Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-01
FINAL RACE
PLANS MADE
FOUR CREWS WILL COMPETE
AT REGATTA
CONTEST WILL BE RoWED IN
HEATS
The Dolphin Club Of San Francisco
viii Train with Shell to Be
Shipped from Local
Club

The public will be presented with one
of tbe most spectacular rowing events
i'm the history of the sport on the
coast on Thanksgiving day when -FOUR
| four-oared shells will meet at naples
to decide the Pacific coast champion
ship. ~
week to insure this event. which VIII
really consist of three great four-oared
| races. The Los Angeles club crew.
| San Diego, Stanford and the DoIphlhs
of San Francisco will be competitors
AS Naples bay is not quite VIDE
enough for the four to row at once
there will be two heats ana Illldl'
really presenting three terrific strug-
oIes on the water of a mile and half
distance.
The Dolphins have accepted a propo-
sirion made them by Coach AL. Ireloaf
to use the extra shell of the Los An
geles club and row in this event. ana
the latter will be shipped this week 10
San Francisco bay.
Daily training on Naples bay Is now
feature of the rowing practice OF
the Los Angeles Athletic club crew. The
men have been living at Naples Tor
week and each morning have been
routed out of bed at $3.50 and tumbled
into the shell for a pull before break
| fast.
..The constant daily work after q!
sane nights rest is showing already
said Al Treloar who also is living at
Naples with the crew Little speed
has been developed in the four, con-
| tinued Coach Treloar, but l am be-
! ginning to feel more confident that we
| will have a winning or. than during
the first few weeks of training. There
are still a great many faults TO over
come in the rowing and the persistency
] n two
of the oarsmen is disappointing tea-
ture. | am hoping we will eliminate
| these faults within the next week ana
then get down to real fast work
"Our lightest shell is being put in
shape and will be used in the Thanks
| giving day regatta, A new deck mas
been nut and the bottom thoroughly
frightened and vanished. The rigging
has been changed to exactly suit each
man in the four, and there will be no
chance for bad work o. account of a
rnisfit in the boat This shell is about
the best we have. While it is the same
size and model as our practice one,
it was built later and is lighter be
cause of not being used as frequently.
San Diego roWed in it last Labor day
when we captured the state champion
ship. and it was kept in their boat
house for some time before coming up
here again.
1.-THE boys of the crew are showing a
remarkable esprit de corps and are
making every effort to be the winning
crew on Thanksgiving day. The menu
bers who compose the club are so
totally different from those of col
lege or university association that the
men really deserve considerable
praise.
Those living at the beach comprise
Captain Isaacs, Routzhan, Lewis,
Derby and Refer. Joe Loeb, the cox
swain, probably will take up his
quarters with the crew Sunday.
Loeb is having hard time to get in
shape Naturally inclined to be
chunky, Joe is fighting every half
ounce of fat as he would the plague,
and the joke of it is that the fat will
: insist on coming despite the desperate
measures to keep it off Joe is rag
ing aroung the club gym daily now,
clothed in a complete union suit of
the heaviest material with an addi-
tional weight reducer in the form of a
heavy sweater, for good measure.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Oct. 81
Stamford will send a four-oared crew
Naples on Thanksgiving day. This de-
when the executive committee approved
of the offer.
The cardinal oarsmen have been
practicing lightly for the past two
weeks, having taken a couple of snappy
sprints on the bay.
: f,oost,t,tionaI Amendment M 81