The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-16
WARD BACKS UP COURTNEY,
PENNSyLr IVA CREWS WiLL NOT
ROW ~ COrRSG g.
quaker freshman and -Four 0ared neats
Have Drawn the Position which Means
Defeat On the Hudson DIN creme ef
Opinion ~ 10 Amleabie Settlement.

Opinion ~ 10 Amieabie Settlement
P~oraHKEFPsiE June t6.-To tho unplcaa-
Antneas aroused by Courntey'H determination
not 10 start his crew In the varsity race unless
course IL changed has been added the an
nounoemcnt this afternoon by Ellis ward.
coach Of tho PennsyivanlA crows. that he does
not intend 20 accept the handicap OF this
course for his freshman and four Dared crews.
both Of which have had this lane allotted 20
them for the regatta. Coach Ward says that
there IL no more reason why his crews should
70 into the race In the bad course than for
Courtney's men to do the same. 30 that now.
unless there 10 q change made. there viii be
one Grew that stands out Of each Of the three
races.
Just what IL going to be done Up here no one
seems TO know. Il 10 report ed that Francis b.
Bangs, one OF the board OF stewards. has de-
clared that there will be no change made In
the courses. Mr.. Bangs says that the courses
were allotted by chance and that they were
laid out as deemed best under the conditions.
In the attempt to make the lanes equally
favorable to all. they we're laid out just as
marked with an eye to the fact that the OBJ
servation train crowd would be able to see
them too. Under the rules, It 10 declared. any
crew occupying course 4 has the right to veer
of from the line directly Oh the bridge abut-
ment forty feet.
But according to the rules OF the regatta.
any crew at ell may 60 this forty feet of the
line. That means that Georgetown In Course
s, In the varsity race. can get equally as
close into tho edge OF the lane aud thus will
leave only ten feet for Cornell to move aw ey
from the line. This carries the Ithacans or
any other crew that uses Course 4 only
thirty feet from the pier and makes 1t 80
that II the race Is at all close the tide will
sweep Cornell or the other crews clear over
into the next crews lane and Will undoubtedly
cause q foul. Besides. the oddly from the
pier foot sweeps out 30 far from the bridge
that unless the crew lie seventy-1ve feet out
1t 10 still amenable TO tide conditions. 1t was
At FIRST supposed that under the rules any
crew could go out OF it's own water regardless
Of penalty as long as it did not come in con-
tact with another crew. But. should the
referee decide that the crossing out OF the
course had af ected the result Of the race
the race would have to be rowed over again.
The fault with the laying out OF the course
is that although under the rules Course 4
should be seventy-fve feet from the pier. 1t
is less thar twenty-five. The alleged decision
OF Mr.. bangs not to have the courses changed
Is fatty contradicted bv J. NJ Booth. local
manage Of the PouRhB eepsie-H Highland Row
Ing Association. who said this sfterno9n:
o, n hs eS9,s 10 d 81 a,s that sssHl a, Gor the s or eny
through cause, changes viii be made. There
IL no Intention In the laying out Of the course
in the way II 10 to harm any Grew. For that
reason there surely will be a change made.
II Ia up TO the railroad to do this. Perhaps
It may have been because the floor of the
bridge was 10 disrepair, because OF the changes
that are being made above. that the men who
fixed the mark numbers put them where they
did. II may have been impossible to find a
place for them anywhere else"
Whatever. may be the outcome of this
matter. and thin ga are squally. just ow. It
has created a great deal of hard feeling.
Ellis NaT0 SAID IO-0av' Y CpT1HlnlV WOMl0
have made no objection i Courtney had not
The course absolutely disqualif1es the crew
that uses 1t from all change Of victory. l
feel no hesitation In saying that Pennsylvania
simply will not go under the conditions"
The rules of the rowing association that
govern the use Of courses are Nos. s and o.
The latter part Of Rule s says:
A crew shall be- regarded as In Its own water
when within forty feet On either side Of a line pro
and parallel with the sides Of the course.
Rule 0 says:
II during the race any one OF the competing
crews being out OF Its own water by its OAR. boat OF
person shall touch the oars, boat or persons OF any
other competing Grew or after warning by the
In such manner as obviously TO obstruct a com
petlng boat, such q proceeding shall constitute q
foul and the crew causing the same may be dis
quainod by the referee. II the referee shall de-
olde that the result Of q race has been mate RALLY
affected By a foul he may order the race TO be
rowed again at such time as the stewards may
determine.
The Columbia crews kept to the upper
course In their rowing work In the morning
and did not do very much in the afternoon.
he Pennsylvania varsity crew row ed q
time tial in the morning. being paced two