Gay Bachelors

At Springfield, Mass., amateur oarsmen stripped off their clothes, put their shells in the Connecticut River, stepped their sweeps, held the 52nd national amateur rowing regatta. When they unstepped their sweeps, lifted out their shells, put on their clothes, the Bachelors' Barge Club of Philadelphia had won the Barnes trophy for the club championship.

Of all the gay Bachelors, W. E. Garrett Gilmore was the gayest. Not only had he contributed heavily to his club's point total by winning the Association singles sculling event and finishing second in the senior quarter-mile clash. He had also become National single-scull champion, for there was none to meet him in the challenge event.* Last year, at Baltimore, a Buffalo policeman, Officer Edward McGuire, and a Lake Ontario fisherman, Hilton Belyea, were on hand to challenge Paul V. Costello, 1922 champion. The policeman, a burly man, won. This year he stayed on his beat in Buffalo.

Algeron E. Fitzpatrick, of the Malta Boat Club of Philadelphia, Gilmore's conqueror in the quarter-mile race, trailed three lengths be hind over the mile-and-a-quarter stretch. Gilmore's time, a new Association record was 6 min., 46 1/2 sec.

Eight stalwarts from the New York A. C. kept the national eights title in this country by nosing past the Lachine Rowing Club crew, of Quebec.

*Only former winners of the Association singles may challenge for the national championship.