The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-26
COLLEGE REGATTA WEEK
BIG RACES AT POUGHKEEPSIE
AND NEW LONDON.
Crowds of College Men Gathering to
Witness the Annual Boat Races
Something About Crews.

| Crowds of college men, undergrad
yates and alumni and their wives, sis
tiers and sweethearts are this week
Hooking to Poughkeepsie, n. Y, and
New London, Conn.,, for this is regatta
week, the week when the great annual
! college boat races occur, and the last
event of interest in the college wear
everywhere.
I Today and tomorrow at Poughkeep-
sic, n. Y, the crews of Columbia, Cor
nell, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin will
meet on the Hudson river. This after
noon the freshmen crews of the four
universities will race. and two four
oars, representing Cornell and Penn
Sylvania, will also meet. Tomorrow
| comes the big varsity race, the event
for which a dozen men at each UNI
versity have been training since last
fall, and of which both alumni and IN
dergraduateS of each of the colleges
have been thinking and for which they
have been planning since the races
We're won and lost last year.
The four big universities that are to
be represented in the regatta have the
four best rowing directors in the
United States. Pennsylvania has in
Trainer Ward a veteran who has few
II any SuperiorS as a coach. Cornell
has in Courtney man whose reputa-
ton to none as a trainer. Columbia
is fortunate in having DR.. Walter 3.
Peet as coach for this years crews
He has had long experience. has Won
derful tact and possesses the absolute
confidence of his crews. Wisconsin has
in McConville a coach who has rowed
in Wisconsin crews against the crack
college crews of the country, and his
friends in the west predict that he will
make a great showing this year. Coach
McConville has the entire confidence of
Messrs. Smelcker and Alsted of the
Wisconsin management, and will carry
out the policy of Coach O'Day outlined
before his departure for Harvard.
The remarkable feature of this years
regatta lies in the fact that the Wis
consin management, while adopting old
Yale'S tactics and crying Calamity
and Bad luck" in changes and make
ups of crews, is quietly giving the tip
to those possessing confidence of the
Wisconsin management that the Wis
consin university crew will win from
Cornell, Pennsylvania and Columbia on
June q at Poughkeepsie. The eastern
aquatic experts are at a loss to under
stand upon what grounds Wisconsin
bases her confidence in such result.
II is true that Cornell in 1898 disposed
of Harvard and Yale in an easy man
ner, and it is also true that the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, at Saratoga,
afterwards disposed of Cornell. 1t will
also be borne in mind that Wisconsin
was barely beaten out at Saratoga by
Cornell. 1t may also be remembered
that Wisconsin claimed they had a
better crew than Cornell or Pennsyl-
vania, and that they would have won
the race had ii not been that they
made their thousand-mile journey and
had no time to recuperate after arrival
at Saratoga, hence rowing undersa dis
advantage.
At New London, on Friday, Harvard
and Yale have their annual bout on
the waters of the Thames. On that
day the freshmen of the two univer-
stiles will row upstream with the tide,
the start to be made at 10 o'clock in
the morning. The course will be two
miles in length. At $3.50 in the after
noon the substitutes of the two var
sity crews will row downstream with
the tide over a two-mile course in four
cared shells with coxswains. At 4:S0
in the afternoon the varsity race will
be rowed downstream with the tide
over the regular four-mile course.
Should it be necessary to postpone
these races for any reason. they will
take place the next day at the same
hours.
Although there may be some changes |
in the personnel of the two varsity !
crews before the race, they are ex-
pected to appear upon the water for |
the big race about as follows: