New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-06-17
CREWS IN TIME TRIALS
Pennsylvania and Columbia
Oarsmen Try for Speed.
WARDS ROWERS SHOW FORM
All Fights Have Stiff Brushes
with Freshmen During the
Days Practice.
rBv Telegraph to The Tribune. ]


Poughkeepsie. N. Y, June 16.-Time
trials by Pennsylvania and Columbia en-
livened the days practice the Hudson
although al the other crews had good, stiff
Ellis Ward took the Quakers out between
showers in the morning, and shot them
down over the course at top speed, while
Rice waited until after o'clock before
putting the Columbia eight through its tes;.
Ned Ten Eyck started his eight in the
morning at the head of the course, and for
giving it a trial, but when the boathouse
was reached the Badgers stopped rowing
and then pulled inshore.
All the crews, with the exception of the
Westerners went over the course in the
morning practice although Pennsylvania
was the only one that tried for speed. Cor
nell was the first on the river, and when
nearly half way down met Syracuse and
PENNSYLVANIA pulling upstream. Courtney 8
men pulled down to the flush at low
stroke and had Just made for the shore
when the Quakers came down in great
form. The Salt City fleet had started be-
fore Ward sent his men off, but the Phila-
delphians caught them at about the bridge
Ward said after the trial the time of the
crew compared more than favorably with the
time made by last years eight al this time.
Rice followed over the course with all his
Columbia crews just after Ned Ten Eyck
had stopped bis varsity eight above the
bridge
Ward shuff1ed up bis tours again this af-
ternoon before the varsity eight went Out,
and in a practice spin one four beat the
other by two lengths Ward does not know
just what four 1t was that won. because he
has given up trying to name one the first
and the other the second, for in the first
race or SO the second boat usually trounces
the supposedly first boat. This time he
took Brown, Thomas and Stiffel out of the
first boat and replaced them with Milford.
Ferguson and H. P. Smith, and shifted
Peterson back to stroke, where Thomas had
been rowing. The trouble seems to be that
Ward has eight men who are so nearly
alike that one combination Is about as good
as another. He has not yet begun to think
which one will start in the race.
Schmidt in the Wisconsin freshman boa-,
has a bad cold. and Ten EycS thought It
advisable to let him have the day off.
Lamson took his place in both morning ami
afternoon rows. The Badgers do not seem
tc be improving ma terially in their work on
the Hudson, and II is coming to be the
opinion that the victory over Washington
did not mean that Wisconsin had wonder
full crew In a fast sprint In the morning
the crew rowed very rassedly when the
stroke got up to thirty-four, and the crew
fell away badly.
Heavy rain kept all the crews off the
river until late this afternoon. although
Cornelrs crews did go out when It was
still raining hard. Courtney went down as
far as Milton Landing, and was followed ty
the Pennsylv mia and Wisconsin crews.
Ellis Ward put the Quakers through long
row, despite their hard test in the morning.
The elder Ten Eyck, too, went down stream,
although he kept well over toward the east
ern shore while the other three crews
Rugged the opposite shore.
The river was absolutely fat, with a
strong flood tide, when Rice sent his var
sity eight down to the finish line and turned
them about for a time row TO the head OF
the course The freshmen were stationed
under the bridge at the one-mile mark
while the second varsity eight and the four
took up the burden of pacemaking at the
two-mfle mark. The varsity eight rowed
thirty strokes to the minute after getting
the freshmen, and Just held the freshmen,
who were rowing q much higher stroke' AT
the three-mile mark the crew was still pull
ing strongly at thirty, and finished the full
distance with a sprint that got UP as high
as thirty-six The conditions were ideal
for fast time.