The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-07-06

will be in the pink of condition when
they paddle to the starting line, and
they hope that the excitement of the
|actual racing will cause them to do bet
ter and stronger rowing than they
have done In their practice spins.
The Americans were out Tubing this
afternoon. They began their regular
evening practice at a quarter-past six
o'clock and kept at it until 1920.
The drawing for the race for the dia-
mond sculls, in which DR.. Mcdowell or
Chicago is entered, resulted as follows:
Heat Al. Beddington, Thames Row.
ing club, against r. K. Beaumont OF
Burton on Trent.
Heat B-S. Swami, the old Trinity
Hall blue, against Vivian Nickalls
Heat C-E. A. Guinness against DR..
Mcdowell.
Heat D-The Hon. Rupert Guinness,
present holder of the trophy, against
II. T. Blackstaffe of the Vesta Rowing
club
Second round-Heat e: The winner
of heat B against the winner Of heat D..
Heat F-The winner of heat c against
the winner of heat A,
II lHttl lC NllllCl VI htSeAs -
against the winner Of heat %.
London, July 4The Pail Mall Ga
zette, in an article summing up the re-
suits Of the training of the different
crews at Henley, expresses the opinion
that the New College crew is the speed7
lest of the lot, with Leander next, and
then Yale. The Gazette critic express
es doubt, however. of the staying pow
ers of the New College crew over the
| trying Grand Challenge course Lean
| der the writer thinks, will undoubtedly
| stay the full course at fast pace, and
Yale is but very little inferior to these
| eights either as regards staying or
speed. The Yale men take a lot of
| time to get their stride, and their first
minutes rowing Is always their worst
in an eight minute spin. Finally, the
Gazette expert thinks that New College
is most likely to be the winner.
| AS to Yales prospects, Bob Cook
says: IF we had a fortnight more we
would very likely be as good as any Of
| the English crews. At present the
chances are largely against us. Has
| ty changes have necessarily been made
to the boat. These have set us behind,
but we consider ourselves lucky in Sc
curing the best position in all our heats,
| however"
| Henley, July 5. The weather to-day
was clear and very warm, but so far
as known the heat has had no appre-
ciable effect on the members Of the
Yale crew., who are all well. No work
was done by the Americans to-day, all
the men resting after their weeks
practice and nothing out of the usual
occurring, they will go the starting
| line as fit as any crew who start in the
race for the Grand Challenge cup, in
the first triabheat of which on Tuesday
the Leander and Yale crews will con-
| test against each other.
There has been no betting of note on
the event Some of the Yale men are
willing to take odds of 3 to 2 against
the Americans winning. The prelimi-
nary work OF the crew has been prac-
tically finished, and the men say they
win only do little light work to keep
themselves in shape for the strain of
Tuesday.
Many visitors arrived to-day and the
usual fashionable Henley crowd will
be present to witness the racing. The
river at night presents a beautiful
scene. the reaches being lined with
house boats, from which shine myriads
of lights With favorable weather con-
ditions the regatta promises to be one
Of the most successful from social
point of view ever held.