The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-06-17
BOAT RACES ON 4THIBOERS AND BRITISH
CREWS AND CONDITIONS IN AN
NUAL CHAMPIONSHIP.
Myrtles Have Started at Pearl Harbor
and Healanis will Follow this Week.
Race in Morning.

The annual championship races be-
tween the boat clubs of Honolulu will
take place this year at Pearl Harbor
on the morning of July 4. followed in
all likelihood by regatta and aquatic
sports arranged by the Hawaii Yacht
| Club. The annual races up to last
year were regularly rowed in Septem-
Der the month being finally changed by
/ the advice of the coaches on account of
the short September days when dark
ness prohibited any extended practice
by the crews after their arrival from
town by the Sis train. As it is the
crews have full hour of daylight for
practice
The regatta committee this year con-
sists of S. E. p. Taylor of the Leilani
boat club, once a flourishing institution
but now practically crewless and boat
less, as chairman; A. f. Judd. Myrtle
Boat and Yacht Club and Merle John
son. Healani Boat and Yacht club The
| course to be rowed over is the same as
usual, a mile and half straight under
the lee of the peninsula, that is the ma
kai side. The course will be surveyed
| and laid out on Saturday Of this
| week.
The distance, one mile and a half,
| is a trying one being considered the
! limit of full speed endurance and there
] AOlO Ictl NGl u ION IMAM q lcUBlnleT race
| which would be taken more easily with
! force kept in reserve. The conditions
! at Pearl Harbor while good, are not
! favorable to the best possible speed on
| account of the stiff trades and the con-
sequent rough water. The finish of the
course is comparatively smooth but the
land affords but little shelter for the
! first mile which is rowed nearly al
! ways in rough water necessitating the
! high feathering of the crews, often cri.
! ticised by visitors and those who do not
! realize the conditions. AS a further
! consequence. the time made by the
| crews is not record time although fast
! races have been rowed under the condi-
| tions which include the padding of the
shells down to the starting point by
| the crews before the race The wind
/ blows nearly athwart the course but
! is slightly aft and consequently the trip
/ to the start is somewhat against the
wind. While the crews take the paddle
down in easy fashion it undoubtedly
| takes off the fine edge of their condi-
| ton and several seconds off the time.
Owing to climatic conditions and the
business relationships of the crews
/ generally, training has to be modified
considerably in Honolulu wa ters the
coaches only having control of their
men for an hour or so each day and
few evenings and nights before the ac-
lance by a Vigilant captain as i'm East
ern clubs and Slight but well judged
laXity has been found to produce the
best results in these langurous isles
This system does not bring out the best
time that the crews could row in under
other latitudes but it probably achieves
the best results below the Tropic of
Cancer.
The record time for a mile and a half
| Gtrai ipb G do htrt
n. Y. crew al Detroit, Michigan, August
To- 1877 in minutes 46 ga seconds, a
phenomenal record. On the National
Course on the Schuylkill River, Phila-
delphia, the Iona crew holds the re-
cord, made in 'S7 of m. 33s. The
general time for four Dared shells in the
past twenty years has ranged from
eight minutes and forty seconds to d
few seconds over ten minutes. The
New York crew in S9, another eXcep-
= tiOnal quarter, accomplished the dis
tance in one second over the eight
= minutes. Any four rowing the mile and
a half in nine minutes fiat is considered
first class.
Last year the Healanis won both
events, the junior and senior races, win
+ ming the senior and losing the junior
/ the year before. The time last July
, was lO.31la for the seniors and 11.2i for
= the juniors. Fully 1890 people attend
r. ed the races, special coaches carrying
: the crowds along the line with engines
. and cars decorated for the occasion.
The mosquito fleet of yachts is always
in attendance with all available launch
es to watch the races from the water
) while the banks are lined with crowds
This year the Myrtles started training
a trine later than their rivals on ac-
count of the moving of their boathouse
Ihey nave gone in to redeem their de-
- feat of last year however and have the
. advantage of commencing work al
Y Pearl Harbor week ahead of the Hea-
lanis. The Myrtles started work on the
. lochs on Monday having acquired the
houses of Judge Robinson and w. c.
King as their training quarters. The
! boys go down on the afternoon train
and after practice and supper
I remain there all night on the early tC
! bed and early to rise system of Captain
{ w. W. Harris. The Healanis will start
i in next Saturday, using Miss Paris
y house on the mauka side Of the PENN,
sula for similar purposes. Several OF
the men object to staying all night, bu
the captains are loath to lose sight o
= their crews after dark as a single
nights outing or late supper might fat
ally affect the wind of some sturdy
oarsman and lose the race.
This year the Healani senior crew re-
tions having been changed, the bette
to trim the boat
Fred Damon will stroke this year
changing places at two with Paul Jar
rett Dan Renear retains his orlgina
seat al three with Sam Walker in tn,
bow. In the junior only Murray an,
Tracy remain from last year. Harr,
Murray will stroke, c. II. Tracy row 3
d B. II. Heilbron, 2. Bow is not yet final
ly decided upOn but lies between Eug
n enc Allen and Stokes,
The Myrtle crews are placed as fol
: lows Seniors w. Lyle, Stroke; w
Soper, 8; p. Lishman, 2; Sam Johnson
bow, Juniors; George Crozier stroke
f. Wright, 3; A. M. Simpson, 2; jim
CrOzier bow. Last year only two o
these men, one in each boat, compete,
N against the Healanis. These were W
III Lyle who rowed bow in the seniors
and now rows stroke, and Sam Johnso
who rowed three for the juniors an