The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-06-09
COAST CREW MAY COMPETE
Four Will Likely Be Sent to POugh-
keepsie Next Year.
Stewards willing TO Have Pacific
Winner on Hudson, hut HIVE Not
Invited Years Champion.

New York. June SIT has been said hy
persons in the rowing game az Stanford
ana Washington that the recent race on
Washington Lake was only "a preliminary
% choosing a crew 20 represent the Pa
c.hc Coast In the Hudson regatta. When
Washington won % was announced hy
telegraph that the Westerrers were COM
ing here.
Inquiry into the matter revealed the
fact that Washington has not been IN
vItel 20 come 10 the regatta. mostly be-
cause OF the fact that the race was roweI
too late 20 make it possible 10 change the
arrangements for the regatta on the H1d-
son. AS matter Of fact the stewards
would be slow % invite the Washington
or Stanford or California crews speoia-
cally. solely for the reason that the one
Invited this year might not De the winner
in the regatta next year.
In that case that crew doubtless would
not come East 20 the regatta. and another
one would have 20 De invited. Il IS more
than likely that II there is any disposition
70 admit "a Pacific Coast crew 60 the i1-
tercoIiegate regatta that an invitation
viii be sent so as 10 bring on the wine
ming crew in the three-r0rusrrd regatta
among the Coast colleges. That IS con-
sidered 70 be much better scheme, and
one that viii insure having "a Pacific
Cost crew In the regatta once The West
cruers have begun 20 compete.
The rowing season out ou the Coast is
longer than 10 is here The weather is
more fitting for extended practice. and
The o3rsuen can get OUt as early as the
beginning Of February II they choose
I'm Stanford. or California at least Wash
iugt1n is in a little colder country The
earliest practice Of the stanford men
has 90 De done ON Lagunlta Lake small
body Of water, where the 0arsWen 60
out in singles They do their eight-1ared
rowing of Redwood City, on san Fran
cisco BAY The Berkeley men row on
Oakland Estuary Washington Lake. az
Seattle, IS a very big body Of water That
was where the four-miIe race between
Stanford and Washington was rowed.
The races this year on the Coast were
two in number. II was planned Lo have
alI three colleges row at once on San
Francisco Bay. hut the water was So
rough that an three crews sWampei.
Washington could not stay over. so stan
ford later rowod California and won. Then
the final was rowed at Seattle.
The foundation Of r0w'nc az Stanford
was laid by Prof Albert W. Smith. az
old Cornell oarsmaU. He talked rowing
for years at Stanford when be was head
Of the department Of mechanical engineer
ing there. Il was due % him that tie
game was taken up. He since has re-
turned 10 Cornell, 10 be head of Sibiey
College there.
Up 20 this year rowing on the Coast was
In f0urs. This year they have taken up
eIght-oarcd SHELLS. The outlook is that
although there viii be no Washington
crew I'm the regatta this year. that there
will az least be a Pacific Coast crew in
the races next year on the Hudson. The
stewards do not want the impression to
get abroad that they are turning down
the Washington crew. II simply IS "a
matter Of present circumstances.
The crews of the three Coast colleges
do not average up as heavy as some OF
the leading Eastern crews. The victorious
Washington boat Is JOS pounds 10 the man.
the average height being feet n inches
The Stanford crew averages l69 pounds
and feet. California is tho heaviest
III II pounds, for feet Of height per
man.