Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-20
BOAT RACES
Ban on Selling Pools Interests
the College Men.
THE LAW Is FAR REACHING
Poughkeepsie Officials to See That
It Is Enforced.
GOSSIP OVER COMING EVENT
Status of Crews to Participate in Big
Annual Aquatic Contest-specu-
lation Over Crews.
GOSSIP OVER COMING EVENT
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
POUGHKEEPSIE. n. Y. June 20
Those who have been criticising the talk
of the ban to be placed on the selling OF
pools here before the intercollegiate rowing
races as fiction have been silenced by as
surance of Mayor Sague and Chief of Po-
lice McCabe that the lid Is on tight and
that any one caught tampering with it
will be in danger of enforced confinement.
In short, the morale of the new anti
gambling laws is to be felt throughout
the state this season.
Although 1T was at first generally under
stood here that the new laws pertain only
to horse racing. it is q misconception, as
there is another section prohibiting
wagers. etc, on any contest of skill.
strength or speed of man or beast. When
interviewed today Mayor Sasue said that
he had instructed the police to prohibit
the selling of pools and making OF books
on the boat races. In years past this was
carried on openly but the police depart
ment of the city has declared its intention
to make such thing impossible this sea-
son.
AS the Poughkeepsie police have no au-
thority across the river at Highland the
enforcement of the law rests with the
sheriff Of Ulster county. The fact that
the observation train is operated on that
side of the river makes it an ideal Situa-
ton for bookmakers shell games and all
other moneymakng schemes of the
gambling fraternity.
. Forts to Evade the Law.
1t is probable that the interested parties
will tre to establish quarters somewhere
in the neighborhood of but outside the
city limits of Poughkeepsie. and then tip
off the college men. who are always
ready to back their crews with stronger
argument than their opinions Of their
res pective merits. While the law applies
throughout the entire state. 1t Is not SO
easy to enforce in some lonely or Sc
cluded spot, and it will not be surprising
If on the day Of the race walks into the
rural districts will have attained an un-
precedenfed popularity.
The latest consensus of opinion az gath
cred from talk in the town is that SYRIA
cuse is dangerous Columbia star perform
ers in rough water and strong at any time
and that Cornell Is on the decline The
element of chance and the results OF
training for great boat race are so un-
certain. however. that, with the contest
week off, countless things may happen to
change opinions before the regatta. In
spite Of all the recent talk of Syracuse
and Columbia, there are those who claim
that the Quakers have a varsity crew
reckon with throughout every yard of the
four miles.
The Columbia Eight.
The Columbia eight seems to have mas
tered the stroke taught by Rice In fine
style, snappy at the catch and finishing
through with powerful leg drive. Ma
chnelike, the regularity Of its rowing is
not interrupted in the least by rough wa
ter, when other crews under similar con-
ditiQns have exhibited tendencies to go
up in the air.
The impression that the Ithacan combi-
nation Is below the standard of the crews
usually hailing from that quarter has not
arisen solely as a result OF a drubbing
given them by Harvard in the early part
Of the season. but on the present condi-
ton of the oarsmen. 1t has been shown
time and again that comparative records
mean little, as the condition Of the crews.
the water and the stage Of development
each has reached at the time of the diff
bases for judgment are entirely differ
emit
However as a result of the contest with
Harvard and fraternity troubles, many
changes have taken place in the varsity
eight and the new combination had to be
pushed unusually hard. There is as much
danger in too much work in short space
Of time as there is in too little, and per-
haps this Is the trouble with the Cornell
tanS.