The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-08

They have elected another captain OF
whom they will have doubts ut Yale next
year. Noyes, the No. Q man, who tainted
away In the race this year, has been chosen
to suooeed Morse. II they were doubtful
whether Morse could finish o ethey can
have no doubts as to Noyes. Unlesslhe
improves greatly in stamina and gains q
great deal In training he will not finish.
However, he rowed O magni6oently plucky
race and Rot more credit than some other
poor chap like Chase who stuck to II all
the way and finished with body straight
and shoulders fat, without the sign OF o
faint. Harvard has lighted upon Robert
Ba con as captain. The mighty Nlley will
not sit In next years boat and that Is q
bad thing for Harvard, To give him his
due, he 10 q great oarsman: That Is, 40
oording to the ideals Of the Thames. .,
This has been a pretty keen year All
around in college rowing. Not only did
Harvard have a winning varsity cew,
but a foreign college broke through the
Cornell Syracuse dual meet on the Hudson.
Pennsylvania, with q tremendously big
and powerful crew, using the slides better
than ever q Quaker crew dreamed Of doing
before, slid into second place In the big
race. 1t is pretty hard to beat Cornell on
LI5 WdU6T uOWduhybt duu ally -OiOW shoo
ome near to It deserves a whole LOT Of
from Pennsylvania, which means two
lengths all told. Syracuse was not very
far behind the Philadelphians, so that on
the whole it was rather a classy looking
in these three boats, and in fact except
for George Mackenzie, the young stroke
of the Columbia crew, and one or two men
in the Georgetown boat, who also had the
excellent excuse Of age-too little OF it
mont seemed to be in distress.
The Cornell victory in the two varsity
raceswas due to tie Ithacans having the best
coached and trained crews, That four cared
boat was certainly very good indeed, to
put it in mild terms OF appreciation. The
four were about good enough to stand the
famous Wachusett four, with Ed len Eyck
, miles. The Comedians ripped every stroke
through in a way that meant that the crew
| that was ahead was either hustling very
hard or was a better four Dared crew than
has been since the days Of Hank and Gill
and Josh and Ellis Ward, whose exploits
Ellis often sets before the wondering Penn
freshies.
That was about the best boat that the
Hudson has seen, and Goodier who stroked
it was a fine oareman. He is a big lusty
fellow and failed Of getting a place In the
varsity eight only because he was SO much
more needed In the four. Courtney wanted
to have the strongest four possible without
e%ndangering the chances Of the varsity
eight. He had Chris Cox stroking the four
before he took the Washington lad out and
put him in at No. Q in the eight. 1t was a
high compliment to Goodier to replace a
Goodier, was another veteran and a good
man. The two other men were new to
varsity racing. The night before the big
race in a little scrap the four kept on even
terms with the Cornell varsity. eight and the
inference was that either the four was good
or the eight bad.
Il might Just about have broken Court
news heart to lose the freshman race.
Apparently he thought that his crew was
the best in the race. He said over and over
again that he did not believe that syracuse
verv highly Of the Wisconsin freshmen.
Had there been a little less swell from the
towboat Norwich the time the Wisconsin
crew began a squirt there we're a few persons
who might have cashed bets on Wisconsin
being first in that race. The Weeterners
picked up the stroke 30 wonderfully and
made 40 great progress forward that they
seemed 10 be flying, until they hit that wash
and the boat began to go sidewise instead
of forward. 1t certainly was a good crew
that Andy O'Dea had there.
o,pea viii train for Wisconsin. He has
| made up his mind for good and all to go into
the ranch business IN Idaho, and he will
| raise sheep. Raising sheep in a cattle
| country is decidedly a more dangerous
manner Of making a livelihood than coach
| ing crews, as those who know the antipathy
| Of cattle raisers for sheep herders can tes-
| tify. ANDY O'Dea is a game citizen. how:
| ever. and the men that tackle him will find
| that the big Australian has a whole. lot OF
fight in him. II he makes as many friends
in Idaho as he has done at Madison and in
a. Eost hara ot ~hko naio he In likelv
| to be Governor OF Idaho before long. Every
man who has met him at ~Poughkeepsie
wishes him luck.
What will be the future Of rowing at Wis.
oonsin It is hard to say. The air is filled
with conflicting rumors, and the clear state
ment that has come from Emmett d. Angel
the supervisor Of athletics at the institution
is about the sole definite word OF authority
in the matter. However. Mr.. Angel does
not make it absolutely clear just what lie
at the institution. He says; "The showing
of our crews at P~oughkeepsie is the thing
that will determine a great deal in our con-
ferenoes on the subject Of rowing during
the summer and when college convenes
again. We are In a peculiar position:
difficult to find it will be starting all over
again for us. With that in mind and a GER
tain lack Of interest in the sport at Wis.
consin there is some chance that we will
have to drop the game entlrely.
II believe that will cause more regret
in the East than at our own place. / have
found since / have been interested in
athletics at Wisconsin that the East gives
us more sympathy than we get in our own
place. That is not 80 strange after all.
They appreciate the fact that It is a pretty
hard struggle for US and that every con
dition is apparently strongly against us.
The great trouble we have ls that there are
no other colleges out West for lis to race
with. II we had some collegiate rival to
meet annually 1t would not only help in the
development of a crew but would give the
men in the university a chance to see the
crew in an intercollegiate race. II is, OF
course, plain to you when I say that there
! are hundreds Of Wisconsin men who never
1 have seen the crews in action. They can
not come all the way to ~Poughkeepsie for
that race, and therefore all they know
about the crew is what they hear about us
after the race.
SThe freshman eight was one Of the best
boats we ever ave had and the fact has
been pretty broadly emphasized through
the agency Of reports sent out from the
East that we would have done much better
had we not run INTO a swell near the finish
The good showing Of that crew and the fact
that the varsity was at least good enough