The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-17
COLLEGE OARSMEN WORK ON POUCHKEEPSIE COURSE Fourteen Fights and Seven Fours in Daily Prac-
 1ice on Hudson.
KEEN INTEREST SHOWN
Seven College Varsity Crews Entered in Intercolle-
 giate Regatta.

Poughkeepsie, N, Y, June 16-The Intercollegiate boat races are to be held on the four mile stretch of the Hudson river known as the Poughkeep- sic course on Wednesday, June 16. Eight cared crews representing seven colleges are entered in the varsity race, the principal event of the regatta, and they are all here now, having as sembled on the Hudson at an earlier date than usual, and forming what is probably the largest gathering of col 1ege oarsmen in the history of rowing in this country.
 Including the crews made up of sub stitutes there are fourteeen eights and seven fours engaged in daily practice here. They row between 10 and 12 a. rn., and and p. m., their work be- ing watched with keen interest by men from the various colleges, who follow in launches or observe the crews from shore.
 The regatta is conducted by the in- tercollegiate rowing association, com posed of Cornell Columbia and Penn, which held it's first race here in 1895, and the four other colleges take. part on invitation from the association. The following program has been arranged for Wednesdays regatta:
 p. m.-~Two mile race for varsity fours; Syracuse, Wisconsin, Pennsyl- vania, Columbia and Cornell
 4:45 p .m.--Two mile race for fresh- man eighths Cornell, Wisconsin, syra- cuse, Pennsylvania and Columbia.
 p. m.-Four miles race for varsity eights, Columbia, Cornell, Syracuse, Pennsylvania. Georgetown, Wisconsin, and Annapolis.
 The order in which the crews are named indicates the courses drawn in each race, beginning from the west shore,
 Annapolis is the only new conner this year, but the entrance of the naval cadets puts new element into the big race and increases the interest in the regatta. Every seat in the observation train has been sold, and. the train is limited to thirty-six cars.
 The training quarters of Cornell, Pennsylvania, Columbia and Annapolis, are on the west side of the river, the first three opposite this city and the naval cadets four miles up the river at Crum Elbow, using the boathouse oc- cupied last year by Columbia. The middies live on the houseboat Ever glades, sent here by it's owner for their use In training. Two torpedo boats, the Talbot and Manley, accompany the cadets for coaching purposes. The crews of the Syracuse, Wisconsin and Georgetown are living in this city, hav- ing boathouses on the river front.
 Columbia has been here two weeks and has put in the time so prohtably that James Rire, the coach, says that the crews have made satisfactory im- provement
 Cornell, after weeks rowing here, had two mile race yesterday in which the freshman defeated the varsity crew by three lengths, thereby seeming. to justify the statement made by Coach Courtney on leaving Ithaca that the crew is much slower than last year and not up to the Cornell standard.
 Pennsylvania has a good looking crew, but Ellis Ward. the coach has no high hopes, pointing out that he has been able to retain only three of It's years strong eight.
 Syracuse has practically new crew Andrews being the only one left from last years squad, but with young Jim Ten Eyck at the stroke oar, the boat is second to none on the river in It's appearance of speed, not accepting Wis consin which defeated Syracuse at Mad 1 ison this spring.
 The Badgers, who are being trained by Edward Ten Eyck, son of the Syra- cuse coach, show excellent form, and their boat seems to move rapidly. The men are uniformly tall and look excep- tionally strong.
 In the Georgetown boat the four stern men are the same as last year, the other four being new. Murray A. Russell, who rowed on the 1908 crew. is the coach Richard Glendon is coach | of the Annapolis crew.