The San Francisco call., 1904-02-21
VALLEJO Club
PLANS REGATTA
Aquatic Sports and Races Will
Be Held at Navy Yard Town
for Benefit of Sailors Home
BIG CARNIVAL PROMISED
Submarine Boats Grampus and
Pike Will Maneuver for En-
tertainment of Spectators

The Vallejo Yachting and Rowing
Club VIII hold an aquatic carnival on
Washingtons birthday in aid of the
sailors clubhouse, now being built in
Vallejo, the cornerstone having been
laid by President Roosevelt on his visit
to California last year. The programme
consists of series of evo1utions by the
submarine torpedo-bo Grampus and
Pike, under command of Lieutenant
Arthur Macarthur Jr., and five boat
races.
The maneuvers of the submarine
boats Will take place in San Pablo Bay,
off Lighthouse Point, at the south end
of Mare Island. The ferry company will
run the steamer Vallejo to the scene of
the evolutions, the proceeds of the trip
being paid over TO the clubhouse fund
The Vallejo will start from the slip
at 1:30 a. m. The submarine boats will
skim along the water dive beneath its
surface and discharge torpedoes. After
the exhibition, the Vallejo will take her
passengers back to the slip and the
submarine boats will proceed to Red
Rock, where they will give a second
exhibition, which will be witnessed by
the passengers on board two large
steamers carrying excurslonists from
San Francisco and neighborhood
When the steamer Vallejo returns to
the wharf the rowing regatta will
begin, the first race being set for 1 80
p. m. There will 'be five races. The
first event will be a six-oared race in
gigs carrying cockswains The entries
are the crew of the United States
steamship Tacoma, a crew of Vallejo
oarsmen not belonging to the Vallejo
Rowing Club named the Ragged Edges
and the crew Of the rowing club
The second event is a ten-oared
cutters carrying cockswains. The crews
entered are from the United States ves-
sells independence, Tacoma and Mo-
hican.
The third event is a four-oared shell
race between two crews of the Vallejo
Yachting and Rowing Club, one crew
consisting of Wood Watson, c. E. F.
Morest, Frank Savage and A. w. Dun
ming, and the other of G. H. Wood. Leo
McCudden, ]. B. Sancts and J. P. Soul
ly. AS no shell race has taken place
in Vallejo waters for some years it is
expected that the event will excite
much interest.
The fourth race is for naval crews
exclusively, the ten-oared cutters being
manned by apprentices from the United
States vessels independence, Tacoma
and Mohican.
The last event will be q race in ten
Dared cutters between crews of appren-
tlces from the receiving ship Independ-
ence and the torpedo-boat destroyer
Perry
The course for all the events will be
from Commission Rock buoy to point
opposite the float of the Vallejo Yacht
ing and Rowing Club. The committee
In charge of the regatta consists of G..
H. Warford, ]. A. Browne j. P. Scully,
O.. F. Hilton and Frank H. Lee.
Much interest is felt in the siX-oared
gig race, the crew of the rowing club
having beaten the Independence crew
on Thanksgiving day last year and hav-
ing defeated a picked crew on New
Years day. During the races the yacht
club house will not be open to the pub
lie, but members on showing their
cards of membership to the officer at
the gate will be entitled to bring in six
friends. After the races the crews TAX
ing part in the regatta will be the
guests of the yachting club.