Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-22
BATTLE ROYAL ASSURED ON THAMES
Yalearvard Crews Appear be Well Matched for Their Annual Regatta-Bue Men Expect Sweeping Victory Crimson Has Well Balanced Boat.

i, third mile will see the Blue in front
 headed for victory.
 The Yale eight was not as far along
 | in its development when 1t met Cornell
 as Harvard was a week later. and the
 fact that the margin of victory of both
 crews was approximately the same
 makes Yale men feel that with the gradual development they have had
 under Nickalrs care in the last month the Blue eight will go into the race on
 the edge of its best form. Harvard,
 they feel, has been fighting for ten days to keep in it's best condition, and it is this difference in physical condi- ] ton that Yale believes will determine ! the victor.
 1 Although nothing they do or say be-
 speaks overconfidence these same Yale men have little doubt as to the outcome of the freshman and junior varsity races. The freshman eight, which has been coached by Gene Gi
 aninni, the old New York Athletic l Club coach, is one of the best the Blue | has had in years, and Yale looks to it I to win an easy victory over the Har- ward cubs. who were defeated by the 1 Cornell freshmen.
 In the junior varsity race Yale looks | for the same result. The material which Nickalls has had for his varsity boats has been so much above the av craze right down the line that the junior eight is hardly less speedy than | the regular varsity combination, and Yale believes it has the race sewed up tight. The Harvard juniors have not been brought along by the varsity to the same degree as the Yale second eight, and it is on a line through the | varsity crews that the Blue thinks it's Junior eight will be able to win with little difficulty.
 Harvard men. on the other hand are not so certain that Yale will make sweep of the river. They know that their varsity eight is stronger than the crew of year ago, and they have reason to feel that it vii row an en- tireIv different kind of a race from that which the 1914 crew rowed. The Crimson will row just the race that 1 Yale expects it to row for the first 1 three miles. and then Harvard will go out to win. It is the added pound per man which Harvard believes will turn the trick.
 The preliminary records of the two l crews are almost the same. Yale won l it's first race of the year when it out rowed Pennsylvania. in a snOwstorm on the Schuyl<ill over the Henley dis tance. The Blue won in 7:56, cred itabIe time for the early season. Six weeks later the Yale eight journeyed down to Lake Carnegie and defeated Cornell and Princeton in a triangular regatta, beating the Ithacans by half boat length in 9;09 2-5 over a mile and seven -eighths course.
 Harvard rowed Annapolis over the Henley distance of a mile and five sixteenths on the Severn on April 24, winning in :52, just 8, minute faster than Yale's time in the face with Pennsylvania This minute is account ed for by the fact that the Crimson eight rowed on tidewater. Against Cornell on May 9 Harvard rowed to an impressive victory in 10:41 25 over a two-mile coursee. beating the Ithacans by half a length. On a line
 through Cornell the two crews seem to