Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-16
INTERESTING TO
THE 0ARSMEN
Two Important Moves Made in
the Last Fort
night.
Lake Presented to Princeton
and the Middies' Decision
Regarding Poughkeepsie.

College oarsmen Of the country have had
their interest doubled by two recent i'm
portant moves. One was the presentation OF
a lake to Princeton by Andrew Carnegie, and
the other was the semi-official report that
Annapolis will make formal application to
be admitted to the intercollegiate regatta
on the Hudson this coming spring. The
possession Of a lake makes it possible for
Princeton to take up the sport of rowing
Oh equality with the other colleges of
the country for the first time in the Tigers
athletic history. Many years ago the
Orange and Black tried to develop rowing,
but the inaccessibilty of suitable body OF
water compelled the university to abandon
this form Of sport and concentrate on
others. But now Princeton has a good lake
right at the back of her gymnasium and
has every incentive to the development of a
crew.
The acceptance Of the lake was followed
by several statements that Princeton did
rot intend to utilize it for the development
of crews, but that it would be used only
for skating and boating for pleasure. The
defense given for this proposition is that
Princeton has a very small student body
compared with that of Yale, Harvard,
Pennsylvania and Cornell, and that the
Tigers would, therefore, be at a very great
disadvantage in trying to hold her own or
the water. 1t requires nearly all Prince
tons available athletes and her money to
keep the university to the front in foot ball
and base ball. And as crew would be
Princeton's most expensive athletic orsani-
cation there Is good reason for the heSita-
ton which the Tigers show.
Princeton probably Will not have a crew
this year, but it is certain that pressure
will lie brought TO bear from several sources
to get the Tigers on the water within a
year or two In presenting the lake to
Princeton Andrew Carnegie expressed the
hope that Princeton would develop good
crews. This makes it evident that in fur
niyhing the university with tLls lake Mr.
Carne gle did it with the thought that
Princeton would foster rowing.
Finally 10th the colleges which row at
Poughkeepsie every year. together with
Yale and Harvard. " no compete at New
London. are anxious to get the Tigers on
the water. And if Princeton does develop
a crew she will have not a little difficulty
in decd .ng where to row, whether on the
Hudson the Thames In spite of
PIinceton's well-known tendency to flock
with Yale and Harvard it is not unlikely
that the authorities will favor competing at
PoughkeepSie, for in spite of what Har-
ward and Yale adherentS may hope for the
Hudson river regatta is sure to be the big
event for the future in intercollegiate
aquatics
If Annapolis can persuade the United
States government officials to permit the
| navy crew to row at Poughkeepsie it will
add great interest to this regatta. Within
the last few years Annapolis has been max
ing great strides in rowing, and last year
defeated Georgetown, Yale and Columbia.
losing only to the University of Pennsyl-
vania- Under the coaching of Dick Glen
don the Middies have been making great
progress in rowing and now think that they
are match for the best college crews in
the country. The one great obstacle in
the Middies' path is the attitude of the
government officials. who have insisted
heretofore that the Middies hold all their
athletic sports at Annapolis. the only ex-
ception to this being the annual foot ball
game in Philadelphia, one base ball game a
year and the fencing championships in New
York. If the Middies trained at Pough-
keepsie for ten days or two weeks, as the
college crews do, they would be away from
their work long time and probably could
not secure the consent of the officials for
such a prolonged absence. If the Middies
are prohibited from rowing al Poug9kee psie
it is likely that a determined effort will be
made to have them represented at the
American Henley regatta at Philadelphia
the last Saturday in May.