Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-11
JUNIOR VARSITY oARsMEN.
Yale and Harvard to. Contest in Ameri'
can Henley.

yale and Harvard in the Junior varsity
80 nth Cornell. Columbia and Pennsyl-
yania was the program announced by Mail
aeey Marshall S. Morgan of the University
az Pennsylvania crew, and also that the
hoard of stewards ofyther American Henley
had decided to hold the American Henley
mon the; same day,;as the junior varsity
race-that is, Decoration day, May ID
This news concerning the Junior varsity
race Is the best that rowing men nave
heard in good while. and means that the
race will be one of the most important OF
the year. as 1t brings togetnsr .ot t,e nh
have ALWAYS been leaders in college rowing.
The race will be the feature or the amer
lean Henley and is the result OF JOINT
plan between the American Henley Stew
ards and the University of PENNSYLVANIA
engagement to have race open only 10
college crews, instead of running the COZ
lege- entries In with the rowing 'cluoS' as
was done last year In ths way d sfe .'t
deal more interest will be attached to the
races both by the colleges and by the pup
lie.
THE two announcements now mean that
Philadelphia will have her big athletic car
niyal as proposed some time ago, which was
to include the intercollegiate track games
on May u and %, the American Henley on
May IS and the Junior varsity race on
May so.
d
was killed because of the fact that the
board of stewards of the American Henley
had about decided to postpone the Henley
until June, and Columbia had sent out word
that she would not enter the junior varsity
race.
But now the scheme is better than before,
as there will not be a conflict between the
intercollegiate games and the American
Henley, which were scheduled for the same
time but have now been changed so that
people may view the intercollegiate games
upon Franklin field Saturday afternoon.
and the following Monday take in both the
American Henley and Junior varsity race.
Such carnival has never yet been held
in any city, and the fact that the Junior
varsity race will bring together crews from
Pennsylvania, Cornell. Columbia. Yale and
Harvard for the first time will lend addi-
tional interest to all and serve to hold the
college crowds who come to view the inter
collegiate games on Saturday over to take
in the beat races on Monday.
This race will undoubtedly be the only
one that college crews will enter, except in
the case of the University of Pennsylvania.
who will probably enter their entire num-
Der of crews, with the exception OF her
varsity. Other colleges cannot AFFORD to
send more than one second or club crew,
and the varsity crews will then be so near
the completion of their training for the an
nual four-mile races at Poughkeepsie and
New London that it would be folly to enter
them In a mile and a quarter or two-mile
race. as nothing harms crew more than
to row them short race when they are
training for a long, one
Since Yale and Harvard have entered a
crew in this race things are beginning to
look harmonious In college rowing, and it
would not be surprising to see Harvard
at least enter her crews in the intercolle-
giate regatta at Poughkeepsie this year be-
cause of the fact that her new rowing
coach. Fred COlson. is an,old Cornell man,
who Is anxious to sec every college crew in
America at Poughkeepsie. as we'll as to
have Harvard make such a popular move
during his period as her rowing coach.
AS the Yale-Harvartl race Is rOwed a
week before the big event at Poughkeepsie
there is no reason Why both should not
enter this regatta and make it the banner
rowing event of the world.