Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-27
COLLEGE RACES
ON THE WATER
Aquatic Contests at Poughkeep-
sic and New London Next
Events of Interest.

Events Oi lfltcI
With the intercollegiate track and field
Championships at Boston md the American
regatta at Philadelphia now a part of ath-
Ietio history the college mon are turning
their eyes toward the two college regattas
which will bring the athletic year to an
end. June % has been set as he date for
the Pcughkeepsie regatta in Which Cornell,
Pennsylvania Columbia. Syracuse, George
town and Wisconsin viii compete. On tho
Thursday following. June 2s, Harvard and
Yale will hold their dual regatta at New
London on the Thames.
That both of these regattas Will be of q
higher standard than ever before is evil
dent from the performances which the col
lege oarsmen have been giving all spring.
There is every reason to believe that tho
crews which row at Poughi<eepsie will be
far mere equally matched than they were
a year ago when Cornell trluniphed by
clean twenty-five lengths. No better race
than that which was fought by Syracuse.
fennsylVania and Georgetown for second
Place last year could be desired, but the
experts do not figure on the Ithacans gain
Ing such lead this time
Cornell Will Be the Favorite.
As has been the case for several years
the Poughkeepsie regatta will attract the
greatest interest. There was time when
the Harvard-Yale regatta. was the whole
show in the aquatic world. but that day has
passed. Now the Harvard Yale regatta oc-
cupies very much the same relation to the
Poughkeepsie regatta that the Harvard
Yale dual track meet does to the Intercol-
lesiate championships. The hope of the
Poushbeepse stewards Is that sooner or
later both Harvard and Yale wall be in
auced to compete every year q Pough-
keepsie. without abandoning thair dual
races.
Cornell must be the favorite for the
fcCghkeepsie regatta until the big race IS
rowed. The Ithacans occupy r;uch the
81 me- position on the water that Yale does
on the gridlron. Both are occasionally
teaten at their favorte sport, but their vic
tories far outnumber their defeats, Cornell
this year has five member of her 1905
che mplon eight. The first try-outsthe Ith-
acans had was their race with Ha{vard on
Friday and for this they were Weakened
by the loss OF their stroke oar; vet they
won. The Cornell men have been training
with great falthfulneSs all spring and with
Charles Courtney's well-known record for
turning out championship Fights the
5crity of rowing experts will continue TO
pick his crew against the field until they
lose.
Pennsylvania s Fast Green Crew.
- There are two crews this year which
threaten serious trouble for Cornell These
are Pennsylvania and Syracuse. The boom
IN the Quaker stock has been caused by
the fact that the Pennsylvanians are the
only ones who could defeat the stroag An
napolls eight this year. Columbia Yale
ana Georgetown each tried it's skill erainst
the Inlddies, and all lost The Quakers
on the other hand. with almost q totally
green crew. outrowed the midshipmeri from
start to finish and showed a strength that
VIII make them dangerous competitors at
foughkeepSle The peculiar thing about
this years Pennsylvania crew Is th.7 fact
that the eight Is made up largely % new
men ana last years freshmen. despite the
fact that Pennsylvania lost only one or
Two veterans by graduation. Whea the
men reported for work on the river this
spring Coach Ward worked them so hard
that four of the veterans gave up. The
coach made no effort to get them back but
put In men who could and would stand the
pace, although inexperienced
With this sort of a crew Coach Ward
went TO- Annapolis and astonished every
one with the splendid crew he had as
&c rpbled. There was no fiuke about the
Pennsylvania victory, for the Quakerfs sim
ply outrowed their plucky rivals and de-
progress that can reasonably be expected
the Quaqers may yet become a factor at
Poughkeepste, something they have not
been since they won last, which was In
100.
Stern Determination at Syracuse.
The Syracuse crew will never be salts
fed until 1t defeats Cornell again The
feelings between the Ithacans and SYRIA
eusans are far from pleasant This was
shown by the failure of the Cornell man
agement to invite Syracuse to Its Memorial
day regatta AS ii is. Pennsylvania Is the
only university that will send an eight, so
that the regatta will hardly be much OF
success This year Syracuse has all but
one of the 1895 veterans in her she'll There
is tremendous intarpst n wi
cuse. as was demonstrated when more than
200 men reported for the indoor training
last winter. Coach Ten Eyck and his oars
men feel deeply the humiliation of their
overwhelming defeat at the hands of the
Cornell crew last year. Worse still, the Syr-
acuse men feel badly that they should have
been roasted, as they were, by the Cornell
vtctors after their defeat. Now they want
TO show" Cornell that Syracuse can row
some and that the Syracuse triumph in
1901 was not mere luck.
Wisconsin Handicapped.
Wisconsin is expected to he the next most
important factor. For time it was feared
that the Badgers would not be seen at
Poughkeepsie this year. This was because
OF the edict of the Wisconsin faculty that
all sports must be self-supporting TO
avoid the loss OF a crew the students made
up enough subscriptions to pay all ex-
pepses, and the oarsmen are doubIy apN-
ious TO make good ON this account Wis
consin has crew of veterans this spring
and Is conceded to have good a chance
ever before to win out. \ final reason
for fearing the Badgers is the fact that
this is the last year for Coach O'Dea, and
he wants TO close his career with a victory
which. II 1t comes. will be the first on
record for a Wisconsin crew. The only
drawback TO rowing at Wisconsin Is the
fact that the Badgers have no competition
with other crews, since there are no other
rowing universities In the west.
Weakness of Columbia
Neither the Columbia nor the Georgetown
crew is expected to make much of 81 show
ing this year. The New Workers are as
we'll equipped as any of their rivals to
turn out victorious crews. but they have
never succeeded In doing this in recent
years. Much OF their weakness seems to
be due to their tendency to change rowing
coaches and systems so often. Then. again.
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