The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-03
COLLEGE ROWERS.
Men Training Hard for the
Big Race.
Garnet, the Harvard Coach, Is Putting
the Berkeley Boys Through at
the Machines.

Boating has taken firm hold on the stu
dents at the State university and the pros
poets for successful boat crew are very
good.
Work has been commenced on the boat
house and the construction of it will be
pushed to rapid completion. 1t will be
finished only in the rough at first, and in
this state will cost about $500. This will
leave some $500 in the treasury, and this
amount will be expended in purchasing
eight more rowing machines for use in the
gymnasium. There are four machines al
ready, but the candidates for the crew have
been so numerous that it has been found
necessary TO order more sets Of machinery.
The boathOuse will not be built on the
old Alameda mole, as was first intended,
but will be erected close to the house of the
Oakland Canoe Club, on Sessions Basin.
The Canoe Club has given the use of the
house to the university students and the
latter appreciate it very much. On all fne
afternoons eight or ten of the Berkeley boys
may be found at the clubhouse trying the
new four-oared barge The boat is COM
pleie in every respect ana measures thirty
five feet in length. It has Outriggers and
sliding seats and is exactly like a four-oared
shell, except that 1t has no place for the
cOXswaln. The steering is done by the man
in the bow, who uses his feet to move the
rudder.
ne university UuNS nave SSCuTPu the
the services Of Mr.. Garnet, a graduate of
Harvard, and he will act as coach until the
race with Stanford. 1t is expected that this
race will take place during the latter part
OF September or the first week in Octo Der.
BY this arrangement boating will not inter
fere with other branches of athletics, as it
would if it were held on May 80, as the
Stanford men desire it. If it were held on
the latter date, the Berkeley bows say, 1t
would seriously Inconvenience the track
athletes and the baseball men.
Inc greater part OF most crews is COM
posed of football players. so that if the race
is held III October these men will be in
prime condition to play football. Their
long training for the crew will have put
them into the best OF health and will have
developed them so that they Will barely feel
the effects of hard game.
he training for crew is long, and at
first very tedious. The men are usually
kept at the machines for two or three
months before they are put on the water,
and then the constant aim is to make the
crew row as one man.
AS the time before the race is so short Mr..
Garnet has said that he will only keep his
men at the machines for about a month
more. He will then pick the twelve most
proficient candidates and viii put them on
the water From these twelve the eight
will be picked who will contest against the
Stanford crew.
The boys at Palo Alto have not been idle
In boating matters. They are training hard
under the coaching of one of their profes-
sors, and VIII send out an eight that Will
make the oars bend. They have five expe-
rieuced men from the Eastern colleges, and
for this reason they are anxious to have
four-oared race in May. The Berkeley
boys know their disadvantage in this re-
spect, and therefore have declined to row
until October. BY this time they hope to
have developed seine oarsmen, rs at pres
ent there is not man in the university who
knows anything about rowing.