New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-23
Rowing Systems Cannot Be
Built Up in a Day.
MUCH JOY FOR HARVARD
Hitting of Giants Counted IN
Recent Climb-The Phlllles
Command Respect.
RY Herbert.

command RSopCNV'
BY Herbert.
The earnest effort made by Adle men
~ build up a crew strong enough anu
fast enough to beat Harvard ana 10
break the long string of defeats mas
failed. and the question naturally comes
M as 10 the advisability of teachlhG tne
English system of rowing when the con-
ditions here are much different from
those abroad. In this connection it may
ne said that Yale has suffered not so
much in recent years because OF any par
ticular system, but because OF the con-
slant changes which have been maze ]"
the effort to find out where the iauIt LAY
and to get better results. l had peeh i'u
IN believe that the Yale crew of this year
was an exceptionally good one, ana YET
81 was the old story of the last Few years
trailing home behind Harvard ere"
which. earlier in the season. VAS oauIY
beaten over two miles by Princeton ana
Cornell AS suggested a week ago, now
ever linn Wray has the faculty OF bring
ING his men up TO the line for the all
important four-mile race in condition 10
ebov, their true worth This Harvard
crew deserves the more credit because
the men were forced TO overcome the us
couragemcnts of earlier defeats.
II &c not for me to offer advice or even
nresume to suggest what may be pest
for Yale rowing men to do in the race Oh
another reverse. but Rome was not oull'
in a day, neither can new rowing sSs-
tenn he established in one year IL Is
unite possible that a foundation has oeen
laid on which il might be well 10 puiiu
before making another change.
II was impossible for me TO see that
oruelling. sensational eight-oared shell
race AT Poughkeepsie on Saturday ana
shall never cease TO regret 1t. Coca
Judges say that two wonderfully las'
crews in Cornell and Columbia kiheu
each other off by setting pace through
which they could not live, and that syria
cllse then came along and beat them ooth
home This may be true, but judgment
is quite as much a part of any conlpeu-
ton as speed or skill. and personally l
am a great admirer of the man, horse OF
crew, that can come from behind to WIN
II is cutie possible, Of course. that II
tho rare could be rerowed to-morro"
Syracuse would finish third 10 the other
two. but this is largely an opinion ana
nothing should be suggested TO ROD syria
g cuse OF the high honors so bravery
cornad To the yictors belong the SPOTS.
Ten Evck built up a powerful crew ana
10th he and his men are deserving OF
highest praise.
4 word must be said for the men from
NE University Of Washington. who traV-
,led across the continent and hnlsheu
,ird in the big race. The effort surrey
,as worth the making
uarvard.s victory over Yale at baseball
~ Saturday settled the series I'm favor OF
be Crimson after three bitter, nara
ought games, which rarely II ever nav
,een edualled The Blue won the hrst at
sew Haven on Tuesday by a score OF
N O: Harvard won the second at Gam
ridge on Wednesday by q score TO 10 .
q, fourteen innings, while the crimson
,aptured the odd by a score OF 10 on
Saturday. In the three games each team
,cored 10 runs-a pretty fair indication Oh
now wonderfully we'll they were ma'cheu'
Now comes a rating. sadly complicated
which hope 10 make in this column
next Monday.
Harvard is beating Yale pretty regu-
larlv these days. Victories for the Grim
son on gridiron, water and diamond IN
&c
boast Of.
In a news story just before the Yale
Harvard baseball series it was said In
The Tribune that the Yale nine had SET
new intercollegiate record by winning
fifteen consecutive games. This unfortu-
,atelv was a mistake to which attention
mas been called by number of readers
II the first place, as has been repeated
n number of times in The Tribune the
Yale team won seventeen games in ro"
and I'm the second place 1t only equah
what some call an intercollegiate record
as Park H. Davis, Of Princeton, calls at
tention TO the fact that the Tigers Wor
seventeen games one right after the other
in 1897. which included victories over
Georgetown. Cornell. Brown, Lafayette
Harvard and Lehigh. Then, too sports
man." in THE Boston Globe says sam
Winslows Harvard team OF 1855 did moi
lose a college game, but the number was
not stated.
When one stops TO realize that the
Giants gained 5l2 games on the pacemak'
ing Phillies in the last twenty played up
to their return from the West on Satur-
day some idea can be had Of the rate al
which they have been travelling. Clean
hard hitting has been the potent factor
backed up, of course. by the kind OF
pitching which holds the enemy at bay
while runs are being scored. In winning
sixteen games and losing only ive of the
last twenty-one played the team has
been batting close to the 800 mark. and
unless an unexpected slump comes first
place seems TO be only question of a
few DAYS, although Philadelphia drew out
a bit on Saturday.
The Phillies command respect. After a
most discoura ging reverse In losing four