Paul Lanigan have entered
the race
Old Dominion Four Favored.
THE event in which the Old Domln-
ion four established a new time
record last month, race for quads, fol-
lows, with the Alexandria crew of
Julian Whitestone. Magnus Bales, Bob
Whtton and Lewis Bell favored to
repeat. Canoe races for men and
women are next, and the tour-oar
gig event follows.
The winning squad Of Bob Dun
can, Dewey Dinsman, Ernie Millar,
Bill Stewart, Lanigan, Jim Hender-
son, Granville Guide and Jerry Law
Ter man an eight for the days biggest
event. Rudy Kaufman, who is
representing the club in the Junior
single-scull race of the Middle States
Regatta Assocla ton meet in Balti-
more today, will be missing from the
crew next week and will be replaced
by an oarsman yet to be named.
Granville Guide, single-shell cham
plon of the Potomac River for the
last l3 years, again defends his title
IN this event, with Duncan, Stewart
and Millar entered. The traditional
eight-oar race between married and
single men, won last year by the
unmarried members, winds up the re-
gatta.
All races are to be run over a mile
etralghtaWay on the river, with the
finish line off the club house.
Committees Appointed.
THE regatta chairman has appoint
ed the following committees
Rowing, Capt. Dave Knox and Coach
Bob Duncan; canoes. James Burch
and Aubrey Bogley; announcing,
Harry E. Smith and William Delt
equipment, William Bromley, and
course, Louis Allwyne Judges in
clude c. Phillip Heishley, DR.. Rob-
ert Eller and Charles Baker.
Werner Smythe and Clyde Cruit
pioneers of the Capitals comet fleet
and leading shippers in the class from
the time they launched their first
boats three years ago, again have been
selected to represent the Potomac
River group in the third annual Ma
tional Championship Regatta at Perth
Amboy, N. j., next Saturday and Sun
day.
BY virtue of Alton O'Brien's victory
last year the 55-year-old Raritan
Yacht Club plays host to approxil
mately 40 crack shippers throughout
the country, comprising one or two
high-point sailors from each of 25 or
more fleets. Without a doubt the
picked talent of small boat sailors,
they will be gathered for a series of
three races, two on Saturday and one
on Sunday.
Lots of Class Promised.
RU1LDERS, owners and crews have
been working on scores of pros
pective winners of the Presidents Per-
manent Trophy. symbolic of SUI
premacy in a class that now numbers
more than 800 craft. It's no idle gos-
sip that this years regatta will see
some OF the keenest class racing ever.
In addition to crack yachtsmen from
Stone Harbor, N. j.; Raritan Bay,
Staten Island and Keyport, repre-
sentatives from new Long Island
Sound fleets and as far away as Ohio
will be on hand for the first gun
around III am. Saturday.
This first race is over a smile tri-
angle in the bay, well out of the tricky
currents of the Raritan and Arthur
Van Kill Rivers that raised havoc with
boats in the first National Regatta two
years ago. The afternoon race is over
smile windward and leeward course.
The final heat on Sunday morning
returns to the triangle.
Conceded by Dr. John Eiman, presi-
dent OF the Comet Glass Y. R. A.. to
be one OF the best sailors in the class,
Smythe has in his new Sassy Too. a
. boat constructed by himself and Cruit
last Winter, a craft that has shown
remarkable speed this season here
and on the Chesapeake. The COM
olnstion should be the winning one
TO bring the national crown to the
Potomac next week
Crult. veteran skipper of cruising
and racing craft. is at his best in
heavy going, and with Smythe a,
hEht-air wizard they are a formida able
pair.
Maj. H. H. Jacobs. charter member
Of the local feet and owner of comet
Litl. will be officiating as secretary of
the National Regatta Committee that
includes Herbert L. Stone editor nj