The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-04

New York. January with the
nassing of the holiday season the short
, period of rest allowed the college oars
,men is completed. From now until
tlate in June the struggle for seats in
the racing shell and the daily training
grind viii continue without intermls-
sion. Coaches are overhauling rowing
machines, rigging barges and gener-
ally preparing for 1914. which it Is
predicted, will be the greatest college
rowing year in the history of the 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, tri-
angular and intercollegiate title regat-
tas than ever before recorded In this
country. Abroad Oxford and Cam
bridge are near the halfway mark in
their traiing for tn sir annual race, and
their progress is being closely watched
by two of the eastern universities In
view of a possible international inter
varsity regatta before midsummer.
The eastern college rowing situation,
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. In almost every
case more than so per cent of the
oarsmen who won their varsity letters
in 1913 regattas are trying for places
in the eights again and are supple-
mented by excellent material from last
&c fTa aSl1r ms inn
cent ruling of the intercollegiate
stewards, providing for a race for sec
ond eights in place of the fours on the
Hudson, will also provide extra places
for the aspiring sweepswingers. Under
this ruling it will be necessary for
those colleges which desire to compete
in all three events on the Hudson to
develop and seat "a oarsmen in the
shells of the varsity, second and fresh
men races.
Open Winter a Help
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 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 Eyck who
tdS just signed n HNe-Aeaf l.,
Z is also planning for an early season
start. If the board of stewards of the
I. r. A win permit the students of
the forestry department to row for the
Orange. Ten Eyck's worries will be ell
minated. A stiffer proposition faces
Jim Rice at Columbia, for the New
York university squad appears to grow
smaller each year, and Rice finds it
difficult to secure even a fair number
of students physically suited for the
So hard f0ur-m mile race on the Hudson.
The situation at Pennsylvania and
Yale is much alike, in that both col
leges are working with new coaches
At New Haven trio composed of
Richard Armstrong, captain of the '95
crew; Guy Nichols of England and
c. T. Giannini, recent New York Ath-
1etic. club coach, will direct the work
of the Eli crewmen. AT PhNadelphia
Vivian Nichols. a brother of Guy, has
replaced Ellis Ward, and the work OF
these famous English oarsmen who eA-
pect to develop a stroke combining the
best points of both the English and
American systems, win be watched with
interest
No Change at Harvard
At Harvard. Princeton and the United
States Naval academy there is no