Evening star., 1938-04-10
Georgetown Sailors to Be Acue in Spring College Regatas
NAVY, YALE MEETS
ARE PLANNED HERE'
Hoyas Invited to Compete in
Races at Providence With
Brown, Trinity.
By MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.
Yachting has gone collegiate in a

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By MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.
Yachting has gone collegiate in a
big way.
Back in 1929. when handful OF
students from three or four of the
better known ivy-clad institutions bor-
rowed . few boats and ran an inter-
collegiate sailing regatta, alumni shook
their heads and muttered something
:, about an undergraduate fad.
Just how far these alumni we're
wrong may be seen in the position
OF college yachting today, where in
more than 20 of the 81 schools now
listing sailing as an active sport it is
ofhcially recognized by college au-
thorities as an undergraduate activity.
1t is rather fitting that Georgetown
University, famous at the turn of the
century for its racing crews, should
inaugurate college sailing and racing
On the Potomac. The days of eight
cared college shells are gone and in
their place trim little sailing dinghies
are cutting the river just of the Hill
top.
Hoyas' Schedule Filling.
Like sailors the world over. it was
impossible to keep undergrads who
cruise and race all summer back home
away from the water for too long a
period. The Georgetown University
Sailing Club was organized formally
last October with the delivery of five
10-foot frostbite dinghies, purchased
by the student members. With the
Potomac Boat Club as headquarters,
the Hoya shippers lost little time in
taking to the water.
And that is where they have been
ever since. Only flood currents and
Ice could keep them of the river dur
ing the past winter
With two of their members compet-
ing last November. and having the
distinction of being the team to travel
<the longest distance at the largest
intercollegiate meet ever held, the
Massachusetts, Institute of Technology
regatta, the club is planning an ex-
tensive racing campaign this year
Events in Washington are pending
with Navy, Princeton, Yale and
M. I. T.
, Get Many Invitations.
Hilltop sailors have been invited to
send team to Providence, R. l., for
. regatta with Brown, Trinity and
American International College on
April %. Georgetown also will be
represented on May l at the fifth
annual event for the Boston Dinghy
Club Challenge Cup, sponsored by the
M. I. T. Nautical Association. This
promises to be the most important
regatta ever held in the short history
Of intercollegiate racing Approx
mately 20 colleges will be represented
Martin S. Quikley of Riverside,
Conn, is student commodore; Al DON
ahue of Stamford. Conn. vice COM
nlodore, and Fred Fuller of New York,
secretary-treasurer of the Georgetown
Club, Honorary members of the club
are the Rev Arthur a. OLeary, S. j.,
president of the university, and the
Rev. John j. Kehoe, S, j., director of
athletics. The Race Committee is
composed of Donahue. Wilson Sweeney
OF New York and Basil Harris of Rye,
Ny.
Owners of Fleet.
The owners of the fleet of dinghies
which now number six, are, in addi-
ton to the officers, Tom Ross, Bay
Shore. Long Island; Leo Ehrhart, jr.,
Riverdale, N. Y; Salvatore Locurto,
New York; Jack Haire, Long Island;
Dick Harris. Rye, N. Y; Frank and
Don Donahue of Stamford and Peter
Hoffman Of East Orange, N. ]. The
membership also includes Tom MUIR
ray, Harold McCarty and Jack Hof-
fen of New York. Tom Stokes of
Miami, Fla; Bill Driscoll, Lawrence
Mass; Bill Mulroy, Buffalo, N. Y;
Cletus Keating of Oyster Bay. N. Y,
and Bob West of Harwichport, Mass.
When club members put up their
craft for the summer practically all of
them continue in some form of yacht
ing.
The Harris brothers are crack STAR
boat shippers. In their Vega last
summer they captured the West Hamp-
ton fleet series. Haire sails his star
Cottontail at Manhasset Bay, while
Commodore Quigley cruises in the AL
den yawl Quest with his father. WAY
down in Florida Stokes is busy, from
June to September, sailing his moth on
Biscayne Bay. Somewhere off sound
tngs. usually Down East Maine. West
is found aboard the schooner Wan
derer II.
Due to Compete Here.
In between their events for the
next two months, members are ex-
pected to enter the races of the Poto-
mac River Sailing Association. which
begin of Hains Point on April "a.
Only 3 of the 81 schools spon-
soring sailing have clubs dating back
more than so years, namely, Yale.
Harvard and Brown. All others
have come into existence in the last
10 years; the majority were organized
in 1895 and 1897 with additional clubs
even now being formed.
M. I. T., with 479. tops the list of l.
1913 members. The Coast Guard
Academy at New London Conn, comes
next with 200 sailors MI. Its feet.
incidentally, is the biggest; they have
46 dinEhies built to their own design.
MEMORIAL TO BOATMAN.
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