The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-06-29

Poughkeepsie. June PA smashing
OF intercollegiate records for varsity
eight Dared shells IL wind and weather
are favorable, or at least. one OF the
y most hotly contested races ever rowed
by college crews in this country. Is
promised for tomorrow on the splendid
course opposite this city.
For the first time in the history OF
t,is course, now five years old, four
races will be rowed in one day. and in
the last race, the varsity eights. hve
crews will row side by side for supre-
macy. Those who make pretensions as
experts, say today, after watcning the
practices, that never have crews shown
themselves so evenly matched. and this
opinion is evidently shared by the
coaches: for not one of them Will make
a dennite prediction that his crew VIII
win the race.
So far as the concensus OF opinion
among the experts Is concerned, II Is be-
lieved ,lat the four cared event, which
opens the racing at four O'Clock TO-
morrow afternoon, will go to Pennsyi-
wanda.
It's crew has shown superb form in
practice, Mr. Ward. the coach. giving
them quite a good deal OF attention,
and Cornell have seemingly neglected
their four cared crews and they do not
rev In the same good form as the
freshmen and varsity.
Mr. Courtney of Cornell however, pro-
fesxes to believe, that while his four
Dared crew does not show UP in the
usual neat Cornell form. they are very
fast and this has been in measure
demonstrated in their practice with the
ejghts.
THE FRESHMAN EIGHTS.
In the freshman eights the young
sters from Wisconsin are picked al
winners by the same aggregation oi
experts that pick Pennsy In the fours
That they are very fast Is not to be
disputed, and, they have quick. snap
by style that usually counts for much
in the short two-mile race, but the
Pennsy freshmen are also very quicl
and have given the varsity crew good
hustle many times lately, showing con-
tinous Improvement that may be dan
gerous to abe success of the Wisconsin
men.
Cornell is usually a feature in the
freshmen races here and have by nC
means conceded that they are out.
classed. while the Columbia boys. II
they do not forget the Hanlan stroke
claim that they will be in the foremost
Of the fight.
One thing is always true of fresh
men race, that IL Is won. because OF itf
short course by continuously hard
work and not particularly by endurance
and skill like the four-mile, and that
any one of the four crews has good
winning chance.
4; will be what the college boys cal
"scrappy'' race from start to finish
\ nj ~ IrpokC a ac ho 1rno
In fast time.
THE VARSITY CREWS.
The varsity race Is causing more dis
agreements in expert circles than any
previous race in years. and this is be-
lieved to be due TO divergence OF
opinion as TO the relative merits of the
strokes.
II is a singular fact that five distinc,
strokes are being rowed here and will
be tested In the race TO morrow, in con-
fradistinction to an almost similar
stroke rowed by Yale and Harvard or
Thursday. In fact the strokes are rad.
icaliy different. the only generally ap.
piled principle being in the case of Cor.
nell Pennsylvania and Georgetown al
three OF whom agree upon the stronr
use OF the leg to finish out the stroke
after the back OF the man is perpendlc.
ular in the boat.
There. however, comes at once a df.
ference. for Georgetown completes the
stroke with tie shoulders. Cornell will
the arms and Pennsylvania with botf
arms and a longer slide.
columbia uses the shoulders 10 4
large degree all through the stroke
while the great difference I'm the wis.
consin stroke from the others is the
sharp. quick catch and the quick re.
covery.
Georgetown will row the tastes,
stroke on the river. starting at fort,
dropping down TO thirty-eight and
getting back again TO forty-one anc
forty-two. II is hustle but il seem.
TO make the boat go at a good rate.