St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-01
QUADRIPARTTTE VARSITY
BOAT RACE.
COURTNEY COACHES CORNELL
GREAT ACTIVITY IN THE NAYIEs
OF HARVARD, COLUMBIA AND
PENNSYLVANIA.
SARATOGA COURSE POPULAR.
It's Selection as the Place for the
FOur-Cornered Race Is Most
Probable.

+ NEW YORK, Feb. 27-The varsity
navies are getting themselves into
form for the quadripartite race, in
which crews representing Harvard, Co
lumbia. Cornell and Pennsylvania will
compete for aquatic honors next June.
Active training has already begun,
though none of the crews have yet
been definitely chosen. y
The University Of PENNSYLVANIA has
engaged Ellis Ward as trainer and
coach, and he has begun the work of
preparing the crew for the contest.
with the hope of making the blue and
the red the winning coIors in the re-
gatta. The rowing committee was
over four months in selecting a man
to coach the crew and at last settled
upon Mr.. Ward.
This fndecision of the committee was
brought about in a great measure by
the controversy that existed between
the athletic association and the college
BOAT club, which, briefly stated. was
to this effect: For the last few wears
the athletic association has practically
been In charge of rowing matters at
pennsylvania, and the members of the
boat club were inclined to think that
the association authorities were not
advancing the cause Of the Quaker in
st1tutlon on the water to such an adj
vantage as when Pennsylvania aauat-
les We're under the direction Of that
CLUB. In view Of this they made a fight
Iof representation on the rowing COM
mlttee. and, succeeding in their eff
forts, have ever since been advocating,
the engagement of Ward
Inere was also a strong OpDosition
70 ward because of his desertion of
pennsylvania in 1891, when he went to
the Manhattan Athletic club taking
win MIN the entire Quaker crew. This
ahtlpathy seems, however to have
peen overcome. Ward was engaged
ana everything is apparently peaceful
among the athletes and oarsmen at the
university in the city OF Brotherly
Love.
IL was the purpose of the rowing
committee of Pennsylvania to select a
Yaie man as coach had one been avail
able, as they were DESTROYS of securing
an exponent of the Cook stroke
Ward claimed to have a stroke very
similar to the one taught by Cook. His
stroke is somewhat faster than the
one Pennsylvania crews have been
not essentially different, and it is be-
heVed that the old men who are candi-
dates for the varsity will fall right
into its method.
Ellis Ward is one CO the best known
oarsmen in the world today His rec
ord is an excellent one. He was stroke
OF the once famous Ward brothers
crew, of which five were brothers. the
sixth member being man of the name
or Graham. This crew attained inter-
national reputation, defeating almost
every crew with which it rowed. His
work with Pennsylvania crews has
been very successful. He coached the
red and blue crews from 1879 to 1891.
with one exception-1SS7. During the
time Pennsylvania crews were under
his instruction they won 46 races, being
second in IA, and six times broke all
previous records. OF the IA times that
Pennsylvania rowed second she forced
the victors to lower the record each
time. OF his later successes last years
record of the Bohemian Rowing club
is considered remarka BILE. This crew
won eight straight victories, the crown
ing one being at Saratoga in the ma
tional rega tia.
Cornell has re-engaged it's old and
tried coach and trainer, Charles Court
ney, and the work of preparation for the
ioCh -Coi AlCiCd oqudtlC COHleSI HAS ne"
gun in real earnest.
Columbia, which has the material for
splendid crew, is also in active train
Ing for the event, in which the oarsmen
of the New York university feel conf
dent of winning the trophy.
The Harvard crew, under Trainer
Watson's tutelage, has got to work in
the tank, and the men show up finely.
The personnel of the team will proba-
bly, be as follows: Stroke, Hollister;
z, Jennings; 6, Sprague; 5, Perkins, &.
Stevenson; 8, Goodrich; 2, Stillman;