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Show PHILADELPHIA WIS 1 PEOPLE R EGATTfl Detroit Club Senior Eight Win Feature Race by-Great by-Great Spurt. PHILADELPHIA, July 4. Honors were well distributed in tho annual people's refealta held over the llnal mile and u. quarter of tho national course on the Schuylkill river this afternoon, as a part of the celebration of Independence day. Flvo cities shared in tho distribution of the gold watches which Were awarded winning1 oarsmen. Philadelphia led with seven victories. Tho Detroit Boat club senior eight won the feature race of the day by a great rlnlsh In the last half mile, when they overtook and passed Ariel of Baltimore Bal-timore and won by nearly a length of open water. The Dotrolt crew had the power which enabled them to rlnlsh splendidly In rough wator, nnd tho heavy head winds. The time was 7:13 1-6. In this race Ariel was disqualified for crowding tho Detrolts In the flnitl quarter quar-ter mile. The Undine barge eight, which finished third, was given second place. "Walton Clark, the former Pennsylvania Pennsylva-nia and Princeton athlete, wearing the ! colors of the Philadelphia Barge club, captured the Intermediate slnglo sculls race from .Tosoph l'Cortlander of Grand RaDldS. .Mich.. In S:5ii 12-5. Clnrk rnwed bow and Sam Perkins stroke in the Intermediate In-termediate double sculls crew, which again beat out tho Grand Kapids "crew; time. S:23 2-6. Tho victory of the Anindels of Baltimore Balti-more In the Junior four-oared gigs was protested by Undlno nnd Malta of this city, who claimed .1. W. Middendorf, who rowed No. 2 in the Arundel crew, was ineligible to row in a junior race because he rowed in the winning substitute substi-tute fours against Yale at the New Lon-. don regatta on June 10. The local regatta re-gatta committee will consider the protest pro-test and withheld the award pending investigation. in-vestigation. W. N. Neer, Detroit A. C, won the single sculls in 8:54. while tho senior single sculls went to John B. Kelly, Vesper B. C. Philadelphia, in 7:53 4-5. |