New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-28
OPEN RACE ON HUDSON.
TAKES CHANCE
Cornell to Roc I'zcO Mcn IN Both
VARSITY and -Four Oar.
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Poughkeepsie. y y. June 27.-The river is ready
for the annual intercollegiate regatta. The weeks
OF training the crews arc as nj as uu"er
the circumstances their coaches can make iheH'
All they ask is good quiet water and no taVors.
They'll get the latter. As for the tormeI lhe "ihd
gods will decide.
All three races which make up the days pro-
gramme win be pulled off late in the afternoon
when the sun is declining the western hills
that fringe the Hudson. The four-oared argument
at two miles, be rowed without coxswains, IS
down for decision the hour of 4. while three
quarters Of hour later the two-mile affair be-
ths freshman eight-oared crews VIII be de-
cided The principal contest OF the day-the heart
brea king pull OF four miles for the six varsity
crews-comes off promptly az o'clock As usual
ali three races will be rowed downstream.
on the eve OF the regatta two accidents have
happened, and both 10 Pennsylvania oarsmen-
Mills the freshman coXswain. fell striking drink
ing pitcher and infcting a nasty cut on his ches.
that the surgeon had to put few stitches IN.
while Block who pulls No IN the freshman,
sprajned his foot while getting out OF the shell
Neither viii be kept out OF the boat. although
Mills would have stay out Of it II he pulled an
This morning the varsity eight struck the fo,,
and The outrieger r. No and il brace broken.
Ward repaired the damage. out il was narrow
escape
VARSITY CONTEST An oPEN RACE
Conditions have conspired 10 produce rather more
than the usual atmosphere OF uncertainty a. R"
the outcome Of the varsity For several
seasons Cornell has been in such fine fettle that
the sharps usually practically conceded victory ia
the Ithacans il advance. the partisans OF rival
crews meanwhile protesting loyalty that their
men would give good account OF themselves
This year. however, Courtney has been playing in
a bit of hard luck. Captain Coffin. after hard
struggle to keep about has succUmbed to malaria
and has been taken to the hospital. Forbes, who
rows No in the four got blood poisoning and is
IN the hospital, too
Courtney's decision fill these gaps by calling
on the Foote boys 20 two miles in the four and
than only two hours late- to endure the grueling
drive of four miles in the varsity boat, has set
folks talking Courtney himself appears TO be con-
fdent that his pair of Feste," one waS called
them here to-day. fully capable Of sitting up
creditabIy under the strain. but there are others
who have their doubts.
All the Cornell were out this evening and
this morning too, taking lesurely spin of two
miles up the river and the Foote boys sat in the
seats they will occupy tomorrow.
cOURTNEY's TWO REPEATERs
Courtney took look at the varsity and SAID:
Well they've got the science. I've taught them
all l know about rowing, and rs up to them now
I'm satisfied with their form If they are beaten
it win take a stronger to do the trick
Courtney was asked about the wisdom of impos-
ing such an apparently, hercuean task upon the
two Foote boys He replied:
I believe it's the first time it has been done in
intercollegiate racing in this country. But it's ire
Quenty done in England. | myself saw Guy and
Vivian Nichols row in three successive races. To
be sure, the distance was only five-siXteenths OK
mile while these races two and four miles.
The Foote boys confident they can do the trick
Their parents are here and have given thelr con
sent
When it was suggested to the veteran coach that
possibly the two Foote boys might save their
strength in the four cared arrangement in order
TO be in tptop fettIe for the varsity struggle he
replied that they wouldn't row any harder than
they had to win the tour-oared contest but
they'd win If they possibly could.
Courtney's action in calling two men to row
In two races each points TO of two conditions:
Either he is supremey confident that nothing can
beat him, or his substitutes so bad that he has
taken this unusual as a desperate chance to
pull out a victory when things looked hopeless Old
oarsrnen are shaking their heads bit tonight
Few OF those who have pulled through the four
mile varsity think n can have any too
much strength and freshness when he gets into
boat.
SOME DOUBT OF CORNELLs CHANCES.
For these the rowing sharps are OF the
opinion that the netting. which tonight makes
Cornell d strong favorte. is Influenced rather more
by the prestige won ny the lthacans through q
series of victorious years than by the facts upon
which forecasts of to-morrows racing ought to be
built
The reputation that Wisconsin brought out OF the
West makes her looked most likely to beat
the Ithacans O'Dea's got the river for
the first time Friday that little is really
known Of their form here from first hand ooserva-
ton. 1t only be said that the men are In fine
shape, and that, from what is known of the meth
DDS Of their coach and their history in previous
years at Poughkeepse, good things may be reason
ably expected of them. They have done no heavy
training since they reached the East
1t Is known that Courtney fears from
O'Dea's pupils than from all the rest. Since Cof-
fms removal from CornelIs shell, Cornell and Wis
consln have been equal in weight. averaging 173 is
pounds a man. Cornell, however. much eXcels in
heights with an average OF feet lie inches to
Wisconsin's feet f01a inches.
Columbia has had rather en- unusually hard train
ing exnerence this year. for ii has been hard for
her to forget so much of the teaching Hanlan to
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