The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-03
ROWING NEWS OF
COLLEGE CREWS
PRINCETON'S EIGHT FIRST ON
THE WATER THIS YEAR
HER TEAM WILL MEET
PENNSY THIS YEAR
Harvard, Yale, and Columbia All Have
Teams in Good Shape
Already.
NEW YORK, March 3.-Princeton

H., -
has already beatc: in aquatic records
this season Her crew was the first on
the water.
Carnegie lake is free of ice, and,
taking advantage of the recent mild
weather, Coach C. S. Titus, who has
been instructing a squad of over so
men on the rowing machines at the
gymnasium, put two crews through
preliminary work on the machines,
and then sent them on jog down the
lake-a distance of a mile-and there
they launched two of the eight cared
shells. Captain Armour stroked one
of the crews.
If weather permits the same pro-
gram will be followed each day. Coach
Titus believes the jog to the lake will
develop the wind of the candidates, as
the paths lead through some rough
going
1t is still possible that Titus, ii he
finds his crew develops well enough,
will send a Princeton varsity crew to
the big races this season, though it is
most probable he will wait until next
year
They now say that Ellis Ward is
playing 'possum and that the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania has better
bunch of oarsmen than it has had in
several years. Early reports made it
appear that the Quaker City watermen
were a rum lot and that the univer-
sity had not a ghost of chance to
capture any kind of honors in the
ments were made for purpose, it is
now said One of the objects, it would
appear, was to get Princeton, begin
ner, into a match race on the Schyul-
kill river or elsewhere.
ranged Ellis Ward grinned and winked
his weather eye. This is taken to
mean that one Ward means to wallop
Titus The latter has not been over
enthusiastic about Princeton going to
the Hudson river regatta, and oarsmen
have assumed that the reason for this
is that it is pretty hard to crack the
hot a
fruit is easier in the vicinity of New
London, where Yale and Harvard
have their annual family gathering.
Titus is a foxy coach, and if he sue
ceeds in defeating the University OF
Pennsylvania it will be no more than
is expected by his friends. But that
wink of Ellis Ward has set a lot of
Princeton adherents thinking, and
many are wondering if the supposed
~ soft thing will not turn out to be
stone wall after all.
Rowing is fairly well under way at
Cornell. The number of men at work
now is really more than Courtney can
handle with the attending conditions.
Having only two sets Of machines in
the gymnasium, Is men is the limit
that can be taken care Of at the same
time. That means long while to run
through something like 100 or more
men in an afternoon and do each man
justice.
The "old man" says that he would
not consider four more sets bit too
much, but there is no room for them
at present. TRIPPING the number OF
machines would undoubtedly double
or even triple the number of men
that could be accommodated.
The Philadelphia regatta and the
Harvard race coming within week
and two days of each other this veal
will necessitate two crews. There IL
ample material for good varsity
crew, but the second boat will cause
trouble. OF last years men available
for the varsity there are four-Com.
modore E. H. Clark, '09; w. A
| Backus, 10; e. A. Stevens, '09 and s
Williams, 10. c. p. Cox was the onl!
! man lost by graduation. w. Stone, II