The Sentinel=record., 1914-01-04
COLLEGE OARSMEN
 WILL BE BUSY SOON
COACHES OF MANY VARSlTIES WILL SOON HAVE THEIR MEN
 ON THE WATER.
Some Splendid Crews Are Anticipated For the 1914 Intercollegiate Re- gatta.

ouoiL peIlOu Ol ttSl dllOWSu llc Cbl- lege oarsmen is completed From now Ul.il iate in Jane the strugye for | seats in the racing shell and the Iaiy tralniEg grind vii. continue without intermlssion. COoshes are overhaul ing rCwing machines, rigging barges anG generally preparing for j914. which, it is predicted, will be ;he | creates. college rowing year iI the history ot the sport. Eight universi- t!es or colleges in the east, one in ,he | middle est and tfree on the Pacific coast have already planned their row | ing campaigns. whish include large number of dual, triangular an l1,sr- | collegiate titles regattas than ever be- fore recorded in this country. | Abroad Oxford and Cambidge arg near the halfway mark in their train- ing for their annual race, and thei,' progress is being closely watched Dy two of the eastern universities in view of a possible international inter- varsity regatta before midsummer.
 The eastern co.lege rowing si;ua. | tion considered as a whole, is one of the most promising in recent seasons. Aside from Columbia and Syracuse, there are large and veteran squads available at every institution which advocates rowing, lii almost every case more than fifty per cent. of the oarsmen who won their varsity letters in 1919 regattas are trying Tor Hases l in the eights aglj1 and are tpp,e- l mented by exec. tent material from | last years freshmen combinations. | The recent ruling O' the intrecohege- 1 fate stewarts providing for a faCe for second eights in place of the four5 on | the Hudson, will aiso provide extra places for the aspiring sweepswingers
 Under this ruling t will be necessary for those colleges which desire to compete in all three events on the Hudson, to develop and seat twenty four oarsmen in the shells for the | varsity, second and freshmen races.
 The open winter has proved help in the fall practice and severa! of the coaches report that their charges were able to estaoIish new records for late autumn rowing during 1913. Coach Courtney ha4 six elghts in the water on December 6 and has planned l to send his crews out at every favor able opportunity during :he entire winter. At Syracuse, Coach Ten Ecyk, who has signed five-year con- tract, is also planning for an carry | season start. If the Board of Stew ards of the l. R. A. will permit the students of the Forestry Department to row for the Orange, Ten Eyck's worries will be eliminated. A stiffer proposition faces Jim Rice of Colum, | bia, for the New York university squad appears to grow smaller each year. and Rice finds if difficult to se- cure even a fair number of students physically suited for the hard four mile race on the Hudson.
 The situation at Pennsylvania and Yale is much alike, m that both col leges are working with new coaches. At New Haven trio, composed of Richard Armstrong, captain of the '95 crew; Guy Nichohs of England and C. F. Giannlni, rectnt New York 1 Athletic Club Coach, will direct the work of the Eli crewmen. At Phila- delphia Vivian Nichols, a brother of Guy. has replaced Ellis Ward, and the work of these famous Engiish oars men who expect to develope to stroke combining the best points of both the | English and American systems, will be watched with interest. At liar yard Princeton and the United Stat es Naval Academy there is no change in the established order of coaching and reports from all three institu- tions are optimistic.
 Further west the University of Wisconsin is preparing for another return to the Hudson with crew which will prove fully as dangerous as that of 1913. The badgers are 1 ioltuudLc III pOoStSSlllS oqudu Ol heavy, powerful candidates, with the varsity eighths of iast season. Tht great sprint in the final mile of the intercollegiate regatta at Poughkeer sci last June has done much to res
 tore the confidence of the western colleges regarding their ability to TOW as fast and for as their eastern breth
 ren. As rusult. Washington, CaIlfor
 mia and Stanford in addition to Wis
 consin, are ali looking forward to thu
 possibility of rowing on the Hudson next spring On the Pacific Coast al
 the university squads are in active training and heavy, powerful eighthi are forecasted The winner of tho
 Pacific Coast regatta will come eas
 to Pou5hkeepsie, as has been the sas, l during the past two years, and ther'
 is bare possibility that all three ma.
 ask for invitations, so strong is thu desire to show the east what the fo coast crews can do with shell ant l eWeep