Evening star., 1938-09-16
REGATTA'SP[ANS
RUSHED TO HAVE
ALL 'SH|P-SHAPE'
Annual Classic Slated to
Begin Tomorrow With
Sai|boat Races.
SEATING AND TRAFFIC
DETAILS ARE COMPLETE
Sale Of Tickets Expected to Be
Lively as Time for Events
Comes Nearer.

Last-minute details were being
ironed out today to put everything
In "ship-shape" for the opening to-
morrow Of the Capitals annual aquatic
classic-the Presidents Cup Regatta.
BY the time the first cannon booms
at l:30 p.m.-signaling the start OF
the sailboat races. first event on q
varied program-all arrangements for
the gala show are expected to be COM
plete.
Seating accommodations both around
Hains Point, overlooking the race
course. and at the Arlington Memorial
Bridge Water Gate. affording a view
Of the pageant, lacked only the fin
ishing touches today.
Motorists to Be Aided.
The same applied to plans for
handling and routing traffic, Metro
politan and park police heads having
left nothing undone to insure a mini
mum of obstacles to motorists bent
On reaching the scene of activities.
Although the sale of tickets for re-
served seats has not been very brisk,
1t was expected to pick up with the
eleventh hour rush that usually marks
sports spectacles here.
The first tickets to all of the re-
gatta events were received yesterday
by Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen
from Elizabeth Reed, queen of the
wonder Week" affair At the pres
entation at the Commissioners office
she was accompanied by James A.
Councillor, general chairman of the
regatta, and Thomas E. Lodge, chair
ments Committee.
Mr.. Councillor explained that tickets
for the pageant next Thursday night.
featuring $4,000 fireworks dis
play. can be obtained for so and IS
cents and $3.50 for boxes at the
mobile Association and the keystone
Automobile Club.
The queens appearance for the
pageant will be somewhat on the spec
tacular side. From Smith College,
Northampton. Mass, where she is a
senior. she will be flown here in a
seaplane by Jacqueline Cochran, VIM
ner OF the Bendix trans continental
air trophy, and Maj. Alexander d'Sev-
ersky. manufacturer of her plane. They
will arrive Thursday before the
pageant gets underway, landing at the
Corinthian Yacht Club or nearby.
Sailboats to Rule Sunday.
As is the case tomorrow, sailboat
races will feature Sundays program.
They will begin at $50 am. and be
run throughout the day, with the
pilots Of the wind-propelled craft vying
for many trophies. About $500 in
cups will be awarded by The Star.
The program will resume Thursday
Potomac will be whipped into froth by
the first of series Of motor boat
races. From 80 am. to 4:30 pm.
outboards will race off Hams Point.
At night the scene will shift to the
Venetian pool at the Shoreham Hotel,
where swimmers and divers will COM
pete. A street parade will be held
later in the evening.
Field Of IFS Expected.
Entries for the sailing events are
pouring in at an unprecedented rate,
officials said in predicting field of at
least ITS small craft-the greatest fleet
of windjammers ever to assemble on
the Potomac and one of the largest
south Of New York this season.
The Capital and Corinthian Yacht
Clubs are being overtaxed with skip
pers, trailers and their boats that have
come from such distant points as San
Juan, Puerto Rico To accommodate
the overflow, permission was given the
Race Committee to allow canoe sailors
to tie up their craft at the Airport
Basin