Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11
COLLEGE ATHLETICS


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With the intercollegiate championship
settled in track athletics, lacrosse, cricket
and other minor sports, university men
throughout the east are beginning to turn
their attention to the two intercollegiate
regattas The contestants in the first re-
gatta, which will be held at Poughkeepsie
on June 2S, will be Cornell University of
Pennsylvania. Columbia Syracuse, George
town aud Wisconsin. One day later at
New London. Conn, Harvard and Yale will
fight out their dual battle for supremacy on
the Thames river
1t is not too much to say that the great
est interest will be taken in the Pough-
keepsie races, because of the larger number
of contestants and the certainty that the
race will be a desperate one and a fight
all the way. At the Yale-Harvard regatta
the Ellis have won so often and with such
ridiculous ease that interest in this race is
always at low ebb.
Experts who have seen Cornell and SYRIA
cuse row this year predict that new figures
Will be established for the Poughkeepsie
course. Previous to last year Cornell had
won three years in succession. following
PENIS three straight victories. This year
Cornell. especially, is very anxious to turn
the tables on the Salt City oarsmen, and
judging from the strength the Irhacan's
have exhibited this year they are quite
likely TO succeed. The Cornell varsity
eight had thorough try out against Har-
ward on May -. and in race over course
a mile and seven-eighths in length the
1thacanS won by six and one-h half lengths
And as Harvard is said to have a better
crew this year than formerly this is taken
as an indication of Cornell's great strength
On the same day the Cornell second eight
defeated Yale and Pennsylvania, at Phila-
delphia, and at the same time lowered the
record for the American Henley course
set in 1903 by the famous Argonaut eight of
Toronto AS several members of this eight
will row in Cornelrs freshman eight-oared
and varsity four-oared shells, it is evident
that the Ithacans will be strong all around
The Syracuse crew has not been tried out
this spring against any of the other Fights
with which it will row at Poughkeepsie. 1t
may be taken for granted, however. that
1t will be an exceptionally fast aggregation,
because 1t contains nearly every member
of the famous 1904 crew. Three of the other
eghts-Pennsylvania Georgetown and CO.
lumba-have been tried out against the
United States naval cadets at Annapolis In
each instance the midshipmen were vic
torious. They beat Georgetown first by a
length and a quarter and later they de-
feated Pennsylvania by length and three
quarters 1t was only after desperate
race that the middies were able to win
from Columbia, which would suggest that
Columbia has a faster crew than any.
either Penn or Georgetown. Nothing Is
known of the Wisconsin eight The latter
is the only western university which de-
votes any attention to rowing, and In con-
sequence Wisconsin never has an oppor-
tunity to test it's strength until the big
race at Poughkeepsie.
The dra wings for positions at the Pough-
keepsie races has already taken place. so
| that all of the crews know in advance just
what their course must be. Among rowing
experts course No. 3 Is the favorfte II
| the water is rough it is not affected, while
| the outside course, No. 6. is beset with
| breakers On the other hand II the water
| is smooth course No. 1 enjoys but little of
| the outflow of the tide. Course No. Is
| the mean of these two extremes. If the
races were rowed farther out in the stream
| all of the contestants would row on even
terms. Efforts have been made from time
to time to get the stewards to do this, but
they have declined because of the objec-
lions raised by the railroads which operate
the observation trains along the bank. The
following are the drawings for the three
races at Poughkeepsie, course No. 1 being
nearest the shore:
Varsity eights-1. Columbia: ., Syracuse:
3, Wisconsin: 4. Georgetown; 5, Pennsyl-
vania; 6. Cornell
Varsity fours-1. Syracuse: 2 Columbia
3, Cornell: 4. Pennsylvania; S. Wisconsin.
Freshman eights-1, Pennsylvania; 2 Syr-
| acuse; 8, Columbia; 4. Cornell.
Every week adds to the confusion OF
those who are trying to pick the intercol-
legiate champion base ball team. Last
year this was a comparatively easy task,
for Princeton undoubtedly was the cham
pion of the year. beating Harvard, Yale and
Pennsylvania This spring the big colleges
have had harder trouble to maintain their
supremacy than ever before. Not a men,
Der of the big Six has escaped defeat at
the hands of the minor colleges and acade-
mics. Pennsylvania has been beaten by
Exeter and host of the small college
teams, Harvard has lost to Amherst and
Dartmouth. Yale has been beaten by Ford
ham and Manhattan. Cornell has fallen be-
fore Lafayette. Princeton has lost to An
dover Academy and Pennsylvania State
College, while Columbia has shared no
better fate. All of these defeats are argu-
ments in favor of intercollegiate base
ball league to settle the championship be-
yond doubt.
No western intercollegiate track and
field meet ever attracted so much attention
In the east as that of a week ago. which
was won by Chicago University. The
cause of the unprecedented interest shown
by eastern men was the great improvement