New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-24
COLUMBIA CREW
GOES The FULL
COURSE IN TRIAL
Rice Gives Test as Much
for Endurance as
for Speed.
QUAKERS ALSO ROW
UNDER THE WATCH
Stanford Oarsmen Have Two
Practices-Eligibility Rule
Troubles Courtney.
fRz rsler,ph 70 IN, Tribune

lBy Telegraph to Tbs Tuounel
Pouqhkeepsie, n. T., June 23.-An-
other cold. raw day greeted the oars
men on the Hudson this morning. but
IL did not deter Columbia and PennsyI-
vania from sending their varsity crews
over the full four-mile course in time
trials. Columbia was the first TO so
over, Just when the tide began TO run!
out, and Pennsylvania followed hall
an hour later, when the current mad
gathered some strength.
The trial of the Columbia eight was
more in the nature OF an endurance
test than trial against the watch pc
cause Rice did not begin 10 drive ms
crew until it nit the last mile, when ne
had his varsity rowing its fastest. In
the first three miles the stroke never
got higher than "a, but even at that
low stroke the major crew rowed out 10
two-length lead over the juniors, row.
ing points higher, in the three miles
The freshmen, who picked up the var,
sity at the one-mile mark and rowed
through TO the bridge for two miles,
began with three-length lead over
the big crew and lost all save length.
In the last mile of the trial Wormserr
sent the stroke up point by point, and
in the final sprint for the finish line
the beat was as high as 80. Rice did
not announce the time Of the trial, but
because Of the low stroke in the first
three miles it could not have been par
ticularly fast, although the first half
mile was rowed in just a shade over
2:30. This pace maintained for the
full four miles would have meant a
trial in the neighborhood of twenty
minutes.
Not more than half an hour after
Columbia finished its trip Pennsylvania
came over the course at full speed, be-
ing paced for the first two miles by
the freshmen and for the last two by
the juniors. Nickalls let his freshmen
have q lead of threequarters of
length, and in the two miles they in
creased this by q full length. Their
time for the two miles was 1852, and
the 'vGrsity's time was 10.
For the last two miles the juniors
outrowed the varsity in decisive fash
ion. Starting two lengths to the bad,
the second string men picked up the
lost ground in half a mile and proceed
cd to row out to lead Of ten lengths.
Shoemaker, the varsity stroke, shot
the beat up as high as SO, but could
not overhaul the juniors once they had
gone to the front.
Neither of the Quaker crews nego-
tiated a stretch Of rough water below
the bridge with much ease, and they
splashed like miniature fountains. The
'varsity's time for the four miles was
2S:O8, the juniors rowed their two
miles in 1888, while the varsity took
10:08 to cover the last two miles OF
the journey.
Nickalls allowed all his crews rest
this afternoon as reward for their
good work, but Rice thought it best
to send the Columbia men ont for a
paddle because the cold weather. is
making them put on weight at an aver
age Of a pound or two u man day.
The Stanford crew broke Its self
the course twice. The Califcrnians
row better every time they 20 Oh
the Hudson, and the change which
was made in the boating last night
seems to nave worked wonders. The
eight went upstream for long pad
die this morning and came down over
the first three miles of the course.
In the afternoon they padded down
stream, and, after turning near Mil
ton, came back to the bouthouse in a
series of racing starts.
Charley Courtney, CornelPs veteran
coach, was not in an amiable mood to-
day as result of his discovery that
the eligibility rules for the junior
race are the same as those for the
varsity. He had been under the i'm
preston that only men who had never
rowed in a four-mile race were eli
gible for the second eight. and for
that reason left Films and Welles.
two of his best second string men. N
Ithaca.
He blamed the athletic council at
Cornell for not' keeping him informed
of the rules winch govern The eli
gibilty of the oarsmen. He would
not say just how heavily the Cornell
junior is handicapped because of the
absence of these two star men. Court
ney had his crews downstream both
morning and afternoon trying to iron
out some Of the apparent faults in
the varsity combination. The ltha-
cans are due for a time trial to.
morrow.