The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-30
HARVARD AND YALE PREPARED
 FOR ANNUAL ROWING EVENTS

 vard-Yale rowing races. those classics of college sports, are to be contested again tomorrow over the Thames river course which has been the scene of alter mating triumphs of the Crimson and the Blue for many years past The pro- gramme of tomorrow's races is as fol- lows:
 Freshman eight-oared race, start about i0:8O a. m. Distance, miles, beginning at the railroad drawbridge and finishing two miles up stream opposite the navy yard Present record for upstream course: Harvard Freshmen crew of 1907, in g minutes 3s1a seconds; record for downstream course: Harvard Freshmen of 1899, g minutes SS seconds.
 Varsity fours, start at conclusion of freshmen race. Distance, 2 miles, begin ming at navy yard and finishing two miles up the river, off the Harvard quarters at Red Top. Present record; Yale crew of 1908, in 10 minutes 331k seconds.
 Varsity eight-oared race, start about D. m Distance. miles, down stream, starting off Harvard quarters at Red Top and finishing at railroad drawbridge. Present Yale Harvard Thames record held by Yale crew of 1888, 20 minutes and 10 seconds over downstream course. Yale crew of 1907 also holds the upstream record in the same time. 20 minutes and 10 seconds.
 The various competings crews are as follows:
 Harvard Varsity Crew-Bow, G. von L. Meyer, Jr., Hamilton, Mass; No. ?, c. F. Stratton, Cambridge, Mass; No. 3, G. P. Metcalf, Providence; No. f. A. M. Goodale, Saco, Me; No. 5, l.. Wilmington, Honolulu No. 6, A. Strong, New York; No. T, R. W. Cutler. captain, Brookline, Mass; stroke, G. F. Newton, Jr., Cohas- set, Mass; coxswains A. T. Abeles, St. Louis Average weights 17Si5 pounds
 Harvard Varsity Four-Bowe J. G. Wiggns. Pomfret, Conn; No. ?, James Trumbull. Salem, Mass; No 8. F. D. Morgan, Jr., Westbury, N. T.. stroke, l.. Waitt. Boston, coxswain, c. H. Abeles St Louis Average weight, 1631s pounds
 Harvard Freshmen-Bow, F. K. Car yer, Cambridge; No ?, F. H. Turnbull Salem, Mass; No. 3, Q. Reynolds, Mont clair N. J.; No. 1. A. Taylor. Newton, Mass; No. 6, w. T. Gardiner. Boston; No. ', l.. H. Mills, Boston; stroke E. Curtis, Portland, Ore: coxswain,, R. St. B. Boyd, Newton, Mass; No. 5, l.. Cur tis, Jr., Dedham, Mass; average weight, 172 pounds.
 Yale Varsity Crew-Bow, E. P. Frost (captain), Waltham, Mass; No. 2 J. W. Field, Washington, D. C.; No. 8, J. w. Scully Jr., Pittsburg, Pa; No. 1. R. 8. Tucker, Raleigh, N. C.; No 5, R. Romeyn, New York city; No. 6, J. H. Philbin, New York city; No. ', D. Van Blarcom, St. Louis Mo; stroke, A. ALLOW, Jr., Brook lyn, N. r.; coxswain, J. A. Copp, Groton, Conn; average weight, 16Sh pounds.
 Yale Varsity Four-Bow, R. F. Ives, Cnicinnati; No. 2, D. c. Odenborg, Jr., New York city; No. 3, A. D. Adams, Brookline, Mass; stroke, w. F. Howe, Jr., Brookline, Mass; coxswain, P. Bar mum, Mamaroneck, N. T.. average weight, TIC pounds.
 | Yale Freshmen-Bow, G. A. Gore, Nel- son, B. C.. No. ?. H. L. Rogers, Hyde Park, N, Y.; No. 3, 0. w. Crayne, Gin cincinnati, O.; No. 4, M. s. Denman, Des Moines, la; No. 5, F. L. Stephenson, Jr., Pittsburg, Pa; No. G. NJ B. Ross. Spring field. Mass; stroke, c. N. snowdon (cap- tain), Pittsburg, Pa; coxswain, c. G. Shepard, Hartford, Conn; average weight, 165 pounds.
 Harvard and Yale rowing antedates all other Intercollegiate sport. Back in 1S52 two crews in crude boats pulled over a two miles course on Lake Winnpesaukee, | and Harvard won. Since that initial event, the two universities have met 43 times, in various places, and at various distances, with Harvard winning a ma Jority of the early races and Yale proving faster in later years, until today the rec ord stands: Yale 23 Harvard 21.
 From Lake Winnipesaukee the scene shifted to the Connecticut river at Spring field; then to Lake Quinsigamond at Wor- ] cester Lake Saltonstal, near New ] Haven, was tried also, and in one yedf Harvard cast her lot with other colleges at Poughkeepsie Racing at New Lon. don began in 1878. and several times there have been three crews on the river Cor. nell came here in 1898 and beat both Yale and Harvard, but since that time the two oldest universities have rowed only eacf other over a four-mile course. Yale's longest series of successive vic.
 tories, six in number was broken b,
 Harvard in 1906, and. while the Blue wor . in 1907, the Crimson has been to the fore
 for the past three years and with pow. , erful collection Of varsity, freshman and
 substitute fours have swept the river or l. every occasion except the four-oared race !, in 1908
 The two varsity crews came to New
 London this year after an unsuccessful ! preliminary season. Yale had met defea
 twice, once at Springfield by Pennsyl E vania. and again at Princeton by botf
 Cornell and Princeton, while at Ithacs
 Harvard was beaten by Cornell
 Until most recent practice, the Thame,
 bore a decidedly crimson hue, for liar
 wards boat load of veterans was looked 1. upon as far superior to the green ma
 terial in the Yale shell. But the improve l. ment of the Yale crew since the Prince
 ton race has been marked especially il | recent practice.
 Of the eight men who pull the crimson
 tipped blades this year, five of them, Met calf, Wilmington, Strong, Newton ane