The Cairo bulletin., 1911-06-27
GREAT ANNUAL
REGATTA TODAY.
FIVE AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES
WITH 112 oARSMEN IN
CONTEST.
WILL RUN THREE RACES
Columbia and Annapolis Made Best
Records In Spring Contests
Record of the Several Crews
Since 1895.

| Pougnkeepsie, June 26--On hund
red and twelve oaVshlen, representing
! five American Universities, and divid
ed into IA crews, will engage TO
morrow afternoon in the great annua
regatta Of the intercollegiate Rowirs
Association, composed OF Columbia
pennsylvania, Syracuse and Wiscon
sin.
This regatta win be held on the
Hudson River, a straight, deep stretch
OF water beginning three miles nortd
of the Porghkeepsie Bridge and fin
ishing one mile south OF the same
structure.
The program, comprising three
races, is as follows:
First Race
400 P. M.--University Four-oared
Shells, without coxswin; two miles
beginning one mile north of the
bridge and finishing one mile sou.h
of the bridge.
Trcphy-The Kennedy Challenge
Trcphy Cup, presented in 1899, by
Davidson Kennedy, Pennsylvan a,
to be held by the winner fer one year
Present holder of the Trophy, Cor
nell.
Course Positions: /. Syracuse; 2, Cor
nell; 3, Pennsylvania; 4, Columbia.
Wisconsin has no entry in this
race.
Second Race.
i:30 P. M.-Freshman Eight-oared
Shells: two miles, the same course
as frstrace.
Trophy-Tne Stewards Cup, present
ed in 1850, by graduate of Col
umbia. 10 be held by the winner
for one year. Present holder of
the trophy, Cornell.
Course Positions: 7, Cornell; 2. Col
umbia; 8, Wisconsin; 4, Syracuse;
5, Pennsylvania.
Third Race.
$50 p. M-University Eight-Oare1
Shells. four miles, over full course.
Trophy-The Varsity Challenge Cup,
presented in 1898, by DR.. Louis l..
Seaman, Cornell, 10 be hell by the
winner for one year Present hod-
er of the trophy, Cornell.
Course Positions: 1, Pennsylvania;
2. Columbia; 3, Syracuse; 4, Cor
nell; 5, Wisconsin.
The hour set for the pricipal race,
$50 o'clock, is just fourteen min
utes before the ebb tide will be. at
its strongest. The freshmen race Will
start at the beginning of the ebb tide
and the university fcuroared race
will be rowed in practically dead
water. If the weather is at all rough.
nhe outside crews will feel it the
most, the smoother water being on
the inside of the course, the numbers
CT which begin from the west Its
thought that the outside crews will
have whatever advantage will result
should the weather be calm but, gen.
orally speaking. the Poughkeepsie
course is fair TO all contestants. the
lanes being set so far out into the
stream that there is comparatively
| little difference between them.
Sometimes the outside crews have
been Handicapped by spectators boats
crowding into the course This hap.
pened last year, and the revenue off
crs having charge of the matter have
determined to police the course even
more strictly than heretofore. Rev
enue cutters will be stationed on
either side of the course at the finish
and police beats will be stationed al
points along the course to prevent
if possible, the repetition of last years
crowding Of the crews.
Prior to the coming TO Pouglikeep
sic for the last days of practice, non,
OF the crews had competed in four
mile race. Most of them, however
had engaged In catch races for twt
miles with vaious othe colleges, an,
a brief review Of these spring race
may be some indication OF the compari
tive merits of the contest in tomol
rows varsity race, as the boatin;
has not been geneally changed, a
though vaying degrees of improve
ments have been attained within tn
last six weeks of parctice.
The several matches rowed by tire
of the colleges with Annapolis Civ
some basis for comparison betwee
Columbia. Pennsylvania and Syraclst
Columbia defeated Annapolis by tire
lengths In the match race and agai
defeated the middles In the Amer
can Henley at Philadelphia Ann;
polls defeated Syracuse by tire
lengths and Pennsylvania also lost t
the naval cadets by half a length
Reath, who stocked Pennsylvania S
handsomely to second place in tn
Poughkeepse regatta last year, wa
In poor condition in the Annapol
spring race and In that event h
strained his side so severly that h