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CAN CORNELL DEFEAT YALE?
Rowing Experts Declare Courtney's
Methods Superior.
RACE WILL BE A SENSATION
COminE Event win Probably Attract
as Much Attention as Does
the Great Intercollegiate
Regatta.

NEW YORK. April BIS Cornell the
conqueror of Columbia, Syracuse, wiscon-
sin. Georgetown, the University of Penn
sylvania and other crews that compete in
the intercollegiate regatta on the Hudson
river every year, the master Of Yale7
This absorbing question, long one OF dis
cussion among rowing experts. enthusiasts
and collegians. will he settled next month,
when Yale and Cornell. for the first time
in many years will race against each
other. There has long been a disposition
to regard Cornell crews as the acme of
perfection and the highest type Of oars
men.
BY the consistent victories of the Cornell
crews in the intercollegiate regattas many
rowing authorities have formed the con-
clusion that the training methods put in
vogue by Charles Courtney the Cornell
coach. and his style OF rowing are superior
TO all others. and that the Cornell crew.
in race with either Yale or Harvard
would triumph. Efforts have often been
made to get Yale and Harvard to enter
the intercollegiate regatta, but in vain.
Three-COrnered Meet.
on saturday, May 20. Yale. Cornell and
Princeton will meet in a triangular two
mile race on Carnegie lake, Princeton
N. ]. The Yale and Cornell crews are ac.
customed TO rowing four-me races. The
shorter distance IL not expected 70 work
to the disadvantage OF either crew, but
on the other hand, make the race closer
and the time faster Cornell, in the Hud-
son river races. has frequently won races
by spurts at the end Of the four miles.
Princeton invited Cornell and Yale to
compete In order to add luster to what
will be the first intercollegiate race ever
rowed on Carnegie lake Until very re-
Gently the faculty kept a ban on a regatta
there. This was lifted this year. Invita-
lions were issued then TO Harvard, Yale,
Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania
TO compete. Yale and Cornell accepted
The race is expected to be a sensation,
1t will probably attract as much attention
from the experts and the rowing enthus-
lasts as the great intercollegiate regatta
a month later, because of the question in
volved. A victory for Cornell will be ad-
ditional conviction to many that Court
ney's methods and systems are the best In
vogue in the United States and that his
crews, under fair conditions are unbeat-
able. victory for Yale will. to the ex-
perts, indicate many things, chiefly that
Cornell has not monopoly on the rowing
honors.
After every intercollegiate regatta the
question is asked II Cornell wins. Gould
Cornell defeat Yale or Harvard7''
Furthermore, II is asked why IT is that
Cornell wins so consecutively and cleanly.
Some declare that the men constituting
the Cornell crews are heavier or stronger
or better men physically. The experts do
not regard this explanation as satisfactory.
II is just as easy for the University of
Pennsylvania and the others to get as
heavy and as we'll developed men as con-
stitute the Cornell crew,
Weight Gust No Figure.
There have been occasions when SYRIA
cuse, Pennsylvania and Georgetown have
had heavier crews than Cornell On one
occasion the Cornell crew was the lightest
in the regatta. yet it won handily. Ex-
perts have said that the only inference to
be drawn consequently is that the methods
and the stroke used by Courtney are really
the two important factors in the success
of the crews.
The matter OF the time made by Cornell
in it's races on the Hudson and by Yale in
Its annual race with Harvard at New
London have often been compared in an
effort to figure out which. on such occa-