The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-02-05
BOXING,
WRESTLING,
AOUATICS,
TENNIS, POLO
LOOK FORWARD
TO fine RACES
New Coaches Add Uncertainty to
Rowing Events in East

New York. Feb. 5.--An interesting
schedule of preliminary races with the
intercollegiate and Yale Harvard
events as a climax, the changes i'm the
coaches al some of the prominent col
egcs and the tasks which face the
mentors i'm building up varsity and
Junior Fights. nave thrown the crew
marters and uarsmen throughout the
country into keen excitement and an
tcipation for the fast approaching
season in the shell.
Outside interest has taken on Il new
zey through this general houseclean-
ing that has taken place at many or
The universities, and each move
among coaches ana oarsmen will COM
mand the attention Of the watching
public
So far as the schedules have been
completed and the preliminary plans.
consummatCd, the prospects of several
important early season contests at the
sweeps seem assured. The season will
open at Princeton on May .. when COL
umba, Pennsylvania and Princeton
Will line mp at the starting boats ON
Lake Carnegie To battle for the Childs
cup. Further Indications point II "a
Triangular regatta between Princeton,
Cornell and Yale on Lake Cayuga.
Race on Pacific Coast.
Harvard and Cornell will clash at
their annual race on the Charles river
basin some time around the middle of
May, and Pennsylvania and Annapolis
Will fight it out between them i'm the
same month. out on the coast Leland
Stanford university. the University Of
California ana the Washington uniVer-
Slly will battle this contest made
Reener 10y the dream of the successful
crew finding themselves sent to Pough-
Eeepsic for the inter collegiate regatta.
The concluding events will he the in
terc"llegiatc regatta at POushkccpsic
On June 20 and the Harvard re-
satta week earlier.
But before these races come. around
on the calendar there will have To he
considerable adjusting of coaches 10
their new fields and the oarsmcn To
'hcir new instructors. In the circle of
the crews which will compete in the
Intercollegiate regatta the change
winch is attracting the greatest inter-
EST Is the substitution of ellis Ward at
PennSl vania by Vivian Nickalls.
Two New Coaches.
me Quaker lads have jumped into
inc new conditions with heart and
soul and Nickalls, who is a brother
VI the new Yale coach, already feels
'hal pennsylvania will not disappoint-
eu on Tia" Hudson this year. Nickalls
mas had very practical coach,ng cxper-
renee at the Detroit Boat clnb. and in
spite of lisht material turned ont
''eWS which have brought his name
very prominently before the rowing
world Of today.
Iherc are regrets that Ellis Ward IN
us Zen Franklin steam coaching
"uo'h viii not grace The Hudson this
year. OF follow the work in his cata-
n'ran' but the rowing interest at
i"iadclphia was not behind him and
Nv round himself so handicapped by
"'h Of funds and material that it -
niue wonder that he could not tura
out winning crews.
AT Yale no move of the new host
VI coaches will escape the anxious
yves OF the Yale undergraduate and
a'olnni body, which is desperate a;
G'T defeats at the hands of the
''hS"n. Guy Nickalls, who is one az
,'' hhoSt oaismcn that oxford ever
''"'u out, is counted ON MS being able
n'''h up Ia the wonderful oppor-
,'"''y which is hanging on the crew
I'm doors and it will be a keen dis
rpo'htment If his leadership does not
"' very decided Improvement.
a.. '' VIII be assisted by T.. j. Clan
''.' mead coach Of the New York A. G
- Tvs rhe work of these two, under
~' eye Of II. II. Armstrong, Of III,
~, ISS OF 80 promises change in tn,
don, '''''S 1T we" ''o'