The San Francisco call., 1896-06-20

Alameda crew the use of their old boat or
the day of the race.
The makeup of the Alameda crew is as
follows: A. Webb, bow and captain
Fred Ayers, forwardwaist; ]. Hanson
afterwaist; A. Hancock, stroke, and
Thomas Guilfeather, cockswain.
This will be the first four-oared crew
that the Alameda Club has entered in
regatta for many wears.
The Olympic and Dolphin clubs will
make no entries in this event, and the
crew from the Stockton Athletic Associa.
ton will be AS appended: Henry Backe
Q. Strother, Will Folger and Joe Foley.
In the senior singIe-scuil event the fol
lowing will line up: William McCausland
and Henry Wittkopf of the Ariel Boat
Club, Frank Duplissea of the South End
Club, and AL Brown and Louis Gio-
vanesse OF the Stockton Athletic Associa-
ton.
Henry Wittkopf Is training hard for the
senior event and rows about ten miles
daily, going out mornings and afternoons.
He hasn't sat in a boat since last Fourth
OF July, and there are many who think he
Will never regain his old-time form; at
any rate he don't row anything like he
used to, and unless he gets in shape
quickly it will be case of good scuIler
fallen into obscurity.
Young Frank Duplissea, the South
Ends pride and champion stroke oar of
the coast, feels his defeat in the Ell Cam pc
regatta very keenly.
In the senior outrigger skiff events at
the Stockton races will be entered Samuel
]. Pembroke, DR.. Cecil Dennis and Fred
Ayers of the Alameda Club, Bob Ellis and
Jim Wilson of the Ariel Club and Jack
Coughlin of the Dolphins.
The Stocktons, South Ends, Pioneers
and Olympics will make no entries in this
event, as they have no outrigger- skiff.
A junior outrigger skiff race is down on
the programme for the Stockton regatta,
and many are training for it. but nc
entries have been made thus far.
A launchrace will also take place, and
in this tue Ariel Boat Club of this City
will undoubtedly make a great showing
Eugene ]. Flanders, the clubs secretary
and champion gormandiZer, has Just con-
structed launch that will show speedy
pair OF heels to any boat of her size on the
bay, and while she is his individual prop
erty, the mem bers of the Ariel Club take
as much interest in her as if she belonged
to the club.
A large crowd of the club members
and vacasioned letter-carriers have Just
left on the launch for two weeks So
journ up the river. They intend visiting
Stockton, Sacramento and other points.
The boat is undoubtedly one of the fin
est OF her kind on the bay. She is thirty
five feet long: seven feet beam and three
feet six inches deep.
Its engine was built at Grand Rapids,
Mich, is a twelve-horsepower and only
stands three feet high, is brass finished
throughout and can turn the propeller to
432 revolutions minute.
The fywhe is twenty inches in diam
eter ana weighs 270 pounds and no turning
of it by hand is necessary, as is the case
with the majority OF gasoline engines be-
fore they can be started.
The engine is placed in the after part of
the boat and the gasoline tank is forward.
This eliminates any ballast being carried
to make the boat set properly in the water,
as is the case With otner Launches.
The boat was built by the American
Boat-buIlding Company of St. Louis and
was shipped out here in parts.
An attractive cabin three feet high and