Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-22
BY CHESTER LAWRENCE

to his makeup. He has not been In
contact with it often enough to un-
derstand It, Therefore, he shuns 1t as
something unclean and turns his at
tention to a shorter, more compact
word-"win."
There Is another personality connect
ed with the crew of the Los Angeles
Athletic club with whom few outside of
the rowing squad are acquainted, Mrs
Al Treloar yet she is indispensable TO
the crew. She is their mascot and the
assistant coach of the Los Angeles
Athletic club. Without her. Coach
Treloar would have been in many pre-
dicaments during the recent training
period, as time and again members of
the crew were unable to get away from
their various occupations in time to
take their places in the shell during
evening practice; but he had not reck-
oned with Mrs. Treloar, herself an ac-
complished athlete, and. rather than
give up the days training, she donned
the necessary raiment and took her
position in the boat and the training
proceeded.
During the period the crew lived at
Naples, Mrs Treloar cooked for the
boys and her slightest request from
the crew is law. Mrs. Treloar predicts
the Athletic club crew will win; that
should be enough to bring the crowds
to Naples Thanksgiving day.
George Retzer will represent the Los
Angeles Athletic club in the. race for
the championship of California in single
gigs. Retzer is an all round athlete
and holds the welterweight, wrestling
championship of Southern California.
He has been training with the crew
as a substitute and also has been in
the single gig every day for the past
two weeks.
If Retzer wins the race he will have
accomplished a feat worthy the atten-
tion of the Southern California sport
ing world. Retzer will have as COM
petitors four of the best single scullers
in the west men who have rowed in
races all over the country and each or
whom has won prizes galore. Never
theless, Retzer does not regard prestige
and this fact alone may give him the
coveted title of champion sculler of the
state of California.
II. Vaughan will represent the San
Diego Rowing club in the single gig
race for the championship of the race,
and is picked by many to win. Coach
Jim Courtney telegraphed to The Her
aid last night that Vaughan would
leave San Diego Tuesday night, accom-
panied by the crew. Vaughan at pres
ent holds state championship in the
singles. Courtney says his crew is
rather light but in good condition and
expects to win the foar cared race.
They will come by boat from the south
ern city, and arrive here Wednesday,
The single gig race for the champion
ship of the Los Angeles Athletic club
will be contested by four of the most
skilled scullers in the club outside of
the regular crew and substitutes, and
bids fair to attract much attention
from the members. The contestants In
this event are: J.. q. Stafford, A. j.
Klymer, A. P. Lazarus and Chester
Lawrence.
The single gig events will be rowed
between the heats of the four-oared
race, which will start at II o'clock, and
the last heat probably will be finished
by 1 o'clock, allowing ample time for
the thousands of spectators to get back
to Los Angeles in time for the after
noon attractions.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Nov. 20.
BY a decision of the executive COM
mittee of the student body, rendered
today, boating at Stanford was placed
under the auspices of the student body.
Heretofore the crew and boating activi-
ties have been apart from the univer-
sity, being wholly under the control of
an organization of boating followers,
called the Stanford Boat club. The
coaching, buying of equipment and in
tercollegiate matches being managed
under the clubs charge.
By this initiative, rowing and crew
activities have been placed upon a
footing equal with the other branches
of athletics In Stanford university.
The Stanford Boat club deserves a
great deal of credit for sustaining the
interests of the university in the aquatic
sports. The coaching last year was
done by one of it's members, Coxswain
Turner. who turned out victorious
freshman crew; but the varsity, Grip
pied by the absence of Captain Gay,
was bettered by the University of Cali
fornia. Outsiders are unaware OF the
many hardships that the rowing inter-
ests have been up against. Pressed for
a new shell, "Deep-Sea'' Turner bought
a fine eight-oared boat in the name of
the boat club. The necessary funds
were not forthcoming soon enough to
suit the creditors, so the county sheriff
was instructed to attach the shell; but
the college boys would not be baffled,
so to the hills the boat was hid, and
not brought out until few days before
the big race.
The enthusiasts were greatly disap-
pointed in not being able to send a
crew to race in the Naples waters
Thanksgiving day. But through the
energies of Deep" Turner a four
cared shell will be manned under the
name of Lagunita Boat club, and jour-
ney to the Southern California annual
regatta In no way will this crew be
connected with the university, except
the personnel consists of Stanford men
| The men who most probably will row
are John Fitting of San Bernardino
stroke; Jay Huston, member of 1906's
successful varsity crew; former Cap
tain Les. Gray of Redlands, and Ken
drick Chamberlain of Los Angeles and
stroke on last years freshman crew
Frank Gurena, coxswain in last years
freshman four, will steer the shell.
The crew Is training diligently or
the bay for the races of Thanksgiving
day.