Evening Star Newspaper, July 30, 1933, Page 49

GLORIOUS DAYS RECALLED AS OLD HOYA BOAT PLAYS PART IN ROWING REVIVAL Used in Pinch When Is Smashed—Blue of 30 Years Potomac Club Shell and Gray Sweeps Ago Listed. ing. On every hand are signs of reawakened interest in the sport whose history here is long and part of it glam- WASHKNGTON is on the threshold of a renaissance in row- orous. The highly successful Southern Rowing Association Regatta, held here a week ago yesterday, was the finest sort of tonic to the sculling Club, wit! Belt was ame. Conducted by the Potomac Boat ufihusmnx committee of which J. William chairman and Ernie Millar vice chair- man, the affair was a thorough success from the standpoint of both contestant, spectator and finan- cially. It was the first time the Southern had been held here since 1923, when the regatta was a fea- ture of the Shrine convention. Now that it has been demonstrated that the regatta can be conducted as a financial success, =) confidence is expressed that the big event will be put on here every other year. Memories of days lo: Potomac junior eight-oa! in the feature event. smoothly but resolutely was the same that George- ago were stirred as the d crew rowed to viectory The craft they stroked so town University's oarsmen used more than 30 years ago. . In that stout qld shell Frank Kerns, Joseph Lynch, Prank Romadka, Percy Houghton, Joseph Riley, J. P. B. Duffy, M. V. Lenane, Murray A. Russell, E. G. Fassett, William Britt, L. B. Magruder, Joseph Sinclaire, W. L. Hirst, S. A. Douglass and other gallant sons of Georgetown willingly gave of their brawn and nerve for the Blue and Gray. Cortland Kernan was a coxswain in those early days. Rowed at Keepsie in 1900, UNE 30, 1900, a Georgetown ecrew for the first time competed in the famed regatta at Poughkeepsie. It Blso was the first year for the sport @t the historic school. Six of the eight men that rowed for the Blue and Gray never had pulled an oar before in com- petition and it was not expected that the crew would make much of a show- ing. As expected, it finished last, but| it displayed a courage and fight that always has characterized teams that carried the Hoya colors and was by no means disgraced. Claude R. Zap- | pone coached the crew, which was| managed by John E. Moore. Prior to | their departure for Poughkeepsie the Georgetowners presented the Potomac Boat Club with a loving cup as a mark of appreciation for the courtesies the club had extended the university's oars- men. The presentation was made by John Hadley Doyle. | The following year Georgetown showed to much better advantage in the Poughkeepsie. In fact, the Blue and Gray was one of four crews of the six that competed to break the world record for the 4-mile course. The Hoyas, though finishing fourth, flashed over the course in the brilliant time of 19 minutes 21 seconds. In 1902 the Georgetowners won the first varsity race in the institution's history, van- quishing the Navy by a good length in a 2-mile race on the Severn at Annapolis. Horn Promises Real Speed. ILL HORN, winner in the Presi- Bdem's Cup race last year, will defend his honors in September in the Delphine IV, Horn told Andy Dufy, who has just returned from 8 trip to the Dodge plant in Norfolk, which built the craft, and that he ex-| pects to average better than 65 miles an hour in the boat. He informed Duffy he doesn’t intend to be an ex-champion. in all, there will be four Delphine boats §n the regatta. Duffy also tells of a 12-cylindered Packard craft which, it predicted, will be capable of making tter than 96 miles an hour cver a mile | Straightaway. Duffy also will have a fpew runabout, First Lady, in the run- gbout competition. The craft now is peing rushed to completion. = Hoya Shell Is Slow. f/~LARENCE M. HECOX, popular vet- C eran rowing coach, doubts whether the old Georgetown shell will still Rl the bill. He bslieves it some seven | peconds slower than the craft that was | ashed when caught in a swell off | flm Point a few day ago before the | Southern regatta. He doesn’t see ho the Potomac Boat| Club is going to| gst out of buying a new shell, which, with oars and cther equipment, will entail an out-| lay of approxi- mately $1,000. i ‘The historic shell, | Hecox recalls, was rebuilt for practice some 15 years ago, and the wood used in the work, in his g opinion, makes it too heavy for a cing craft. He points out that the otomac junior eight-oared crew de- rves great credit for the memorable | quarter-length victory it scored over the Virginia Boat Club cf Richmond. Hecox, who coached the crew, said that the boat leaked badly and water was | sellshmx back and forth in the bottom ghroughout the race. Incidentally, the gallant Potomac rew that won the junior eight-oared vent was the tenth in a rcw that Hecox has coached to victory in this pvent. Three of the victorious crews rried Potomac’s colors and the other e standard of the Virginia Boat Club. seems that a Hecox-tutcred junior ight simply cannot lose. Coach Hecox wants to get in 8 word defense of the theory that rowing too strenuous a sport; that it involves much of a strain upon the heart. Eorinthian Lads At Leonardtown On Sailing Trip EONARDTOWN, llds:.luly '}Sr— Seven youngsters, Scouts af- fllhud’nwith the Corinthian Yacht n, who have been sing up and down the Potomac and small tributaries since July 4 in two catboats, docked at the old ferry boat Whart here early in the week. It was ‘one of the last stops for the boys, who plan to return to Washington next week. the crew cf one of the Piper and Richard Albee. In the :’m‘hr:ry enpft are Hailan E. McClureage, John Brumbaugh and Joseph F. Simp- -,gi:e boats, which make between 6 and knots an hour in a good breese, are 22 g dod 1 i Yot e 8 e jeep one can handle the craft ex- The skipper of each keeps |ing the appearance of his He says he has found just the oon to be true, if the sculler mkl‘lg overdo it. 2 Comfort for Speetators. HARLES P. CLARK, general man- ager of the American Automobile Association, who has been named chairman of the important Reviewing Committee for the coming President’s Cup affair, says he proposes to see to it that every one of the many visitors expected hers for the big event have every ity of wateh the progress of the Taces under the most advan! sand comfortable nees, a8 well as the color- ful night pageant, 8 new feature of the regatta. A com- plete public :‘1’1} dress I{-;uul be established in the vicinity of Hains Point, with amplifiers along the sea wall. Dorsey W. Hyde, jr.. executive secre- tary of the Washington Chamber of Commerce, who has been named chair- man of the night pageant, expects more than 250 elaborately decorated and brilliantly lighted craft will take part. Every boat owner on the Potomac will be invited to participate, but en- tries will not be limited to Washington boats. They will be accepted from any TS re & queen of pageant and perhaps a king. Washingtan girls will be invited to compete for the coveted position of queetn of the pageant, a high ranking Government official to be named. Annapolis Yacht Station Planned By A. L. Dupont Delaware Financier Sees Maryland Capital as Sailors’ Mecca. " A NNAPOLIS, dicting that future mecca for Northern Chesapeake Bay sectlon, (Del.) financier, has ber of Commerce here that he wishes to buy water front prurny alongside and opgu\u the old Tolchester steam- ship wharf, . July 29.—Pre- na will be the which he has purchased, with the idea of “establishing a credit- able yachting center.” Du Pont wrote that he intends to pro- vide a club house and install all the improvements which should go with an | up-to-date yacht station. However, he says he has been unable s0 far to the property he seeks at a reasonable | E:ice, but hopes that an agreement may reached soon. Capt. Simon 8. Martin, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, has written Dupont asking that he consider improv- un- til a yacht basin has been estal e 3 Meanwhile plans of Charles E. Chance, president of the Chance Marine Con- struction Co., to construct a yacht bssin and club near the Tolchester property are going forward. Chance has obtained a loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for the work. . The boats were assigned to Scouts by the Navy, J. P. Mitchell, with Edward L. Weller as passenger, in hopes to acquire day, and with which he to Scamp, Washington several trophies before the 1933 aquatic campaign ends. # RQD AND STREAM BY PERRY NGLERS seeking large and small mouth black bass can fish for these gamesters today in the Potomac River. The Shenan- dosh River is reported muddy swift-running water. are not as bad as th the vy rains last week. Potomac certainly has had its muddy water this fishing seas o was muddy when the white rch arrived, muddy most of the time he were in our midst and also uddy the larger and gamer rock- fish put in their appearance. The Po- heen discolored for prac- to be caught. He sal another run of rockfish following the present_discolored water. Last Satur- day and Sunday, he informs us, & good rockfish were landed, the majority with the privilege of being crowned by | ¢nis time 5:30 pra. Well, what could we do? It wag take it or leave it at that late hour. “It took 40 minyfes to get to the fish- ing grounds and a few fish started to bite around 7 o'clock. At 8 o'clock it was a little better and at 9, just when Ahings | the fishing was at its best, the captain of the bost, in accordance with his orders from Capt. North, stoppsd pro- |uedlnn and scurried for home—the | first and only boat out of 25 or 30 to |leave at that time. A strong tide had | been running. which made it difficult to | keep each person’s line clear due to the overcrowding. Needless to say, we were disgusted and will have no gs with Capt. North. The the boat, in my opinion, was of circumstances and I “The sbove message is not to be con- strued to mean that there are no men at Kenwood with whom arrangements for fishing trips could be made who would not give you a square deal. This is the reason for mentioning particular names. Corroboration of any statement made herein will be given at your con- venience. Incidentally, it might be well to state that the 15 on paid $18.78 for the trip and our party took | along most of the bait.” N all our fishing experiences we I never have heard of such a case as this. When a boat is engaged, it - | certainly belongs to that party and Boat captains cer- that party alone. - | tainly would kill the goose that lays if such a policy as that | the golden ng com| is followed. Anglers arc s very patient lot, but there is a limit to everything, and the limit has been reached when such treatment as above stated is handed out to any fishing The boat captains on Dboth sides of the bay realize that per- haps the largest part of their e emriics and ihey lf want ve- i s want re- p’:tem When the right kind of treatment is received, mine times out of ten the same parties will the boat again and also tell their friends, while the boat captains who try to take advan- tage of their parties can rest as- sured that the information will be broadcast right and left by those imposed upon. pe this will be @ lesson and bait, but in deep water when fi a strike they usually land their . ‘There must be millions of small fish in the bay and its tributaries at this time and there is no angler who wants to furnish them “a feast” and then when the big fish commence to ;Y:;I'h on other grounds run out of Out in the bay in deep water it merely is & question of how many you want to land. And it is not nec- mrgwmmoymmwnwh the big fish. Last Tuesday I fished on a soft bottom and landed fish just as fast as I could pull them in the boat. Your boat captain should | know where the fish are biting best and | take you to those grounds. There is | no use waiting a half hour for a strike, providing you are fishing at the right time, either esrly in the morning or late in the afternoon, and, personally, I don't think it makes much difference which way the tide is flowing. Fish are like human beings, they g‘t hungry and when they want som g to eat, they set out looking for food and usually wind up dangling on some angler's hook. high winds and rains of last week did not seem to affect the biting of fish. Two local anglers went across the bay Wednesday to in | Sharps Island Light and returned with 137 rdheads. The water was very rough, but when these anglers &ot their lines on the_ bottom, the h grabbed their bait. It is simply a mat- ter of so many fish being in the bay at the present that an angler can hardly return without some of them. Even on our side of the bay in deep water, and deep water can be found right off Herring Bay and other points, large catches are reported. Last week D. L. Watson, fishi Herring Bay, landed 80 big hardheads. thelr Blues and trout are fast ‘way up the bay. Blues are being landed | trolling as large as 8 pounds and good size trout, some of them weighing 6 and 7 pounds also are being caught. George T. Harrison of Tilghman Island informs us that the island was pretty hard hit by the sterm last and that & Fishing parties returning with catches of 100 trout, running from two and one- half to three and one-half pounds, are led as having had a very success- ful outing, and it shows that the trout that no more such complaints will Dbed are making their appearance in grand received. Rod and Stream has been good to the boat captains and expects those sent to them to be treated right. If not, we certainly will publish the complaints. We cannot emphasize too strongly anglers will find more and larger Yep, They Are Biting in the Old Chesapeake style. According no-Pont Light, landed 100 trout, and on Sunday morning made an catch of 50. Middles. Despite reports to the con- trary, some nice catches of blues were landed on these grounds last week, one with_a_catch of 69, I doubt if there ever is & time during the fishing season grounds. APT. NOAH HAZZARD informs us anglers catching and that all fish were caught in one and one-half hours’ time. pt. Has- zard sald the storm did no damage around the beach or to his boats, and that he is ready to take out parties at any time they arrive, either across the bay or on this side. , they eat when | ba; entry in family outboard class event in Tri-Olty regatta at Herald Harbor yester- s |Chesapeake Motor And Sail Honors Staked This Week —_— s | Anchorage for 150 Boats Provided for Miles River Regatta. T. MICHAELS, Md., July 29.—Both the speedboat and sailing cham- titles of Chesapeake Bay will be at stake here next week in the twelfth annual Miles River Yacht Clllb'l[ al “homeccming” regatta. The Miles River Race, open to displacement craft, 1 decide the boat supremacy issue and a free-for-all event and a contest be- tween the colorful Chesapeake log cances will carry the sailing cham- pionship hopes. ‘Thirty-nine racing events in all are scheduled for the two days of the re- gatta next Friday and Saturday. Class B and C amateur outboard races are listed for Friday and 135-cubic ineh runabout and cruiser events will be held during the two days. Emest Chase of Baltimore won the Miles River Trophy for the third time last year wil 5 cup has been placed in competition by the club. The trophy race will be run in three 10-mile heats. The Miles River tests draw one of the fleets of spectator craft of any regatta in the East. Yacht clubs hout the Chesapeake Bay section run their annual cruises to 8t. Michaels Wil Be “rovided for more: than 166 or moi 1 visiting cruisers. & man than a man need be afraid of them. We doubt if & man-eating shark ever enters Bay. - There might have been mistaken for sharks. With the approach of A blues and trout in waters a Washington, it might be wel mind the boat captains that they should when blues will not be caught on these | H TR it ACHTING Coup Suspected as Harmsworth Challenger Hides Plans From Gar Wood; Committee Annoyed EW YORK, July 29.—The re- fusal of Hubert Scott-Paine, | British Harmsworth challenger, to disclose any information on his new boat, Mise Britain, III has led American motor-boating offi- cials to believe he has a big surprise in store for Gar Wood, the trophy de- fender, at Detroit next September. Despite all of Scott-Paine's secrecy, reports have been received here that instead of & single 1350-horsepower motor, as originally announced, the challenger has four Napler engines, which will develop close to the power Z‘m Gar Wood's giant creation, Miss erica X. Scott-Paine, much to the Detroit Gold Cup Committee’s chagrin, has been holding up the 1933 Harmsworth parade all along. His challenge was not filed until February 28, the very last day allowed by the international rules, and he still is quite indefinite as to whether he will race or not. Regatta Committee Worred. HE Detroit Committee, which has the Harmsworth races since ood won the bronze que in 1920, has been sending fran- 1s to Scott-Paine for some indication of how his plans are de- ‘Wood's craft has four Packard ;awwer motors, producing 6,400 super- horge- Camoufiage Suspected. MERICAN officials now believe that this statement, which almost was regarded as fantastic at the time, 'was merely a camouflage to hide to use four motors. Unsu in his efforts to obtain Rolls-Royce en- gines, which would have produced a super creation of 9,000 horsepower, he was able to get four Napiers, although twa of them are smaller than the other pair, As to how Scott-Paine will use !wmmu-mtmdmumf tion. Two of them are believed to be of 1,350 horsepower each and the other finlr of only 900 horsepower each. By ooking up one large and cne small motor in tandem, 2,250 horsepower could be provided for each propeller 2:;005 l:wm-screw boat, or a total of , lorsepower, com) wit America’s 6?:00, e Scott-Paine is tipping his hand to no one, especially Gar Wood, and the SIC“;A]‘ hfix"e h’: that if he comes over at e vl ve a real itial = lenger in his Miss Bflm:o;-fi. sl T, Carletor Comblete ‘gauiment; useg: Vi3 3 day. GR. 3551 SPEED BOA fojer and veloping, Time s drawing short, and | such affairs as the Harmsworth can- |Chain not be and staged overnight. Scott-Paine had promised the com- mittee that Miss Britain III would be completed early this month, and that he would be able to give them a defl- nite decision by July 15. Now, how- ever, he says further experiments must be carried out before the craft is ready, and he won't even hazard & guess as | to when the trials may be held. never in water; Cratt speed ui At the time his challenge was filed | 36-FT. 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