The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-12

tain feels that the British boat 10 golnB
10 throw Harvard out Of the race.
Such Q statement by the Yale captain. U
he actually did make It, 10 unwtse. For
II stands TO reason that no boat that Har-
ward is going to use will Offset the fact that
Harvard has a multiplicity. OF extraor-
not. II the fact Of having q csrtain kind
Of boat is going TO make all the difference
In lengths OF water which seem TO exist
at present in figuring the respective proweee
OF the Harvard n Yale crews, then,' well
and good. Harvard has been warned IN
advance and may now make the best Of
it. The Cambridge men may not say, at
any event, that Yale was not g generous
rival. Capt. 1de has done his best TO let
Harvard know that to support home IN"
dustry 10 to be the winner in the end. The
best thing Yale now oar do 10 TO make q
high tariff on importing rowing boats and
save Harvard in spite 81 herself .in 1908
and succeeding years. The boat will be In
use this year. anyhow,
OF the new boat a Harvard man says:
Last summer while the Crimson eight
were training for their race with Cambridge
University there was considerable deus
sion Of the relative advantages Of the
British and American styles Of rowing.
theoretically the American style is sup
posed TO be bssed upon the ct yle OF. the
that their rowing in Fights is very, different
from the single scull rowing and as such
deserves q different construction.
The men in the eight cared boat sit on
the side way from the outrigger, the port
men sitting nearer the starboard side Of
port. This affords a greater increased
leverag re-. The American leverage il prac-
tically the same in the number Of inches.
but with their shorter outrggers the Eng
lishmen have a greater part OF their oars
swinging over the shell itself. This they
claim affords a firmer purchase on the
water and thus enables them TO keep the
boat steady and on an even keel with much
less effort. On the other hand the American
plan is that a single line Of backs offers less
resistance to the wind than the double line
Of the Englishmen.
THE absence Of the swivel rowlocks
in the English shell is also a great point
Of difference from the American made
boat. The English oar has at least three
inches play In the rowlock, Each time
button Of the Englishman'e oar slides down
the rowlock with a 'k~er-chunk' that sounds
extremely odd to the unaccustoned hearer.
The american oar Is fastened in the row.
lock 50 that it has no play whatever, and
On the other hand, the british claim that the
very sound Of all the oars sliding down the
rowlocke gives a beat and rhythm to the
stroke that il impossible in a boat-eHulpped
with the close lifting %rowlocks. They
CldlIn ihhI lIc bDuilb lfIDE tuo SlSN w hVtp
together in the stroke and for that reason
is Of considerable advantage.
"Ostensibly, the Sims boat Is merely
for experimental purposes. but IL the men
another year are able TO get better results
out of her than from their home made craft
the Crimson rows. Furthermore Davy,
who has built all the Harvard boats for q
number Of years, will be able TO use the
Sims boat as a model should the Harvard
rowing authorities decide to change to the
English style OF rowing
The criticism is made by some college
men that Harvard does not show herself
properly patriotic in changing to the British
style OF boat. To that 10 returned the an
swer that the Crimson men believe In try
ing which is best and that II the English boat
is better, and can be proved SO BY. results,
then any American crew Is justified in using
it. 1t is suggested that as a return for
the courtesy OF imitation the Englishmen
might try out n OF our boats TO see whether
or not they do not improve in their work
graceful craft might be just what some
English college crew is seeking. In some
ways it seems as II Capt. Ide were justified
In saying that unless Harvard rows in the
to profit much by using an English boat.
The situation created between Dart
mouth and Brown after the recent default
ing by Dartmouth of the baseball game
at Providence calls attention to the
somewhat unneighborly attitude OF most OF
be a disputatious lot, the New England,
collegians, and nowadays there are few Of
them but are not on speaking terms with
some others Of their natural rivals.
Brown broke of relations with Dart
mouth after the Hanoverians walked on
the baseball field that day. 1t is prac:
tically impossible to Judge Of the merits OF
the controversy, but II, as stated, the base
ball juggled by one Of the Dartmouth play
ers struck a Brown player running between
on the misplay the umpire seems to have
been deciding strictly on the common sense
merits OF the play when he permitted the
run to tally and the man who. technically
speaking, interfered with the ball to be
declared out. II. however. II was a directly
batted ball which struck the Brown runner
there is no question that he was out and
that the player who had crossed the plate
should be ordered back to his base.
The moment a batted ball touches a PLAYER
of the opposing side it ceases to be a batted
ball and becomes a felded ball. Under
those conditions a felded ball bounding
against a Brown player was interfered with
and the umpire was right in doing. what he
Seeing hat in the interval the Dart
mouth athletic authorities lave been in
ing the field, possibly at Hanover they
have swung around to the viewpoint that
the umpire was right.
Dartmouth soo will be the great I'M
friendly college if this sort of thing keeps
up. The basketball row OF last fall between
Williams and Dartmouth cut the Hano-
verians of the Williams visiting list, too.
That was caused by a fight between Lang,
the Dartmouth centre, and Waters, who
played hat position on the Williams team.
Waters was struck to the floor and the
Williams students, Capt. Grevenstein OF
Dartmouth said, rushed out to attack
his man. Dartmouth waited for two weeks
for an apology for that, the story goes,
and then formally said Rood-bv forever.
However. Dartmouth needs Williams and
probably will not remain estranged as long
as forever.
Brown and Holy Cross haven't had
much TO do with each other recently.
There was a time when they met. but a
GOODNESS arose over some baseball dates.
In the last recorded game OF baseball
between the two the Holy Cross players,
after putting the game away in the carly
innings, got up lefty as the saying is, TO
show that the Brown pitcher wasn't so
much. That naturally changed the friendly
rivals into u~nfriendly rivals.
Amherst and Wesleyan do not play
baseball. Tufts and the Massachusetts
Institute OF Technology do not fence against
each other. Vermont and M~iddlebury,
even they are not friends. Worcester Tech.
and Holy Cross, although so near together,
really are far apart. And so II may be said
OF almost all the New England colleges.
The sturdy spirit that will not see any n
else get a point advantage keeps the politico-
a,k1e.sa sif,.tinD az favar or rarbans