The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-04


Press. 1.-The training Of the crews en-
tered for the grand challenge race
which will take place next week at
the Henley regatta is about completed
4 although some of them during the pres
/ ent day and tomorrow will undergo
| their finishing touches
/ The concensuS of opinion is that the
race for the grand will be won by Lee
/ ander. New College or Yale. with the
/ Thames crew having good lead for
I fourth place in the estimation of COM
| petent critics Trinity college and the
I London Rowing club are considered out
/ of the race. The latter because they
/ are far behind their form OF other
/ years and the former because, for
|. some reason unexplained, they have
/ fallen off remarkably in their perform
/ ance of a week ago. There are sew
/ eral factors. however, which are not
to be overlooked in forecasting the
/ chances of the different crews. The
/ New college men are unqueSuonaDly
/ somewhat overturned. Bob Cook has
! carefully avoided this and his men will
go to the post in prime condition, a
/ most important factor with the crews
as evenly matched as the present three
seem ID be. The draw il there is d
/ strong wind, such as has been blowing
! every day this week off the Bucks sta
I
a length and a half. There is an UNI
| dercurrent of feeling here today fed
I by the press that if Yale wins 1t Will
/ be because Mr.. Cook copied the Eng
1 lish style of rowing with a really
| good crew and that if Yale loses it will
| be because they had not time to thor
/ oughly adopt the English style.
Cornell said Mr.. Cooper, secretary
| of the regatta committee, pursued a
/ suspicious policy before unknown in
/ Henley crews. They declined invita-
/ tions as if they suspected that they
| would be poisoned. Yale, on the con-
/ trary, seems one of US and has met
! us in the same spirit. We are with
/ them in manners and men and they
/ are not looking for traps and tricks
| on every side. If they win it will be a
/ great thing for Henley, as we suppose
! Harvard will not be content and per-
/ haps other colleges will not be salts
/ fed until they add a victory at Hen
| ley to their home triunphs. But even
| if Yale succumbs we trust it will not
/ be long before we see her blue "
I again and if Yale wins you may be
/ sure there will be no begrudging her
the victory even among the defeated
/ crews.
This is the keynote of the feeling at
/ Henley, and it is repeated among the
Leander, Trinity Hall and New college
]
/ men and the tow path loafers. The
Yale men are a lot better together than
! any of our crews and L cannot IN
derstand why they do not cover more
water. After watching them carefully
! L have reached the conclusion that the
| fault lies with their paper boat. 1t is
/ not as rigid as our cedar boats and II
Yale is defeated 1 believe it will be
/ because while the paper boat is better
than any American built cedar boat, 1t
/ is not equal to the English cedar boat.
This view is shared by the water
men in charge of the tent boat houses.
You see," said one of the water
men, "Yale's boat is heavier than First
Trinitys cIasper, which was alongside
of il.
1.-The Yale craft he continued, lis
| heavier than that swaddle there
pointing to Emmanuers boat, and
with more weight it is not so rigid.
which may tell upon its way between
/ strokes"
Wauchope, stroke of the Trinity hall
crew, is of the same opinion.
Cook will express no opinion as to
the chances of the Yale crew. and the
men maintain their same attitude Of
reserve. But they all seem to be quiet
/ ly confident.
The absorbing interest in the race
| for the grand challenge obscures al
most completely the coming race for
the diamond SOULS DR.. Mcdowell, the
American champion oarsman, who is
| entered for this event, seems to feel
| this somewhat. He says that apart
from the friendly reception he has met
with among the oarsmen his boat
house has received no courtesies what
ever. The doctor added: II am in
excellent condition. and hope to sur
prise some of them. But 1 am con-
viz ho Mill 90, TO -
who gets the bucks station. Then I
am not properly equipped for the Hen
/ ley waters. Mind. l do not complain,
| but my boat was built for Lake Mich
/ igan and weighs over thirty pounds
/ The smallest and lightest boat posi-
/ BILE is what is wanted here. Black
staff's boat only weighs twenty-four
/ pounds, and Harting's only weighs
eighteen and one-half pounds.
However. no matter what 1 do this
( year, 1 shall have a much lighter boat
and come next year"
/ The morning was stormy and it
! turned out to be a nasty day for row.
/ ing. The wind was down the river
and the water choppy.
/ Bob Cook, however, had the Yale men
/ down to the boat house at $50 in or
! der that they might help to rig the
/ new shell and sc they might try to get
a better idea of catching the water by
| watching the English crews practice
/ They were occupied until noon, at
which hour the shell was still not fit
/ for use. Consequently the old shell
was foated and with Bob Cook COACH
| ing the meu from a bicycle. Yale pull
/ ed some short stretches with the stroke
varying from So to 40. The men, how
ever. showed bad form and Mr.. Cook
! got well worked up and tried to i'm
/ press upon them the necessity of put
1 ting more life and dash into their
work
All the members of the Yale crew
are in good health and there are no i'll
( effects from the successful garden par
ty of yesterday. The Americans almost
daily are in receipt of four-leaf sham
rocks sent to them with best wishes
for their success in the racing next
week
The English crews did no hard work
today but Leander tried the minute
barrier and was foot short of News
record, 127 feet.
DR.. Mcdowell, during the mornings
practice, fouled Gains four and was
! spilled, but was not hurt. The side Of
! DR.. McDowelPs boat was ripped open,
but it will be repaired for practice
this afternoon. He was on the wrong
side of Temple island.
THE FOURTH AT GARFIELD.
BathinG-BOat ing-Dancing.