New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-17
ROWING TEST At HAND
Crews Will Meet Tomorrow >,
Princeton for ChiIds Gun.
THREE FIGHTS TO RACE
Pennsylvania Oarsmen Take .
Practise Spin Over
the Course.

When the Princeton. Columbia and y.
sylvania eights line up on Lake carr.v.
tomorrow afternoon for the trlsnsn,,.
race for the Childs Cup rowing rel,,,.
will be resumed among the three after
lapse OF twenty-eight years Inclden,.u.
the three institutions were participant.
the first race ever rowed for the Chids On,
on the Schuylkill, on June q. 1879. and q.
that reason to-morrows contest ha. =.
added interest.
The Tigers took part I'm their frst int
collegiate race since the resumption ~ ro.r
ing at Princeton when they finished sAco.,
10 Cornell and beat Yale in three.corne,..
race last year That taste Of real rouir.
gave the Tigers the desire for more. and -
rorrow's contest is in part the ou,cor,.
The crew this year is said to be faster ,b,'
the eight of year ago, and rs coached by
Professor ]. Duncan Spaeth, an Old Penn.
sylvania oar. who learned the rudimar,,
Of the game from Ellis Ward. II should >.
interesting to compare DR.. Spaeths mol.
fication Of the Quaker stroke with the orl,.
inal stroke. The Princeton eight hss Ia,
no competition outside of practice splr,
and brushes against the other crews on N.
lake so far this season and enters the rac.
practically untrled.
Pennsylvania varsity. on the oths.
hand, has rowed I'm one race, and b.,
been defeated. The Naval Academy elgh,
took its measure IN dual race on m.
Severn two weeks ago. but since that tim.
Wards crew has improved wonderfully and
is ready for a gruelling sprint. Madeira
who stroked the four-oared crew a,
Poughkeepsie last June. is stroknz IN.
varsity boat, and is holding the MAC.
down we'll for practically green man Tn.
rest OF the Penn crew is practically ths
same az that which rowed at Poughkeep,s
last year.
Columbia will enter the triangular race
with no racing experience and with very
little practice behind IT, The New Yor.
crew was To have rowcd against ths
middies on the Severn last week. bu,
rough water caused the cancolling Of thu
race. Bad weather and poor water con.
ditions on the Hudson have retarded ths
development of the Blue and White eight.
but Jim Rice, the coach. Is none the les,
confident that he has as good a bostload
as he ever sent away from the float.
George Downing, the captan-stroke, If. /,
Rice's opinion. the greatest oarsman he RAG
ever turned out, and he is counting largely
on him TO hold the eight together -Four
OF the men who rowed in the varsity
eight at Poughkeepsie last June are in the
Columbia boat.
The Pennsylvania crew left the Schuyi.
kill yesterday and had its first practice
spin on Lake Carnegie. The Columbia crew
packed its shell yesterday afternoon and
will follow II down 10 Princeton this morn.
ing. Rice will put the crew through
work outs both this morning and afternoon
and will probably have il on the wats-
again tomorrow morning for little lin.
berng up.
The summary Of the races that have al.
ready been rowed for the Childs Cup shows
that Pennsylvania has competed in eight
Princeton I'm six, Cornell in three and Go.
lumba In three. PENNSYLVANIA won four
times. Cornell twice and Columbia and
Princeton once each. Princetons victory
was on a decision OF the referee. no RAGS
being rowed because OF dispute
The cup was presented by George w.
Chlds In 1879. All the races except The
last two were rowed by four-oared crews
Cornell returned the cup 10 the Peunsyl.
vanla navy about 1895. and ii has been
undisturbed since then. II will he heh
by the winning crew OF to-morrow's race
for one year.