The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-22
Cornell Iavoritc on Prestige Of Past
Performances, hut Six Crews
Have Chance.
ALL ANXIOUS no BEAT PENN
Coach NickaIls Very Likely to Find
Whole Field Against Him When
Crews begin to Line Up-Colum-
bia Is Perfect I'm Workmanship.


be the eig ttt-oared varsity race Of -four
| miles on Friday. which will be rowed
| by these forty-cight undergraduates
| any eight of whom can give ample rea
sons AT ms time for his crew carrying
| OFF the tin. Of intercollegiate rowing
| champion Of the United States This
| IL the situation. and he whu can pick !.
! winner on any grounds more merito.
| rious than the prestige OF Cornell is
indeed Il wise man.
This fourinile race. which is the
| browning event OF three to be rowcd
| during the afternoon. gives every
| promise Of being one Of tho most BIT
tcrlY contested that has ever been held
over the historic pouphkceps.e course
since the Columbia eight of 1895 nosed
It's sole victory over these waters In
the sixteen years since the incorpora
ton of tho intercollegiate Rowing AS
ISOLATION by the athletic associations
Of Cornell and Pennsylvania and the
Columbia Pn!versity Rowing Club, Cor
nell has won no less than ten victo-
ries. the remaining six having been
divided between Pennsylvania and Sy-
iacusc. The Quakcrs reached the pin
nac!e of rowing fame under Ellis Ward
as far back as lSes, 1899 and 1900.
whereas Syracuse won In 1904, 1905 and
1913 The Ten Eyck crew is the pres
ent defender Of the Varsity Challenge
cup, presented in ls9s by Dr. Louis l..
Seaman. OF Cornell.
Cornell. hy right of might has n
shade the best OF the argument over
the other crews by reason Of the ability
OF Coach Charles l.. Courtney to pro-
duce crews Of almost uniform speed
year after year. Courtney has In no
wis. lost this trick. Judging by the
eight Of 1919, though il is not quite so
good as some OF the crews he has sent
to tho starting line.
Perfect In Wntcrmanship
To match II Columbia sends To the
race an eight which is perfect In
Workmanship and by far the smooth
est, easiest running machine upon the
river; Syracuse enters one that con
taius six of the men who noscd past
Cornell in the memorable race of one
year ago; Pennsylvania goes To the
line with crew OF much experience
ana one that has been coming in leaps
ANA bounds since its arrival at POUCH =
kecpsic, but which was totally ignored
until the Yale victory jolted the critics
of all things English Just as hard a
Jolt as the British polo four gave our
Ing Four" Wisconsin starts with an
eight which the Badgers state is the
best they have ever had Though due
allowance must always he made when
such an announcement is Inade), and
Washington fills the lists with an eight
that carries the intercollegiate title OF
the Pacific Coast. ana Is ranked by its
] todcN as inc best crew no mas vet de-
vclopcd, ana which will finish one, two
or three THIS year.
This is the list for what promises TO
be the closest. most exciting struggle
that has ever been Witnessed upon the
Hudson. II Is the first year that each
crew has been in position to give
good and ample grounds for its win
ming, and were Cornell without the
prestige OF repeated victory 10 back It,
there could he no possible favorite.
Is II Is, each crew has a chance. a fine
fighting chance. TO row its way through
Il plucky field first to the finish
All Want TO Beat Penn.
There is more than the usual excite
ment over III" regatta this year for
/ reasons best known to rowing men.
First, there is the great desire to win.
all that is ever needed TO spur Amcri
can youth TO give their all. Second.
there is tho title OF intercollegiate
championship FOR the winner. Third,
there Is the added zest in the battle
! owing TO the fact that there is the
| opportunity to beat Cornell. sufficient
honor unto the day for any crew. and,
! fourth. there is the peculiar Yankee
rowing pride of Coaches Courtney.
Connibear, Rice. Ten Eyck and Vail at
stake. all because the Pennsylvania
tutor, Vivian Nickalls. is an English
man. II matters not that Nickalls is
! a blooming good Englishman, popular
with his men and all that That he is
n rowing representative of John Bull
is alone sufficient to arouse the fight
ing blood of all the American coaches
And now that Guy Nickalls has won
| Yale Il great victory, the greatest attn
lctic victory for the Ellis since 1902
the last time Yale beat Harvard in
football. this Yankee rowing pride
business is inclined TO take this Nick
alls with the utmost seriousness
ff,,. for pom N.l N.G fai1
as the Quakers were making the most
| of the situation OF being considered
| entirely out Of the race. most de-
sirable position, by the way.
Corncll's eight is a corking good one;
no doubt about that 1t is Il difficult
! matter to pick flaws In it's inboard or
! oUthoard work. and tho she'll rides the
water evenly and with the free run be-
| tween strokes characteristic OF all
Courtncy's crews. This is due in part
| to the exaggerated slow slide used upon
! recovery, and in part 10 the fact that
! the men work together in machinc-like
precision. There is Il slight loss of
time in tie catch which gradually in
creases from stroke to bow. but
, scarcely pcrccptiblc with the naked eye.
In hand work the men arc clean. though
| O'Bricn, No. {, has Il habit of pulling
his oar through with his right wrest
| bent. The noticeable change In tho
| pltClHE vi INC ultn IL tllc TACT tiltl the
! two heaviest in tho boat arc Duffie,
| No. =, and Spransy. stroke. Courtney
evidently moved Dufe to the bow end
! TO balance Spransy ut the stern, TO
| prevent the stern of the shell from set
! fling deeper in the water than the bow.
Another innovation is tho use OF a big
man like Spransy at stroke. He is the
opposite of Briggs. of the early days
! Of this regatta. who strokcd at l3c
pounds. The move has been made
! however. and Courtney has n man to
set the pace who gives every evidence
| of having more than ordinary strength
| and staying powers. Spransy should
! be aplc To row four miles with the best
+! or them. though n year ago no sat at
| No c In race that was too fast for
| Cornell
Corneli's Smooth Stroke.
Columbia seems the general favorite
| for second position. and Rice has stated
that he thinks his crew the sole ono
able TO fight 1t out with Cornell The
New York collegians make by far the
most perfect crew in point Of form on
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