The evening times., 1895-12-07
To RICE on THE HUDSON
Plan Generally Favored BY Col
lege Boating Men.
WOULD YALE TAKE PART I?
Question Which Is Being Freely Dis
-cussed The Yale Students as
Whole Favor, Such an idea, and 1t
Looks as II Things Could BE Ar
ranged satisfactorily.
lspecIalto the Times. }


New Haven, Conn, Dec. THE subject of
an ninter-colIeg late ro wing race Is now taking
up the whole attention OF the college men.
The popular idea of a boat race this year
Is the scheme for n meet of all the big col
lcge teams on the Hudson.
The plan is not a new one, but is simply
q repetltono of the meets of fifteen yearsago,
winch werehcld at Saratoga, at Springfield,
on The, ,Connccticut,. and at Worcester, on
Lake QuiDsigamond.
The course on the Hudson opposite Pough-
keepsic was not then recognized as a stund-
ard college attraction, but il has sIlccceted
in winning popular favor in recent years.
and Yale yields TO public sentiment In being
iayoranie tp meet of all the large crews.
CAPTAINS FAVOR IT.
THE Yale student body in general favOrs
sucn a meet; the faculty are nOn-commIttal,
but are opento conviction, and the captains
ana managers Qf the crews are inclined TO
favor 1t. ~" -
They admit that Yale will race there IL
everything cdn be arranged satisfactorily.
There are many PRACTICAL suggestions III
the way Of Yale e'satteptance or Il challenge
Tor meet OF the KIND Planned on he Hudson.
but the Idea In general is warmly favored
here. II Harvard accepts the otter 10 row
ON the Hudson, Yale Will probably he found
there.
Yale will spare no efforts TO enter
nlatch where harvard can he met, and this.
although in competition with several other
colleges as well, will give va ie on g OF tneiew
opportunities at1ordcd be Harvard 10 meet
tu,. Crimson This year.
The proposal includes a meeting of Yale,
Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, and the Uni
versity OF Pennsylvania, and such q race
would prove an aqiat ic ceventunprccedentcd
in American intercollegiate rowing history.
A STRONG CREW.
The Yale crew next year VIII he strong
one, Judging from present indicati IONS.
In college now are Beard Longacrc, Cross,
tapt. 1.eauway, ana s.rokr La ngioid.
Cross and Beard. however, declare that
they will row no more. but wish Ia give
their senior year to study and social life.
Dater. Armstrong and Hocomb have grad
uated.
All OF last years substitutes and promt.
Dent candidates, including Bailey, Miller,
simpson, Iooiey ana Knapp are in
college, and last years FRESHMAN crew
contained two promising men in Payne
Whitney and Paul Mills. Rodgers, the foot
ball tackle, was also in the boat, ana pulled
n good oar. He VIII try for the varsity
eight. There is no known promising ma
terial in the present freshman Glass;
II would be splendid thing IL Rar-
ward, Cornell, Columbia, Yale and Penn
sylvaBia should go at il on the Hudson
next spring. But whether Yale would
However, IL she will not row Cornell
alone, and cannot row Harvard, and
Columbia refuses to break with Penn
and Cornell, and IL the Blue does not
go to Henley, she will either have to
get In out OF the wet OF hang up her
TO join Penn, Cornell and Columbia. II
will make "a great race. and Yale's pres
t.Dce would make it 90 per cent more in
trres ting.