New-York tribune., 1913-06-19
MARGIN OF A SECOND
SEPARATES CREWS
penn.. Syracuse and Wisconsin
Well Matched, Show the
Time Trials.
ALL SET A KILLING PACE
Vail Shifts Varsity Eight
correll Practises Starts
with Great Vim at
Poughkeepsie.
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ff,f ItIDE dilN 10 lIt lIIhult-
,.,gbkeepsie. \. Y. June lS.-Three
co evenly matched that only one
- measured the margin between the
and last i'm time rows here to-day
~" .,ed the closcness of the race that
,a' r. fought out by the varsity eignts
,se regatta on the Hudson on Satur-
5sy afternoon.
D, trials over the course not more than
1.,,.6ye minutes apart Pennsylvania.
.,,se and Wisconsin made records
sirb show that these crews al least
IN have battle royal Whether CO
.,.,hia Co,nell and Washington will be
n ,hc same group only the race Itself
gil tell
p.rrsylyania was the FIRST TO so over
-. distance in the three so closely
-.,cssd tests. The Quakers went to the
,'.1 NJ the course after Ellis Ward had
his freshmen and four-oared com
.,,.ton through their PAGES in two
.as rial down the lower hali OF the
..r,se The varsity boat wasted no time
=. ,,,,ine under way. and started a good
hundred feet south Of the regular
..,,i,s line at a stroke that was as
.,,h as 2s for the first quarter Of
-1, Then il dropped il 70 % and in
~ last half mile If; il up 20 IS. The
o,,,srs were pretty tired crew when
90, last reached the finish line. Their
tine was 1870.
Ir,t twenty-fve minutes after Pcnnsyl-
y,,ia had started of on its trial the
.r-aepse varsity and freshman eights
g,Ad IN on almost the same spot as the
,.,,svlvaniars and went off with the
,,,ose Nd TO IS. They did not keep IT up
IA this beat for more than the first haif
milo Then they dropped 70 50, and
,ss freshmen hung on with grim deter
-i,ation. Under the bridge the two crews
,issd the stroke a couple of notches ana
n, varsity drew about half length
ahead and finally got a lead of threc-quar-
,srs OF a length on the cubs. The time
FOR the Orange varsity was 1855 and 1851
for the freshmen.
Wisconsins varsity waited at the line
while Syracuse got off and started three
minutes later. Their stroke was 81 and
the start was poor II took the Western
ers full minute to get together, but
when they got into their swing they sent
the boat along al a great rate. At the
,vo-nie mark the Badgers picked up
,hslr freshman boat and the two crews
-sced on down 20 the finish. Tho time for
he eight for the four miles wos 1854. and
IS the boat started exactly on tho line at
Krum Elbow the Badgers time was at
East ten seconds better than tho cor
-s,ted time Of the Pennsylvania and Syra-
c1se crews.
At the eleventh hour Harry Vail. the
Wisconsin coach. shifted his varsity boat
round. placing Bohstedt, the No. . man.
It stroke and sending Evert VINO strOkcd
the boat last year. when II rowed in the
race as freshman combination, and all
thls year until to-day. 20 No. ?. Vail
said that ne had noticed the crew was not
getting the speed that it should on the
Hudson course and was convinced that
The fault lay with the stroke. The trial
to-day was the first test the new stroke
has had, and he did well This late change
IN the Badger boat has caused the conf
dence that was placed IN them 70 be
shaken. and it is doubtful II they will be
rated much higher than third.
The Cornell varsity eight. although II
had no hard rowing to-day. came out of
It's slump and showed "Old Man" Courtney
that II was every bit as fine a crew as Il
sas when it came 10 Poughkeepsie ten
Gays ago. The Ithaca Oarsmen had some
more slashing racing starts this morning
sno afternoon. II IS evident, from the
sC Courtney has been drilling his men,
ltat no crew on the river IS going 10 get
the jump on Cornell when the gun Is fred.
jim Rice let his crew have a light day or
" although he might have given them
some stiff work this afternoon If the fates
asq not INTERVIEWED Rice started from the
Iaumbia bOathouse with his men shortly
steI o'clock, planning 10 nave them
lelole over the course. Al the twO-mlle
gefk steam yacht threw up such
wen that they had 10 stop rowing, ana
nile further on the ferrybOat got In the
,ey. Rice gave IL up at that point. In
Is morning the men spent couple oI
.oufs suolhng through the woods and
ven ven took half an hour on the river In
short paddle