The Washington herald., 1908-01-26
CREWS ON MACHINES
College 0arsmen Start Long
Indoor Season..
GEORGETOWN IS SATISFIED
With New Coach and Good Nucleus
Blue and Gray Hopes tn BE Factor
in POughkeepsie RRce--COIum biu
Pennsylvania, and Cornell Are
Unusually Fortunate.

Although the intercollegiate regatta at
Poughkeepsie is more than five months
off, every e5llege that will participate IN
the classic rowing event has already
started preparation.
Most of the squads commenced work
Immediately after the Christmas holidays
bat the list was not completed until the
past week. when the first Georgetown
eight started to tug away at the ma
chimes In the Ryan Gymnasium.
The engagement of q professional coach
after a rather unsuccessful season under
the graduate system, together with the
fact that there is a formidable looking
nucleus around which 70 build q crew,
has aroused an uuwonted interest ia
aquatics at Georgetown The smoker last
Sunday, at which speeches were made by
alumni and undergraduates, gave the
crew a good start. and from now until
the middle of March interest Will be cen-
tered in the rowing room in the basement
of the gymnasium.
OF last years crew Coach Vail VIII
have Capt Fitzgerald. stroke. Rice. Mur-
ray, and Woods, with La Plante, Lynch,
and Moran. of the 1906 eight as likely
candidates for seats iu the shell. There
is a surfeit of material made up largely
Of men who have TJWed on their class
crews. and it would not be surprising to
see some Of these oarsmen supplaut the
veterans
All Fear Cornell.
Cornell has so long stood far above all
other colleges ln the matter Of rowing
that it has been a forcgonc conclusion
from the start of the season THAI she
would win out each June, when the final
test came upon the four-mile Hudson
River course. yet each year that hope
which springs eternal ia the human
breast has caused lovers. Of good sport
10 believe that some crew OF other would
prove her undoing. Pennsylvania did il
for three years. from 1858 until 1909. in
elusive, and then Cornell reigned supreme
until I904, when Syracuse defeated her,
much TO the general surprise.
Since then different scares have been
in order. Many hoped for Syracuse 10
repeat her feat tbe following year but
Courtney could NOT be vaHquished, and, as
a result, he sent forth one of his grand
est crews. In 1906 Pennsylvania was Sc
cretIy believed TO have the race, as her
crew had gone under the remarkable
record OF 81 time trial, and Il, IN every
way, looked good, st.ll. Cornell proved
three lengths better.
Last year all hopes We're placed upon
tie Naval AC8demys muCh-heTalded boat.
but an impossible stroke completed the
downfall of what would otherwise have
been a remarkably fast crew. and one
which a Courtney, or "a Rice. could have
beaten the field with. had they been the
coaches of such material. More sur
pTisiug than ali was the work OF Co
lUmbia the boat which challenged, and
even led Cornell over most Of that four
mile memorable battle.
Columbia Dangerous.
Columbia had been through seance i'm
rowing for some dozen years. First it
was one system then another, finally il
came down 70 some high sounding terms
about graduate coaching, and even that
failed. Jimmy Rice was then called upon.
a man who had found conditions at Har-
ward impossible No one looked for
much from Rice. especially as il was hts
first year. but Rec was found to be
man with mind of his own. and one
which contained many good ideas His
crew TOwed a sane stroke, and while il
may have been similar 10 COurtney's,
Rice is the kind Of man who is 20 be
given credit for adopting It, and, in fact,
pairing it down to suit his needs. Rice
had TO unlean men before he taught
them his style When the time came
Rice's boat made good in every particu-
lar and the scorching it gave Cornell was
about as grand a thing as victory. This
season Rice is back and he will have
some splendid veteran material and his
same plucky stroke oar. so he VIA be
much u evidence and sane people can
hope Rice viii produce a crew at Column
bia better than anything Courtney can
produce at Cornell Pennsylvania, too.
Will not be far behind. either, with the
magnificent material Ward has at his
disposal 1t looks every bit as favorable
rs any Ward has ever had, and is surely
the equal Of the Cornell or Columbia
squads.
At Cornell. Coach Courtney has five
men from last years boat from which 20
make his crew. Commodore Cox, of
Washington, the stroke oar, IS the man
behind the gun, and with him there is
Gavett. 5; Gracy. /; Bayer, > and Brom-
ley, bow. as a nucleus. The varsity four
supplies Holt, 4; Seymour, 3, and COulson,
. All of the freshmen are back to help
fll the vacancies, and they are Forbes
stroke; Martin, Z: May, s; Koerner. .;
Morrow, 4; Kelley, 3; Bachus, of Wash
ington, ., and Williams, bow.
Coach Rice, at Columbia, seems blessed
with material for he has as nucleus
six Of last years varsity, one Of the 1906
varsity and Ryan, a substitute last year
His material consists of CerTussi stroke,
Won Saltza, 5 and captain; Starbuck, 4:
Spalding, 3; J. MaeKenZie, ?, and Snevilly,
bow Then there is Heinrich, No. in
the 1906 boat, to fill a vacancy, and Ryan,
the substitute. to fill in at No. Z. All of
the four have graduated, but the fresh
men are back intact and consist Of Stein
schneider. bow; Hamann. 2: Hauser, 3,
Dellenbaugh, 4; Renshaw, .; Saunders, 6; /
keator, Z, and Murphy, stroke.
Navy Loses Ingram.
At the United States Naval Academy
1t has not as yet been decided whether
the crew viii go TO Poughkeepsle for an
other season, but it is practically certain
this permission viii be given when asked
of the naval department Coach Glendon
is again in charge of rowing, and he has
good material. though Stroke Ingram
will be missed. There is Capt. Rockwell.
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