The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-24
CREWS ARE READY
FOR THE Big RACE
Present Miserable Weather
Seriously interferes With
Practice Work.


did not prevent the practice of the COL
lege crews. Coach Courtney says the
COrnellS are as ready to race now as
they ever will be. The same may be
said Of the Columbia and Pennsyl-
yania varsity Fights, and both of the
Wisconsin crews, but Columbia's newly
boated freshmen, Pennsylvania fresh
men. Georgetown's varsity, and both
of the Syracuse Fights will be worked
assiduously up to the very last min
ute.
With only two days remaining for
the final rounding up Of forces and
putting the finishing touches on the
crews, the coaches of all six colleges
agree that the continuance of the pres
ent miserable weather will have de-
terrent effect upon the practice and
seriously interfere with the work yet
to be done.
The rain which fell today brought
with it a cold, damp temperature, and
while every crew was on the river at
least once, the coaches were extremely
wary as to how they exposed their
men to the danger of the atmosphere.
After the mornings practice in the
rain, ScfIisler, of Pennsylvania, was
taken with violent cfamp in one Of
his arms, which was attributed to the
damp air. Ne varsity eight there
fore remained in quarters this evening.
While showing the general anxiety
of the trainers as to the weather, Mr..
Ward was more perturbed today over
the action of the board of stewards in
declaring Drayton, of his freshmen
crew, ineligible to row. He said:
"Drayton was the strongest man in
the boat, and before his displacement
l thought the crew had an excellent
chance to win. I don't see now how
they can do it This morning, in a
race between the two Fights, the fresh
men had the customary advantage at
the start. Heretofore the vastly has
oVertaken them in mile and a half,
but today it took them two miles to do
1t. shall put either Smith or Barrett
in the bow. Our varsity crew, I am
glad to say, are in good condition, and
their improvement has been SO rapid
that now believe they stand a chance
OF winning. The crew that beats our
varsity four will also know that they
have been in race"
The Quaker freshmen and varsity
four rowed four miles this evening, the
youngsters being sent two miles at top
speed to. enable the coach to Judge
whether Barrett or Smith was the best
man to put in the boat. Having re-
manned indoors all day the Cornell
elght came out for evening practice
looking as fresh as the depressing
weather conditions would permit They
padded up stream, the freshmen watt
ing at the tWo-mile mark for the war
Slty to come down from the starting
line. When Courtney sent his senior
crew away he yelled:
I want you fellows to row as If the
devil was after you.'' and the eight
obeyed to the letter of the law. Court
ney held the only stop watch on the
boat. as the crew tore: down the course.
At the two-mile point the freshmen
picked them up and held a lead of a
length to the bridge, where Coffin, the
varsity stroke, hit UP the stroke to
thirty five. Half mile from the fin
ISM the lboats were on even terms. and
when Courtney shouted, Let her rum
the varsity were half length to the
good. lacking yard. The Cornell
rooters ION the launch said they never
saw their crew go so fast.
Apropos Of the coyness of Wisconsin
and the reticence of their coach to re-
veal the work Of his crews, Courtney
made some interesting remarks today
on the subject of publicity in training.
He said:
When we are at home do not care
to have anyone On the launch, as ]
prefer to. work the men in3privacy, but
atter the crews get togPoughkeepsie ]
realize they are in the public eye, and
that thousands of CornelEs alumni all
ONOA eAAC SOu1AIAy are dHA1OuS TO know
what they are doing. Z therefore con-
slider it my duty to let the boys be
SEEN" -
Similar sentiments have been ex-
pressed by nearly all the other coaches,
Edward Hanlon. of Columbia, being es-
pecially communicativefin telling of his
crews achievements ea
The Columbia freshmen, boated as
yesterday, roWed two hard sessions to-
day, but the varsity. who are trained
TO a nicely, in their eeaeh's opinion
were In their boat but One. In the
forenoon they followed the freshmen
on the launch with Hanlon, and in the
evening the two Fights had a brush
The youngsters got away. in the lead
ana maintained it until the last half
mile, when the varsity hit I'D the
stroke for the first time. The freshmen
followed suit and responded SO snap
PLY to their coXsWain that Hanlon ex-
claimed: Those kids go as if they
had wheels under the boat"
The varsity made up only half a
length of the freshmen's lead in the
two miles.
The Georgetown crew probably feel
the unreasonable weather more than
any OF the others, because they have
mad warm, dry weather in Washing
ton. The change has affected them
slightly, but Coach Dempsey does not
Link tney nave deteriOratHd
Coach O'Dea, Of the Wisconsin. had
the launch Queen City out once TO-DAY.
Ihat was in the morning, when he
sent out the freshmen and four for a
tWo-m1le scrap, in which the former
won by big margin, while the var
slty eight looked on from the launch.
In the afternoon all the crews were
out without the coach, the varsity
padding three miles and then working
out hard two miles by tens From
now on they Will do no more than is
necessary to preserve their present
form. Syracuse continues the hardest
working crew in the colony. The men
rOWed two long sessions today. and
Coach Ten Eyck reports. a perceptible
improvement with every practice.
Yale Harvard Practice.
GALES FERRY, Conn, June 23ATne
t1ar Varu varsity oarsmen were the guests
OF the Yale university crews at Broad :
view tooay. Inc Harvard raen remained
nan an pour, after which they returned
to Red Top. At 5 o'clock the Yale eight
went down the river as far as the Har-
Vard boat house. They ypracticed racing
starts on the way downs but came back
In one stretch at an easy stroke
The work of the Harvard crews WINS
very nght this afternoons. The university
TOOK mile stretch against the wind and
TIDE and made good time under the condi-
IONS thn put the E., coaches would not give out
the water hardly fifteen minutes. They
are ION edge" and the coaches do not
want TO work them hard with the race
day SO close at hand. The varsity four
went OUT alone and rowed Sseveral long
stretches. increasing the stroke to So,
Tennis In London.
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