The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-05

admit one" The hilly shores of bav or
stream cannot fence out the people from the
aquatic circus, consequently the public
hears no Grassland invitations coming
from the boathouse.
However. the various clubs with the sug-
gestive names, the Ariel, the Dolphin, the
Triton, the Neptune, the Pioneer and others
of San Francisco, are almost constantly in
their feather-like craft flying through the
water Sunday morning is a field period
among the rowing and swimming people
A plunge IN the salt water, a squirt in the
boat and rundown after the several
miles dash over the bay is the exercise
routine of these timber young fellows of
the barge and shell.
number of new gigs and skiffs have
been purchased recently by all the clubs.
notably an outrlgger gig, twenty feet long
with twenty-four inches beam. 1t is the
intention OF all the clubs to have several
boats OF precisely the same size and
weight, so that the work of the different
crews may be accurately compared.
The new officers of the clubs, elected for
the ensuing year, are: Triton-John Peat,
secretary; a. Boring, financial Sc cretary
Aug. Schuppert, treasurer; Dan Everett,
captain; Stanley Adderly, ieutenant-c cap
tam; George Blum, sergeant-at-arms Val.
hehrllen, T. Aureguy and Charles Ar
ugues, trustees. Dolphin-A. L. Ratkoff,
president; F. j. Sullivan, vice-president;
George Van Guelph, financial secretary;
James Crownen, secretary; J. G. Attridge,
captain; w. 0. Patch, ieutenant-captain
Charles Farrell and Thomas Kennedy, ex-
ecutlve committee; S. j. Murphy. ser
geant-at-arms. Ariel-James S. INLAND.
president; w. T. Howe vice president;
= j., u: Batteaux, recording secretary; E.
Flanders, financial secretary; ]. Hardin,
treasurer; R. Ellis, captain; George
couillat, n. ]. Prendergast, C. H. Duffy,
George 2. McGinnis and P. j. Enright,
directors. Pioneers-W. C. Espv. presi
dent; Il. Sullivan, vice-president; D. !.
O'Nelll, secretary; J. t. Sullivan, treas
qrer; }. Brennan, captain; D. Leahy, J.
Haggerty and II. Leech, trustees.
Its the very laudable intention of the
clubs to have their contests. regattas. etc.
wholly by amateurs and not the profess
slonal oarsmen, and delegates from each
club in the vicinity of San Francisco Bav
will soon meet to form a new rowing
association having for its principal object
the promotion of friendly rivalry between
the young rowers.
The committee of the South End Row
ing Club having the regatta at lei Campo
on May 80 in hand is working hard for the
success OF the first annual championship
races on the Pacific Coast.
John l.. Herget and Z. P. Shortall are
respectively chairman and secretary and
A. j. Fritz has been elected treasurer of
the committee. The other members of the
committee are: William F. Humphrey, J.
A. Lenahan, David German. William
Daley, Charles Long, A. J. Mellitz. William
Hannlver, Daniel Dougherty, Fred Web
ster, Edward Scully. John J. Mccarthy
and Robert Macarthur
1t has been decided to have a Senior
and Junior four-oared barge and single
shell race, one mile and half, according
to the regulations of the Amateur Athletic
unlon; also match race in four-oared
parges between two picked crews of old
tme oarsmen OF the South Ends. An ex-
citing contest may be looked for in the
laSt-named event. An exact course of one
mile and half will be surveyed by a COM
petent civil engineer, so that the time of
the winners may be taken and coast rec
ords Tor the first time established.
BESIDES the races already decided upon,
IL is the intention OF the committee to ar
range, II possible, a race for out-rigger
sKlifs and also tub and swimming races.
subcommittee on trophies, entries. etc.
nave been appointed by the chairman and
are expected to report at the next meeting
OF the committee, on Tuesday, March 5.
In the meantime numerous crews of the
various boat clubs are training hard, each
STRIVING to represent their club in the
championship races. The oarsmen are all
worked up over the affair, and on Sunday
mornings the bay, from Mission Bay to
North Beach, as well as Oakland Creek, is
dotted with fOur-Oared baroeS and shells