Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-03
ANGEL CREW
VICTORIOUS
WINS BIG ROWING EVENT AT
SAN DIEGO
souTHERNERs CLOSE BEHIND
AT FINISH
Scott Leary Wins Swimming Race in
Handy Style-vauehan Retains
Courtney Medal in Single
SculIs
BY JACK v1vARrTAs

Special to The Herald.
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 2.-The Los Angelo:
Athletic clubs four cared crew won ir
the three-cornered senior contest here thi:
afternoon in as handsome finish as has
| been seen in many a day.
| With the San Diego crew only five feet
astern Coach Treoars Playa del ReJ
| oarsmen flashed across the finish line vic
| torious, making the mile and a half ir
| s minutes and 81 seconds San Diego's
| time was 1854 1-5 while the Dolphin's s
| from San Francisco, was a poor third ir
| 9:12.
| The San Diegans captured every single
event and took four of the six swimming
races. San Francisco gets only two first
prizes in the swimming and one second
place in the senior gig events, the first
won by Scott Leary and the second by
Oscar Mohr.
Up to the winning of the big event of
the day the Los Angeles crew had been
most unfortunate, Bowen and Retzer both
getting very poor starts in the singles.
But the victory in the senior fours was
after hard day, and made up for all
else. 2,
No preparation had been made for
judges or starters before the starting hour
arrived. and at o'clock the captains of
the three boat crews were called together
on the beach to make selections.
Six judges and three timekeepers were
necessary to cover both ends of the course,
two being selected by each of the cap
tains John w. Retzer and Leo Bergin
were chosen to represent Los Angeles, T.
j. Keenan, and E. ]. Robbs for San Fran
cisco, while Edgar Luce and j. s. Aker-
man acted for San Diego. Joe Courtney
oficiated as starter.
While the judges were consulting about
nj
at the delay and started the mile swim
ming race with only three entrants. Very
little interest was centered on 1T, and
James e. White won in 81 minutes and "a
seconds, with Harry Leech second.
Wilbur Kyle won the 440-yard race in
very easy fashion, with e. B. Gould sec
ond; time, 856 20.
Leary Wins Hundred
In the 1oO-yard senior event Scott Leary
got away at the start and Kyle could not
get near him; time, 1:0S.
BY this time things had begun to pick
up a bit and Johnson won the 50-yard
Junior in handy style, with Dan Lamar
second. Time not taken
In the open 50-yard event only Leary,
E. Kyle and Leech entered. Kyle, who is
only 10 years of age, gave Leary a lively
chase for over half the distance, making
the prettiest swimming race of the day.
Learys endurance won out; time, "a sec
onds.
Kenneth Kellogg won the underwater
contest swimming fifty yards in s. sec
onds before coming to the surface. Price
was second.
After considerable delay the senior
single gig race was started, with Sherry
of San Francisco nearly two yards ahead
Before he got to the turn Vaughan had
passed him, and on the way home Moore
of New York also overlook him. Vaughan
won, with Moore second time, :26 2-5.
In the junior singles San Diego was
again victorious, Slocum getting a fine
start, holding his lead and winning. with
Oscar Mohr of the Dolphins second.
In the senior singles for the Southern
California championship no one entered to
complete with Harry Vaughan and he COW
cred the course alone He held the Court
ney medal, and will retain it for another
year
The junior four-oared eveisf was de-
clared off, as II was after sundown
when the Los Angeles boys led the SEN
iors home in the big race of the after
noon.