The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-27
CREWS PREPARING
FOR GIG G 4 RE /; | A
College h Oarsmcn Already on
Water, Although II Is Early
in Season.
p 70 S Pc G i S ARE BRIGHT
Big Squad at U. Of P Vale and
Harvard's5 Bows
Weak.

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New York, March 2s.-All Amer
lean college crews which will COM
pete at Poughkeepsie and New Lon
don are now rowing on the water.
From puget Sound to the Charles
River the lighthouses have been opened
and the shells put into commission
The prospects for successful sea-
sons are reported to be bright at most
of the institutions and the sport Is
gaining In popularity. Institutions
which are not represented on the
water are beginning to contemplate
the formation Of navies. Minnesota,
Missouri and Chicago University stu
dents are agitating a movement to
establish varsity crews Stanford
University is continuing rowing BY
means OF clubs and securing as many
candidates for positions in the shells
as turned out when rowing was q
! varsity sport at the university. The
goods at Washington University have
organized a crew. In the East, Prince
ton Will meet Annapolis In the first
Intercollegiate contest in which the
Orange and Black has entered crew
for years.
The Harvard boat has recently been
subjected to change in the position
of stroke. Newman. who rowed in
that place during the early spring
practice, has been changed to tho sec
ond crew on account OF back work
and Cutter has been shifted to stroke
According to reports, the Crimson
varsity Is rounding into good early
season form, and tho only changes
which may be made in Its present
seating are apt to occur in the bow.
Yale has Harvard's weakness in the
bow. OF her varsity's she'll, but the fol-
lowers Of rowing In that institution
believe that the prospects OF win
ming crew are much better this season
than they were q year ago at this
time. The blue crews reached the
water bit sooner than the average
squad.
When the first call for candidates
was issued at the University of Penn
sylvania Coach wray was amazed at
the number OF his recruits. His squad
was almost unwieldy and reached an
unprecedented size for Pennsylvania.
The men began work on the water
this week, and several preliminary re-
gattas have been scheduled for their
practice.
Coach Rice. Of Columbia. Is in a
peculiar situation with the light blue
and white candidates. - believes he
hasS the material for a GOOD eight
cared boat and a fair four, but the
squad Is so small that he has no re-
serves. Rowing at Columbia has been
IN precarious position several times
during the past few years, and this
season the directors of the rowing
club seriously contemplated the aboli-
ton of the ,ort. AS 1t is now. IL
one OF Coach 9lce's good men is In
| capacitated he has no suitable SUBJ
sttute.
at Syracuse Coach Ten Eyck had a
hard time securing enough men to
make serious competition for the
crews. Since the Orange has been
represented at Poughkeepsie 1t has
had several remarkable successes and
there was plenty of rowing enthusi.
asm at the Salt City College. Ten
{ Eyck's experience this year was sur
prise to many oarsmen. He resorted
to meetings to arouse sweep
swinging spirit. His crews are now
on Onondago Lake and the work has
for Poughkeepsie.
For a time the Cornell oarsmen
were afraid their spring practice
would be seriously retarded by the
severe winter Of Northern New York,
which locked the Cayuga Lake inlet
with ten inches of ice when the crews
should have left tho machines. A
sudden warm spell broke up the ice
and the subsequent flood drove the
cakes onto the lake little over a
week ago. Coach Courtney immedi-
ately ho!sted the flag on the boat
house, and now he has. including nine
coxswains. 1o1 candidates put in boats
with smooth water and comparatively
warm weather. Three Of the crews
are in shells.
That rowing is in no decline at
Ithaca was shown by the number OF
Undergraduates who have lined the
water front during the last few prac-
tices.
There are more spectators watch
ing the crews this season than have
turned out for years at Cornell. Court,
sney has seven varsity and four fresh