The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-30
COLLEGE CREWS PREPARED.
READY FOR ToDAY's GREAT RACES
At PoUGHKEEPsIE.
Four Events I'm One Day Mark New
Departure-Five Crews Entered
for the Eight-Onred Race
The Several strokes Described.

POUGHKEEPSIE. y. Y. June pa
smashing of intercollegiate records for
varsity e!ght-oared shells II the wind and
weather are favorable, or at the least,
one Of the most holly contested races
ever rowed by collegiate crews in this
country is promised for tomorrow on the
splendid course opposite this city. For
the first time in the history Of this course.
now five years old. four races will b
vowed in one day and in the last race.
the varsity Fights I'VE crews will row
side by side for supremacy. Those who
make pretensfous as experts say today
after watching the practices that never
have crews shown themselves 50 evenly
matched and this opinion is evidently
shared by the coaches; for not one Of
them tonight will make definite predic-
ton that his crew will win the race.
So far as the consensus of opinion
among the experts is concerned. 1t Is
believed that the four-oared event, which
will open the racing at 4 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon. will go to Pennsylvania Its
crew has shown superb form in practice,
Mr. Ward, the coach. giving them quite a
good deal Of attention, while the coaches
of Columbia and Cornell have seemingly
neglected their four-oared crews and
they do not row in the same good form as
the freshmen and varsity. Mr.. Courtney
of Cornell, however. processes to believe
that while his four-oared crew does not
show up in the usual neat cornell form
they are very fast and this has been in a
measure demonstrated in their practice
with the Fights.
Wisconsin Freshmen Picked.
In the freshman Fights the youngsters
from Wisconsin are picked as winners ny
the same experts that picked Pennsylvania
in the fours That they are very fast is
not to be disputed and they have a quick
snappy style that usually counts for much
in the short two-mile race. but the Penn
eylvania freshmen are also very quick, and
have given the varsity crew good hustle
many times lately. showing continuous i'm
provemeut that may be dangerous 10 the
success of the Wisconsin men. Cornell Is
usually feature in the freshman races
here and have by no means conceded that
they are outclassed. while Columbia boys
If they do not forget the Hanlon stroke
claim they viii be in the foremost OF the
fight one thing is always true Of a fresh
man race. that it is won. because of its
short course. by continuously hard work
and not particularly by endurance ana
skin like the four-mle. and that one OF
the four crews has good winning chance
1t will be what the college boys call
"scrappy" race from start TO finish and II
looks now as II IL would be done In fast
varsity Race Uncertain.
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 a divergence OF opin-
ion as to the relative merits OF the
strokes. IL Is a Sthgtllar idct tisa' ~
distinct strokes are being rowed mere,
and will be tested in the race tomor-
row. in contradistnction to an almost
similar stroke rowed by Yale and Har-
Nadr on Thursday. In fact the strokes
arc radically different, the' only gener-
ally applied principle being in. the case
OF Cornell, Pennsylvania and George
town all three of whom agree upon the
strong use of the leg to finish out the
stroke after the back of the man Is per-
pendicular in the boat. There. however.
cCnoes al once a difference, for George
town completes the stroke with the Shout