Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-23
PLANS FOR THE
AMERICAN HENLEY
1t is Hoped to Eclipse All Pre-
vious Aquatic Meets of
the Kind.
Cornell Will Send a Crew and
the Middies May Also
Be Present.
By Edward r. Bushnell.

From the plans which are now being
made by the stewards of the American
Rowing Association the fifth annual Ameri-
can regatta, to be held on the Schuylkill
river, Philadelphia. May q. will eclipse
any aquatic meet of the kind ever held In
this country. Although this regatta will
virtually open the intercollegiate season, 1t
will bring together enough prominent col
lege and club crews to grace even climax
to the season. AS in past years the stew
ards will bring together the strongest club
crews of the east and south, but they fig
ure on having an even greater representa-
ton of college oarsmen than have graced
previous regattas of this association.
AS a matter of fact the attendance OF the
colegians who will row as junior Fights
will be the real feature of the meeting. AL
though 1t is still trif1e early, it is positive
that four of the strongest rowing universe
ties of the country will send their junior
Fights. These are Cornell, Harvard, SYRIA
cuse and Pennsylvania. In this respect the
regatta will be even more successful than
it was in 1905, for last year Cornell was
absent. Every other year the 1thacans hold
a Junior regatta on Cayuga lake, and as
was the case last spring, usually find 1t I'M
possible to develop a second crew for their
home regatta and another for the Ameri-
can regatta at Philadelphia
This year Cornell will not have regatta.
but will develop the strongest Junior eight
in the university for the Philadelphia re-
gatta. Ex-Capt. F'illey and his assoc ates
of Harvard regard the American regatta
as the very best means to develop good
oarsmen, and for this reason they believe
in patronizing this regratta, no matter what
the expense. The Crimson crows, usually
two, have competed at this regatta two
years in succession, and they are certain TO
attend for the third time.
The University of Pennsylvania always
enters two or three crews, and WIFI live up
to her reputation as before syracuse,
whose crew made its first appearance at
this regatta in 1905, will come again. The
Syracusans will overcome any sort of OBJ
stacles to get an opportunity to meet Cor
nell and Harvard on the water Last year
Cornell did not compete and Syracuse won.
This time with both the New York crews
rowing against Harvard and Pennsylvania
the race will attract more than the usual
amount of attention.
Middies May Send Crew.
Additional interest is given to this re-
gatta by the possibility that the Annapolis
midshipmen may send an eight. If they
do it will be the first time in the history
of rowing at the Naval Academy that the
middies have ever rowed off their own
course 1t is one Of the rules of the gov
eminent that the students of the two ma
tional academies must hold all their ath-
letic contests on their home grounds. The
only exceptions to this are the annual foot
bali game and one of the two base ball
games year ago a belated effort was
made to secure the attendance of the mid
dies at the american regatta but the
movement started too late and was
not successful. The nearness of Philadel-
phia to Annapolis makes it possible for the
middies to come up over night, to row and
then return to the academy with the loss
of only a day. The many victories the
middies have won over the strongest col
Iorya aiuhtc If nQg OF n n
enough that they could take good care of
themselves.
An effort will be made to secure the COM
petition of a junior crew from Columbia
and another from Yale. Columbia has
never competed at this regatta, while Yale
has sent crew once. The Ellis want to
row badly enough, as Julian Curtiss. their
graduate adviser in rowing, is also one of
the regatta stewards. The Columbia crew
is more likely to compete now that Rice
has supplanted Goodwin as the coach If
Harvard, Yale, Pennsylvania, Cornell
Syuncuse Columbia and Annapolis all con-
clude TO send crews this regatta will be a
record breaker, no matter from what angle
1t is viewed.
Wisconsin to Row Again.
There is much satisfaction among east
ern oarsmen over the announcement that
Ten Eyck has been engaged to coach the
Wisconsin crews as the successor to Andy
ODea Primarily this means that Wis
consin will not abandon the Poughkeepsie
regatta. The Badgers have made them
selves famous at Poughkeepse for their
gameness and better tuck is wished them
this time. 1t was rumored for time that
the westerners would not attempt to row
in the east again. but would conf1ne their
efforts to a western intercollegiate regatta
Wisconsin would undoubtedly be willing
enough to do this If the other western uni
versities would lend assistance. Michigan,
TO nd on al annf God
at various times their intention to take up
towing, but nothing has materialized, and
Wisconsin In order to row at all must send
her crews to Poughkeepsie.