The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-15
ROWING,
Columbia Men Use Now Oars ana She'll
"Peunsy" Again Unfortunate.

"Peunsy" Again Unfortunate.
PouGHKEEPsIE, June 14.-Columbia has got q
mascot. He is a tow.headed boy of the neighbor-
hood with a perennial smilo and q hat four sizes
too large for him. In the afternoon practice to.
day tho crew worked together with delightful
harmony. Manager Fearing said:
Although we arc not claiming that Columbia
is going to win. yet I believe that we have tho
material to make u good showing. With three
the crew may accomplish. We have been handi.
capped some by rough water. During the week
before we came hero we were only able to go out
Tho Columbia freshmen are put back n littlo
IN thelr, training by the illness of Stroke KEEL
Of Rlonda at 8, who is laid up with an abscess on
his hoel. Southwick has been placed tempo
Safi' p%pr on b as!I4 g back 3 eEsa in tho eR Boat Ot on w " e siGs %sn
The crew DID not go out in tho shell. but did
This morning Columbia's varsity oarsmen
tried their new Donaghue oars, going three
miles at racttce pace. The oars are two pounds
inch narrower in the blades. They have a ridge
spects those used BY tho Harvard crew. At
In the ,uow, Webb cedar shell. They rowed
down the river at a thIrty-four clip. After
water the shell passed Harvard's boathouso,
going At a racing pace; Tho Cambridge men
The Co,umbias finished their five.mile practice
the shell rolled considerably. and that it did not not
OF the crew Is 40 pounds. The she'll Is 81 feet
long and weighs 240 pounds; %Columbia's
This morning the Daisy, formerly known as tho
Henrietta, covered the five miles between tho
quarters and Poughkeepsio, in considerably less
than twenty minutes. and she was not pushed.
day. The new Davy boat was launched and
new Coach in the person Of Ned S stpoProW. S stroke q
OF SS. and who coached the 90 class crew this
year. Lehman got back from Boston on the
whose guest he had BEEN. Red Top was fairly
bubbling over with enthusiasm after seeing the
crew practice. The men sat in the new Davy
shell this morning. and got the stretches right.
In the afternoon they rowed and padded three
He expressed himself as much pleased witt
the new shell: The freshmen took two practice
Last night a high tide again nearly carried
away the Pennsylvania boathouso. The crews
were routed out at midnight and all the boats
lowed around and made fast to the wharf. The
oars and other movable things were stored in
the West Shore freight building. The boat
house T was moored with hawsers to a telegraph
pole.
This afternoon the launch was disabled by the
loss OF her wheel. Coach Ward has been trying
This morning he put the reshm aHu in n'I the ' CEDAR
shell and the varsity in the paper boat. With
sity won with ease. The crews Changed boats
and the result was reversed: In the afternoon
anotner test was made. Inc freshmen sat in
the paper shell and received a handicap Of three
boat lengths. 1t was over, a mile before the
varsity caught the "freshies." Coach Ward
decided that there is very little difference be-
tween the speed of tho cedar and the paper
shell. II there is any difference at al, tho
cedar boat is the faster.
The course will put on a boating aspect this
week. Markers will DO put on the bridge to-
morrow. and on Sunday anchors will BE- set and
buoyed for the starting boats. This will obviate
the annoying drifting OF the boats just when u
race is to be rowed.
The local Regatta Committee has asked for
two moro cars on the observation train for
Poughkeepsie. Only 100 tickets have been
allotted to the toVnspeople, and they are re-
served for tho sevsaty original subscribers TO
the boat race fund The observation cars for
June 25 are allotted as follows:
Yale. Harvard. and Cornell. ~ each; Harvard Club.
2; University Club. New York University A. c.. and
Poughkeepsie .; railroad officials, press,
crews. Brooklyn University Club. and Yale University
Club. /.