New-York tribune., 1912-04-07
ATHLETICS At COLUMBIA HOPPE TO DEFEND TITLE
Plan Well Equipped Boathouse
for Crew at PoughkeepSle.
TO START BUILDING SOON
Baseball Squad Returns from
South To- day to Play Long,
Hard Schedule.

Hard Schedule.
II the plans that have been mapped ou'
for the development of the lcenouse
dock. which the Columbia rowing manage
ment has bought for the use OF the oars
men in their spring training at Poueh-
keepsle 20 through without hitch the
crews will find one OF the best equipped
training houses on the Hudson when they
ard their barge boathouse are taken up
,be river on June 1. Work will be begun
,his week in clearing of the property ana
Getting IL in condition for the construction
Of the buildings that are 10 be put UP
within fortnight.
At the extreme northeastern corner OF
the dock a. spacious two story frame struct-
ava 20 IN be built surrounded by a wide
veranda. This will be arranged so that the
oarsmen will be able 10 sleep out OF doo'S
.. all times II desired and be entirely pro
tected from the rain. The lower hoor OIL
the building will he large enough 10 ac-
commodate all the boats and other equip
ment that will be taken to Poughkeepsle
each year. and will also contain showers
and locker rooms. one part OF 1t VIII DO
eiven over for quarters for the ATTENDANTS
The second floor will be used entirely ior
the living quarters of the oarsmen.
Another building of only one story Is u
he put up at the southeast corner OF 'he
first. and this will be used as mess man,
and will contain. in addition to the dining
room. a large kitchen. with ample Ie-
rrigerating pace. This building VIII DE con-
nected with the other by covered pas
sagewav. so that 1t will not be necessary
10 get from cover in going from one part
., the quarters 10 another. South or the
dining room and Immediately adjoining IL
there is TO be a dug-out icehouse, IN winch
ice will be stored in future years aITec'iy
as q Is cut from the river. IL was lhpos-
siblc to arrange for the building oil 'hiS
bouse early last winter because OF the
I.teness Of the date on which the Columbia
MANAGEMENT received title to the property
,,ut the house is to be ready for the winter
., to,o-r2 in plenty OF time for the storing
-, suncient ice 10 last through the training
season.
II is also contemplated to run pipes from
the spring that comes out OF the GIN d
counle of hundred feet west or the ran
road tracks. and which Is on TIE Vaot
owned by the university, directly 10 '"'
kitchen and boathouse, so that IL VIII 10
unnecessary for the freshmen ana coN-
suains to spend most OF their tree tiihe
IN. carving water from the spring 10 the
Quarters. as has been the case every sc"
90, This water has been analyzed In the
Columbia Laboratories and has been FOUND
% no absolutely pure, and as 1t Is miles
from any habltation there Is little danger
% tic boIre contaminated. II is considered
IN he one Of the most valuable assets o."
tho property, because II relieves the Gre"
manocement OF the necessity or carr!l"s
bottIed water to Poughkeepsie each SEASON.
some,h,ng which all OF the other crew
souade do. with the exception OF WIS
oaro,r The Columbia crews have been
,,s,rg this water for four seasons, and not
once has there been case OF Sickness III
the squad.
With the buildings completed the enure
dock IL to be graded. The foundations OF the
old icehouse are TO be removed, the ex-
CaVatiOn nlled ana tne "iio'S ih'H '"S -.
lawns and garden plots. Steps are to lead
un n the railroad tracks, and IL the west
Shore management consents to stopping
trains at the quarters platform may be
huut az the side OF the tracks. such as Is
found at the Harvard quarters at Red
Ton. Part OF the dock space may be made
into lawn tennis courts, but II Is pretty
certain that Rice will not permit any OF
h,s oarsmen TO make use of them and run
the risk OF injury
The Columbia baseball team Will return
from its annual Southern trip to-day. and
IN Tuesday will begin one of the hardest
series of home games that the Blue and
White has ever had. Nine OF the next four
teen games are to be played on South
Field beginning with the contest with Am
herst which will be played on Tuesday.
Dartmouth will face Columbia on Friday.
and on April II Stevens will meet the Blue
and White. The annual Yale game Is to
be played at New Haven on April &c. With
the exception of a trip to South Bethlehem
and Easton the following week end for
games with Lehigh and Lafayette, all the
remaining games save one are to be played
on South Field The only exception Is the
one with Cornell, which will take place at
Ithaca on May S0 The season ends on June
). which Is Columbia's commencement day
with a game with Pennsylvania The pro-
iected upstate trip in the week following
commencement has been abandoned, ei-
though Syracuse held out strong induce
ments for a game in the Stadium on the
Syracuse commencement day.