The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-03
OARSMEN TAKE UP
 WORK AFTER XMAS.
Struggle For Seats in Racing Shell Will Continue Until June-Veterans Are
 Available.

New York, Jan. s.-with the pass ing of the holiday season, the short period of rest allowed the college oars men is completed. From now until late in June the struggle for seats in the racing shell and the daily training grind will continue without intermis- sion. Coaches are overhaulfng row ing machines, rigging barges and gen. orally preparing for 1914, which, it is predicted, will be the greatest college rowing year in the history of the sports.
 Eight universities or colleges in the east, one in the middle west and three on the Pacific Coast have all ready planned their rowing cam paigns, which include a large number 1 of dual triangular and intercollegiate title regattas than ever before record I ed in this country. Abroad Oxford and Cambridge are near the halfway mark in their training for their an nuaI race, and their progress is being closely watched by two of the eastern l universities in view of a possible Inter national inter-varsity regatta before :nid-summer.
 The eastern college rowing situation, Econsidered whole, is one of the most promising in recent seasons. Aside from Columbia and Syracuse, there are large and veteran squads Available at every institution which ladvocates rowing. In almost every case more than fifty per cent. of the loarsmen who won their varsity letters lin 1913 regattas are trying for places lin the eights again and are supple jmented by excellent material from Hast years freshmen combinations. l The recent ruling of the interEo1- l legiate stewards providing for a. race for second eights in place of the fours l on the Hudson, will also provide extra places for the aspiring sweepswingefs.9 ! Under this ruling it will be necessary for those colleges which desire to compete in all three events the Hudson to develop and seat twenty | four oarsmen in the shells for the 1 varsity, second and freshmen races. The open winter has proved a help l in the fall practice and several of the icoaches report that their charges were able to establish new records for late autumn rowing during 1913. Coach Courtney had six eights in the water
 on December and has planned to send his crews out at every favorable opportunity during the entire winter. At Syracuse Coach Ten Eyck4 who has just signed a hve-year contract, I is also planning for an early season start
 If the Board of Stewards of the I. R. l A.. will permit the students of the | Forestry Department to row for the I Orange, Ten Eyckss worries will be eliminated. A stiffer proposition fa-
 
 1 York university squad appears to Igrow smaller each year, and Rice finds it difficult to secure even a. fair
 number of students physically suited
 for the hard four-mi1e race on the Hudson.
 The situation at Pennsylvania and Yale is much alike, in that both coI-s EIegea are working with new coach es.S EAts New Haven a trio, composed of lRichard Armstrong, captain of the '95s Ecrew; Guy Nicholls, of England and c. E. Giannini, recent New York Ath1et- lie Club coach, will direct the work of the Eli crewmen. At Philadelphia,
 Vivian Nichols, brother of Guy, has | trepIaced Ellis Ward, and the work of these famous English oarsrnen who expect to develop a stroke combfn- ling the best points of both the English
 and American systems, will be watch. l ed with interest. At Hartford, Prince l ton and the United States Naval Acad-
 emy there is no change in the estab- l 1ished order of coaching and reports from all three institutions are optin- l istic.
 Further west, the University of Wisconsin is preparing for another re- turn to the Hudson with a crew which will prove fully as dangerous as that of 1918. The Badgers are fortunate in r0ssossiF1 5n119d d s1f r,dxN-