The record-union., 1896-07-06
YALE AGAINST ENGLAND.
COLLEGE BOYS WHO FEAR NOT
BRITAIN'S OARSMEN.
Americas Crack varsity Crew Will
Meet England's Picked Oars
men at Henley.

champion university OIl liic water VIII
represent the great Republic in the re-
gatta here July 1th, 9Th and 9Th NO
second-rate Varsity oarsmen are over
here this year to give Britons taste
of Yankee skill and muscle, but the
mighty men of blue who have for years
kept Yale far in the lead in all Amer
lean aquatic contests. This time Yale
will, single handed, face the pick or
England's oarsnen. If She wins against
this great field her representatives will
own a large part of Yankeedom when
they return home. This regatta is con-
cededly the greatest rowing event in
the world. 1t is to boating what the
Americas cup contests are to yacht
ing. Those who win in them have an
imprescriptible right to consider them
selves worlds champions.
Interest in Yale's appearance this
year has been heightened by Cornell s
failure last year. The latter's eight oars
made a good showing in practice, and
up to the time one of them caught a
crab, SO that the real ability of the
Yankee Varsity Oarsmen is still prac-
tically an unknown quantity. Yale,
with the prestige of years of victory
behind her, is therefore looked upon by
the Briton as the best type Of Western
rowing power, and represents to the
English idea the finest qualities Of
American Craftsmanship quite as well as
would an all-college crew chosen from
the best boating universities in the
United States. Not only that, but last
year Yale defeated the crack English
athletes at New Haven on track and
| field and the English sporting public
are eager to see if Old Eli is as good on
| the water as on cinders and grass.
The events in which the Yale oars
men will compete are the races for the
Grand Challenge cup eight oarO, the
| Stewards Challenge cup four oars),
| the pair-oar race, and the race for the
| diamond sculls. The Cornell oarsmen
expressed regret that they did not en-
| ter the four-o cared race when they took
| part in the Henley regatta last year.
| This is the fifth American crew to do
| battle with England on her own water.
| Only one of these crews returned with
d trophy. 1t will be the third time that
eghts have met, and both the other
two were defeated. Of the five interna-
tional races already contested all were
on the other side but one, and England
has three to the credit of her college
oarsmen Here is the record:
1S69-A Harvard Varsity eight row.
ed Oxford over the regular Oxford
Cambridge four-mile Thames course,
and was defeated by six seconds.
1S76-First Trinity College Of Cam
bridge University sent a four cared
crew to our Centennial regatta at Phil
adelphia, and was defeated by a Yale
four, Of which Bob Cook, the present
Yale coach, was stroke
1S7S-Colurnbia sent a four-oared
crew to England, which won the Visit
ors' Challenge cup.
1SS1-Cornell sent to Henley a four
cared crew that had the previous year
won the American Intercollegiate re-
gatta ON Lake George. 1t lost at Hen
| ley, as we'll as on the continent.
1S95-Cornell sent an eight-oared
crew to Henley, entering only for the
| Grand Challenge cup.
The Yale crew is made up Of J. H.
Simpson, Alexander Brown, William M.
Beard, James O. Rodgers, 7.
H Bailey, John McC. Long
acre, Ralph B. Treadway, George Lang
ford The great race of the regatta is
/ mile $50 yards, and has only a slight
bend The Thames here is narrow, so
narrow one can throw q stone across
This affords the most excellent oppor-
tunities for observation Fully 10000
persons saw last years races The pref
tiest sight in the world Is said to be the
| stream after a race when hundreds OF
small boats, crowded with gaily dressed
women, flock over the course like bright
plumaged waterfowl on jollification.
| The houseboats along the Thames all
rendezvous at Henley during the re-
| gatta, and with their sides decorated
| with all sorts of bunting and partly
hidden by groups of spectators they
make a beautiful background for the
| smaller craft The fastest time ever
made over the course was 6:51. made
by the Leander Club in 1891; the slow
est was 7:4Sl2. The greatest rivals to
Yale will be the Leander crew, which is
composed Of the best men in Oxford
and Cambridge.