Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-25
IN The WORLD OF SPORT
Crews in Training for tbs intercollegiate
Aquatic Races,
INCREASING INTEREST IN ATHLETICS
Princcton's Track Team Contempintes
Participating I'm the Great oiym-
pic Games mt the Paris
Exposition In 1900.

For over week the crimson OF Harvard
and the blue OF Yale have both waved over
the waters OF the Thames and interest is on
the increase for the final struggle, to take
place June 20.
The one question now to be settled Is
whether the Harvard eight is as fast as the
crack crew that Yale sent to the Thames
There has been some chance for compari-
son, as the same secrecy which has formerly
obtained has been relaxed somewhat.
Roughly speaking, Yale has the best Of It
ms far as Varsity is concerned but the Har-
ward four-oared crew is rowing in much
better form than their rivals.
1t Is conservative statement that Yale
has not been so nervous since 1898 over the
condition OF her crew. The Yale eight up 10
date has not shown any remarkable speed
The crew, in a word, Is not up to the eX-
pectations OF the coaches. The coaches had
expected great deal OF this eight, first be-
cause It is veteran eight, and second, be-
cause 1t has received so much coaching. The
crew has not fulfilled these expectations and
as the race draws nearer the coaches are be-
coming more and more doubtful whether this
eight will ever show fast time. The situa-
tion is one Of uncertainty and the coaches
are far from being satisfied.
The Harvard eight is a big crew Of young
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giants. The Yale men have had more ex-
perience in rowing than the Harvard and
they look like veterans.
Every man In the Yale boat with the ex-
ception of Brown, No. 5. has rowed in a
Varsity eight. Brown was member Of last
years freshman crew and Of the Varsity
foot ball team OF the last two seasons.
There is not a man in either boat who has
any physical imperfection. The two eights
are remarkable in the physical development
OF the men. Both crews are trained down
very fine. and IL the men were not fine types
Of athletes there would undoubtedly have
been many cases OF overtraining before this.
There will be much less difference noted
in the styles of rowing exhibited by the two
crews in this years race. Harvard has this
year modified the English rigging so that it
is almost the same as Yale's rigging. Both
crews are using the narrow bladed English
oars and both have gone back to the Ameri-
can method Of rigging the slides directly over
the keelson. Harvard has discarded the old
fashioned English tholepins and has re.
turned to the swivel oarlocks, which all
Americans use. Harvard has heightened out
her slides from sixteen TO eighteen inches
while Yale has heightened hers from sixteen
to seventeen inches. Both are rowing accord
ing to the fundamental principles OF the
English stroke. There is, however, consider
able difference in the two crews Harvard
has stuck somewhat more closely to the
English stroke than Yale has and the
latter has changed very little from last year
Several wealthy alumni of Princeton hav,
conceived the idea OF sending track team
to Paris to compete in the Olympic games
next summer. They do this with the hop,
OF booming class OF sport which has beer
admittedly weak at the Tiger college. Cap
tain Cregan announces that there is now NJ
doubt about Princeton entering, some of tht
gentlemen interested in sending the team
abroad had informed him that the expenses
for the trip were fully subscribed. The ques
tion now arises what sort OF team will
Princeton send to these worldrenownet
games. Princeton made good showing a
Athens in 1896 under the captaincy of Bob
Garrett. In the intercollegiate games OF -
Princeton scored 90 points while this sprin
only IL points were secured.
The track mar agement announces that tn
preliminary games will include gymnastic
fencing, aquatics, bicycling, poo climbing
archery and skating; field races consisting
of distances OF 100, 400 500 and 1900 meters
broad and high Jumps, pole vault, shot
discus and hammer events in all OF whic
Princeton will be represented.
There is an extraordinary interest beinl
manifested among sports and men OF al
callings over the coming OF the new heavy
weight champion OF the world, Jim J
Jeffries. He will be at Boyd's opera hous
Tuesday evening and the prospects ar
that the theater will be taxed to its fules
capacity. Nearly everybody wants to Sc
the man who lowered the colors OF Bo
Fitzsimmons. The show, while it will be
mighty interesting one, will be Of shor
duration Jefries will box four rounds wit
Jim DAILY and illustrate his fight with Fit
in an exhibition with his brother Jack
Preceding this there will be a six-roun
weight, and a big unknown from Indian
apolis.
The success OF the Omaha High schoo
team in its recent game at Tarkio show
that there was no excuse for the High schoc
not having "A team in the field all yeal
With two frst-class pitchers and severa
good hitters they could have been fairl
successful against all the neighboring team,
and probably have made a good record 70
themselves instead OF letting base ball tax
backward leap as was done.
On June 80 at the League OF America
Wheelmens meet and Cyclists carnival a
Patchogue, Long Islsad, an attempt will b
made by Charlie Murphy TO ride bicycle
mile in less than one minute behind raj
road locomotive. A similar attempt wa
made at st. Louis in '93 by f. E. Anderson
but he failed by about three seconds, h
time being 1903. The engine will draw on
car to the rear platform OF which will t