Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-26
READY FOR THE GREAT RACE
College crews Prepared to Pull Their
shells over Pouphkccpsie
Course This week.

POUGHKEEPs1E, n. V, June 25-Au
indications point to a lowering of the inter-
collegiate worlds record for four niles for
oight-oared shells when the crews Of
Columbia, Cornell, Pennsylvania and Wis
consin meet on this river Tuesday next, for
never in the history of this now famous
course have the crews seemed to be so
evenly matched as are those mere at pres
cnt. 1t is lifting II the record Is TO be
broken that II should be here, for here un-
der the shadow of the great Poughkeepsie
bridge Cornell in 1895 established new
world record OF 1879. TIE last few praS-
tices of the crews have shown more simi.
larlty i'm the crews and tneir stroke anu
the respective speeds than has ever peen
notcea pe before ana the 6oats ipaTea s9
be very close together during most OF the
four miles.
a fternoon IA race between tour-oared crews
of Pennsylvania and Cornell Will open the
two DAYS racing. rhis is practically a
match race although the committee OF the
Poughkeepsie Highland Regatta asso alton
are hoping that next year 1t VIII leau 10
entries in singles, doubles and other Tours,
so as to make the sport general, his race
OF lour-oared crews vii. but whet the ap-
| petites for the race of the freshmen eishts
of Columbia Cornell and PennsyiVanla
which occurs at o'clock on the same
on TUESDAY, June %, at o'clock in the
| afternoon, or as soon thereafter as the
weather will permit, the race OF the vars
| ity eignts of Columbia, Cornell, Pennsyi-
|
| the race that well-intormed experts say Is
| to be one of the closest and fastest ever
rowed by college crews. ~
! The crews are in the pink of condition
! and have devoted every minute OF their
! time to the work in hand. There are no
! suggestions of staleness, or OF not enough
| nerve, and each Coacher today Gains that
| his men are all in the best of condition.
| OF the crews as units the heaviest is the
| Columbia Varsity, which averages about lb3
pounds, coupled with an average height OF
| iive feet eleven and one-half inches as in
| comparison with the crews of Wisconsin,
| which tor its avearge height of six feet
| and one inch has but an average weight OF
| 1862 pounds. The men have been under the
| many weeks and their frankness in CAIN
| ing exemptions from such training DIS
| eases as have heretofore formed excuses for
| losing crews is refreshing.
| miles runs along the west side of the river
| in the shadow of the hign Mills and begins
| at a point three miles above the Pough-
keepsie bridge, finishing mile below. II Is
| be and the current of the river affects 1t
| but little, If the race is not rowed at a
| time when the up-tide makes swirl in the
| shallow water. The miles are marked with
| big round white disks and the entire race is
| visible from observation train which
runs on the west side OF the river The
| freshmen eight is rowed from the two-mile
| point of the course to the finish.
| The four miles stretch OF water which has
| come to be known as the Poughkeepsie
| portant college boat races that have been
| rowed within the last four years, or since
| 1895, when the course was first brought to
public notice through its selection for the
and Pennsylvania universities
| The course holds the worlds record for
four miles, it having been established by
| Cornell in 1896, when the ithacans travelled
| the four miles in 1926