Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-25
College Athletics.


With the exception of the final base ball
games of the Yale-Harvard series. which
may extend to the first week in July, the
intercollegiate athletic year will end with
the two big regattas. the first at Pough-
keepsie on Wednesday and the second at
New London, Conn, ON Thursday. Because
of the larger number of contestants and
the greater certainty of a close contest tie
Poughkeepsie regatta wiiGattract the great
er interest AT this regatta will be Cor
nell, University Of Pennsylvania, Columbia,
Syracuse. Georgetown and Wisconsin. The
New London regatta will be a dual affair
between Yale and Harvard.
At present the indications are for an
open fight In the varsity eight-oared race
at Poughkeepsie. Although Syracuse and
Cornell are thought to have slightly better
chances of victory, Pennsylvania and Co.
lumbia have done surprisingly good wo. k
since they have been at Poughkeepsie, and
either one of these may snatch the victory
from Cornell or Syracuse. The strength of
Georgetown and Wisconsin Is always an
unknown quantity until the race is finished
On previous form neither of these crews
Is expected to win, but both have an I'M
comfortable habit of worrying the leaders
every year.
In view OF Syracuse's decisive victory
last year her crew will be watched with
more than the usual interest this time Tho
Salt city oarsmen this year have six mem
beers of their championship 1904 eight, in
Guiding their famous stroke. Packard.
Coach Ten Eyck declares that the crew is
stronger this year than last, and makes no
secret of his prediction that Syracuse will
win again. The Cornell eight. however. Is
much stronger this year than last and ex-
poets to lower the colors of the Syracusans.
The Cornell eight had a try out against
Harvard on May 81 and won in most i'm
pressive style with seven lengths to spare
in a race of a mile and seven-eighths. 1t
was this performance that doomed the
stock Of the Ithacans.
The Syracuse eight has had but one try
out. That was against the Argonaut eight
of Toronto. The Syracuse crew won some
what easily, but the time was not extra
ordinarily fast. The Pennsylvania, Column
bia and Georgetown crews have all been
tried out against the United States naval
cadets. The piddies won from each but
by different margains. They beat George
town by a length and a quarter In two
miles, Pennsylvania by a length and three
quarters and Columbia by half length.
On the basis of this showing Columbia ap-
pears to be the fastest of the three, with
Georgetown a little better than Penn. But
this comparison is not of much worth, be-
cause it does not allow for the improve
ment which all of these crews have made
since those races, nearly two months ago.
OF this trio the Pennsylvania eight ap-
pears to have attracted the most favorable
attention from the experts.
Cornell will have the heaviest crew In the
varsity eight-oared event The Ithacans
average 174h pounds weight which ar
CUES great strength. Next to the lthacans
comes Wisconsin, whose eight averages
173A. The Pennsylvania crew averages only
1861 pounds. Syracuse and Georgetown
are the lightest crews in the race, their
average weight being only 100 pounds The
Syracuse crew which swept everything be-
fore it last year was no heavier than the
present combination. so that Coach Zen
Eyck is not allowing their hghtness TO
worry him.
The present regatta will mark the eighth
since the association was founded. fenn-
syIvania has been victorious three times,
Cornell three times and Syracuse once.
Pennsylvania won in 1898, 1899 and 1900;
Cornell in 1901, 1902 and 1903; Syracuse in
1904 The drawing for positions has al
ready been held with the following results
in the eight-oared race, the courses num-
herring from the west shore: NO. l, CO.
lumbia: q Syracuse; 3. Wisconsin; 4,
GEORGETOWN; 5, Pennsylvania; q, Corneli.
OF all these courses Nos. and A. helo by
Wisconsin and Georgetown, are ADMITTED
to be the best. being the least anected by
conditions of tide.
The work of the fours and freshmen
Fights do not attract anywhere near the
attention that the varsity Fights DO Both
of these events are particularly open NOUN
ing is ever known of the freshmen e1gnts
until the race is won, while the varsity
fours are naturally made up Of men VINO
could not make the Varsity elghts
The following are the statistics Oh the
varsity Fights: