The herald., 1896-05-31
N TIE WORLD OF SPORT
The New Ell Campo Course
Tested by Oarsmen
ALL THE RECORDS BROKEN
Os1xlsud Amateur Bicyclists Win lion.
ors at San Francisco
Winners Of Contests at Various Places-Re.
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ALL THE RECORDS BROKEN
Winners OF Contests at Various Places-Re.
suits Of the Races on the lngleslde
Track-Notes
Associated Press Special Wire.


SAN FRANCISCO, May 30.-The time
record of the coast smashed into I'M
recognizable fragments-that is the tale
Of the second annual regatta of the South
End Athletic club on the new course at
Ell Campo today.
The day was perfect and what breeze
there was in the open bay was prevented
from striking the course by the high
ranges of hills west of FL Campo. All
the clubs had representatives in the
crowd of spectators who rooted with
all the vigor of California lungs and the
noise of the Goat Island fog horn.
The result of the first event was the
surprise of the day. Everyone thought
Frank Duplissea of the South Ends
would have walk-over and consider
able money was bet on him at so to 80,
but the Ariels sprang comparatively
new man on the rowing world in Will
lam McCausland. A. G. Brown was the
Stocktons' entry. At the report of the
starters pistol all got clear water start
with Duplissea slightly in he lead and
McCausland not half a boat length be-
hind him. After turning the stake boat
Duplissea still led. but as the skullers
approached the finish it was seen that his
left arm showed signs of wear. Nc
Causlaud passed him amid the cheers
of the Ariels and won in 10:0719. Du-
plissea kept pulling, but he was virtually
gone and Brown of Stockton came
effort
In the junior out-rigger skiff race
there were only two starters, Fred w.
Ayers of the Alameda club, and w. o.
Patch of the Dolphins. Ayers won cas-
fly in 12S1.
event, was exciting from start to fin
tsh. The starters were Coughlan of the
Dolphins, Dennis of the Alamedas. Ellis
of the Ariels, Pembroke of the Alamedas
and Wilson Of the Ariels. Wilson won
in 1853.
day-the Junior barge event, for which
six crews have been in training for
months The following crews started:
Olympic club, South End Rowing club,
Dolphin Swimming and Boating club,
Stockton Athletic association, Ariel Row.
ing club and San Francisco Athletic
club.
Some difficulty was experienced in lin
ing the six crews up for the start, but
presently the pistol was discharged
and they were off, Stockton slightly in
the lead. with the South Ends on their
waist. The Olympics showed lack of
practice at getting off, but they were
third in the long row to the stakeboat at
the turn, with the Ariels, Dolphins and
San Franciscos trailing after in that or
der The South Ends. pulling a SO
stroke, passed the Stocktons before
reaching the turn, landing at that point
by two boat lengths, but the Stockton
boys, with their steady "a stroke, were
never disturbed. At the turning boat
two accidents happened. The Ariels
made wade circuit to make the turn
and got the wrong stakeboat, with the
result that they fouled the South Ends
and out of the mix-up those steady boys
from Stockton came first, leading all
the rest of the way. The other accident
at the turn happened in the Stocktons
losing his sliding seat. But he stuck to
to pieces by the brass metals, pulled as
hard as the rest Of them The Stocktons
won by a scant ten feet in $40 with the
South Ends second. The Olympic boys
came in as fresh as daisies and with
enough experience to make them dan
gerous factors in their next race.
The coast time record of $3.50 was
smashed by this performance. Mr.. Hum
phreys, president of the Pacific Athletic
Association of the Amateur Athletic
union. says there is no question of the
performance as the course was surveyed
on Friday by Matthew Green, q civil en-
gineer, and the officers of the regatta.
Six seconds We're chopped off this rec
ord in the next event, the senior barge
race, which, though gift to the South
Ends, was a pretty piece of good judg-
ment and skill The San Francisco and
South Ends clubs put in their best crews
The South Ends started with squirt and
took a lead of two lengths at once, stead
lily increasing the lead and winning by
twenty boat lengths in 9:04