Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-10
OF rowing
F.
Gould 8es;u'tai'ed to eonsid-
esAbIe Extent.
s.
PENN'S RELAY CARNIVAL
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Likely to s:ave More Enskies This
YeaA Than Ever Pc
4 viously.
BY EDWARD R. BUSHNELL.

Students e college athlef.. finances
have often sondered why il is that il
costs from A2.OO to $4,000 A year for
the support n rowing. Larwise they
have wondefi innumerable e hes If quite
as much efficiency could not DE secured
IL rowing t>,penses were rEuced one
third. :
The trend ious expense OF. developing
crew. anes especially to esable it to
compete s,ss essfully at Pcslghkeepsie.
not only prS: ents a good mzny institu-
tons from STEERING rowing. sat IL is one
of the prlnsspa reasons WIZ Princeton
has declinet,.to compete at Fasughkeepsie
or even at Few London. There are two
principal ret>sons why rowir. is so ex-
pensive. Org is that all Of ahe colleges
which compile at Poughkeerie, AS well
as Yale aG.a Harvard. wing meet an
nually at law London, transport their
three crews, to the scenes - their re-
gattas and elaintain them there on the
average for period of two W Skis a great
expense. TH.. second reason Is that the
members OF :he different creas. even the
coxswain. ~srry off with tenn at the
end of the laying year not oISy their uni
forms. but oars which thy used and
nearly eveA hing else the think they
need for souvenirs. The iovis!on of
such souveArs alone costs 8 ich univer-
sity several <rundred dollars + year. and
Is an abus,. (which ought to- be stopped.
and which xould never be tolerated in
other sports
Several tlsausand dollars e year could
be saved tGsevery one of th.*se universi-
ties IL the Intercollegiate r, atlas were
held witho,. the necessity of4rom two to
three weeky of preliminary sspract ce on
The course = Some coaches naintain that
such practssa is necessary IN order to
acauaint Il: oarsmen with sthe course.
but ne colleAs crews are able.o accustom
themselves =, the courses in sheir annual
regattas wiz only a day or Swo Of prac-
tice, and tt1 colleges themselves do this
n the cars of the American regatta,
which is hex every year at Shiladelphla.
All that is .-eeded to greau: reduce ex-
pense is an agreement among the colleges
to hold the annual regatta, earlier and
to eliminat.-: the preltmlnar practice SO
long tho ugi necessary ove:g the course.
To do so - puld not only ct down eX-
penses one Third, but would -provide just
as good 70 ng as is seen tsder present
condit' tons.
There is SILL feeling of siscontent at
Syracuse al Wisconsin oveE the refusal
of the ste4ards Of the Intercollegiate
Rowing AsSocation, which IS composed
of Cornell. pennsylvania ARD Columbia.
to admit tiin to membershs in the the "a as
a decade e both of thesS institutions
sentation, AT they were helpless to en-
force their Eemand. All th"E could have
done wouIS have been t.. ignore the
Poughkeepske regatta. but SAere was nc
other regatta. which they cot.sd enter. The
original lection to admit :ng Syracuse
and Wiscoc.sin was that tHy could moi
always be depended upon y send crews
but in spite of their lack q representa-
ton these two institutionE have been
quite as f.tithful as the aree charter
members themselves.
No crew cltside Of the thr1.e mentioned
can Compel at POughkeepHie except on
invitation ct the board of stewards. This
year no invitation Is being Sent TO Annap-
only once. .hat being in 19O', An invita-
ton, howevos-. has been sent 10 the winner
such an invitation brought S.eland San
ford into he regatta and che stewards
now hope t. have the annua : participation
OF one of tl.e Pacific coast cssws.
If the boSd of stewards teally desires
to bring aL$ut the participation of the
greatest nu ber of college ews no bet
ish the lonSe period of preii9hinary train
membership many colleges as honestly
wish to fose g rowing. If t..is were done
t probably = ould be but Snort time UNI
til Princetotl3 and the Navy gould be COM
peting ann't4ly on the Hudson.
YaiteS 6nSl1Sn St+oKe.
The comrde ttee of three men. Capt.
snowden. I'D Coach Har,anan and eN-
Coach RodF<rs. has returnA from Eng
land full OF enthusiasm any information
about the fAglish stroke. 'eaey spent all
their time Chile in EnglaIa at oxford.
They sat lathe oxford shall and Capt.
Snowden ro.sed with the O*tord men. AS
raculf Of x-fc thev mora aon-
WINGED thar EeveIs that the. only way to
put rowing IN a successful saasis at Yale
i 10 emplo-- the English STOKE in every
detail. The - ale men have burned their
bridges beltSd them. as it We're. and pur
pose to stagi or fall on English ideas
That they ,.&l Certainly fall is the unani-
nous opini.a. of nearly all of America
coaches and oa.smen. Those
experts whdkhave made the closest study
OF rowing Ire and abroad contend that
England's oeriority is noEdue so much
to rowing i-Sthods az to nTn. The aver
ed in rowing as schoolbsa'. and he is
also older :hen he enters college. Fur
thermore, h follows rowing as a means
OF exercise curing the sum.Ser.
trary. rarel. rows after l.: leaves col
lege and We few have ha4: any rowing
Sfore entering sollege. Con-
ditiOns in isis country are 80 absolutely
different thag ii will be :atal mistake
for Yale mr2l to assume t:tat by adopt
ing the Eni.:ish method thy can make
Yale as successful as the English have
been.
There is. eowever. this - he said in
Yale's favo!4 While some american col
leges have s.-iopted parts g. the English
rowing syst N no institution has done it
so thorough as Yale Is faw preparing
to do. AftdS Yale has con.Dleted its eX
pertinent ara tested it forEa number of
years. as Il. Ellis intend tG do. We shall
have some }Gepert evidence On this much
discussed pint.
PENIS New Foot Basl Coach.
That the ,,iversity of Pennsylvania is
bound to e>serience a retu~l to the pres
tige 1t enjo Ss'd as a memls r of the Big
Four is the '.elief Of most cAitics who are
2 'quainted 9Th the talentsrnd character
OF George 'rooke, the 9uakers' new
coach. Evso since the retirement from
active coar,Ang of DIR. Earl Williams
PennsylyanS has been s.sing back in
foot bail. 'MSere has been Eienty of good
b it was not effectively hand
led. The ca laX came in C911 and 1912,
when tie F n and Blue SAX to the level
Of many Of Che minor colleges.
In order ~ get Brooke II Is understood
that Penne wanna has ha: to curb the
power of - board Of or. late coaches
Brooke corfknds that tod many cooks
spoil the bath. and for that reason an
nounces THIS he will not hs,ye more than
two assista @ss-one to coa.4 the linemen
and anotht :: the ends. Iaooke himself
will do all =. the coachin,.- Of the back |