The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-26
College Girls Seek to Add
TO Fame by Race with Cor
nell's Colds.

ANti - ~ A~N"'
Especial Correspondence of Tie KiCh-
mond VirginianO
NEW YORK! July 26.--Ready to
row any four-oared crew of girls in
the country and with challenge for
a race in the fall now under consid
Grafton BY the oarswomen of Sage
College, the home of Cornell's fair
co-eds, barge crew of girls is daily
to he seen training on the waters OF
Gravesend Bay. The girls. all noted
as swimmers. basket bali players and
canoeists. seem destined to also be-
come famed as a speedy four-oared
crew. In practice they have given
members of the Nautilus and the Ariel
Boat Clubs hard brushes for short dis
tances. They have had some good
coaching and are showing astonishing
skill and stamina tor a crew of wo-
men.
The club whose pennant fiu'ters
from the bow of the barge in whie Il
the girls are rowing at present Is
that Of the "R. H." Club. lts colors
are orange and black. The club
quarters are at the foot of Forty
fifth street, Gravesend Bay lnclud-
ed on the roster are the rames Of
the champion woman swimmer Of
4 America, the basket bali coach at
Erasmus Hall High School and OF
several instructors in swimming In
the New York public schools,
The basketball coach, who Is a
graduate of Barnard College. was
once captain Of girls baseball nine
which gained some fame in New Jer-
sey. She IL Miss Pauline Stein berg
The champion swimmer is Miss Elaine
Golding. The other members Of the
crew are Miss Rae wilkes, Miss Rose
Bremen and Miss s. Layl Machat.
The latter instructs public school chill
dren In Swimming School No. Il.
| Manhattan.
With all the members of the crew
already skilled in many material ac-
complishments when the rowing apro-
ject was first suggested by Miss Ma
chat, captain of the crew, II was a
comparatively easy matter tor the
gias to acquire knowledge of rowing
! after the "R. H" Club was formed
! Mr.. William J. Dunn. one time win
| ner OF the pair-oared national ham
| pionship and later captain of both tht
| Metropolitan and Brooklyn Rowing
| Clubs, was their first Instructor after
| the four Dared barge which the fail
| oarswon1en use AT present. had beer
| purchased.
| With his coaching and a few hint:
| given by Mr.. Constance Titus, erst'
! while national sculiing champion
when the latter was rowing coach Al
! Princeton University the girls have
mastered the technique of sweep row
| ing while constant practice has giver
! them wind and strength to cover {
mile at very ereditable speed. Every
day and twice on Saturdays and Srn
| days the course in Gravesend Bay i!
| covered at racing speed, once aftel
| the barge. at slower stroke, has Jeer
sent from Sea Gate to the government
dock at Fort Hamilton.
We took up rowing becaase W
all thought that 1t was the mos
! healthful sport there was for womei
| who liked the water declared Mis-
.Machat. the "R. HIS" captain, to {
reporter to-day. Every one OF u
| girls rs an enthusiast about outdoo'
exercise, especially when 1t has any
thing to do with the water, and W,
hope by our example to convert man,
other girls Every one of us ma
| found the sport most Beneficial ant
We have all gained in weight, strength
and health since we started TO row.
II was Miss Maehat who took th'
| challenge from the Bath Beach girl
to Sage College. She had a perfect
| iy dandy time while there. she says
and learned several things worth
| Knowing from watching the Sage Col
lege crew while rowing on Beept
Lake, to which body of water man.
worth while pointers from Coaci
Courtney's wisdom trfckies from Ih'
| Cornell crew quarters.
I'VE really hardly hope to get
! match on with the Sage girls. de
! ctared Miss Steinberg, after the stroR'
| of the crew had told her experienc'
at Cornell They say the college at
thorities won't permit the crew d
row against any girls crew exeep
one from another weman's college
They're very strict about such things
know how it was when / piayet
basketball at Barnard"
Miss GoIding, whe at Coney fslant
! next month is going TO defend ne'
title to the women's swimming cham
| pionship, is hopeful OF securing 1
| match race with four-oared crew
| from the rowing clubs in Gravesent
| Bay. .ts
TT would be fine thing for us,
she said earnestly, "if we could row
| an exhibition race at some OF the ciul
regattas this summer. l think If WI
| had a small handicap we could maxi
| a very good showing against some
| barge crews Of men. 1t would en-
| courage us awfully. too, 1t gets rath
| er monotonous for as girls TO pTac'
| tice and practice and never have {
real race except j,ast the shert squirt:
| against some gig crew or double
| sculiers,"
This is the way the IL. III. CLUB:
| crew il tloared
Pauline Stetnherg. bow, Rae
| Wilkes, No. Q; Rose Bremen, No. 3
| s.. f.aya Machat. stroke: Elaine Gold
ing. coxswain; Emma Schack, substt'
tute.
Miss Setback Is the secretary-treas-
ureY of the club. There fs said to be
a mystic meaning behind the initials
r. III.