Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-05-30
COLLEGE VARSITY
CREWS ARE BUSY
UaTSn2l Hard al Work Pl3paT-
Ing For Coming Regaiias.
GRADUATION BEYLETES RANKS

Cornell Fortunate In Losing Only One
Man-Syrscuse Also Lucky olum.
bia Coach Having His Troubls-Fenr
Weak-Wisconsin Has Heavy Grew.
With the preliminary races at hand
and with the championship regattas
not far off. the college oarsmen are
putting in their hardest practice now
and building up the foundation on
which the finishing touches will be
put in June.
Every crew in the east has been on
the water for some time. and the
coaches are molding together the com
binations which with no or few
changes will row in the final races.
Graduation and losses from other
causes have wrought havoc In the
ranks of nearly all the crews that
struggled In the races of June, 1911.
OF the seven crews that rowed either
at Poughkeepsie or New London. Cor
nell and Syracuse seem to have Jared
the best. In fact, few weeks ago
Cornell had its 1911 varsity eight in
tact, and only the loss of +. F. Bowen.
who stroked the Ithacans both in 1910
and 1911. has broken the Cornell com
bination.
Syracuse lost only one man by grad
uatlon, but the work this spring began
with four veterans. as three of the
leftovers failed to report In their old
places. On paper Columbia lost but
two of its oarSmen. but as matter
Of fact only four OF the men who
rowed last June have returned for
practice this year.
PENNSYLVANIA has five of its 1911 vet
Grams as nucleus for the varsity
eight, and Wisconsin has six. In the
New London crews Harvard has six Of
its 1911 oarsmen. while Yale has only
three Of the men who were In the
varsity boat last June.
In almost every case. however, ex-
ceptional material in the 1914 fresh
men crews has provided men for the
vacancies in the senior combinations.
At Columbia Jim Rice, who Is COM
pleting his sixth year as coach Of the
Blue and White crews, is having his
troubles in getting together an eight
to his liking because the squad from
which he has had to draw has been
almost the smallest in years.
Wisconsin is planning to have the
heaviest eight that has ever represent
ed the Badgers. and for that reason
NoE hn
necessary to have an especially large
shell built for the crew.
Six of the men who rowed in last
years varsity eight have returned for
this years crew. and in addition E. j..
Samp. whose illness caused the SubSti-
tuition of Wood. the freshman oarsman.
at the last minute last June, is avail
able, SO that in all Vail has seven ex-
perienced men from 1911.
With six of last years varsity com
bination to begin work on, Jim Wray
has hopes of turning out another sue
cessful Harvard crew. Captain Cutler.
No. Z, and Lathrop Wilmington, No. D.
are the only men who We're lost by the
graduation.
OF the remaining six. five have seats
In the present varsity combination. and
unless there is a midseason slump 1t Is
doubtful If there will be any radical
change In the boat. Wray, however,
has been trying to change the Harvard
stroke and is at present coaching his
men to make longer reach and pull
through farther than they have been
In the custom Of doing.
This is a point that Wray has pick
I'd up from Courtney. and he will
use It against the Courtney crew in the
coming triangular regatta between
Harvard, Cornell and Princeton on the
Charles river basin on May %
Although Yale has three veterans Of
last years crew still In the university.
~ new graduate coach, J. o. Rodgers,
1t the present stage Of the game has
placed only two, Captain Romeyn and
Philbin. in the varsity boat Scully,
The one left over. has been relegated to
the second boat, and four Of last years
victorious freedman squad have been
attsd into the varsity combination. to
gether with ]. A. Appleton, stroke Of
the four cared crew. and Freeman. q
now man.