New-York tribune., 1899-06-22
HARVARD ROWS OVER THE COURSE.
TRIAL WORK OF THE CRIMSON CREW LOOKED
Upon WITH FAVOR.

HARVARD ROWS OVER THE COURSE.
TRIAL WORK OF THE CRIMSON CREW LOOKED
UPON WITH FAVOR
Gales Ferry. Conn, June 2l (SpeciaD.-It is quite
evident now that the old-tlme policy of carefully
guarding the time tests Of college crews which OBJ
tained in the regime OF Robert j. Cook and Rudolph
c. Lehman has been superseded by open-door
policy Heretofore when crew was rowing
against time on the Thames River every precaution
was taken to prevent any one connected with or
friendly to the rival crew from taking the time.
Mr.. Cook particularly opposed TO having any
one know how fast or how slow his crew could row,
and he has been known TO stop the she'll in the
middle Of mile sprint upon discovering some bush
whacker the shore holding watch In his hand.
In former years there were few exchanges Of
courteses between the rival Oarsmen before a
race. and such a thing as Harvard man following
the Yale in the Yale launch. or vice versa. was
practically unknown This year. however with
new coaches, entirely different view Of the
matter seems TO be taken The rival oarsmen and
their trainers fraternze freely. Nearly every day
of late a from Of the crews visits the
others training quarters, or perhaps takes trip
in the others launch and observes the style Of
rowing. on Monday. published In The
Tribune the Yale and Harvard varsity fours actu-
ally had little races-a thing unheard Of in
past years.
This morning the Yale varsity eight left the float
about O'Clock ana paddled down 10 tne DeSlnnuS
Of the rowing course. The launch then steamed up
to Harvards float and took aboard Mr.. Youngman
whe has been assisting in coaching the Harvard
freshmen IN the Charles River and Mr.. SaltOnstall
assistant manager Of the Harvard crews.
From this fine vantage point they watched the
work OF the Yale eight on two-me time stretch.
The wind shifted after the first mile and rough
ened the water quite little. interfering with the
blade work The time was said to be 1870 for the
two miles
Coach James Rodgers then took out the Yale
freshmen and sent them over the same two miles.
They made IT in about 1O45, which seemed TO
please Mr. Rodgers The freshmen still need con-
siderable attention the slide and the recover.
Brock OF the Yale varsity four went to New
Haven to-day and Greenway took his place in the
beat the four pulling a half mile In East time.
This morning the Harvard freshmen. after their
first night In the new quarters at Charles Brown =
cottage launched their shell from the float at Red
Top and had their initial practice on the names.
j. j. Storrow, their coach. who is brother OF the
varsity coach. arrived In time to board the launch
together with other trainers and follow the crew.
The Harvard youngsters having broken the rec
ord on the Charles their first work here was
watched with keen interest. As starter they
rowed down past the Thames Naval Station about
formSnce over the same stretch Then they rowed
up stream for about two miles. Those who watched
the trials satisfied that the boys deserved the
good reputation that preceded them 10 the lhaIhes
They move well together in blade work. rowing an
crew is the fastest since 1880 They all brawny
ended about o'clock several miles being rowed in
rather rough water the boat shipping a larger
quantity than considered safe.
Harvard also has freshman substitute four, and
they did some work to-day which gave the impress
sion that they fully good oarsmen as the
varsity four The latter four went over the upper
half of the for a time test making the two
miles in IL 80.
This evening occurred the feature of the week.
Harvard's varsity eight rowed against time over
the four mile course The time was caught at 202s.
which is remarkably fast considering the fact that
| the water was unusually choppy. The record
| IN the course Is 1lO The varsity men played
| baseball on the Red Top grounds for half an
hour before being called out for the time row. The
| shell followed by the launch. Frank Thomp-
| son. which retnue of coaches called out
| through the megaphone sundry advices to the
Everybody appeared to be delighted with this trial
and Harvard stock has taken a vigorons rise