Bisbee daily review., 1914-01-04
WESTERN CREWS
 LAUNCH SHELLS
College Oarsmen Prepare for Races With Eastern Rivals During Coming Season of Unprecedented Sport

ing of the holiday season the sort period of rest allowed the college oars | men is completed. From now until late in June the struggle for seats i'm the racing shell and the daily trainine | grind will continue without intermis | sion. Coaches are overhauling row. ing machinery. rigging barges and gen. eraliy preparing for 1914. which, it Isl predicted. will be the greatest college | rowing year in the history of tho sport | Eight universities or colleges in the east. one in the middle west and three on the Pacific Coast have already planned their rowing campaigns which include a large number of dual | triangular and intercollegiate title | regattas than ever before recorded in this country. Abroad oxford and Cambridge are near the halfway mark in their training for their annual race, and their progress is being closely watched by two of the eastern uni. versailles in view Of possible inter national intervarsity regatta before midsummer.
 The eastern college rowing situa- ton, consideried as whole. is one of the most promising in recent sea. sens. Aside from Columbia and sy ro cuse. there are large and veteran squads available at every institution which advocates rowing. In almost every case more than fifty per cent C. the oarsmen who won their varsity lettVs in 1913 regattas are trying for places in the eights again ani are supplemented by excellent material from last years freshmen combina- tions. The recent ruling of the inter- collegiate stewards providing for q race for second eights in place of the fours on the Hudson, will also pro vide extra places for the aspiring sweepswingers. Under this ruiine it will be necessary for. those colleges which desire to compete in all three events on the Hudson to develop and send twenty-four oarsmen in the shefs for the varsity, second and freshmen races.
 The open winter has proved help in the fall practice and several Of the coaches report that their charges were able to establish new records for the late autumn rowing during 1913. Coach Courtney had six eights in the water on December 6 and has planned to send his crews out at every favorable opportunity during the entire winter. At Syracuse, Coach Ten Ecyk. who has just signed 2 five-year contract, is also planning for an early season start. If the Boar of Stewards of the l. K. will permit the students of the Forestry Depart ment to row for the Orange, Ter Eyck's worries will be eliminated 4 stifIer proposition faces Jim Rice a Columbia, for the New York univer sity squad appears to grow smalle each year, and Rice finds it difficult t' secure even fair number and stud ents. physically suited for the hai' four.mile race on the Hudson.
 The situation at Pennsylyania an' Yale is much alike. in that both co leges are working with new coaches Ali New Haven trio. composed u Richard Armstrong, captain or the crew: Guy Nicolls of England and = F. Giannini. recent New York Athleti Club coach will direct the work c the Eli crewmen. At Philadelphi Vivian Nicolls. a brother of Guy, Ina replaced Ellis Ward. and the work these famous English oarsmen wh expect to develop stroke combinin the best points of both the Englis and American systems, will U watched with interest. At Harvar' Princeton and the United State Naval cademy there is no change the established order of coaching an reports from all three institutions al optimistic
 Further west tine University of WI consin Is preparing for another [ turn to the. Hudson with a crew whi' will prove fiuiy AS dangerous as th Of 1913. The Badgers are fortunate
 possessfng a squad of heavy, pows ful candidates, with the varsity eigh of last season. The great sprint in U final mile Of the intercollegiate gatta at Poughkeepsie last June n done much to restore the coniden of the western colleges regarding the ability to row as fast and far as the eastern brethren. As result, Was ington, California and Staniord,in dItion to Wisconsin. are all iooki
 forward to the possibility Of rowi on the Hudson next spring On | Pacific Coast all three uniyersl
 sqlads are in active sraining a lleavy. powerful eights are forecasts
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 two years, and there is the bare p .sibiljty that all. three may ask for