New-York tribune., 1909-06-06
COLLEGE OARSMEN BUSY
IN FINAL STRETCH NOW.
Hoe the Cre5cs Stapd after Races
of PreIiminaru Season.

The intercollegiate rowing season Is in i,s mai
stage. and in less than month all that will re-
main Will be explanations Of how the victories and
the defeats were won and suffered. Columbia is at
Poughkeepsle and the others Of the Hudson contin-
gent Will arrive soon. while Yale and Harvard will
be on the Thames within few days Yale first. on
Wednesday.
Correll's defeat Of Harvard on Lake Cayuga on
Memorial Day came = stunning surprise to
many for two reasons. One the general and
decidedly justified belief In the great fundamental
strength Of the Harvard crew. made up az Il is Of
veterans and the recollection OF the overw helTing
Crimson victory year and The other vas the
result Il the Harvard-Collmbia race. Harvard
has a good crew. and. on paper. IS still Just as
much better than Yale at the time Of Pennsyl-
vania's defeat Of the Blue.
Certain deductions that look all right have been
made in regard 10 the rowing situation result
Of the preliminary races. Harvard fairly rowed
away from Columbia the Charles. In a land
locked. tideess basin. and some think Columbia Is
out Of the race the Hudson In consequence lnlP
NAV be true, but Il should be remembered that
James Rice for reasons best known to himself
which no one who knows the man is at all disposed
10 question made a decided shift in hts boat just
before the race and that his new crew never got
together. Then, too the Navy beat Columbia. bur
II was CoIumbia's second eight that rowei at An
napolis The Navy has had. good crew. but
because Syracuse beat that good crew II is not wise
to assume at once that Syracuse is couple OF
lengths better Columbia 1t is safe TO say mat
i'm en- F. K doesn't tnlnk So AT ali tN'HtS-
Another thing that Columbia's critics must take
into account too is that the crew developed alto
gether too fast early in the season. ana that be-
russi probably the best stroke ever developed IN
America went down good deal under the strain
of the captaincy. has had long rest and Is
ust about himself again 1t is early to make pre-
dic.ions but Just now as II the struggle
et Poughkeepsie would be between Corneli' 'oiuih-
bIa and Syracuse. Pennsylvania has sunereo many
1,sees since the Yale race but Ned Ten Eyck has
Ioe heap prbl
nc, more winter and spring rowing than they ever
had before and may manage TO upset me aPple
cart on July q
-rte cornell Harvard race is the link between
the New London and Poughkeepsie regattas. mar
yard sent a pretty confident crew TO Ithaca ana
,,r,h.b NV, cot a much better one back. Overconh-
dence Is fault that has been rare at Cambridge
chiefly because the opportunity 10 be even orol-
rarilv confident has not often occurred But the
onnortunity existed this year and was seized with
ot visible hesitation. Courtney was probably glad
10 hear that his won the race, but II is most
unlikely that he betrayed eation. II the writer
knows his Courtney there was a scowl rather than
smile for that victorious crew.
Neither was Wray unduly downcast Harvard
has begun It's training four-mile crew, and
had done so full two weeks before the Cayuga
race. while the Cornell crew. which is made up
almost entirely OF of the best eghts that
ever won a freshman two-nie race, had broken
the record in a sprint at Philadelphia about week
Yale to-day is at least lhIee AoSS4
over q two-mile course than the eighth that lost
70 PENNSYLVANIA but Cornell is undoubtedly whole
lot better than the Pennsylvanians.. and Harvard
has no reason TO feel discouraged at the result or
the last race.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made for the Yale oars
men to go to Gales Ferry, on the Thames above
New, London on Wednesday. The rowing squad
made ND Of varsity eight. with four substitutes
the varsity four and the freshman eight. with
1our substitutes will leave New Haven at O'Clock
IN the afternoon. and will reach quarters before
O'clock The men will the Thames that
evening. and will work daily on the river till the
regatta with Harvard, on July l. The varsity eight
will go to the Thames made up as follows;
stroke Wallis; No. I. Van Blarcom No. 6. Cap
tain Howe; No. s. Baker; No 4, Frost No. 3.
yodeu; Nc. . Glenny; bow, Rice; coxsWain, Cass
cantain Howe and Rice In the varsity eight
last YEAR Wallis and Wodell were in the varsity
forr and the others substitutes or were in the
freshman boat. Baker is the heaviest oarsman In
the eight, weighing more than two hundred pounds.
Yale will take it's English shell TO New London
but it is now rigged ia American fashion.