New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-01
COLLEGE CREWS READY
will Occupy POughkeepSle
Quarters This Week.
COLUMBIA OFF TOMORROW
Washington University Oars
men, Pacific Champions, Will
Arrive Thursday.

In another week all save one or two OF
the college crews that VIII row in the
intercollegiate regatta at Poughkespsle on
June 81 will be in training quarters up
the Hudson. putting on tho finishing
touches OF their six months OF practice.
Columbia leads tho way tomorrow when
the squad OF forty Blue and White oars
men under Jim Rice leave their present
quarters nj Edgewater and move up
stream 10 their new bosthouss at Clear
water.
II IS tho plan Of tho Columbia oarsmen
20 get on the Hudson for their first spin
tomorrow noon and by the time the
Cornell contingent arrives on Wednes-
day they will already have had a couple
of rows over the course. II Is expected
that the University OF Washington crew.
champions Of the Pacific Coast, and new
corners I'm tho Poughkeepsie races. will
arrive early on Thursday morning Wis
corsln will get I'm on Friday afternoon.
and when the Pennsylvania squad turns
IN OF Sunday. Syracuse will be the only
contingent lacking. II the present plans
OF the salt Lake oarsrlen so through they
will be on tho scene OF the races on
June r.
Aside rom the entering OF tho Wash
ington eight the innovation IN the life OF
the oarsmen at Poughkeepse this year
will be tho new Columbia quarters.
Boa thouse, sleeping quarters. dining room
and kitchen have all been rolled into one
and tho New York crew Will have a veri-
table little community in itself on the old
ice dock, one mile from the start of the
four mile course. A private water supply
system. with pipes leading direct TO a
mountain spring. will assure an abundance
Of wholesome water while tho crews are
i'm training. The new Columbia quarters
are said 20 be the finest on this side OF
the Atlantic. A special station on tho
West Shore Railroad is one OF the feat
urcs Of the new quarters.
The Cornell crews have forsaken their
old house on the top OF the mountain Just
above the Cakes and will again be quar-
tered In the farmhouse at the water 8
edge within a stones throw Of their boat
house. This old house was tho quarters
for the Comedians for dozen years. but
a change OF owners a year ago made II
lilpOsSlpLc 'ONi NlltN w lUdht kuS HtN-
essary arrangements and the crew was
taken up tho mountainside.
The oarsmen from the Pacific Coast Will
use the boathouse that was built for
Leland Stanford last year under the
Poughkeepsie Bridge. and they will oc-
cupy the quarters In Highland village
that were taken by the Calforniaus last
spring. The Neutrality-suspicious. left Seattle
on Friday night after having one OF the
most satisfactory trials that they have
rowed. over a four-mile course on Lake
Washington the Seattle oarsmen rowed
In 81 minutes IS seconds, which II former
records can be taken as a criterion,
should mean 10 minutes or less on the
tideway course on the Hudson.
Wisconsin will have tho Elms In High
land village and Syracuse Will have tho
Whitney House. Pennsylvania. too, will
be- I'm Highland village. making the total
number OF crews there four out OF the
six IN the regatta.