New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-02
COLLEGE CREWS
AWAIT FIRST
BIG REGATTA
Columbia, Princeton and
Penn. Clash on Lake Car
negie Next Saturday.
CHILDS CUP WILL
GO TO WINNER
Blue and White Dark Horse as
Quakers and Tigers Have
Both Been in Action.

College oarsmen will come into their
own on Saturday of this week, when
the first big regatta OF the preliminary
season will be rowed on Carnegie Lake,
with Columbia, Pennsylvania and
Princeton as the contenders, and the
Childs Cup, perhaps the most famous
trophy in American rowing annals, as
the prize.
Pennsylvania and Princeton have
both shown their ability in races al
ready this season, but Columbia has
legged along by itself and will be the
dark horse of the regatta. These three
crews met for the Childs Cup last year
and Columbia won easily, as it did
three years ago, when the same boats
fought for the same prize.
Although it is only a preliminary
race for Pennsylvania and Columbia, it
is a decisive contest for Princeton, for
victory in this race and the contest of
the following week with Yale and Cor
nell will make the season highly sue
cessful one for the Tigers. Since row.
ing was resumed at Princeton, Column
bia and Cornell are the only crews
which the Tigers have been unable to
beat, and with veteran combination
this year Princeton looks forward with
high hopes to both races.
Columbia, il is admitted, has by no
means the powerful crew Of 1914. Only
two of the eight men who sat in the
shell at Poughkeepsie last June are in
the boat, and there have been frequent
descriptions on account Of sickness and
ineligibility, so that the Blue and White
is none too certain of the outcome.
However, Jim Rice has not given up
hope, and is of the opinion that if the
eight has one of its good days it will
be there at the finish.
Pennsylvania has not been bothered
by ineligbility and lack of veteran ma
terial, but Vivian Nickalls has been
having his troubles, nevertheless, in
piecing together crew that will be
fairly representative. The Quakers
have had three stroke oars this sea-
son, and Nickalls has done all sorts of
experimenting in an endeavor to get
a boatload that will show the speed OF
the 1914 eight
Marcy, who stroked the Penn boat
at Poughkeepsie last year, has the first
call as stroke. He went all to pieces
in the race with Yale in the blizzard
of April 8, and was succeeded by Herb
Shoemaker, who had rowed as stroke
in 1914 before being taken down with
typhoid fever. Shoemaker lasted only
fortnight, and the last change has
put Chickering, who was bow in the
freshman eight two years ago, in at
stroke. There have been numerous
other changes, too, in the waist Of the
boat.
DR.. j. Duncan Spaeth, who has set
up an enviable record as coach of the
d.,
men in the boat, and has had to make
no changes in that most vital of posi-
tions-the stroke oar. Putnam, who
rowed such a capable race against CO.
lumbia's crew year ago, showed in
the recent tilt with the Navy that he
is still quite dependable, and the crew
behind him is, if anything, better than
that which rowed in 1914. Of course,
the added year of experience is de-
cided advantage anyway.
The Princeton eight rowed away
from the Annapolis crew in such de-
cisive style that it was really no test
of the crews ability. Whether it will
have enough power TO outrow Columbia
and Pennsylvania can be surmised only.
1t seems, on the basis CT its prelim-
mary record, that Pennsylvania will be
unable to keep up with the Tigers.
W HtNHNI SOluulDid MIli 10 Iuc iutohiOI
that is bothering Jim Rice more than
any one else.
Rice has been favored by good
weather this year, and that is about
the only thing that has been in his
favor. The loss of Dono.;o a fortnight
ago blasted weeks of hard work and
brought about a general shake-up in
the shell, the effects of which are still
in evidence. Meyers, the man who has
succeeded Mccarthy, Columbia's won
derful stroke of year ago, is
sprightly oarsman, a hard driver and
cool headed, but he works too herd
himself, and Rice is fearful that II he
pushes the crew much harder in prep
aration for the Princeton race Meyers
will be a little too fine in the race at
Poughkeepsie. Therefore, as Rice said
yesterday, he has to be handled with
gloves. Rice is well pleased with Mey-