Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-27
COLLEGE CREW EVENTS
 COST BIG MONEY
About $25,OOO for Vale Harvard Re-
 eatta on the Thames.

Few people realize the enormous cost of the two annual regattas at Pouahkeepsie and New London, Conn. In corfmenting on the expense of row ing John F. Fitzpatrick. ex-chanlpion sculler of England and now coach Of Brooklyn boat club, remarked Rowing is the only sport in the world which is not self-sapporting. Inls Is because of the heavy expense or fur nishir4 crews with all the necessary equipment and details that go to make up u winning boat while the chahces for return on the money expended are none at all. the public being ad- mitted to watch every rowing contest free of charge.
 A conservative estimate of the money expended in coaching, condi- tioningc and otherwise putting the crews on the starting line in pig event like the intercollegiate regatta places the average sum spent py eacii university on Q tremendous scale
 Each university that has a crew in the big race is forced to make an output of sS,00O or more for it's end. This makes a total of maybe more than s50.L00 for the entire regatta. liar yard and Yale spent as much as $25,- 900 for their races at New London, and there was not a. cent of revenue from the event, the general pubic having the privilege of witnessing the contest free This is what A-Presf- dent Eliot of Harvard calls clean sport but it takes such a large amount of money to promote such an event. and the expense, to be wifhstood. must re- ceive support from some other de- partment of college sport that brings in return
 The cost of boats. oars and hunc dreds of other details, besides the ex- pense of running the boat houses, the wages of the coaches, maintenance or a training table and transportation, bring the expenditures up to these big figures. Notwithstanding this tremen- dous expense college boat racing is on the increase. There are a few in- stitutions that do not meet the ex- pense which the sport costs by the re- turn that is received from other de- partrnents. S4bscriptions by under graduates. from the alumni and from other sources are used to defray the cost.
 Tt is evident that educational men realize the advantages that the game produces, and what gSeat sport an event like regatta is in itself Other college sports have great popularity, it is true but the combined clements. educational and athletic. are brought about in the easiest and most desira- ble manner by rowing.
 Football is too violent. It is only popular because of the risks encoun- tered. That game has been knocked on the head recently as a sport for students Baseball is less violent. but crude, when compared to rowing as perfect muscle developer. Track ath- letics and basketball lare heart weak eners. The gradual regular develop men. of an oarsmen approaches closer to bringing out the ideal physical ath- Iete. Of course the big expense in de- veloping a crew is the drawback from bringing the rowing sport into more favor, but if the game were taken up in the high schools the result would bring about wonderfully improved development in the physical condition of the students of today. More sup port by the rank and file of enthusi- asts for the enjoyment that they get out of the sport watching the many big regattas might induce more of the big institutions to put the game on even a bigger scale than it stands now"