The Saint Paul globe., 1900-06-30
before THE BIG RACES
COLLEGE CREWS ARE FIT AND
ANXIOUS FOR THE
WORD
PROGRAMME TO BE FOLLOWED
Betting Is Unusually Light on the
Eve of the Great StruggIe-What
Experts Say About the Crews to
Contend In Various Events.

POUGHkEEPSIE, N. Y, June 29-The
programme for the college boat races to-
morrow is as follows:
p. m.-University four-oared shell
without coxswains, distance 2 miles. En-
tries: Columbia, Cornell and PennsyI-
vania Favorite tonight, Pennsylvania.
D. m.-FreShman eight-oared shells
DISTANCE miles. Entries: Columbia, Cor
nell, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin Fa-
VorIte tonight Wisconsin.
D. m.-UniVersity eight-oared shells,
distance four miles. Entries: Columbia,
Wisconsin. Favorite tonight, Cornell
with Wisconsin and Pennsylvania al
most equally backed.
Probable condition of the water from
observations are as follows: For the en-
tire afternoon, after the ebb tide sets in,
which is about o'clock, smooth water
with light wind from the north. When the
first race is called, the tide will be of
little advantage, being almost slack, but
for the second race there will be a good
ebb. By o'clock, when the varsity race
is to be rowed, there will be a good ebb
and with the aid of the wind records
should be broken.
A feature of this years regatta is the
fact that in each and every event
trophy is to be awarded to the winning
crews. This has been the case only with
the university races the past two years,
the trophy being the challenge cup pre-
sented by DR.. Louis i. Seaman, Cornell
university, to be held by the winner one
year 1t was won by Pennsylvania In
1888 and 1899.
In addition to this prize there is of
fered this year for the first time trophy
in each of the two other events. In the
university four-oared race it is the Ken
nedy challenge trophy, presented by
Davidson Kennedy, University of Penn
sylvania, to be held by the winner for one
year. In the freshmen race the premium
IS called the Stewards cup, presented by
Francis S. Bangs, Columbia university,
and is also to be held by the winner for
one year.
OF the ten races heretofore, Pennsylvania
has won seven, Cornell one and Yale two
The number Of visitors attracted to
Poughkeepsie by the boat races was large
ly added to today and tonight by the ar
rival of hundreds of men and women on
every boat and train. OF course the big
crowd will not come until tomorrow and
it will be here for only one day. Still
there are enough college men and follow
ers Of the sport with a sprinkling of pref
ty girls displaying the colors of the diff
feTent colleges on hand tonight to give
the old town much of the appearance that
1t bore when the races were two-day af-
fairs. Late comers are being sent to
boarding houses. There IS not so much
betting as usual on the eve of a boat race,
especially when the number of colleges
involved in the decision is taken into con-
sideration. Probably this is due to the
uncertainty which enshrouds the whole
situation, particularly as the co-relative
merits of Cornell, Pennsylvania and Wis
consin, not only In the varsity race, but
in the freshmen event as we'll There is no
betting Of any account in the four-oared
race, because the Pennsylvanians are so
generally looked upon as sure winners.
There is no public betting going on to-
night and there will probably be none
tomorrow
For some reason which is not clear to
the experts who form their estimates
from the crews they see at work the Cor
nell crew are as much afraid of Pennsyi-
vania as they are of Wisconsin Pennsyl-
Yania rooters win bet even money against
either Cornell or Wisconsin, The man
who wants to take the field against either
Pennsylvania, Cornell or Wisconsin must
give odds at least of to l, and there
IS no favor1te, though many bets of this
kind are made.
The afternoon practices developed moth
ing that was particularly new except that
the rowing sharps got a look at CO.
lumbla, Georgetown and Wisconsin all In
a punch. Columbia was tagging along at
a very slow pace, the coach giving them
lessons in perfecting the stroke To all
appearances they did not pull their boat
along as well as the Georgetown crew
They hung badly over the catching and
there was no improvement in the work,
georgetown rowed over a two-mile
course and kept their boat going smooth
~. Ihey drew up perceptibly on the CO.
lumbla crew, who was ahead of them
and gave rise to many rumors during the
evening that they had caught and passed
them The Columbia men claim that they
We're not making any attempt to row fast
"lscons;ns S two crews showed up in
superb form. If they had anv suggestion
Of staleness it has all disappeared and
they are in equally as good physical con-
dltlon as either Pennsylvania or Cornell
Ellis Ward took the Pennsylvanians out
tor snort row of about two miles and
they showed up in splendid shane
Handler Won on EouI