New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-22
THE PROPOSED ROWING ASSOCIATION.
COLUMBIA SAID TO FAVOR THE PLAN AND THE
pouGHSpEPsrE CoURsE-HARvARD SAID
TO PREFER AN OPEN AMERI-
CAN HENLEY

pOr-c;rIr pf-PsrE COURsE-HARvARD SAID
TO PREFER AN OPEN AMERI-
CAN HENLEY.
In regard TO the reported proposal made by COR
nell to Harvard Pennsylvania and Columbia 10
ioin with her in forming an intercollegiate rowing
association It may he taken for granted that iaie
will not be excluded II IT is her desire TO enter
Cornell holds that Yale-Cornen race mas oeeh
made impossible for this year by Yaie's own con-
ditions but will interposc objections 10 haies
entrance into such a rowing association.
Francis 8 Bangs OF No 100 Broadway. said YES
terday: Columbia has received a proposition look
ing 10 the formation OF an intercollegiate rowing
association. and It Is likely that she VIII accept
Pennsylvania and Harvard have also received such
offers 1 believe and possibly Yale cornell
Columbia and Pennsylvania have had during the
last few years a tacit understanding 10 row. prtc-
tically amounting 10 an association, and FOR mat
reason II will not be necessary for ColumDa 10
send any formal challenge 10 Cornell ths year. II
Is understood that there VIII be race. ana II
merely remains TO decide on the course ana ua'e'
There Will be no trouble about coming TO an agree
ment on a course. AS to the Thames II the New
London course as satisfactory as the New
London people there would be little objection to H.
II is conceded that Columbia agrees with Pennsyl-
vania and Cornell IN preferrlng the Poughkeepse
course to that at NewLondon
Henry S. Van Duzer. OF No. 81 Nassau-st'
with the regatta at Poughkeepse last year. says
that In his opinion Harvard will not favor Inc
formation OF n rowing association He was acuvey
associated in the management OF the Ola INTERIOR
lesiate Rowing Association. which held regat'as al
Saratoga and Lake George in the iOs with as
many as thirteen crews in competition lie leeis
that an association will not tend 10 Simplify the
matters in controversy but will rather aggravate
them by Introducing all sorts Of conflicting PROPOSE
lions similar. ne says. TO those that hnally lcd 70
the abandonment OF the old association. In regard
10 the question Of open race Tor al colleges NJ
personal opinion IS that anything more than a VI
angular race Is apt be Unwieliy, as regards inc
business responsibility involved. wei as IN Ot"r
Uavs He fdvors American Henley. with rs
various races provided the local committee al
POughkeepsio or Saratoga or New LONDON heicc's
some capable to take charge OF aHalrs, ana pc
leyes that all colleges should be invited TO parucl-
pate He does not think ii advisable, however lor
the colleges TO take upon themselves ule H'thdtt-
ment of such series OF regattas. Nh!e b,nsFlnE
in continuing the Harvard Yale races he wound look
with favor upon some such scheme as tn'1 me
winner of this race should each year row the win
he believes i'm the idea of Harvard going outside the
dual arrangement and rowing. besides with Cornell
or other colleges. Harvard men IN general ne
SAYS are IN favor of dual race with corner TINS
year rather than quadraEgular contest similar 20
that OF 1886. $500,
Ii is stated on good authority that an inter,uni-
versiy rowing association Will ne formed on OASIS
that will be acceptabla TO Harvard, pennsylvania
Columbia and Cornell