Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-17
REGATTA DAY
PROMISES TO
BREAK RECORD
Rowing Conditions Favorable
With Both Local Clubs
Crews Doing Good Work

Unless present signs fail, the crowds
which flock to the Honolulu waterfront
on Regatta Day morning. September
10, will witness a more interesting
struggle between the crews of the Blue
and Red, the Healanis and Myrtles,
than was presented year ago. Early
and mid-season prospects seem to in
dictate that the wearers of the Blue will
fail to duplicate their clean sweep" of
last season in annexing all five barge
events. .4"# ..."
This despite the fact that the Myrtles
will have lighter men throughout, in
some instances the average crew
weight being five to fifteen pounds
against them. For be it known that
since the 1918 disaster to the Myrtle
club that organization has undergone
a general shakeup in rowing, shake
up which admittedly has been needed
for a number of years and which COM
pares with the one undergone in
much similar circumstances by the
Healanis several years ago, giving the
latter, their new lease on life and en-
nabling them to finally turn the tables
on their ancient foe, avenginging the
clean sweeps" and continual big vic
tories which the Red and White scor-
ed for so many years.
1t is this general change in the
Myrtle ranks that promises to create
unusual interest in the coming regat-
Ia. OF forty youngsters who are fight
ing for places in the Myrtle boats not
more than eight or nine are veterans.
OF last years senior crew only one
man remains, Norman Oss, No. in the
1913 senior barge. Most of the boys
in last seasons junior boat are IN
training again, but added to their
strength is only one oarsman from
the 1912 freshman crew, Herman
GranbeTg.
The great bulk of the timber Is
brand new, lads who have never
handled q spoon blade or sat on
sliding seat until the present year,
The Myrtles have begun their reju-
yenation, the gathering OF youngsters
and the gradual building OF new ma
terial into first-class rowing talent.
Whether this task can be accom-
nlished the first year remains TO De
seen: one thing is certain and acknow-
lodged by the older members who are
watching and helping the work along
II has brought new enthusiasm INTO
the organization and new lie 10 the
rowing. The oarsmen are In the
rough: for that reason they can STAND
the hardest training and they possess
tho recuperative power of youth that
will make them dangerous opponents
from the moment the starting pistol
is fired until the judges gun an
nounces the winner
The Myrtles this season are under
excellent tutelage, having the g9ou
fortune of coaches who place tnelr
greatest faith in new maleflal
George Crozier, Ihe head coach, rowea
in several champions barges and with
three raw recruits went out ana Won
The four-oared shell event on the
Pearl Harbor course in 1914. ASSIST
ing him are Clarence Girvin, DaVla
Center and Lester Marks. The tast
named is home on vacation ana VIII
not be able to remain to assist IN put.
ting the finishing touches on the lieu
crews, as ne IAuOt
for Cornell University.
Crozier has made NUMBER Oh
changes in the barges and oars WHICH,
while, not apparent on the surface. are
exnected TO make an improved dlitef-
ence in their action and an increase III
sneed The club has obtained new
boat from local builder, designed on
lines laid down by local oarsmen, ou'
as vet the barge seems to be an I'M
known quantity, and it Is not certain
whether it will be used on hegatta
day. .,.;o,,
In direct contrast to the condition
at the Myrtle boatnouse is that Win
which Coaches Paul Jarrett, jim
IJovd A. B, Knoll and Mckinley have
to deal at the Healani club. A pretty
fight is on between candidates for all
crews. particularly the senior anu
and though the candidates
are not so numerous as at the boat
house toward the mouth of the haroor
they make up the difference In weight
strength and experience. 1t should De
in passing that no crews
nave D66l p1Cheu III ClIhCE
that they likely will not be selected
until the last week or ten days before
the big races.
The candidates for the Healanl
senior six-oared barge are ?. Cornyn,
George Wilkinson, A. NJ. Nicoll, Ed
Hedemann, Fred Wichman, Woods
Low, Charles Brown and Heinrich M.
P. Rose. OF these, five are OF the
championship 1913 crew ornyn, Nj
coli, Hedemann. Lew and Brown
Wichman, as all local rowing enthu-
siasts know, is a former university
stroke oar from the coast and stroked
the Heaiani seniors in their wonder
full race with the victorious Alamedas
here two years ago. He probably
would have been in the same position
last Regatta day had he not sufferedI
a broken knee cap IN polo practice in
the middle Of the rowing season. Wiki.
inson and Rose also are Healani vete-l
rams, the former being a member Of
the 1912 crew that went against the
Alamedas. All eight are first-elass