The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-09
Close Races and Intense
Enthusiasm Mark
the Regatta,
Victor Oaglieri Swims Round
Mission Rock, a Three
Mile Distance.
Oohs' Wrist Gives Out on the Home
stretoh-McCausland and Grow
ney as Humorists.

! A fine dav and little wind; close, ex-
| citing races, intense enthusiasm and
/ many visitors from the other clubs, in
Guiding a contingent from the fair sex.
| That was the programme for the regatta
of the Ariels, held at Long Bridge yester-
day. And Pape. the pride of the Dolphins,
added more laurels to his already heavy
crown by winning the gold medal of the
club.
The course was from a point near the
boathouse TO a stakeboat anchored off the
Union Iron Works. 1t was a distance OF
about three-quarters of mile. The races
began at about Ills A. NJ, and every thing
on the list, including the swimming ex-
hibitions, was finished in about two
hours.
The first race was between the two
Junior barge crews of the Ariel Club.
Their positions were as follows: First
rew-Prendergast, stroke; Bockman,
afterwaist; Racouillat, forward waist;
Knight, bow. Second crew-Taylor,
stroke; O'Connell, afterwaist; Hardy, for
ward waist; D. J. Sheehan, bow. The
first crew won in a close finish, but they
had the advantage of using the new barge
Of the club. Time, 9:47.
The second event was, as Professor Billy
Jordan would put it in introducing two
boxers, 1.-The event OF the day." 1t was an
/ outrigger skiff race, open to all, for a
special gold medal to be awarded by the
! Ariels. The contestants were Pape of the
/ Dol2hins, Bulger of the Ariels, Ochs CT
| the Pioneers, and Ayers of the Alamedas.
! Pape won in 1919.
At the finish Pape was in the lead by
two lengths. Ayers was second, eight
! lengths in front of Ochs Bulger did not
| finish At the start Bulger got away
! first, with Ayers ana Ochs close behind
! and Pape in the rear. All went too tar
! out, but Bulger went SO far out as tohave
] the tideWater interfere with him. Ochs
reached the stake first by six lengths with
| Ayers second. Pape made a squirt and
! crossed from the outside TO the inshore,
! third.
On the homestretch there was mixup
of many boats, so that it was hard to keep
the positions OF the rowers pictured well,
| but it could be seen that Ayers and Ochs
were close to1ether, with Pape on the out
side.
Ayers was talking to Ochs and seemed
! to think he had the race won. Looking
around he saw that Pape had forged TO
the fore on the outside and made a hard
! squirt, but it was too late. Ochs says his
/ wrist gave out on the homestretch.
Pape has strength and endurance, and if
he ever acquires science IN the art will
make crackerjack oarsman. but his style
now is very erratic and at times wild.
Archie Taylor and E. A. Stole swan to
Mission Rock and back, very creditable
performance. They were ecl1psed, how
ever, by Victor Caglieri, who swan COM
pletely around the rock, q distance of
three miles-more than that across the
Golden Gate. He says that he will essay
that feat next Sunday.
In the senior barge race the positions
were as follows, both being Ariel crews:
FIRST crew Wittkoph, stroke; Growney,
afterwaist; Tank, forwardwaist; Phelan,
bow. Second crew-Howell stroke; Will
sen, afterwaist; O'Connell, forward waist !;
Nolan, bow. The latter crew was de-
feated by length in 8:57. The winners
had the advantage of rowing in the new
boat. and their cocKswain, Edgar Shop
ard, seemed to handle his boat better than
Frank Kelly, the other cockswain.
William McCausland. the old timer of
the club, and William Growney, the new,
gave racing exhibition, for such it really
was. Growney won in l0:4, by the mar
row margin of a half length.
The officers of the day were the same as
already published.