New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-17
Junior Eight Scores Double
Victory in Regatta on
Schuylkill.
SYRACUSE EIGHT A
BIG DISAPPOINTMENT
Kelley, of Vesper Boat Club, Wins
Single SOULS Contest, Break.
ing Old Record.

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Philadelphia, May 1.-THE Junior eight
OF Harvard University. smooth, polished
crew, rowed to a double victory in the
American Henley regatta on the Schuyi-
kill this afternoon. The Crimson won
the Junior collegiate race by something
more than half length over Yale. with
PENNSYLVANIA. third, Annapolis fourth and
Princeton fifth.
Less than two hours later the same
crew beat the Union Boat Club crew.
which Is entered In the English Henley.
by a few feet Annapolis was third, Yale
fourth and Syracuse. which won the In
tercollcgiate regatta at Poughkeepsie last
year. was a bad fifth.
The Harvard crew rowed a we'll judged.
clean cut race in the junior collegiate
event. Taking the lead over the Yale
boat shortly after passing the trolley
bridge, which marks the quarter-mile
post, the Crimson rated along. setting
pace that was easily held The men put
everything they had in the stroke, pulling
1t through clearly. In the closing quar-
ter mile they easily withstood the squirt
of the Ell boat and crossed the line going
away.
With Syracuse entered In the second
race against the Union Boat Club few
expected the Harvard boys to accomplish
much. IL was thought that Ten Eycks
men would win by several lengths. syria
cuse, however, was rank disappolht-
mAnt The men were slow to start and,
once started. rowed TOO long in the same
place. The work was ragged and little
power was displayed in the boat.
From the start the race was between
Harvard and the Union Boat Club, when
is made up Of former Harvard oarsmen
Stroke for stroke the shells swung down
the course, the men stralning on the
bending sweeps with every last ounce Oh
power In their bodies. Tapped on their
shells were the midshipmen from Annap-
oils. hitting up a murderous stroke, puI
unable to get to the front. Down near
the head OF the island Harvard went to
the fore and for the rest or the race
stayed there.
The summaries follow:
First single sculls-Won by John r.
Kelly. Vesper Boat Club. PnlladeipIla'
paul Wilmington, Union Boat Cluo' Bos-
ton. second: Durando Miller, New York
Athletic Club, third. Time, sS. In.
Junior collegiate eishtioared sn ,hiTd
Won by HARVARD PeS seeUrG aee fourth.
Navy: fifth. Princeton. Time $40: =.
First four SOULS (centipedes)-Won by
Riverside Boat Club, Cambridge lo9"'
Faulkner: 2, Davy; 9. LIVINGSTON; sssoA Ss
C. Faulkner; second, PhlIadelphis paus
club (bow. Borda; 2, Beylard 3, New Sn'
stroke. Herman); third. Malta Boat CUP
PhiIadelphia (bow, Malone: 2, Drew s.
Porter; stroke. w st.. Time. SO H.
First eight-oared shells-Won by har-
ward: second, Union Boat cup; tni ,ra
Navy; fourth, Yale; fifth syracuse
freshmen elght-oared shells-Won by
University of Pennsylvania; second
Navy 1.-TWO entries). Time. SIS ~,
Special four-oared shells-W on py Ch,-
versity of Pennsylvania (bow, Popp; 2
stokes; g. Blatz; stroke. Odgers); second
University Barge Club, Philadelphia dow
r. Nalle; 2, L. Law; 8. X. Thayer' stroBe'
o. Hoffman,; third. Naval Academy loow
Jones; 2, Heard: 8, De Roode; STROKE
Richardson; TIME rMiisE 1IS 5T' bv James
Ayres, Union Boat Club, Boston; second
G. Waldo Smith, New York Athletic Cluo;
third Thomas j. Rooney. Rayenswoopa
Boat Club; fourth, Walter w. Campoel'
Malta Boat Club, Philadelphia Tine
Sl3 2-5. ,,.,..
First four-oared shells-Won by Malta
Boat Club. Philadelphia (bow, Hamill; 2,
W. Brogan; 3, r. Scheuing; stroke, II.
Cox: second. Ariel Rowing Club. Bait
more (bow, Howard; 2, Skinner; 3, WI
son; stroke. Hildebrand). Time, 1856 -.
Interscholastic eight-oared shells-Won
by Philadelphia Central High: second,
West Philadelphia High; third. Baltimore
City College. Time, 7:l0 l-5.
First double sculls-Won by Vesper
Vol + KNIT
John b. Kelley; second Riverside Boat
Club, Cambridge. Mass. Cbow. Faulkner,
stroke, livingston: third. Union Boat
Club, Boston Glow. 8. A. Sargent; stroke;
J. B. Ayer). Riverside claimed foul
and protested the race.