The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-18
ROWING

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The intercollegiate Rowing associa-
ton. consisting of the universities of
Cornell, Pennsylvania and Columbia, is
the only college rowing association in
the United States holding an annual
regatta in which the leading colleges
in the United States are invited to par
ticipate. The chief object of this asso-
citation is to afford an opportunity an
nually for rowing competition in order
to demonstrate which of the university
crews of the country is entitled to pre-
mier honors. The annual regatta CT
this association will be held on the
Poughkeepsie- Highland course on the
Hudson river on June 26 and u this
year. There will be three events as
follows:
The freshman eight-oared race be
tween the universities of Wisconsin,
Columbia, Cornell annd Pennsylvania
The four-oared race between the uni
versities of Cornell and Pennsylvania
both of which events will take place en-
June 26.
The university eight-oared race be-
tween the universities of Cornell, Penn
sylvania, Wisconsin and Columbia.
which will take place on June 81.
The conditions under which these
races will be rowed this year will be
the same as those which governed the
previous reRaLtaS or the ASSOCIATION,
with such modifica tons as may be de-
cided upon by the board of stewards,
which is made up as follows: Francis
c. Bangs, Columbia; Prof. Benjamin
Ide Wheeler Cornell: Thomas Reath,
Pennsylvania. These stewards will
have the selection of the officials, which
list will be made up of college men we'll
known in college aquatic circles. The
stewards of the Intercollegiate Rowing
association expect to formulate plans
which will insure the future annual re-
gattas of the association being more
representative than the one of this
year and those of the previous years,
and with this end in view they have
expressed the intention of inviting all
the prominent colleges interested in
rowing to organize rowing departments
so as to insure each college having
representation in the annual regatta of
the Intercollegiate Rowing association
in 1909. The stewards of the Intercol-
legiate Rowing association have ex-
pressed themselves as being favorable
to including additional events for the
1900 programme. The programme for
1900 will probably include freshmen and
university races in the following events:
Single scull, double scull, four oared
race, eight-oared race, and it may be
that other special events will be added.
This programme will admit of Yale
and Harvard entering in the single.
uUuplp 'hi lOuf-DdTeu events, anu Slill
continue their dual Harvard Yale
eight-oaIsd lace at New London, and
the date of the annual regatta of the
intercollegiate Rowing association for
1900 will, if necessary be so arranged
as to admit of Harvard and Yale row.
ing their dual race at New London and
afterward competing in the annual
regatta of the intercollegiate Rowing
association over the Poughkeepsie-
Highland Course in order to give Yale
and Harvard an opportunity to demon
strate the II ability to cope with the
crews of the ether leading universities
of the country.
The intercollegiate association is in
hopes it will have foreign college crews
to compete in 1890 or 1901. 1t is rea-
sonably sure that the University of
Toronto will be represented in the re-
gatta of 1900. and it is hoped that Ok
ford and Cambridge, and probably
some of the colleges of the continent
of Europe will be represented in the re-
gatta of 1901. If this measure of the
Intercollegiate Rowing association Is
successful, the future annual regattas
will be in effect the worlds intercolle
giate regatta. 1t does seem singular
that with all the rapid strides that
have been made in amateur sport in
the way of the formatio of national
associations to govern every form OF
sport that the matter of the formation
OF an intercollegiate rowing aSSOcldtlOH
to encourage intercollegiate rowing
should have been taken up at such a
late day. But it would seem from
present indications Il at rowing is to be
the college fad, athletically speaking,
of the future.
The Poughkeepse-H Highland course IS
four miles straight away, rs the crow
flies, with a depth of water ranging
from AZ to 76 feet. with an unobstructtd
view of the course on the west shore o.
the Hudson for four miles, with SPLEEN
did facilities for an observation train 10
follow the race from start to hntSi,
with an average width of the river VI
over half mile, ard as an illustration
of the facilities of the cou"se X may
be stated that there is sufficient aNeh-
able space from start - finish 10 enab'e
as many as 10 boats 10 start abreast N
one heat. and then there would b. room
for the private yachts. steamers ana
other water craft On the east er Pough-
keepsie side of the river to anchor and
view the races.
Tod Sloan has given the newspapers
a letter he received from New York,
signed S. A. Decker, demanding $3.50
under threat of exposing the jockey
as using the writer's invention of On
electric battery to win races on bad
horses The writer said: I'VE are
stopped here by the law, and now you
are reaptng the fruits of our invention.
I think it time to step in and call you
down"