Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-14
ATTORNEYS. .AT-LAW
Brown & Perkins,
EttgTnsyS.ai-tM
WILL NOT CHANGE
 REGATTA DISTANCE.
Stewards Do Not Seem Inclined to :. Give Sv65eet Any Weighty Consider ation,

. TheTe- has never, been 6 year when l1ere has been more talk of possible change in the method Of running the Intercollegiate rowing regatta at Poag ghkeepsie,. but fson, the present outlook there is little chance Of any of the notifications which have been proposed beIpg carried. into. effect. As far as the proposition of reducing the distance. of the, race from four to three miles is concerned the stewards do not seem ircEned to 'oive the subject any weightya consideration. Charles l.. Courtney, the Cornell coach. has given the idea. his. indorsement, ill fact. the tfestre 5ility of q. shorter race vas ad- Nsocated years ago iby Courtney before there were many disOo6ed to cFitiCise the longer distance
 70 .Courtney's 8 influence is probably dom 1uarl enough ac Ithaca to secure the Cornell consent to the change, but the Tthsycan influence in the PougilkeepSie committee is not sufficient to swing the Proposition. Pennsylvania and Columbia are the other two uniVeTSi- C:es which are represented in the body made up Of the organizers Of the Poushkeepsle race Some time ago there was a strong advocacy Of the idee5 or reducing the race to three miles at Philadelphia but since Nivi- an NickaDS proved on the Hudson last year that he can coach g four mile ~reTV well enough to leave Corneu in lc-rear and finish second to Columbia, tdeas have changed at Pennsylvania. a (Olum bia, too. hoS her own interests To look after, and it is question whether a shorter race would not les sen the chances Of the Light Blue and White Contrary to the general iRl- .oFesSiorl- most TOW ing. coaches are agreed that 1t takes more beer in d boat to TOW four miles than to row three. There Is never 8 surplus of ma - teTiai and large husky candidates have not been available in any lar~e mum Der on University Heights for some year, What ColUrnbia !las accom- plished in rowing during the years in which Jime Rice has been i'll charge has been through perfection of form and srnoothness Of oarsInanship rather GhsE- through the Tla,tiTe. strength of tho, men in the boat. There have been years when Rice has not only devel- opeo oaISrnen but developed them physically before he has been able to use them in g boat. For these req sons and also because of a conservsl- tive sentiment among old CoIurnbians who are opposed to change, there is 10, welcome for. the propos;tion to re- duce the. distance to three miles on NQrnjngside Heights.
 Within the past few weeks there las been a movement among the stu dents OF the University of Wisconsin Io petition the faculty for the restoTa- Ion of rowing plus permission to send 9 crew east again to the Pough- lsespsie race, provided the distance is reduced to three miles It is doubtful whether the petition will be granted. but not 60 foe doubted that such action would carry but. little weight with the board Of governors of the regatta as soct1t: a-a Wisconsin seems definitely SEt Of college rowing nov, but tie AadisosI students have formed the usbtt of coming east, and may yet be oI the river next June They have made 8 long and plucky fight for hon ors on the water, but with scant sue cess.
 Is lar az Syracuse is concerned t.rsre does not seem to be any. radical desire for 9 reduction Of the rowing distance. Jim Ten Eycils style, some rJT.pg CT tsc5 tAini5, is better adapted 70 three than a four mile race, but ss. past events have proven. when Ten lzy-ci< ~ets. the kind of material which ut5 into his nla1s the Orange can pro dues an eight which can travel four miles just about as fast as any com Qetltor wants to travel
 As in war, business and q few other things; self interest seems to play a. pretty prominent part in the sport of college rowing.