The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-06-30
RECENT REGATTA WAS
THE BEST IN HISTORY
Contest Between Cornell and Columbia for Frs
Honors Depended Mainly on the Stroke Oar.
Staying Power Of Cox Won For Ithacans.

the late nineties won notable victories
over Yale and Harvard and Pennsyl-
vania and Columbia. Briggs was an
oddity, as he weighed LAG pounds,
about 40 pounds below the desired
weight. His secret of success in pull
ing an oar was his powerful leg drive.
In 1898 Briggs won the Yale-Har-
yard Cornell race at New London for
the ithaca crew. but week later his
boat lost to Pennsylvania at Saratoga
In race which surprised the rowing
world at that time because the Penn
sylvania crew was made UP of green
men, particularly the stroke, who had
sat in shell for the first time that
year. This man was John Gardiner,
and when they talk OF rowing at Penn
sylvania they talk of John Gardiner,
for Gardiner won every race for this
Quaker varsity in his four years, ex-
cepting his last race in the finals at
Henley In 1901, when Pennsylvania
met Leander, and they are the only
victories Pennsylvania has won in re-
cent rowing history. Briggs and Gar
diner stand foremost among college
rowing strokes, yet they never stroked
a better race than did Chris Cox. of
Cornell, or Pete" Cerussi. of Columbia,
| last Wednesday,.
| Now let us look over the men who
stroked these seven varsity boats at
Pong hkeepsie this season and see what
qualities they possessed or what they
Hacked of the necessary ones:
| christopher P. Cox. Os Of Cornell,
possessed probably the best physique
of any Of them. He is twentyfour
years old, five feet eleven inches tall
and weighs It's pounds.
| The statistics prove him Of the size
and age desired, for too young man
has neither the stamina nor the en-
perienced mind, and q man over $50
pounds can seldom do moro than pull
his own weight, let alone aiding the
shells progress. Cox as we can see,
has a most Determined face, and 1t does
not belle him. His grit and nerve were
fully tested and Were proven,
Ccrussi Distinct Type.
. B. p. Cerussi, 90. the Columbia stroke
ms we can see. Is by nature cool
self-possessed boy. He is muscular
and enduring, and in full Justice to
Cornell 1t can be said that only the
lack of weight and experience prevent
ed Cerussi from winning. Cerussi Is
twenty years old, five feet eleven inches
4 tall and weighs 164 pounds. He is a
little too young, and in his two re
naming years Will make a man to be
much feared. This was his first sea-
son in the varsity boat. He strol:ed
4 his freshman crew last spring =
Jonas H. Ingram. 90, captain Of the
navy crew, Is one man in thousand
i for endurance and sheer bull strength
j lie was always referred to at Pough-
4 keepsie as the bulldog" and no othe,
4 stroke on the river could have stood the
4 wearing down power Of the style III
was taught ia row. He reached far.
u ther forward on the catch and swung
70 WI ,er hook ~ thur, an 2,
man in any she'll. and at the same
time could row higher stroke to til,
minute. Ingram was an athlete In {
thousand, and had his coach taught
\ the navy a saner stroke, this boat would
have been nearer tho fore than third
4 Ingram was rather young for hi
position, but showed 1t not He i
inches tall and weighs l76 pounds
4 1t was his second year In the boa
as stroke and his third year as al
oarsman, as he stroked the Navy sec
ond two years ago.
lamis on Ideal Oarsn,an.
Howard A, Emig, 'Os. was strok
ana captain Of Penn, and will fl
both positions next year,
He Is ideally built for his Job, n
!. he Is six feet tall, weighs III I,
! pounds and is twenty-one years old
ilmig had years experience a
stroke on the vastly IN l9ob ana oc
cupied the same seat In his freshman
+, shell. Outside Of being q little SLOW
he Is q good man. and given bette
-. A. Dinet 100, was stroke Of tn
I |SYtsconsin eight for the. first time
a Last Year he strohed his class Grey
slin splendid race, and the iexperi
: ence helped him. Under q. new an
!. better coaching system this seaspl
wisconsin was Handicapped In ad
aN3usting herself to conditions as we