The sun., 1900-06-30
PoUGHKEEPsIE REGATTA.
What the Experts Think of Different
Crews Chances.

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Poughkcepsie. n Y, June 29.-A
smashing of intercollegiate records for
varsity eight Dared shells if wind and
weather are favorable, or, at the least, one
of the most hotly contested races ever
rowed by college crews in this country is
promised on the splendid course opposite
this city. Those who make pretensions
as experts say, after watching the prac-
tees, that never have crews shown them
selves so evenly matched, and this opn-
ion is evidently shared by the coaches,
for not one of them will make definite
prediction that the crew will win the
| ace.
| So far as the consensus of opinion
! among the experts is concerned it is be-
| lieved that the four cared event, which
| opens the racing, will go to Pennsylvania.
!. Its crew has shown superb form in prac-
| tice, Mr.. Ward, the coach, giving them
quite good deal of attention, while the
other coaches of Columbia and Cornell
have seemingly neglected their four Dared
| crews, and they do not row in the same
good form as the freshmen and varsity.
| Mr.. Courtney of Cornell, however, pro-
| fesses to believe that, while his four oar
ed crew does not show up in the usual
neat Cornell form, they are very fast,
4 and this has been in a measure demon-
strated in their practice with the eights.
| In the freshmen eghts the youngsters
| from Wisconsin are picked as winners by
the same aggregation of experts that
pick Pennsy in the fours That they are
very fast is not to be disputcd and they
have quick, snappy style that usually
counts for much i'll the short two mile
race, but the Pennsy freshmen are also
very quick and have given the varsity
crew Il good hustle many times lately.
showing continuous Improvement that
may be dangerous to the success of the
Wisconsin men. Cornell is usually a
feature in the freshmen races here and
have by no means conceded that they arc
outclassed, while the Columbia boys, il
they do not forget the Hanlan stroke
claim that they will be in the foremost
i of the fight. One thing is always true Of
freshmen race-that it is won, because
of its short course, by continuously hare
work and not particularly by endurance
, and skill, like the four mile, and that any
J one of the four crews has good winning
chance. 1t will be what the college boy!
call "scrappy" race from start to finish
The varsity race is causing more dis
: agreements in expert circles than an.
| pEtNtuu5 Jthiot anu thts 10 bc
lieved to be due to divergence of opin
ion as to the relative merits of til
strokes. 1t is a singular fact that fiv
e distinct strokes are being rowed her
: and will be tested in the race in contra
distinction to an almost similar strok
rowed by Yale and Harvard on Thurs
q day. In fact, the strokes are RADICAL
}. different, the only generally applied priI
!. ciple being in the case of Cornell, Penn
sylvania and Georgetown, all three c
whom agree upon the strong use of th
e leg to finish out the stroke after the bac
,s of the man is perpendicular in the boa
Al There, however, comes at once a diffe
ence, for Georgetown completes tt
stroke with the shoulders, Cornell wit
the arms and Pennsylvania with bot
arms and a longer slide. Columbia us'
the shoulders 10 large degree a
,r through the stroke, while the great di
= ference in the Wisconsin stroke fro
the others is the sharp, quick catch al
9 the quick recovery.