Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-23
ARRANGING FOR
ROWING REGATTA
PLANNED BY L. A. A. C. FOR
SAN PEDRO
HARRoR CITY PROBABLY WILL
AID FINANCIALLY
TreIoar In Correspondence with Crews
of San Francisco and San Diego,
Stanford and Berkeley
Universities

AL Treloar attended the monthly
meeting of the San Pedro chamber of
commerce Tuesday night as the rep
resentative of the Los Angeles Ath-
letic club, to discuss the rowing situa-
ton. The meeting was satisfactory to
all concerned, and the outlook for >
rowing regatta to- be held at San Pc
dro some time in the fall is most
favorable. The meeting was devoted
principally to a discussion of the finan-
cial side of the question, and members
of the chamber of commerce hnally
agreed with Treloar that 1t would be
better entirely to decline to pay the
expenses of visiting crews and put
more money into prizes.
1t was intimated by the members
that San Pedro is willing to appro-
pirate about $1,000 to apply on the pur-
chase of the prizes. 1t further was
decided to hold the regatta in the IA i
or on the anniversary day OF the dls-
covery of San Pedro harbor by Ca
brillo, the latter day seeming to be
the popular choice of the majority q
members. However, this question VIII
be taken up at the next meeting, whlct!
will be called after the receipt py Al
IrGlOdr OIL D1OIt QCldliCd iAiICA AtAesSAO--
from three rowing clubs in San Fran
cisco. from the Stanford university
crew, the Berkeley crew and the San
Diego Rowing club. Treloar wrote 10
all of these crews yesterday asking
them, what dates in the fall would be
most satisfactory to them.
San Fedro seems to be the ideal place
TO hold the regatta. as San Diego Is
too far south and San Francisco is too
far north. Then, too, the tWo-nllle
straightaway in the inner harbor can
not be beaten. The water is live ana
the channel is deep and thousands or
persons could see the race from the
shore. There is no valid reason why
the champion rowing crew of the world
should not. be a California crew. Inc
climate Is ideal throughout the year
and the country is populated thlcKly
enough to draw as good rowing ma
terial as may be found anywhere: =.
Rowing has been termed the king
of sports. 1t is more interesting TO tne
onlooker than is football, and 1T prop
ably is as beneficial to the rover as
any other sport. Training for a crew
requires stamina, and if man mas
yellow streak in him it will be
brought out in rowing. Training FOR
crew is splendid III effect upon any
man, develops accuracy, and any TEL
low who goes through training stunt
for a rowing race and is successful can
he relied upon to make good In almost
anything he undertakes.
That an immense amount of interest
is being taken in rowing all over the
world is proved in the fact that more
hoat clubs than gymnasiums are be-
ing organized The big manufacturers
report that the demand for gymnasium
apparatus has given way TO roWing
nara nhernaiia. and they are giving
more attention to manufacturing boats
and rowing apparatus in response t.
the great demand. In almost every
citv and town in the country there Is
a boat club, and California bids fair to
outstrip them all. -,
The proposed regatta at hrst VIII
he open only to California crews, and
one Of the results of this first state re-
gatta eventually will be to pick an
all California crew to send east TO
compete with the great university
crews. From there it probably would
go to England.