The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-26
COMING REGATTA
HGalaDi and Myrtle Crews Get
tiDg in Racing Trim.
lElLANl'S NOT IN IT THIS YEAR
Prospects Favor the Healanis for
Both the Big Events Talks
With Both Clubs.
lEILANl'S NOT IN IT THIS YEAR

Racing talk outside the club men,
bership has it that the Healanis have
both the senior and junior events al
most to a certainty in the coming re-
gatta, which takes place on the second
Saturday of September, over the usual
Pearl City course. The feeling in the
clubs, however, is more reticent.
NUNS the word" are the ironclad
orders given to the members of the He
alani Club and they are nearly all As
dumb as oysters about their prospects.
One exception was found. however.
who consented to talk after exacting
about seven kinds of oaths from the
reporter that his name should not be
mentioned in connection with the mat
ter.
1T is just this way" he said. I'VE
think we have 4 sure thing on both
races, but Captain Klebahn is working
three or four crews for all there is in
them, just as though the prospects
were no better than they were this
time last year. You know we won
both senior and junior events then as
we'll as the free-for-all in the Harbor
regatta the week after. Captain Kle-
bahn's magnificent work with our
crews last year has won him the en-
tire confidence, and what is better the
entire support, of the whole club. There
is better feeling in the club than
ever before, and every man in il seems
to be doing his level best for the clubs
welfare. We are out of debt, thanks
to the splendid management OF our Of
ficers and directors, all non-paying
members have been weeded out, and
our financial matters are now in good
shape. You may say that the club as
a whole has made up its miEd to- win
everything in sight. We are not sup
posed to do any talking. but simply to-
saw wood and keep at it.
Our crews are not made up. or. If
they are, no one but Captain Klebahn
knows it, and he won't say. AS near
as 1 can tell from the present outlook
the senior crew will be composed of
F. w. Klebahn, stroke: Dan Renear.
No. 8; F. ]. Church, No. ., and Fred
w. Damon, bow. 1t is pretty well un-
derstood that those four men will car
ry the Healani colors to the front in
the September events. The Junior
crew is not picked out. though you
may say we have two crews in train
ing and plenty of good material to
draw on. Much depends on whether
Paul Jarrett, Jr., who has been laid
up with a spell of typhoid fever. is able |
to row and stand the training inciden- |
tai to boat-racing. The club heaved a |
big sigh of relief when Johnny Water |
house returned from the Coast the 9TH |
er day. Then again, there is c. BOisse.
the foreman of the Advertiser press |
room. Say. What's the matter with |
you Advertiser people that you don't |
give him time to practice with us.
Charley Murray is another man we de-
pend on, and there's Jack Atkinson, \. |
w Webster and Medeira and Irwin |
and others TO draw on II necessary.
Captain Klebahn seems to be doing
a good deal of thinking by the way he
is shifting the men around and bring
ing out what is in them. You'll see
some good rowing this year. And we've
got Charley Reynolds for coXswain,
too. Charley's small but he's all right.
Maurice Damon, our old coXswain left
on the last Australia, you know. to go
to college
Over in the Myrtle quarters a differ
ent feeling seems 10 prevail and mat
ters are very much at skies and sew
ems as yet. \ prominent member OF
the club said:
Il don't like to say it. but the Myr-
ties are not in good shape now; they
are not pulling together as they ought .
to. Matters may improve now after
the election of a new captain. Ruby
Dexter is back again and has taken
hold with his old-time vim, and al
ready his coming has caused renewed
- .r.s