The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-09
COLLEGE CREWS AT WORK.
UNIVERSTTIES PREPARING ron
POyGHRBEPsIE REGATTA.


% Hard Luek--Wlso0nsln the Last oil
the Elk Candidates 10 Get on the water
An tbs SiK cola gee whose crews struEkie
annually ~ Poughkeepsie In the interool
bRiAte 70 rata have been preparing zeal
ouSly for The tenth renAwal Of The StruGgIe
on tie Hudson on July Of this year. This
weak hAa sen Wisconsin, the last Of the
siH 10 ret on TIE vatsr, sending her oarsmer
out on Lake Mendoza. On The Harlem
on ths Somlylldl, on the Potomac and on
enondaEa and CayuEa lakes, Columbia
Pennsylvania, GEORGETOWN, Syracuse and
Cornell eli have thar orew candidates al
work. Chances for the season are being
diSOusssd. since Syracuse broke Cornell's
long string OF Victories last June the big
varsity race has become more open. This
STATE Of affairs V not less pleasing TO the
oollsFs men than 10 the lay enthusiast
The old cry OF Anything TO beat CORNELL
has been hushed.
The big race this year presents peculiar
features. Syracuse now has 10 Justify
herseli, as II were. for last years victory.
Thare were and still are many who raised
the cry Of shuke' when the Orange com
bination won at Poughkeepeie. 1t was
said that all the crews let Syracuse go on
about her business, when the Salt City
oarsmon started out with such rush. All
expected 10 zee the syTaousans 60 TO pieces.
That they did not shows that credit IL due
their pluck and physical condition. They
rowed In killing style for the four miles,
and Il was at least big tactical error on
tho part Of the other oarsmen 70 let them
get away, II the other men really did let
them get away. James Ten Eyck, the
Syracuse coach, said after the race that
be believed the race justified his theories
Of training and strohng. He declared
that he had had for years a system which
he believed would win, Ten Eyck now
must Justify himself and his crews by the
showing Syracuse makes this year. An
other victory for the up-Staters would
sHeotually settle those who raise the cry
Of Afuke"
Tbhgs could not we'll look brighter for
the Syracuse crews. Six men Of the eight
who finished two lengths and more before
Cornell last June are now rowing in the
frst varsity boat, The crews we're not put
on the water until last Monday. Thirty
four men we're taken into training quarters
at the Hotel onondaga. The lake Is free
from ice, and the races between varsity and
freahraan crews that we're a feature Of the
rowing last year soon will be resumed.
This year Syracuse will have a four cared
crew, and 50 may have q chance 70 make
good on what ono Of the Salt City collie
CLANS said last year: 'Oh, IL we'd bad 3
four, we'd have swept the decks
The varsity crew is made up at present
81 sduires. bow; Salisbury, 2; c. Packard,
.; Anderson, 4; Heath, S; Hale, Q; Rice, 7;
A, Packard, stroke; Cornwall, eoKswain.
Dtmpster Of last years varsity boat will
have Hsath'S place az 5, IL is thought, and
G. Packard viii give way 70 Andrews.
sduires eaptained the crew last year, and
salhbury. Rice and Stroke Packard make
up the others Of the six vets
Anderson has only recently recovered
from an attack u meakles. He has been
unable 10 do much rowing. Ten Eyek says
that. until the new she'll is in shape and the
men get settled down 70 port or starboard
rowing, Il viii be uncertain exactly who
will row IN either the varsity or four cared
boat. II the 'vsrsity combination named
above Is chosen, which seems likely,
the four-oar crew will be Armstrong, bow;
Cunings, 2; Robinson, 5; Davis, stroke.
The four-oar crew is a great pet Of
Ten Eycks and hetIpects much in the way
Of aquatic glory for IT,
The Syracuse freshies have been cut
down 10 fourteen In number. Their boat
Il made up Of: Bowen, bow; Whitney, 2;
Dodge, 8; Duvall, 8; Blooher, S; Stephenson,
.; Corp, Z; Paddock, stroke, and Decker,
ooxswain. Stephenson at 0 is from De
Witt c inton High School Of this city. He
failed In hIs entrance examinations 70
Columbia, and after two weeks OF practice
with the Columbia squad entered Syracuse.
He earned his varsity letter on the SYRIA
cuse eleven.
The Salt City oarsmen will do no racing
before the Poughkeepse regatta. having
refused invitations to several outside re-
Eattas. Coach Ten Eyck says that he feels
little Ia TO be gained from rowing in other
races.
Cornell. for years previous the champion
on the water, finished second 70 Syracuse
last year. The Ithacans started this year,
with fairly bright pros
poets. With 10th the Fcote brothers,
Capt. Bosch Fernow and Folger among
the veterans Of the varsity crew, things
did not look 10 be 90 bad for Cornell. Mis-
fortunes, however, followed one another
fast. By a literal Interpretation Of the
one year residence rule, Conkling, Gilmore
and Halliday. three men Of apparent varsity
calibre, were lost TO the beat. Then fol-
lowed the loss Of sturdevant, Sailor
and Forbes. Altogether seven good men
dropped nom q squad none too strong in
was a hard blow 70 Courtney
Things, however, are not altogether hope
les. Sailor may recover from his Illness
guficif ntly 20 row again. Sturdevant IL
Almost ready to row again. Forbes, who
deserted the college In order to get a try
y .'he crew Of the Vesper Beat Club OF
adslphia fail d 10 make a seat in the
Y !ey Digit a tho club oarsmen. Since
return 10 Ithaca he has been oddly |
10 atd. He has been PLACID in one Of the |
lees important CIT VS., and may not again |
mako the varsity.
II 4 now thought that some Of the fresh |
men may have q chance for varsity posi- |
ions. 90 scarce 10 real varsity material. |
Courtney, however. has the faculty Of do |
ng his best work under difficulties and |
nay be secretly little pleased because he |
aaant too many veterans Of a certain type /
% deal with. Not a little Of Courtney's |
.rouble has come from the fact that he |
,annot get the older men 70 work their
hardest. They know that they can row
Eell enough 70 get q seat and they dislike
b have % labor any harder than Just that