Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-16
ROW|NCM MACHINES
CREAKINC NOW
College Grew Squads PTacticing
Indoors For Coming Season.
HARVARD IS WELL SATISFIED.
Crimson Has but Three Seats to Fill
In Last Years Boat-CoIumbia. Has
Many Candidates-Princeton Ambi-
tious-Penn and Annapolis to Meet.

The sounds of outdoor athletic teams
at indoor practice are issuing from col
lege gymnasium buildings these days.
From the baseball cage comes the
thump of balls, and the creak of row.
ing machines forces it's way from the
closed crew rooms. The campaigns Of
the so called winter teams" are near
ing their end, and spring sports are
anticipating the season. Especially is
this true of the oarsmen.
AT New York Columbia's crew can
didates are drilling daily under the
sharp criticism Of Coach James E.
Rice. The first call brought sixty can
didates. and Rice lost no time in boat
ing them on the machines. In the bas-
ketball furry at Columbia the oars
men are overlooed, but they are work
ing hard and in quiet. Their day
will come toward the last Of June.
when the shells will sweep down the
Hudson in the big intercollegiate re-
gatta.
Harvard's Bright Outlook.
Harvard. too. is training. and train
ing hard. The reports Of crew activi-
ties at Cambridge state that Coach
Wray has over sixty men trying for
places in the different boats. Prac-
tice is being held in the boathouse on
the Charles, and prospects are again
bright for a broom party at New Lon
don.
All the available veterans have re-
ported for work and are rapidly round
ing into form. 1t will not be a cast of
hard training with them, for they have
kept themselves in good condition
through the winter. The varsity eight
did not suffer heavily from gradua-
ton. All but three of the men who
led the procession on the Thames last
summer are available. To fill the trio
Of vacancies Coach Wray has the ma
terial from a very strong freshman
eight Of last year and a good string
of secondary men to choose from. Be
it known, the class of material at
Cambridge is not makeing Wray pre-
m%aturely old.
Princeton's campaign in the spring
will be unusually ambitious. For the
first time since 1884 the Tigers will COM
pete in intercollegiate rowing. 1t is
certain that Yale and Cornell will row
on Carnegie lake this spring. No def
mite dates have been scheduled, but it
is said to be a surety that the races
will be held. A Princeton crew may
also compete in the Henley at Phil
adelphia. A new shell has been Or
dered by the athletic association.
Princeton's crew candidates are hold
ing daily practice in the gymnasium
The drills are under the direction OF
Professor Duncan Spaeth. Indoor work
will continue for the next few weeks.
1t is planned to boat the men on Car
negie lake about the middle Of March.
| The squad has been divided into four
crews.
Interest in the coming rowing sea
son at the Naval academy is already
| strong. the scheduling of a race against
the University of Pennsylvania after a
lapse of a number of years being an
event which has directed more than
the usual attention to aquatics.
Pennsylvania has consented to take
it's varsity and freshmen crews to
Severn for. a race Oh May IS.
With Harry Vail. the old Harvard
coach. in charge. Wisconsin will make
one more strong bid for rowing hon
ors ut Poughkeepsie. Over twenty-five
candidateS answered first call recently
AS the Badgers have lost but three of
last years crew they should be very
strong
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