Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-23
MORE CREWS IN BIG RACE
With Georgetown Out Field Will Be
Larger Than Last Year.
WEST TO ROW IN THE EAST
Washington ~University Would Like
to Send n Crew 90 Row in the
Dig ReEnttRs In June at
POuEhkeepsie.

POughkeepsie.
NEW YORK. Jan. 22.-Even II George.
town does not, as now seems likely. re-
turn to the fold Of the colleges rowing al
P~oughkeepsie in June, six crews instead
Of five, as last year, may fight ii out on
the four historic miles of water Of the
Highlands course. The far west is making
strides in its rowing, and the University
Of Washington nearly sent a crew to the
Hudson two years ago. The challenge wac
sent, but It was received too late for ac-
ceptaince by the towards Of the Inter
national Rowing association, which con-
slsts Of Columbia, Cornell and Pennsyl-
vania, The other colleges that have from
time to time competed at P~oughkeepsie-
Syracuse. Wisconsin, Georgetown and the
~Navy-have done so as guests.
In 1908 Hiram Connibar, coach at Wash
ington, came on to look over the eastern
crows. He saw Harvard beat Yale, that
being the year of Griswold's collapse in
the Yale shell, and then saw a great race
between Syracuse and Columbia. Connibar
was decidedly impressed by the eastern
crews. but not to such an extent that he
was afraid to match his westerners against
them.
Washington woul a rowed here last
year If the stewards of the association
could have ~reconciled themselves to al
lowing the winner Of the triangular. coast
regatta to come east. Washington had
questions of local supremacy to settle with
Stamford and California, and had no wish
to come east as a beaten crew. So, as the
coast regatta is held in May, 1t was
sought to arrange for it's winner to make
the trip. But the stewards would not sane
tion this.
Now Washington is anxious to row here
still, and the rowing Is not as flourishing
as 1t might be in California, the crew from
Seattle may break away and. like Wiscon-
sin, confine it's competitive rowing to the
big regatta on the Hudson. W~ashington's
supremacy in rowing on the coast is pretty
we'll settled, and as a sectional representa-
tive the Seattle institution would be all
right in the opinion OF those who follow
the doings of the college oarsmen.
More Time to Train.
The Washington men can get actual out
door work practically every day OF the
collegiate year, thanks to the wonderful
land locked lake that borders the campus.
If Jim Rice or Courtney has such ad-
vantages they would be trying to arrange
races with crews from Mars. Money Is
none too plentiful for equipment out there,
though-shells that Cornell had discarded
having been the best obtainable. At that,
one of Hoyle's boats, even IL 1t is a few
seasons old, is a pretty fair vehicle for q
crew that knows how to row.
Hiram Connibar is a quiet, shrewd yam
kee, who knows about all that has yet been
discovered about the technique of rowing.
He was a great single sculler in his day,
and is a graduate of the same school of
Craftsmanship that produced Charles Court
ney, Jam Wray, Jim Ten Eyck, Ned Han
Ian and Jim Rice. A skilful builder of boats
and maker of oars, he depends on one oar
in the rigging of his shells, and his crews
have been mad up of we'll schooled oars
men, thoroughly grounded in the basic
elements of the difficult art Of oarsman-
ship. He made a great impression on
those who met him in 1908 at New London
and Poughkeepsie, and they have been hop
ing ever since that he would be one of the
squad Of coaches that has a crew in the
regatta ever since.
Connibar has more Of an official position
than rowing coaches in the east. He is a
member Of the faculty Of the University
of Washington, and has charge of indoor
sports and track athletes, as well as row.
ing. He is responsible for the general in
terest taken in the sport at Washington,
where as many men as can be boated In
any fashion are usually out in the spring,
whether candidates for the varsity crew or
not e
Washington is co-educational, and Con-
nibar coaches the girls in his stroke and
mefhods as well as the men. They have a
couple OF barges to themselves, and do a
good deal of rowing in a quiet way. Con-
nibar says his job is unique in that respect.
According to him, the girls are apt pupils.
quick to grasp the principles of his stroke,
as modified for their uses, and enthusiastic
in their efforts to learn to row. II Wash
ington and Wellesley were not so far
apart geographically, there might be a race
between oarsmen that would compel the
railroads to double deck the observation
trains.
The stewards Of the Intercollegiate Row
ing association, 1t is said, will be glad to
welcome the men from the coast If they de-
eide to enter the regatta. 1t Is possible
that conditions of some sort may be made,
for the stewards do not like crews to row
one year and not the next, staying away
in years when a weak crew is looked for.
Their attitude in this respect is like that
assumed by the intercollegiate association
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