The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-04
WITH THB COLLEGE ATHLETES
DOINGS IN THE FIELD or SPORT
IN EAST AND WEST.

mig College ReSattas DRAWING Near
Annapolis Makes Splendid show"s
on the Water-Western Athletic HAP
pcnings and Many Observation-Disclosures
With Comnnbia's Grew squad already
en- route for it's training quarters NJ h'gn-
lands, and Cornell and Pennsylvania get
ting ready to make the annual move 10 the
Hudson, the big regatta for the SIX colleges
On the Hudson seems very close AZ haho'
In the meantime the Yale-Harvard con-
tingent Is heading toward New Lon don.
Gales Ferry and Red Top are ready Tor
their occupants. and the series OF dual
contests between the two New En- CLAN d
institutions will soon be called. Tho so
called intercollegiate championships, IN
which Cornell, Columbia. Syracuse. Wisoon- .
sin, Georgetown and Pennsylvania take
mart on the Hudson will be held this year on
June %. Yale and Harvard will row June
20, the day following As between these
contests there Is nothing to choose In in
terest. Neither one hurts the attendan GO
at tho other, for the Yale Harvard faction
does not 20 to Poughkeepsie. nor on the
contrary would the adherents OF any one
Of the six other colleges feel In the least
drawn to the New London course.
As tho Poughkeepeie race draws near
the interest In the outcome Of the main
event--the varsity eights-quickens as
IL has not IN years before. Syracuse. last
years winner, III doubtedly has q good
crew. The wearers Of the Oran &c certainly
achieved one thing by winning last year
They will not be ignored by followers Of
the sport outside their own college. as they
wers last year. The majority of persons
who had anything to do with the early
work of the crews last year passed the
Syracusans by as negligible quantity
simply because their style wac not good
according to the orthodox principles Of
rowing.
Now, at any event, there will be moro
than little attention paid to the work.
outs Of Ten Eyck's men, and no matter
how roughly they stroke. and no matter
what crying defects of style they have,
oil will he laid at the door Of the new cult
get there rowing. which demands only
that the men In one boat shall yank their
oars through the water faster than the
men IN the other boats in order TO establish
for tho moment the supremacy Of one
stroke over another. Ten Eyok is a
disciple Of the get there cult. Strangely
enough, so ia Courtney Of Cornell. But
he and Ten Eyck have differing angles
Of view. Ten Eyck says: "Tbere ia ono
way only to row. and that's the right way.
This idea OF calling the stroke employed
by the winning crew by the name Of it's
@ ach makes me tired Courtney says,
too: Every one knows that there Is a
fundamental law Of rowing. The crew
which Is 90 ached to carry out the clemen-
tary principles in the smooth and most
effective way will win. There is no Court
ney stroke no 'Hanlan stroke no any
body's stroke.
But where the men differ Is in the matter
Of application. Cornel's crews always
have been low stroking crews. It has
been noticeable that they rarely went
above thirty strokes to the minute, IL az
high A remarkable feature was that Cor g.
uell's crews got great deal more power
and strength into a low stroke and sent
the boat along smoother and faster than
the other crews which etroked from two
to four notches higher--until last year.
Ten Eyck whose Syracuse eight smashed
its way down the four mile stretch at a
clip anywhere from thirty to thirty-four
or thirty-flve strokes to the minute. puts
his and Courtney's system Into opposition
in the following:
Nobody can tell me that crew rowing
20 strokes to the minute with the power
properly applied can beat as good a crew
rowing 80 to the minute with the power also
properly applied. The slow recovery in
the stroke was developed at Cornell and its
use was beat typified by the Cornell varsity
eight OF 1903. which consider the standard
In point Of size and weight. This crew rowed
best at a % to the minute stroke, but I
know that crew which ! would have re.
sarded as equally good rowing 80 strokes
to the minute could have beaten the Cornell
boat. Why? Because the main fact in
rowing Us lost sight Of in the slower stroke
Although the effect may be more pleasing
to the eye. the point Of getting the most
speed from the boat Is sacrificed That is
to say, the power and the conditions being
equal. the crew pulling tn e greater number
OF the strokes to the minute must to win.
What Ten Eyck has to say on the subject
OF rowing must be listened to with re-
spect for tho tina being. Should his
theories, plainly stated above, prove to be
better than those OF Courtney, Goodwin,
Ward. ODea and Dempsey, then certainly
"iA''S ~ i'o NO w 10 couc CUdlS6S mace
In the rowing systems Of the other colleges
II they hope to win. Even if last years
victory Of Syracuse was an accident, an
other win for the onondagans could not
we'll be. Ten Eyck is almost the only coach
IN charge Of university crew who does
not consider that to send an eight cared
crew over four mile course strokine
at an average Of 80 or higher to the
minute is not only foolhardy but i'm
possible. Ten Eyck contends for the
negative Of the proposition, and SAYS in
effect: Il did it once. II do it again
you'll have to admit it was fairly done
and that you were wrong
And Ten Eyck looks to have a good
chance Of getting away with his theories
when they are brought down to actual .
practise. His crews this season are formid.
able If the presence Of many veterans and
strong oarsmen counts for anything in
figuring crews. The Syracuse eight as
chosen for the fray now only little more
than three weelss of is as follows: Souires.
bow; Salisbury. 2; Andrews, 8; Anderson,
4; Dempster, S; Hale. 9; Rice, 7; Packard
stroke. or this combination all have rowed
before. Andrews and Salisbury were in
the. victorious freshman eight of last spriny
and the others rowed in the winning var,
sity eight Ten Eyck has combination
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