The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-20
QUIET DAY FOR YALE CREW SQUAD In Baseball Game Freshmen Defeat Varsity by a
 Close Score. VISITS FROM HARVARD Makeup of the Boats Not Likely to be Changed
 Again.
VISITS FROM HARVARD
(From Special Staff correspondent,)

(From Special Staff Correspondent)
 Yale Headquarters, Gales Ferry, June lS.-All was quiet along the Thames Wednesday evening and at Yale quar- ters it was quiet all day so far as row. ing was concerned. The forenoon prac- tice was done in very choppy water, the four-oar especially shipping plenty of liquid ballast. The wind continued strong from thesouth all day and good boating was an impossibility.
 In Yale circles the varsity four is considered very fine combination, the performance of the crew under difficult conditions being commendable.' This crew will be hard one to beat. The morning work of the two eight-oar shells was light, a short turn down stream under the lee of the hills be- ing all that was done. The varsity eight was evidently being held in re- serve for time row in the evening in the event of the wind going down.
 Harvard varsity squad paid the an- nual formal call at BroadvieW during the afternoon.
 The first of the annual series of three OStANNttAA and freshmen squads happened this forenoon serving to occupy the minds of the oarsmen until the time for lunch came along. No end of fun was derived from the contest, which was won by the freshmen, the game being called in the eighth inning, with the score to 4. The varsity nine was Howe, D.; Robbins, C.; Rice, h.: Griswold, 2b.;. Boulton, 3b.; Seymour, if; Perrin, If. 1; Holmes, Of; Dunkle, ss. The freshmen lined up with Coates, D.; Cass, C.; Blair, 1b.; Wallis, 2b.; Austin, 3b.; Mills, If; Wodell, r.f.; Smith, eff. and Hunt, ss.
 The runs were obtained by Perrin 6. and Robbins @ for the varsity, and Coates CD, Smith (l), Austin (2) and Cass CD for the freshmen. According to the statements of spectators the um- pire, manager Theodore Dixon, was en- tirely impartial in his decisions, the errors he made in judgment Tor one side being compensated for by an equal number for the other side. He will meet the usual fate of those who try to please both sides, neither being sat isfied, and it will be the Thames river for his tomorrow morning.
 Harvard's S time row made about noon Wednesday, the four miles being row. ed in 21 minutes, 23 seconds, was not greatly commented upon in Yale camp. The time was conceded to be excellent, but everything was favorable. A strong wind and flooding tide reduced the time very materially the conditions be- ing much better than at any time when Yale has attempted the course. As nearly as can be figured out the course was about one and one-half minutes faster than under normal conditions.
 That the crimson eight did do some hard rowing was assured from the ap- pearance of the,men when they reached the boat house, every one of the eight feeling pretty well tired The stroke was kept down somewhat lower than ordinary with Harvard, being main tained very steadily at about 31 until the last mile, when it was raised to 3 2and S4
 Yale men individually feel they can do just as good time as this, but are not discounting the work of their op- ponents, nor feeling too confident of their own powers. Time rows are use ful as affording basis for figuring on the relative merit of the crews but the actual figures, considered irrespective of existing conditions, may do harm to a crew, either causing the men to worry over poor time or to feel unduly elated when good record has been made.
 The earlier hours of the evening at Broadview were spent in waiting for the wind to drop. Until a few days ago the breeze. no matter how strong throughout the day, dropped down to a dead calm early in the evening, giving a fine, smooth surface for rowing This week the wind seems so far to have freshened just about the time Yale would prefer to row. This makeq tha rowing late, but there is nothing to do except wait for lull
 Tonight nothing was done with the two eights until o'clock, when there were a few calm spots to be found here and there When the men were finally in their shell 1t was too late to try a long row, and the two elghts were sent up stream to Allyn's Point, and return. The quieter surface of the river here enabled the crews to make much better showing than if they had rowed fur
 
 ter.
 The varsity eight maintains it's fine form, every man pulling d good oar and. rowing out the stroke to the limit easily without hitting up the pace higher than thirty-two. Most of the time the stroke rowed by both eights was very little, if an, above twenty eight The change in the personnel of the freshmen boat is likely to be per manent, unless some unforeseen mis- hap occurs, necesSitating the removal Of one or more of the squad
 Several of the undergraduates ar rived at Broadview Wednesday evening. Among those noticed were J. s. Olds, B. Goodyear, D, Ryerson and w. Collins, all '07 men. Professor Wheeler of Yale university was also visitor in quar- ters Wednesday, evening,
 Yale will now make no changes in the makeup of the shells, unless com peled to do so through illness of a member, and the crews will go to the starting point next Thursday in exactly the same position held tonight
 Professor Wheeler, watching the work of the Yale four from the lawn at quarters this evening, suggested jol5ingly that it would be a good idea, in view of the difficulty of obtaining coxswains light enough, to secure Jap anese coxswains, the little men being just about the right weight
 In this connection it may be stated that W. S. Taft. No. 5 oar in the var sity eight. will leave after the race for g trip to Japan with Manager Theodore