Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-21
ROWING CREWS
BEGIN TRAINING
OARSMEN START WORK FOR
MATCH RACE
JUNIORS EXPECTED TO WIN
HARBoR DAY
Los Angeles Athletic Club Members
Preparing for Important Event
That Is Made Interesting by
Keenest Rivalry


of winning any of the events at any
distance, and the crew usually has made
good. This year, too, the seniors seem
to have a shade the better of the
chances, although none of the club
members will volunteer the information
that the mile and a half will be any
body's race.
Neither crew has done any rowing
since the San Diego regatta, when the
senior crew took the championship of
California away from San Diego, and
the junior crew, although they lost
their race by few feet, put up a much
sitter race than did the seniors. The
amount of rowing a crew can do in a.
season means greater strength and
more endurance when the day of the
race comes along. 1t has been the clubs
great handicap to have a late opening
of the rowing season, caused by the
lack of substantial quarters in which
to train.
The following table will show the
senior crew to have the advantage in
height and weight:
SENIOR CREW
Position. Wight. Hight. Age.
Captain Isaacs. =. 154 IT. 1OA in. 2S
Routzahn -. Stroke 14s IT. "a
Derby ........... 162 IT. 10h In. II
Stan Mitchell. .Baw 100 IT. 10 in. "a
DeLong ....coxswain 100 IT. 4 IN. 16
pounds.
Position. Wight. Hight. Age.
Capt. Leland. Stroke 165 IT. 9h in. 80
Toole ."......... 13O it. 8 In. 20
Retzer ........ Q I35 8 TT in. Is
Swaine .........B Bow $50 IT. 11h In. 22
Loeb .Coxswain 115 1T. lin. 20
Average weight OF junior crew, 1877
pounds.
The senior crew also has the advan-
OF faric
Isaacs has been in the shells for the
past ten years. He was member or
the Argonaut Rowing club of Toronto,
Ont, and rowed No. when the club
won tfe eight-oar junior championship
of the world at the Canadian royal re-
gatta held at St. Catharines. Ont. In
1905, The crew made the mile and a
half straightaway in 6 minutes and 81
seconds, smashing the worlds record
and slipping twenty-three seconds Off
the Canadian record. Among the COM
petitors in that memorable race were
such we'll known crews as the Don ROW
ing club of Toronto, the Toronto Raw
ing club and the Detroit Rowing clup.
A little later in the year 1905 the same
crew made the present intermediate
worlds record at Baltimore. In this
race many of the crews dropped out or
the entries when they heard that the
Argonauts intended to enter.
Isaacs has been a member or the Los
Angeles Athletic club crew since 1906,
and it largely is due to the interest he
has taken in the crew that 1t is the
hest In Southern California, If not on
the Pacific coast. Under the excellent
coaching of Treloar, Routzahn, stroke
for the seniors, has developed wonder
fully and always is at his best on the
S5-stroke, the same stroke which mas
sent the Harvard four-oar across the
x.rfxnr IN ma n
E. G. Derby, who rows No. in the
senior shell, does good work. although
his only experience has been in the
club crew. Lewis will not be in the
coming race because OF previous ar
rangements for an automobile trip
south. He will be represented by Stan
Mitchell, who has not had the experience
of Lewis. but is somewhat heavier.
Coxswain DeLong, although only Ii
wears old. knows his business and Is no
novice at the helm.
Begin Training Today
To offset the seeming advantage
which the senior crew seems to have
is the fact that they have not made
any efforts to keep in training during
the past season, while the junior crew.
under the personal direction of their
captain, j. Leland, has been hard at
work In the club gymnasium for just
such an event as this. They have had
nriyate workouts on the rowing ma
chine unbeknown to the members of
the senior crew. The Junior crew not
only was organized and started rowing
when the senior crew did but has held
makeup practically unchanged since or
ganizing.
All these things count materially and
has caused many of the members to be-
lieve as Capt. Isaacs, who said: "The
juniors are as fast as we are and they
have as good chance to win as we
have. We are not in the best of con-
dition, but will put in some strenuous
work from now on"
Capt. Leland, who is stroke Of the
Junior crew, follows onto the heels OF
Can't. Isaacs as the rowing expert OF
Southern California. Leland formerly
was a member of the four-oar crew OF
the New York Athletic club. While
Isaacs has been ordering the S5-stroke
Leland seems to favor the more steady
3O-stroke the same that Courtney OF
Cornell has introduced with such good
effect.
While the senior crew has trained for
the mile, Laland has gone a step far
ther and brought his crew into the
two-mile class. The seniors best
showing always has been in the mile
races, but this is not the final test OF
the ability of a crew to go half again
as FAR, as tney Will nave " uo at Soeii
Pedro. OF course the seniors ought
to have the ability to go the extra hall
mile on the basis of what long distance
work they may do between now and
the day Of the race. The boat looks
powerful enough and their style ought
to adapt itself to the longer distance
Toole, Retzer and Swaine, although
all local men in the rowing line. follow
their captain like clockwork. ]. Loeb
the juniors coxswain, formerly held q
like position on the Stanford crew and
has piloted them through many a stiff
race.
Juniors Fat and Ready
Both crews will begin their training
today at San Pedro. One thing of all
others that will tend to make the race
the prettiest ever seen in southern
waters is the fact that the crews will
be coached by an ex-Harvard oars
man, AL Treloar, member of tht
Harvard four-oar crew that beat Yale
In 1894. Treloar also has coached the
freshmen crews of Harvard. Treloai
stands alone as the best coach in the
west and critics have classed him az