Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-21


Poughkeepsie today five of the great
est college crews in the country are
to battle for honors. Out of the
great race will come a winner but
ner is much in doubt. At this in
slant all, or nearly all. will say
"Cornelll" with a positiveness that
is amazing, yet even the greatest
coach of them all-Charley Courtney,
the Cornell coach-will tell you bon ,
estly and trnthfully that he has
doubts himself as to the winner. He
likes the chances of Cornell. of ,
course. which is quite natural. but ,
he isn't advising his friends to bet !
the family plate on the big Red
Crew" That Cornell will win is
likely and is probable, but the doubt
that hovers over the situation hasn't !
been as heavy or as considerable in
many, many years. !
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The time made by the various
crews in their preparatory training +.
on the Hudson has been so fast that ]
the coaches themselves have on nu- {
merous occasions doubted their own
ewes and their own watches. Court {
ney himself says he has never seen
the like of it.
Down will come Columbia rowing
at a tremendous pace and breaking I
all records" Courtney will tell you. Y
ana again will come that hearty \
Washington crew doing even faster t
work with the blades. Pennsylvania
is doing nicely, wisconsin pulls a C
powerful. even stroke; Syracuse has F
smooth and clever rowing action, and t
Cornell, while good enough for me, {
will have to be very good TO win the v
day." +
That is a conservative statement Q
by a conservative man. Cornell to k
him looks best. She also looks best r
to me. Beat Cornell and take the y
money seems to be the slogan. yet v
Cornell may be beaten, and as an n
evidence that there is more than a f
passing chance, some of the sharpest s
rowing experts in the country are h
taking the field at even money
against the Courtney crew. g
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If Cornell is beaten, what crew will v
do the trick! Immediately the rail h
birds" shout almost in unison, Co Ia
lumbia," Yes. Columbia seems to I
be the one. If one there is to be. L
Then you go down the line and you
place Wisconsin third and Pennsyl-
vania fourth and Syracuse fifth, and '
then you stop abruptly and ask your {
self, But what about Washington" {
And you think and you think and {
you cannot say, and, finally. to, be
honest with yourself, you simply an
swer, 81 do not know" and let it go |
at that Washington is the dark 6
horse She may win and she may be
nowhere. l have left no place for !
her in my pickings. and she will not t
disappoint me no matter where she
comes in. I
The intercollegiate race is big and L
interesting this year, and a great f
thousands are on their way to the j
course by every manner and means c
From Newark, the number is unusu- d
ally large. Local devotees of the @
sport seem to be out to the last man. a
Let's hope the rain keeps off and the /
race is to the just and to the quick. |
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Harvard, as expected, made a show
of Yale in their annual rowing races I
on the Thames. In the minor races, 6
the four-oared and the freshman, :
Harvard won on her merits, and in ,
the big race, the varsity eight, she
Inundated the Ellis beyond repair. ,
Harvard was letter perfect in the
varsity eight event. She took the lead
at the very start and she never re-
linquished it, Yale gave battle for
a time. but she couldn't hold the
pace She splashed for a time and
she rather caved near the finish, and
she was beaten off disgracefully. For
Yale it was an awful showing-it
wasn't a contest at all. She didn't
have the class to be a Bulldog and
her fight was weak and futile.
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Yale will have to stand for her de-
feat on her rowing methods. She
has an English coach, who has given
her an English stroke, and one could
see without half-looking that it was
all fatal mistake. Yale rows like
'longshoremen. She dashes back the
oars for the water and she dashes
them out of the water at the finish of
the stroke. She works hard and ac-
complishes little, and her boat not
only rocks and swerves. but the de-
sired Roadway is not in evidence.
Yale Is on the wrong track-she
hasn't been on the right one for some
time. She has good men and true,
but she is breaking their hearts with
method that handicaps them out of
all consideration. The poor old Bull
dog! Mighty hard the blow that
makes the Ellis not even a contender.
Poor old Yale! Will she ever get |
any rowing sense at all?
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New Jersey comes under the spot
| light in lieu of Harvard's victory, for |
Quincy Reynolds, of Montclair and |
member of the class of 1914, was |
chosen captain of the Crimson crew