The San Francisco call., 1895-10-12
THE OARS MEN.
An Interesting Letter From Henry
Peterson-A Race Over Long
Bridge Course.

Peterson-A Race Over Long
Bridge Course.
From all accounts the coming Austin
(Texas) regatta will not be great success.
No doubt this is owing to the unreliability
of pulling off the great fight at Dallas,
from which place large crowd was ex-
pected to witness the big boauraces at
Austin.
So far only nine oarsmen have entered
in the races. Henry Peterson of San Fran
cisco-Jake Gaudaur and brother of St.
Louis, Rogers. Teemer and the four-oared
crew from England.
The long list of prizes which was orig
inally offered has been cut down to three.
A letter from Henry Peterson under
date of October to William A McGrill of
this City has this to say about the regatta ::
Il arrived in Austin last Friday. after a
tiresome journey. On my arrival l was
Informed that the regatta was not arranged
like the two previous regattas l attended.
There are but three prizes, and to win any
thing you must get first.
81 was to row with Gaudaur in the
double and in the four, but now l find that
he has taken his brother, so that will sh ut
me out from winning in the double or
four, and now my only chance is in the
single shell. If / had known this | would
not have come here.
''The manager said he would see that
| doubled mp with somebody; if not
don't propose to stop here and spend $400
with only one chance. | am rowing nine
miles day-four in the morning and five
in the afternoon.
"Rogers and Teemer row double, and so
do Gaudaur and brother and | have no
partner. There will be four Englishmen
and five Americans in the races, and the
entire party will arrive at Austin in two
weeks"
showing at this regatta that he made at
the previous one, owing to the limited
time he has to train, which is four weeks.
1t will be remembered at the previous
regatta Peterson and Gaudaur each broke
the world s three-mile record after one of
the hottest races ever rowed in shell.
They finished within four feet OF each
other, and Gaudaur, the winner, was so
prostrated that it was an hour before he
entered another race.
Gaudaur has been training faithfully for
the coming regatta, expecting repetition
of his former contest with the strong
armed puller from San Francisco.
The dispute as to which was the faster
a pair-oared shell or a four-oared barge
was settled last Sunday over the Long
Bridge course. After rowing three-quar-
ters of the course, with the pair-oared shell
an easy leader all the way, the barge crew
gave up the race.
The members of the barge crew were:
George T. McGinnis. bow; Fred PIess for
wardwaist; J. T. ONe1l, afterwaist Bob
Ellis, stroke, and Ed Wilson, cockswain;
w. j. Prendergast and Al Carroll rowed
the double scull.
The Pioneer Rowing Club will hold a
regatta tomorrow at Long Bridge. The
races will start at II A. NJ, and the prizes
L.oL 4,oI-o T.,
to the winners.
The crews to contest are:
Juniors boat Veronica-R. J. Espy,. stroke;
Jack Kunder, afterwast; w. C. Espy, forward
waist; NJ Callahan, bow.
Boat J. r.. McDonnell-Dan Fitzsimmons,
stroke; F. Nichols, aiterwaist; w. st. John,
forwardwaist; Z. Collopy, bow.
Seniors-Fred Orr, bow; Coney Ochs, for
wardwaist; George Collopy, afterwaist; j.
This latter crew will row the married
men, whose personnel is as follows:
J. Sullivan, stroke; Dan Leahy, afterwaist; I;
Robert Crowley, forwardwaist; w. Ellis, bow.
Dan Fitzsimmons and A. Johnson, an
Alaska fisherman, will give an exhibition
of Indian canoe racing.
The referee will be J. z. Brennan.
Judges-James T. Powers, J. Anderson
and w. A. McGill. Timekeep.r-John T.
Sullivan. Cockswains : George Fitzsim-
DuOHS, DOC III dIlO kaufman.
At meeting of the Pioneers held last
Sunday the following officers were elected
for the ensuing year: President, w. G.
Espy; yice-president, M. Callaghan; re-
cording secretary, F. J. ONeil; treasurer,
]. f. Sullivan; captain, Fred Orr; vice
captain, George Collopy; trustees-Robert
Espy, ]. Klunder and J. E. Brennan; ser
geant-at-arms, F. Kaufman; delegate to
P. A. A, W. c. Espy.
Four new members were added to the
clubs roll, whom the Pioneers think will
make a rattling crew. They are James
Powers, Phil Reid, Charles Harrison and
Walter Campbell. Neither of them is over
20 years of age and all weigh over 100
pounds.
At a meeting of the Ariel Boat Club the
other night it was decided to join the P. A.
A. The oarsmen of this club are training
for the Thanksgiving day regatta at Ala
media.
Eight new names were proposed for
membership, and the coach of the club
has four promising single scullers in train
ing. They are Edward McCausland,
George Wilson. Andy Carol, at one time
the clubs cockswain, and n. j. Prender-
gast. They will all be seen in the Alameda
races.
The University Fifteen Boat Club of
Oakland is having four cared barge built,
and by next spring it will have regular