Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-05

nells triple victory on Memorial day.
when her varsity crew defeated Harvard
her junior eight won from Pennsylvania
and her freshmen trounced the Harvard
youngsters, established the rowing SUI
premacy of the Ithacans more firmly than
ever. 1t means that they will go to
Poughkeepsie the favorites. and that
victory for them on the Hudson Will give
them the intercollegiate rowing cham
pionship of the country unless Yale
should trounce Harvard at New London,
and this latter does not look at all
likely.
In some respects Cornells victory over
Harvard was not expected. While the
Ithacans were known to have an average
Cornell eight. it was thought that Har-
ward had a crew much above the aver
age There were sent cut reports ABOUT
The wonderful time trials Of the Crimson,
and their victory over Annapolis Garner
i'll the year has strengthened the impress
sion that they were invincible.
The excuse made by Harvard LOT her
defeat is that her men fowed too low
stroke for two-mile race: there being
about four points difference In the strokes
OF the two crews. If this was the real
reason then there must have been poor
coaching on lHarvards part. Most
coaches suit the stroke TO the crew, and
the ability to boat. his eight and give
them the best stroke to suit the men and
the distance constitutes the principal rea-
son for the success of Mr.. Courtney OF
Cornell. The apparently reckless manner
in which he can shake up crew on the
eve of big race and yet bring order out
OF chaos stamps him as genlt-s
Yale Conundrum.
Yale crews will go to New London this
year without the advantage of single
try-out on the water. Harvard. on the
other hand will have had two severe
tests. namely those with Cornell and An
napolis. The Els last year profited much
from race with Pennsylvania and two
weeks of preliminary practice on the
Scnuyllzill river 1t was thought that
they would arrange another race this
time. bat for some reason or other it was
not done, though Pennsylvania stood
ready to meet them again. To an out
slider it would seem that Harvard's pol
icy was much the better. for there is
Harvard coaches will know Just what to
expect of their oarsmen, While Yale Will
surely be weakened by her hit and miss
system. and the consequent lack Of con-
+idence among the men.
Similarly the Pennsylvania and Column
bia< varsity Fights will go to Pough
keepsie without having been tested
against other crews. Heretofore Pennsyl-
wanna has always entered crew in the
American regatta. but this year Coach
" ara Thought tile IiG11liiit5 lOT 81 SHUT
race. l mile $50 yards, would not aid
him in picking a crew for a four-mile
race end therefore entered only his
junior eight. Columbia has usually had
a race with Annapolis. but this year sent
her junior crew instead to The American
regatta.
Quakers Lead at Base Ball.
The intercollegiate base ball situation
is in somewhat of tangle. Princeton,
by her double victory over Harvard,
has. eliminated the Crimson from serious
consideration, while Pennsylvania, by her
two victories over Yale. had put the Els
out of the running Pennsylvania has
to her credit a victory over Princeton
and a fourteen-inninS tie game with the
Tigers Pennsylvania has already play
ed two games with Cornell, winning one
and losing one There is another game to
be PLAYED and if the QuakerS win it they
will be entitled to the base ball cham
pionship 1t is true that their record is
marred by an early season defeat at the
hands of Columbia. but if the series with
Cornell is won. no one can seriously dis
pute Pennsylvania right 10 be ranked
on ton this year, she was last year:
The defeats suffered by Harvard and
Yale at the hands of the smaller colleges
and Princeton's double triumph over
Harvard will rob the Yale-HaTvard series
of much of it's intercollegiate interest,
though the graduates Of the two univer-
stiles will witness the games with as
much enthusiasm as ever.