New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-06
None at Poughkeepsie
Can Dispute Harvard
and Yale This Year.
ELI WILL HAVE A
POWERFUL EIGHT
Contest on Hudson Appears To
Be More Open This Year than
in Long Time.

IN a Long lime.
Harvard and Yale. with unbesten
crews. will have the intercol,egi late
rowing championship OF 1915 10 settle
between themselves on the Thames on
June Is. Many & year has passed
since & Cornell crew has lacked full
recognition I'm -scs foc premier row
ing horors This year Cornell, With a
defeat at the hanos o; Yale and an
other ~ Harvard IN IS record, goes
20 the front with no hope or winning
a champiorship. and with Nt.le better
than a sighting chance 60 capture the
honors ia the PouEhkcepSie regatta on
June 2S. three days after the race on
the Thames.
With Columbia already at POUCH
keopSie, Yale on the way 20 Gales
Ferry and thc others soon 20 follow
10 their respective quarters, the re
gatta season may truly he said 20 he
upon Us. From now until the long
DAYS a. the end e this month of roses
and college boat races there will be
long. hard sessions on he Thames and
the Hudson. sessions in which the last
fnsl polishing touches 20 weeks and
weeks 81 hard work VIII prepare the
seven varsity cights for their ing
races
Harvard arl Yale are The only
crews that VIII row on the Thames.
tu. the Hudson vii bear on its hcav-
inG tide Cornell, Columbia. Pcnnsyl-
vania, Syracuse and the Leland Stan
ford eight from the other side OF the
continent
Yale has been The surprise % the
pre- miHary rowing season. The Blues
victory a. New London year ago was
generally discreGited because Of the
circum stantial stories emanating from
Cambridge 20 the effect that Harvard
rad purposely rowed a slow race in
order 20 make j. something of q con
test. But tho Yale crew which Guy
Nickal.s. the veteran Oxford and
Leander oar from the English Thames.
sent out in is races against Pennsyl-
Vania, Cornell and Princeton had no
apologies 20 Offer
The Blue had Us first test Of the
season in a binding snowstorm on the
SchuylAlll on Apr. 3 agains. the Uni
Ncrsi'y o. Pennsylvania varsity. and
Yale eight trumphed by margin Of
three boat lengths
Following that race Nickalls made q
temporary arrangement in the boat
ing Of the men, and also made some
much needed adjustments in the rig
g'nC Of his she'll For one thing. he
heightened out the slide. and thereby
gave the men greater swing, with a
no ~ = NC -.
applied. In the interval between the
Pennsylvania race and the triangular
regatta on Lake Carnegie he was
careful not 20 let the crew develop too
rapidly. and the condition in which i
rowed 20 he mark for the race with
Cornell and Princeton was evidence Of
his good Judgment
Yale Crew Is Powerful.
in that race Yale led from the start
20 the finish. with the exception Of
furlong or two in the middle Of the
contest. when Cornell made its chal-
lenge, bu' was unable 20 sustain Il in
me face the tremendous power in
the Yale s-.il That race was the hap
usm Of fire Of the Yale crew, and i
begins It's work az New London to-mor-
row firm IN the confidence that comes
from rowing such q race against such
crew as Cornell
The Yale crew is heavy. and It's form
rs not pretty, so far as unison in the
swing OF the men rs concerned. The
blade work, however. is marvellous,
and the oars 20 IN and come out in
perfect rhythm II Us big, powerful
crew. still q long way from the top Of
its form. so that one may expect even
greater things OF u when 1t meets the
Crimson 10 give proof that its race of
d year ago was no Nuke.
Harvard. on the other hand, has
big, smooth-rowing crew. which was
evidently primed 70 row Cornell in
the two-mle race on Lake Cayuga
on May %. Whether Il Will be
possible 20 retain up 20 June % the
edge which was placed on the crew for
that race IS the question which is Civ
ing great deal OF concern at Cam
bridge. The crew rows a much shorter
stroke than the average Wray eight.
probably because Jim Wray has had less
20 say about the rowing OF this varsi-
" combination than any since he has
been teaching rowing az Harvard.
Robert Herrick, Of the rowing com
mittce. who demonstrated his ability 20
coach a winning crew by developing the
Harvard junior eight which won az
Henley last July. has been in almost
supreme command Of this years Grim
son eight. and the laurel Of victory or
the dement's Of defeat VIII go 20 him.
The Harvard eight is well balanced
in the she'll. and rows almost too well,
many think. for this stage Of the sea
son. Only the lghtest kind Of work
will be necessary 20 keep the crew IN
"a
no one who saw u defeat Cornell so
handily a. Ithaca can deny. The Cor
nell eirbt had improved wonderfully
IN the short time clapsinC between its
race with Yale and the race with Har-
ward, but Harvard rowet a faster race
than Yale did the week before. and out
rowed the Cornell eight by slightly
greater margin.
Harvard has speed 20 burn, and i
has the power 20 row mighty fast
two-mile race. Whether or not u viii
be successful IN Us task o. lengthening
out the stroke for the four-mile s'rug-
Gle and az the same time retaining its
speed is what will determine the race
on the Thames Yale has the power
and the ability 20 improve; Harvard
has the speed. with little chance for
further development.
In this inverted rowing year POUCH
keepsic plays second fiddle and the fact
that three Of the PouRhkeepsie crews.
Cornell. Columbia and Pennsylvania,
have all tasted defeat, takes the edge
oN the regatta on the Hudson II IS
evident, however. that these three
crews a. least are well matched, and