The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-29
BR|TONs ARE EAGER
TO WELCOME HARVARD
Cambridge Harvard Agreement to
Race on Thames Popular
in England.
New York Herald Special Service.


London, July EST is more than a
mere futter Of excitement which ex-
lists on the riverside and in sporting
circles generally over the arrangement
which has been concluded between Eng
land and America IS crack rowing crews,
Cambridge and Harvard. Harvard's
quick and ready agreement to the pro-
posal to come over to race on the
Thames is regarded as such a magnifi-
will receive welcome such as no crew
or team Of American sportsmen ever
got before. At least, that is what
one might expect, Judging from the en-
tEusiasm which is displayed over the
coming contest
When it was first proposed nobody
took the least notice of it, not dream
ing for moment that such a thing
could be arranged at this time of the
year, at any rate on this side, when
Cambridge men are all scattered. So
the quickness with which the nego-
tiations were carried thru came as a
great and pleasant surprise.
Both Are Champions.
Rudolf Lehman, Harvard's Eng
lishman on the Charles river some
years ago, has undertaken the carrying
out of the arrangements suggested by
Mr.. Goldsmith, president of the Cam
bridge Rowing club, for the match and
prsliminaries. Most fortunately for
all concerned, F. L. Higginson of Har-
ward, to whom most of the negotiations
from the American side have been en-
trusted, is also living at Bourne End
just now, so that the fates seem to
have conspired together to bring every
thing to happy conclusion.
AS Harvard beat Yale at the end of
June, and Cambridge. beat Oxford in
April, the conditions of training, it is
considered, will work out as fairly as
! possible in an international meeting Of
this side of any change in the Har-
this, side ow any, chinge in the Har-
ward crew. but it would appear that
some on the Cambridge side are in
evitable. The younger Powell has gone
abroad and cannot possibly return to
row in his old place. Stuart will again
| be stroke. Johnston, who was one of
the best oars at Henley, will be at
No. 7. The elder Powell will row No.
3, as at present arranged. With the ex-
ception of Goldsmith, who will row No.
3, the others are not yet settled, tho
Baynes of first Trinity may be tried at
| No. 5.
Is Harvard's Second Visit.
The Cambridge men probably will re-
| side at Bourne End for their training,
when ought to begin about Aug. 6,
and, if so, Lehman will have curious
and interesting opportunity of satisfy
ing himself that his old pupils have
bettered his instructions, for it is con-
sidered most likely that the American
crew will take advantage of Higgin-
son s presence to begin their work on
Bourne End waters, so that we shall
have such an autumn season up the riv-
er as England has not seen for many
a year.
1t is recalled with interest that this
is not the first time a Harvard crew
has been seen upon the Thames. About
thirty years ago four representing
that university came out on the cham
plonship course on the Thames against
Oxford, when the Englishmen won by.
three or four lengths in the good time
OF 2 minutes l9 seconds. So Harvard
has revenge to take which will not be
less sweet because it has been SO long
postponed.