San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-25
COLLEGE BOAT RACING.
Everything Completed For
The Affair.
ALL THE C0ACHERS ARE CON.
FIDENT AND SURE OF
VICTORY.
Interviews With Them Show Them
To Be Enthusiastic In Their
Crews Ability To Win
The Big Race This
Afternoon.

New York. June 25.-The Journal
and Advertiser prints statements made
at Poughkeepsie by Coach Lehman
of the Harvard crew, Coach Cook of
the Yale crew and DIR. Walker B. Peet,
the well known boating expert, re-
garding the prospects of the three
crews in today's boat race. Mr.. Leh-
mann says:
Whatever may happen in the race,
1 have no complaint to make in the
way in which the men have taken up
new ideas and have carried them out in
practice, or the way in which they
have borne the hardships and difficult
ties of training. On the contrary, l
am perfectly satisfied that whether
Harvard wnis or loses, the crew will
do its very best from first to last. We
are well boated. Our oars, made by
Donoghue, are excellent, and the &C
tual physical condition of the crew is
in every way satisfactory. The crew
has done very well since we came to
Poughkeepsie, although the practice
has been much interfered with by the
rough water that has prevailed nearly
all the time. Toward the end of the last
week the men went back in their work
for no perceptible reason but from the
beginning of this week they have
steadily improved, and they have done
better work than at any previous pc
riod of their practice. Allowing for
individual eccentricities that exist in
every crew, these men are now rowing
what l consider to be the English
stroke as 1 have taught it myself and
have heard it taught by others. They
have not the weight and power of our
record crews that 1 remember, but on
the whole think that striking an av-
erage they compare very favorably
with good university crews, whether
from oxford or Cambridge. This
merely refers to the work done in prac-
tice. Their racing ability as a COM
bination will be tested in the race to-
day. am very hopeful of the result"
Mr.. Cook says:
IN the old days of New London, ra-
Their under former conditions, should
say that Yale was sure winner, but
this year Harvard has the fastest crew
she ever had. i think Harvard and
Yale are evenly matched for today's
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that the crew that holds its form and
has the endurance should win. Mr..
Lehman and l agree that both Har-
ward and Yale win defeat Cornell, and
from what he said to me l believe he
thinks his crew has a slightly better
chance Of winning than my crew. Mr..
Lehman has produced better form
then Yale possesses, but 1 think my
failure to get as good steady swing
is due to the difficulty experienced in
changing Yales stroke this year. For
my part am in doubt whether it will
be Harvard or Yale. If the conditions
are good the time made I think, will
be the fastest ever rowed by an eight
cared crew. Our men are in splendid
condition, and 1 think the same can be
said of our opponents from Cambridge
and ithaca. / consider the Yale crew
as fast as any we ever produced"
DR.. Peet says: ION basis of the
physical character of men who make
up the crews of Yale, Harvard and Cor
nell, one can reach some interesting
The Yale men are the
tallest with their average of full six
foot to a man. Harvard is but slightly
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five feet ten and a. half inches are well
over the medium. But 1T is another
story when one considers the ages of
the men. Whereas the Yale men are
the best calculated to look over the
shoulders of their fellows in a crowd,
they are considerably younger than Ell
Their of their rivals. In fact the
man will have the first red
uisite of the voter for five Fights of
year. Harvard's average man might
have voted two fifths of year ago,
while the shorter Cornell man is five
Fights of year past his 21st birthday.
The question of age amounts to every
thing when one looks at the weight
Of the men. The Yale men are giants
with their average Of 1871 pounds Of
are 81 pounds more per
man than Harvard. CornelPs mean !
eight is almost ten pounds less than |
her nearest rival, Harvard, and almost |