The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-29
WRESTLING
CATCHES STUDETNS

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of winning the intercollegiate for four
consecutive years and turning out d
vic. orious team for 81 dual meets was
unprecedented and it is doubtful II II
ever can be equaled.
o. A. c. prof. ed by his skilled In
struction and long experience ana
turned out a team that was credit
to their instruc or and an honor 10
heir institution. The Multnoman
club succeeded in defeating the Wash
ington State college team, and, though
the Multnomah wrestlerS have been
connected with the game for a number
of years, and have had much more
experience, their victory was not one
whit more decisive than the victory
gained by the o. A. c. boys. In botn
cases w. S. G. was defeated in five OF
the six bouts, therefore it looks on pa
per as though the O. A. c. would at
least give the Multnomah Wrestlers a
good bate.
Their success has interested the
Spokane Athletic club and a challenge
has JUS been received to meet the Spi-
KANE WICStlSiS SpOndiic ooiiiOIiiiiS IL
April. The O. A. C. management has
accepted this challenge and will send
a team to the Island Empire to battle
for additional honors. While they are
handicapped by less experience, they
doubtless will give the Spokane mat
men a hard battle-and it makes lit
tie difference from a pure sporting
standpoint whether they win or lose.
It is worth much to them as expert
ence and worth still more as adding to
the interest that attaches Itself to this
splendid sport.
Eastern Crews Get Busy.
The eastern colleges that maintain
crews would most certainly be de-
lighted with the Wea her that has fav-
ored this section of the northwest dur
ing the past few weeks. Early water
work for varsity crews sometimes be-
comes a difficult problem for crew
coaches. The university of Washing
ton is especially favored as it is pos
sible for them to work out of doors
during almost the entire year on &C
count of the weather. While eastern
crews are laboring indoors on the row.
ing machines the coast crews are en-
joying the delight of work in the
open.
The Poughkeepsie regatta has but
five competitors this year as plucky
little Georgetown has decided to with
draw from competition 1t is rather a
hard struggle for Georgetown to keep
alive is crew activities. They have
students than their competi
tors and they have at times been rep
resented on the Hudson by an eight in
which the oldest man was not 20 years
of age. In spite of their youth and
their other handicaps they have done
we'll during the years thai
they have competed in the regatta.
This year the crews will be Pennsyl-
vania, Syracuse, Cornell Wisconsin
and Columbia. 1t seems rather too bad
hat the navy cannot again par;ici-
pate in the classic event Two years
ago Annapolis sent her crew and it
added much to the picturesqueness of
the training period on the Hudson. In
lead of living in the hotels on shore,
as did most of the crews, Uncle Sam
sent gunboat to care for the youth
full oarsmen. The regatta that year
was one of the finest ever seen on the
with seven crews compe ing
for the greatest of aquatic nonors.
Yale and Harvard at Philadelphia.
1t seems more or less of a shame
from the standpoint of sportsman
that Yale and Harvard do not drop
their Ii tie two handed game and send
their crews to Poughkeepsie. 1t al
ways seems from the standpoint of an
critic that it would be
better for the interests of sport, and
less indicative of snobbishness if they
"ould enter in with the rest of the
colleges and help 10 make the Pough-
keepsie regatta the biggest possible
hing in water sports. When two
crews race there is always the posi-
bility that the race will be spoiled by
some accident. This was true last year
when GriswOld, of Yale, collapsed and
from the standpoint of real race the
event was completely spoiled. Thus, |
the thousands of people who had come
with the expectation of seeing the race
were disappointed.
This condition is Impossible at
where there are enough
crews so that even if one man or more
should by any accident be disabled,
the race would still be on and there
would be competition to the finish. In
fact, last year, condition of this kind
did arise when No. 6 in the Wisconsin
boat caught a crab and was struck by
the heel of the oar and became uncon-
sciouS. At the time Wisconsin was in
the lead and doubtless would have won
the race, and while it was too bad that
their chances should go by the board
in this unforeseen manner, the specta-
tors were not disappointed in seeing
a splendid finish as there were five
other crews ~ cOroneta To tho end