Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-08
Rowing Season
is Likely to Be
Phenomenal
Poughkeepsie Intervarsity Race Will
Be Contested by Six
Crack Crews.


NEW YORK. May L-This Is to be the
most phenomenal rowing season ever
known in America. The regattas have all
been decided on, and the most enthusiastic
follower cannot htip getting the finest. ar
ray of sport; and they are to be so wide
spread that one will have to travel only
a short distance from any point TO be on
the spot to see the finishes.
OF course the event par excellence is the
Poughkeepsie intervarsity regatta, where
Columbia Cornell. Syracuse, Pennsylvania,
Wisconsin and Georgetown come together
on the picture sque Hudson course. perhaps
the best and most beautiful in the world
1t is not an exaggeration TO say that the
winner Of the big event in the Pough-
keepsie regatta could outrow any crew
afloat on either side of the ocean every
two years out Of three.
Also the latter part of June we will have
the Yale-Harvard races at New London.
which are almost always most interesting,
but they, Of course cannot get up the ex-
citement and perhaps The speed OF the Hud-
son river contests, where six universities
are represented.
Then as a most important preliminary
treat, where we can get the necessary
whose middies arc always hungry for
water work, gives us chance to see 1t
row against several of the varsity crews
separately.
Alison Cornell and Harvard meet in pre-
liminary race, which. with the Annapolis
races, gives a relative comparison of the
New London winner with that at Pough-
keepse, although it is not entiry definite,
| he NJ All inn
prove or go back somewhat before the date
of the big races.
But 1t is for the club crews to supply
us with regattas that last from the begin
ming of the season to the end, and that are
scattered throughout the country, as can
be seen at a glance at the following sched-
ule, all under the supervision of the Ma
tional Association of Amateur Oarsmen.
And such one never happened anywhere
before.
Regattas of National Association of
Amateur oarsmen for 1910:
May 21-American Rowing association
american Henieyl at Philadelphia.
May 3O-HaFlem Regatta association at
New York on Harlem river.
! June lS-Schuylkill navy a. Philadelphia
June 25-MOhawk and Hudson Rowing
ASSOCIATION at schenectady N.
July 4-People,s regatta at Pnlladelphla.
association at boston.
| July 4-Connecticut Valley Rowing asso-
| citation at springfield
July 9-Long Island Rowing association al
| New York, on Harlem river,
July S-Central states Amateur Rowing
/ association at Quincy ILL.,
| July 16-Hudson River Amateur Rowing
association al New York, on Hudson river.
july 10 and 17-Southwestern Amateur
| Rowing association at St. Louis.
| August u and 13-N atiOnal regatta (Amer-
lean amateur championship at Washing
| ton.
september 8 Labor day)--Mlddle States
Regatta association at either Philadelphia
| or Baltimore.
september Labor dayl-New England
Amateur Rowing association at Boston.
The national championships at Washing
/ ton on August Il and Is are, of course, tho
most important and ii is the ambition OF
every club tyro to eventually land a cham
pionship winner The big event, senior
eight-oared shells, is likely to fill Will
| this large entry list: New York Athletic
| Minnesota, Detroit, the two Philadelphia
crews which happen to prove fastest
earlier in the season, Potomac of Washing
! ton. Brooklne Athletic of Boston "a
| protege of Harvard, Wahnetah and the
three Canadian crews-Argonaut. Winnipel
and Ottawa This, indeed, will be a race.