The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-26
SWITCH IN DATE
Of VARSITY
REGATTA
BY WILLIAM UNMACK

The holding of the intercollegiate
track meet down at Stanford on April
Is necessitates the arranging of an
other day on which to hold the tri-
angular regatta on the estuary in
which the University of Washington,
University of California and Leland
Stanford Jr. university will compete
When the dual track meet Is held at
Berkeley 1t has been customary to
hold the regatta on the same day,
In the morning.
Though no definite date has been
set for the regatta. it will be rowed
either the Saturday before or the
Saturday after the big track meet.
probably the former With the re-
gatta as the only intercollegiate fea-
ture of the day, it is expected that
a much larger crowd wfil gather to
follow the race than when the re-
gatta and the track meet fall on the
same day
For the last two years the observa-
tion train has been taxed to its full
time is not far distant when trains
will have to be run on both sides
of the mole instead or on the one
side as in the past.
Greater interest than usual at
taches to the 1914 regatta owing to
the fact that the Washington crew
Will be here ladened with the honors
1t won at Poughkeepsie last June.
The northwestern boys made a won
derful showing in that regatta, and,
by taking third place, put coast row.
ing on the map in the east.
WASHINGTON LOOKS BEST
In the coast intercollegiate regatta
last year Washington won with ease
and Is. of course, hoping to repeat
next April. Coach Hi Conibear has
been laying plans ever since the last
regatta to further improve his crew
and when he comes down here in
April his crew is expecting to show
many little Improvements gained by
their measuring blades with the crack
eastern crews.
Though Washington must of neces-
sity be considered as the favorite for
the honors at this date there is con-
siderable time before the day of the
race for the two local varsity crews
to do things.
The University of California intends
to make a big bid for the honors this
year and the boys across the bay
have been working steadily for the
last month under the new coach to
perfect the new style of stroke that
Charlie Stephenson thinks will go a
long way toward bringing home the
bacon for the blue and gold.
The engagement of Stephenson as
coach shows that the California boys
want to see just what can be got out
of their material with a high class.
competent professional coach. Steph-
enson was formerly assistant coach
at Harvard and In his day was one of
the worlds great single scullers. He
has shown the blue and gold boys on
the machines that he knows what he
talks about and furthermore he has
shown that he knows how to impart
his knowledge to the crew men,
STANFORD CREW INTACT
Stanford university will not have
a professional coach and the coaching
of the crew will be done by a COM
mittee of former varsity crew men.
Last year Pat O'Dea coached the car
dinal crew and turned out a winning
freshman eight and his men defeated
California, but were unable to over
come the strong Washington eight
that Hi Conibear put into the she'll
Stanford will have practically the
same crew next April that represented
the university in the last race Bob
Duryea. last years captain, will be
the only veteran missing from the
boat. With seven experienced varsity
men to work on, besides the victorious
freshman crew and innumerable other
good men that failed to make both
varsity and freshman boats last April
the Stanford coaching committee has
hopes of sending a fast, hardy crew
into the race