New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-24
Covers Full Course in Fast
Time on Top of Hard
Pull on Monday.
HARD LUCK VISITS
WISCONSIN CREWS
Jim Rice Sends the COLUMBIA
Varsity Over -Four Miles IN
Gathering Gloom.
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Poughkeepsie, n. Y, June 23.--Sor-
nelps varsity eight rowed slasnins
time trial this morning, covering tns
course under conditions that were
none too good in 2O:2i. Courtney sent
mis- crews out early and had them pad
die slowly to Krum Elbow. When they
turned for the spin down stream they
had the first traces Of the ebb 'iae'
and the time under the conditions -
considered remarkably fast.
Courtney dismissed the trial wnien
the crew had on Monday night rs o.
little consequence, because OF .ne
rough water which the eight encount-
cred in the last mile, and he detst-
mined TO shoot the eight over INC
course at the first favorable oppoI-
tnnty. lie had it early this morning
end made good use of il.
This afternoon the Cornell hotilla
padded up to the two-miie marx
where the freshman and junior Fights
turned and came back home. Inc
varsity, however, went on TO the FL
bow and rowed over the course for the
second time. The stroke on the sec.
ond trip was never more than 70, ana
il was a mere paddle. Courtney THINKS
that the one way to get familiar with
the Poughkeepsie course is by sending
his men over il on every possible oc-
casion, and puts little stock in having
the coxswains study the charts.
Vivian Nickalls won two cigars this
morning and had the satisfaction or
seeing his Pennsylvania freshman
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incidentally beating the junior varsity
by three feet. The varsity eight did
the first two miles in 1921, and rowed
a mile further.
The time by the cubs was only Z
third of a minute slower than the rec
ord made by the Cornell freshmen in
1909.
Ellis Ward, who coached at Pennsyi-
vanis for more than thirty years, is ex-
pected to arrive at the quarters on
Thursday and will be the guest Of
Nickalls over the races. Herb Shoe
maker. stroke of the Quaker eight until
early in May, when he was taken down
with typhoid fever, is another guest.
Hard luck caught I'D with the Wis
consin crews to-day and Vail was
forced to make an eleventh hour change
in the freshman eight and. incidentally,
had to work the varsity easily. Web
ster, bow in the freshman combination
who was taken out of the boat last
Saturday with sore hands. found to-day
that it would be impossible for him to
row in the race, and Vail will let Poppy,
the substitute. fill the seat.
/ Casberg, No. in the varsity, strained
/ his back last night, and although Vail
/ did not take him out of the shell he
worked the men easily. They padded
about ten minutes morning and after,
noon and never got the stroke above
/ thirty.
Jim Rice played the fox tonight and
waited until all the other crews we're in
/ quarters and at the dining table before
bringing his Blue and White Fights
/ down the river in a time trial.
Although rowing against the watch,
/ the men did not hit up the stroke until
/ they reached the three and half mile
mark. All three crews we're in splen.
did form, and the varsity was out in
front showing the way to the freshmen
and juniors.
| IL was so hazy that Rice thought OF
/ giving cOmpasses to the coXswains, 80
/ that they could keep on their course
until they caught sight Of the markers
on the bridge, which were invisible q
mile away.
The Syracuse varsity had three
mile trial over the course this after
noon following a morning in which
/ they spent the greater part of the time
/ trying starts.
! Hiram Connibear took his Washing
/ ton crew over two and three-auarteI
miles Of the course. They rowed two
miles in 1920.