New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-11
Columbia Handicapped BY Lack of
Material for It's VARSITY CreWS

finding a man for the stroke oar in the
varsity. Mccarthy. who stroked the four
last year and the year before, and Worm
ser, stroke of last years freshman boat
are the only men available.
Rice will have one good man whom he
had not counted on In Bratton who
rowed i'm the 10 freshman crew and has
spent the last two years in ALASKA. IL is
also possible that 5. Pitt. who rowed In
the II freshman crew and was i'm the
varsity eight i'm 1910 and 1911, will come
out this spring. The other prospective
candidates for the varsity are SpurSeon
of the freshman crew last year; Peterson
! and Manner, substitutes at Poughkeepsie
last spring, and j. Miller. These are the
only men who have had experience at
Poughkeepsie, so that Rice Will probably
have to call on several green men to
handle the oars, If not in the varsity
boat, then in the junior varsity eight.
The most serious loss which Cornell
sustained this year is 1hat of T.. II. Dole,
the stroke of the varsity four in 1911 and
1912 and of the eight last spring. Dole
had been considered by many 10 be the
best stroke that Courtney has ever had,
and it was due largely to his wonderful
rowing i'm the four-oared races of 1911 and
1912 that Cornell was able to win as easily
as IL did Lawrence Eddy, bow, and ID.
{. Spransy. No. 8. are the only men that
Courtney has from the eight of 1913. the
others-Bates. No. .; Mum, No. 2; Butts
No 4; Lum. No. D; Chapman, No. Z, and
J Doe-having been graduated.
Courtney had some wonderful material
in his freshman crew, however. and ii
would not bo surprising to see the entire
1916 freshman boat entered as the varsity
eight at Poughkeepsie. This boat was
I made up Of Bailey, bow; Dufiie. No. 2;
Allen. No. 3: Shelton. No 4; Gilmore.
No .: Cool, No. 6: Welles. No. :. and Gill
man. stroke. II averaged 1872 pounds
and was one of the fastest freshman
crews Courtney has ever turned out. As
a matter OF fact. at PouShkeepse last
June it was almost good fourmile
crew as the varsity eight, aud Courtney
hemoaned the fact that the freshman
race was only two miles Brown. bow
and Thatcher. No. 3. in the four have
been lost by graduation. but Bird, No. >.
and Hiscox. stroke, will be ready for an
other campaign.
vivian Nickalls will start his career at
Pennsylvania with a boatload OF expert
enced men. only two oarsmen in the 1919
eight have been Observation-Disclosures.
bow. and John Alexander. No. :. The
men left are: Butler. No. ?. Blatz. No. 3.
Crane, No L. Wolfe, No ); Merrick. No.
o. and Shoemaker. stroke. II Is hardly
likely. however. that Nickalls will spend
much time on many OF these men. II was
one OF the first crews that Ellis Ward
ever put on the river. and. 10 make mat
tiers worse he was handicapped at the end
by the loss of one OF his best men
Gaiviu. No. 5-whose place was taken by
Wolfe
The Quakers freshman crew. however.
was q good one. and IL IS from this that
Nickalls will probably choose most OF his
men. The cntiye cight-Chickoring. bow:
Harley. No. .. iildebrand. No. g. Pepper.
No. I. Perrott. No. g. Madeira. No. 8.
Gotham. No. !. and Littleton, strokes
back I'm college. II looks as If Littlcton.
OF the freshman boat and Shoemaker. OF
the varsity. would have keen struggle
for stroke oar I'm the senior shell.
The biggest turnout that has ever been
seen at Pennsylvania has been at the
boathouse for the fall rowing. More than
$50 men showcd up for the varsity crew
and about l0) for the freshman. In addi-