The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-01
United Press Sport Expert Reviews
the Past Week In National Sports
and Picks Future
Winners.
COLLEGE ROWING TEAMS
international Polo Championships VIII
Be Held on Long Island in
June With Many Well
Known Players.

i Known Players.
by Hal Sheridan, written for the
United Press.l
/ NEW YORK, May L.. No better
move for the advancement of college
rowing could be made than for the
intercollegiate Rowing Association to
add to the Poughkeepsie regatta pro-
gram race for crews of limited
weight, as has been suggested. Row
ing is one of the costliest-if not the
costliest-of college sports. There
are no big gates" In rowing as there
are in baseball and football. 1t is a
sport which requires more Of candi-
dates with less opportunities for pub
lie performance in contests than any
other. Only its cleanness and in many
cases the generosity OF wealthy grad
yates have kept it alive at some insti-
tutions. Therefor any move which
viii tend to popularize 1t is worthy
Iof fullest discussion and consideration.
A limit weight event would undoubted-
ly draw entries from other colleges
ana make the Poughkeepsie races
more representative. There are four
colleges, Brown, Wesleyan at Middle
town, Conn, Rutgers and New York
University which would send teams to
Poughkeepsie If they had fair show.
This does not mean that these insti-
tutions will enter only If they can
win. 1t is merely that they cannot
anord to train crew OF light weight
to compete with the heavy crews
which Yale, Harvard Cornell, Penn
sylvania and Syracuse are able to
select from the wide range OF mater.
ial which their far greater attendance
offers. OF course weight Is not by any
means the whole thing to rowing, but
1t is as great a factor In rowing as it [
is In prize fghting-and what would
pugilism be without weight classes?
The race is well on and from the
way the clubs have been shaping IN
1t looks as II the prophets had the
right dope. The teams in both
leagues, with the exception of Boston,
are Just about showing what concen-
sus OF opinion said they would show.
It's true the Red Sox didn't start like
repeating world heaters but Dame
Boston isn't worrying and she should !
not for she has the same remarkable
machine representing her that finish. i
ed ahead of McGraw after a gruelling
fight last October Boston didn't set
the pace SO very early last year and
While running getaway proves a big
handicap, it's comforting to have the
had streak come at the start when /
you know you have the STUFF to re-
trieve few early setbacks.
1t looks like the mile record is in
for trimming this season for some !
thing Is bound to crack when two
such grand runners as John Pan]
Jones, of Cornell. and Norman Taber. |
OF Brown, are pitted against each
other In the intercollegiate CHAMPION I
ships on May 81. Both Jones and |
Iaber close their college careers this .
spring. Taber is admittedly anxious
TO become undisputed college champ-
ion before he takes up his duties at
Cambridge as Rhodes scholar, and
Jones Is just as anxious to round ont
MS four years Of wonderful work as
the title holder. That race should he
worth going miles to see.
Lawrence Waterbury, Harry Payne
whitney, j. NJ. Waterbury and De-
vereux Milburn probably will compose
the team which will represent Amer.
lea In the international polo champ
lonship matches in June on Long Is
land It is the same team which can
tured the title abroad in 1909 and Il
is the same team which won so hand. |
lily from the Britishers over on Long
island two years ago. Whitney and
J. M. Waterbury took the rough edges
off and hardened themselves by MANY
weeks of hunting last winter 10, !
vereux Milburn always keeps himself
MT. Lawrence Waterbury, whose ply
steal condition wasn't of the best two /
years ago, isn't going to take chance
this year and he has played all winter
at racquets, which is anything like
noiiyccddle game. "Larry's" winning
Of the national racquet championships
is proof that he went into the game |
for all he was worth. For the past
three weeks the Big Four" have been
playing together and from the way
tney nave gone at it, should have no
trouble winning out in any prelim.
iharies which may be played to de- |