The San Francisco call., 1896-06-21
ALAMEDA CLUBS
ANNUAL REGATTA,
Championship Races on
June 28 in the
Estuary.
ROWERS TRAINING HARD
Start and Finish Will Be at
the Foot of Chestnut
Street.
B0CKMAN's NARROW ESCAPE.
Local Barge Crews Won't Row at
Stockton Unless Individual
Prizes Are Given.

One of the chief events of the year in
rowing circles across the bay will be the
annual championship rowing races to be
held by the Alameda Boating Club on the
Alameda estuary, June %.
All arrangements have been completed
for the affair by Messrs. Hinchman,
Creigh and Schumacher, and as the win
ners of the different events are to be the
clubs representatives at the Stockton re-
gatta on July some very exciting races
will undoubtedly be rowed.
This regatta will be the largest ever held
on the Alameda side of the bay. The
course will be one mile and half with a
turn, and the start and finish will be made
from the clubs house, at the foot OF Chest
nut street.
The first event on the programme will
be the Junior outrigger skiff race, for the
junior championship of the estuary.
There will be two prizes for this event,
gold and silver medals
Owing to the large numb Der of entries in
this race it will be divided. into eight heats
and in all eight separate races will be
rowed.
The following have entered: c. Ayers,
E. E. Hancock, A. Bangs, .. Anderson,
A. G. Webb, Frank Walton, w. Lubbock.
W. u. Hansen, w. B. Hinchman and L.
A Merry.
The next event will be senior outrigger
race for the senior championship of the
estuary and diamond medal. DR.. Cecil
Dennis and Fred Ayers are entered in this
race. This contest should prove very tx
hilarating as both men are crackerjack
skiff rowers and each has long been anx-
ions to try conclusions with the other.
DIR. Dennis is exceedingly DESTROYS to
meet the men again that defeated him al El
Campo, where he lost on foul, and if ne
defeats Ayers his wish will be gratified,
for he will then be eligible to row at the
Stockton regatta.
Two very evenly matched crews will row
for the championship and silver cup.
Crew 1 is composed of the following:
Fred Ayers, stroke; W. G. Hanson, for
wardwaist; a. c. Webb, afterwaist; w.
Steinmetz, bow, and A Bangs, cockswain.
Crew No. 2 has the following personnel:
DR.. c. c. Dennis, stroke; W. Lubbock,
afterwaist; Frank Walton, forwardwaist;
E. B. Hancock, bow, and w. B. Hinc Imam,
cockswain.
The contestants are assiduously training
for the different events, and Can be seen
on the estuary night and morning plying
the frail crafts with vlgor.
The Alameda Boating Club are stirring
themselves to make this, their first i'm
portant regatta for years. brilliant sue
cess. They expect a large crowd OF the
rowing fraternity from San Francisco to
be on hand to witness the different events,
and no doubt some of the San Francisco
oarsmen will give exhibition races.
The Alameda Boating Club now has
mem bershIp OF fifty and is steadily grow
ing. S. j. Penn broke, the champion out
rigger-skiff oarsman of the coast and an
unceasing worker for the advancement of
rowing here, is prominent member of
the club. He will defend the club colors
at the Stockton regatta in the outrigger
events.
An Eastern oarsman of considerable note
recently paid visit to the Alameda Club.
and said that the Alameda estuary was
without doubt the finest boat-racing
course in the United States, and that
eventually it would be lined with boat
clubs, as soon as the canal was completed
and the water deepened.
An accident befell Johnny Bockman,
the well-known oarsman of the ARIEL Boat
Club of this city, while out training the
other evening for the junior outrigger
race at the coming Stockton regatta. He
was returning from a "spin" up to Hunt
er's Point, and when jus: abreast OF the
ill-fated ship Blairmore the outrigger on
the left side of the boat gave way and Mr..
Bockman, losing his balance, took header
into the cold waters of the bay
When the boat tipped over he had his
feet tightly strapped to the foot rests, and
it was some little time before he could ex-