The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-09-07
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MYRTLES HAVE new
! SIX-OAR SPEEDSTER
Regatta Day, Week Away From
Saturday, Begins To Loom
Up Quite Big

Regatta Day is only week OF from
next Saturday and things are already
stirring. The principal activity seems
TO be at present around the Myrtle
boathouse, but the Healanis are by no
means sleeping on the job and the old
rivalry win be on again this year be.
tween the two as il has been for these
many past years.
Boat Builder Harada, local Jap.
anese shipwright Of note, has built for
he Myrtles new six.oar barge, which
he boys say Is a thing OF beauty. Ha-
-ada was the man who built the latest
Healani six-oar boat, but his Myrtle
creation is said to be still better
pecimen Of the ship builders art.
The new Myrtle boat in its try out
he other sday gave complete satisfac.
tion. II has not been named vet, but
there are indications that the newest
acquisition win be called the Eleu--.
meaning, feet, fast, speedy and other
Kings synonimous.
Myrtles Have Some Bunch
"The Myrtles have the biggest bunch
II material in our history,p said w.
Ladd Rosa yesterday. .'There was never
a time before when things looked as
promising. The bows are ali beefy,
heavy, chesty and windy. Among the
men being tried out are Our Duke Ka.
hanamoku, by no means mean oar:
Chuck Smith, Hilo Boyd, Arthur Par,
ker, Billy Patty, Arthur X. Yierra, the
Hilo end OF our bunch; Brig. Gen. s.
Johnson, Norman Oss, A. w. Anderson
and good many others. Norman Oss,
we figure, win pull in the pair oar,
and that means or spells v.i-c-t-o.r.yi"
And Rosa went on to tell a good
many things that are doing down
around the Myrtle clubhouse. E
Trying out for the junior barge race
are, among others, Earling Hedemann,
Raplee Cummins, Evenson, Gramberg,
Jimmie Hart, Max Rosa, Campbell and
elmer Crozier. h E ..'
Junior and Senior Pair Oars @....
For the junior pair. oar no crew has
been picked yet, but the likely eandi-
Iates are, Herbert McInerny and Regi-
aald Auerbaeh. They, at least, seem to
De putting in extra lieks and when the
picking season comes will have some
big claims for recognition going their
way. a. .-s. ."
For the intermediate, those who
won I make the other crews, there are,
without mentioning names, good
many. However, it may be said that
Arthur Gilman, Buster Carter, Ander.
ION, Lester NJ. Marks, Bob Chilling
worth and Bill Lyle are ID for places
n the intermediate on Regatta Day.
AnanpsY thnSa ,,ant;n,al r. skl,n f.o.L
man barge crew are Young Bromley,
John n. Homes, Reginald Auerbach,
Herbert Mclnerny, Weseloh, o 'Brien,
Allen and Mickey Bryan. !. a 4
For the scpll races, in the senior de-
partment there are Duke Kahanamoku
in one boat and Arthur Parker in the
other, while in the junior the Myrtles
are counting on Mickey Bryan and
Campbell Crozier. ~ l.t.. Z r..
The six.oar barge race for boys un.
Ter eighteen years will be an event
Of note. Trying out for the Myrtles
are Richard Carter, George Ruttmann,
Perry, William Gehring, Reggie Cooper,
" Honey" Auerbach, Bob Mckenzie
and Otto Meyer. .
Coaches Wide Awake " Z .1. B..
Good work is being done by the
caches. These are alternating but
still the following are paying particular
attention to their divisions, as follows:
W. l.. Ross with the freshman bunch;
- Tootie' Luther Hough and George
Crozier with the seniors and juniors.
And Bill Rosa is there also. sSr.tv
Bob Chillingworth, who is captain
of all the crews the Myrtles boast Of,
is putting III some extra time, energy
and pains to round out his men into
shape-and there is only little more
han week ahead of him and them.
Chuck Smith, a Harvard man who
has seen much rowing work, is a find
the Myrtles are talking about and they
are relying IA good deal on this expert
experience. A. j. Porter is another
man, says Bill Rosa, Oh whom the Myr.
ties are leaning II good deal. -
Word comes from Hilo that the sen.
Tor crew which did not do a. thing to
the Honolulu oarsmen, have not let the
sea weeds and barnacles grow ON the
bottom of their boats. They win be
down and feel confident that what they
did in Hilo will be repeated right here
in the enemy's country. And the Hilo
juniors, profting by past experience,
are out for blood. ,
So, II Hf..4 I