The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-27

racklng work of the last two weeks,
SO as 10 be in the hest possible shape
for the crucial test tomorrow.
Every incoming train brought scores
upon scores of enthusiastic and noise
making partisans of the different
crews who Insisted upon seeing their
favorites and celebrating with them
in honor OF the coming event. Hut
they were disappointed in having to
steer clear Of the athletes. each of the
coaches isolating his proteges as far
as poSs bic, from the ledlam thai
reigned. trying time 1t was for the
quintet OF the country's foremost men
tors In MISUNDERSTANDING, Ten
Eyck. Rice, Ward and Vail-who
shoulder the responsibility for the
showing of their charges in the battle
for the collegiate rowing supremacy
OF the nation.
On all hands II is declared that to-
morrow's va: -.ty race Will produce
the greatest contest in the history OF
th'i rowing classic. and hard fights
are promises also in the dashes or
the freshmen eights and varsity
tours Not since the great race of
isoo mas there heen such an assem-
hlages of first calibre oarsrnen com
petinE. H
Cornell IN Favorite.
10 usual CorHell is the heavy ia
voritc to win the varsity race win
Columbia backed for the place ID,
little has been ascertained as TO the
strength Of the Wisconsin aggregation.
and they may prove TO be The dark
morse Syracuse did poorly in th,.
early season. losing twice 10 the Mid
dies. At Annapolis and Philadelplla
The Improvement OF the Rochester men
during the last few weeks mas been
more than ordinary. SO they cannot
be counted on; of st.. Moreover. Svra.
cusc has perhaps the best position IN
the water OF any OF the crews, having
arawn the number three course. Ellis
ward has kept the doings OF his Penn
sylVania charges more or less under
cover OF late, and IL cannot be said
whether he has overcome the many OBJ
stacles of hard luck that beset him
during the earlier training.
Cornell brought along 10 Pourh.
keepsie AZ the beginning of the ma,
workouts. two weeks ago, an o nth,
OF tnlrty-siH men, the most complcts
that has ever come TO this town for
me annual races. In addition 10 the
h'cfnpcrs OF the varsity eight, the var.
sity four and the freshman eight.
Coach Courtney brought along corps
OF Stcwards-a four of substitute var
SHY oarsmen and another OF substI-
eutc freshmen. II was thought ar tho
beginning of the season that the Cor
nell varsity boat would be filled mostly
with veterans Things changed. how
ever, as the veteran mentor developed
II ON his novices several men superior
10 those in last years boat After
many shifts and sibstitutions, he has
selected combination that stacks I'm
as one OF the best sent forth by Cor.
nell in several years-nnd the Itha-
cans have been winning the event
regularly almost as. long as anybody
can remember.
The new eight-oared shell built by
John Hoyle, in which the Cornell crew
was scheduled to row this year, has
been abandoned because the men could
not get used to it and preferred the
old one. Accordingly. Courtney will
send his men TO the mark in the old
Hoyle she'll. which has won two sue
cessive years.
Last June Courtney was quoted as
saying he would rather. have his fresh
men in the varsity race than the first
eight. But the same condition does
not hold forth this year. although the
frst-year~crew could not be called a
weak one. The Cornell varsity four
has done fair work in trial spins.
When the Cornell oarsmen go out
on the river tomorrow they will be
boated as follows:
Varsity Eight-Elliot. bow; Bates, 2: