The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-25
All 0arsmen Are at Scene of
Coming intercollegiate
Rowing Regatta.
COLUMBIA ROWS CLOSE
TO TOP FORM ALREADY
Wisconsin Grew Displays Great
Improvement in Second
Practice Spin.
BY MANHATTAN.

BY MANHATTAN.
BY Leased Wire to The Tribune.
NEW YORK, June 24.-The coming
intercollegiate rowing regatata at
Poughkeepsie, n. Y, is the big talk an
sporting circles. 1t will take place
June 81.
All the oarsmen who are OF take part
in the regatta are at Poughkeepsie, N
Y. Columbia has been there two weeks
and Cornell for week. The Columbia
men row pretty close to top form al
ready, and Coach Rice may have to re-
duce the heavy programme he laid out
to keep the men from going stale.
Showing speed and rhythm in stroke,
the Wisconsin eight was taken out for
practice spin last Tuesday. The crew
displayed great Improvement over its
first spin. All the men are in good
shape.
Francis L. Bangs, chairman of the
board of stewards of the lntercolle-
giate Rowing association, announces the
drawings for the courses at tho re-
gatta.
The varsity fours will be rowed IN
dead water and the freshman race will
start at the beginning of the tide
In the varsity race Pennsylvania has
drawn course /, the lane which the
Quakers had a year ago in the varsity
race, but Columbia, which had D last
spring, has moved into .. Syracuse will
be in No. 3, the lane which the Cornell
crew had last year, and Cornell will
be in No 4, with Wisconsin on the
outside.
With the tide at the strongest point
of the ebb, the outside crews will have
the advantage on calm day, but IT
| the weather is at all rough the heavy
going will be out in the channel and
| the better water inshore, as was the
case year ago when Cornell and
| Pennsylvania had tho inside courses
and all the advantages of smooth wa
| ter.
The freshmen race will begin at Ais
| 'cock with Cornell in No. l., Column
| bia in No. 2, Wisconsin in No. B. Syra-
! cuse in No 4 and Pennsylvania In No.
5. In the four Dared race only four
crews will be entered and the contest
will be started at $3.50 o clock Syra-
! Cornell next in No. .. Pennsylvania IN
No. 3 and Columbia on the outside in
| No. 4.
Serious Stage at Yale.
| Rowing at Yale has reached a seri-
Gus stage. Last year | attributed the
| failure Of the Blue crews to a lack of
material. That is not true this year,
| for i have seldom seen a finer lot of
men in boat than the eight that fn-
| isbed far behind Princeton on Car
negie lake. Yale oarsmen are not
I united as to the cause of the trouble,
but they agree that the fault is with
| the stroke. Yale Craftsmanship has
changed markedly in the last few
years. 1t is true, of course, that Har'
ward has turned out better crews than
in the past but when the Crimson
defeats the Blue so easily it means
| improved but that the Yale method
! has deteriorated.
| Those who saw the Princeton regatta
wondered what became of the un.
doubted power in the Eli she'll. The
rowing was smooth, but without power.
| The hard catch so much in evidence In
old Yale crews was absent Take the
hard catch away from the oarsman
and you take away the thing that gives
him confidence aud pace. 1t is the
| foundation of the winning stroke-of
Courtney's, of Wray's. indeed, of the
stroke taught by any man In the first
rank of coaches. This is one of the
great troubles with the Yale crew, and
perhaps the most noticeable one. There
will be no winning Yale crew until
the plen get back to that grip on the
water that marked the old Blue crews.
The difference between the freshmen
and the varsity in this respect has been
noticeable all season. and up to last
week the younger eight was much the
| faster Whether there is the same diff
ference in speed now is not known, but
! it is certain that the 6rst-year boat
looks more like standard Yale crew
| than the varsity The time is short In
| which the Blue oarsmen can return to
! real Yale form, but not too short il
the change is begun at once.
Slow in Planning Races.
The Blue has been little behind in
planning races. Yale crews used to be
| told not to let Harvard get open wa
| ter at the two.mile mark. This was
! all right in the old days, when the
Crimson crews had SIX good oarsmen
and two poor ones in the shell, but l
! do not think the system is effective
now since the Harvard eights have been
taught to race from the gun. The Har-
ward crews of the last few years are
not the kind that can be rowed down
as they were in the old days. The real
chance to defeat the Crimson lies in
setting hot pace and getting the lead
| in the first half mile. 1t makes no
great difference III a two-crew race
nowadays how badly one eight is beat
en- so long as il is beaten, and most
rowing men will agree that the time
to row nowadays is in the first two
miles. The last two will take care
Of themselves. Last year Harvard
"killed of - the Blue in the first two
! miles and was thereafter able to set
tie down into the regulation four-mile
pace, with the race won.
Recently / have received letters
wherein the writers either inferred that
the games between the Giants and the
Brooklyns hive been pre-arrangcd or
declared their belief in the existence