New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-20
Cornell Appears To Be Up
to Average Class of
Recent Years.
PENN AND COLUMBIA
ARE SHOWING SPEED
Experts Along the Hudson I'm
certain as TO Chances of SYRIA
cuse and Leland Stanford.

Speed, speed, speed is the incessant
cry heard from the coaches Of the
Eve varsity Fights that are being pol
ished and FURNISHED for the greatest
Of all college boat races TO be held
on the Hudson at Poughkeeptie one
week from tomorrow. Changes, eoun-
ter changes, shsKe-ups and shifts
each and every one an experiment 70
determine the combination that will
produce the last fraction Of speed,
have been Of daily occurrence in the
Poughkeepsie rowing colonies, and
now, with the regatta only a week
away, everything is being shaped for
the big struggle.
Columbia. Cornell, Pennsylvania,
Syracuse and Leland Stanford are the
crews that will face each other IN
the long four-mtle grind, end each
one Of these crews will 60 through
its final work, marking the last OF
SIX months Of effort, IN the coming
six days. With so many changes IL
is not strange that there is no IA
vorite.
Cornell. Columbia and Pennsylvania,
in the course Of the last month, have
had fearful ups and downs, and the
troubles Of Columbia and Pennsylva-
MIA did not end until last week.
On early season form the three
crews first named seem 20 be the class
OF the regatta, but with the closer
inspection that comes as race DAY
draws nigh, Columbia and PennsyiVs-
MIA DO not loom up as large "hile
Cornell. having recovered from us
preliminary slump, seems 10 nave
come 70 life with a crew which, al
Though not a wonderful Cornell eight,
is nevertheless quite up 20 the Cor
nell average. That is saying a great
deal when il is rem embcrcd that IN
the last twenty years CorneI has
wo, twelve of twenty varsity races.
Columbia and Pennsylvania have been
so changed around in the last Few
DAVIS that even their coaches have dlIn-
Guilty in telling the men apart These
eleventh hour shake-ups are likely 10
interfere materially with the prospects
Of the two crews affected, and II is an
omen question whether or not they. Will
recover and get together IN time 70 be
at their best in the big race. .,
Roth Jim Rice and Vivian Nlckalls
are TOO experienced in the art OF row
ing 10 make changes at the last minute
unless changes are absolutely neces-
sarv. Both coaches found their varsity
Fights slowing down after having
progressed along the road OF aeVe!op-
nent 20 a fair stage OF perfection
All changes are in the interest," OF
speed, and the new combinations when
have been evolved are unquestionably
-
tbeir places before. Whether the new
combinations will hold together and
row In form in the race is the one
thing that is bothering Nickalls and
Rice to-day.
Syracuse is more or less of dark
horse. The eight which Jim Ten Eyck
has brought down from the Salt City IS
hucky, but not as husky as some nave
come TO the Hudson with him. II IS
stroked by Osman, the big Duluth
scuIler. who carries the eight along at
A high pace and st q high beat.
Whether the Orange can stand up un-
der such treatment causes much speco-
lation among those who have observed
them closely. IL takes a mighty husky
crew to row OsmGn's stroke, and TINS
Syracuse crew does not seem capable
OF keeping UP in the strain OF four
mile contest.
over two miles the Orange is unde..
niably fast, but after that the pace OF
the she'll begins TO slacken and the
crew has difficulty in keeping together.
Next TO Columbia, Ten Eyck has the
highest varsity crew on the river, and
tucl a crew needs a stroke oar who
will nurse it along rather than force it
out in the first couple of miles and
trust TO luck that it will be able TO last
through the second and more decisive
half Of the journey.
The Leland Stanford eight is the
heaviest combination that has ever sat
In n shell on the Hudson in the memory
~ the present generation. The Cali
fornians lack Just quarter of a pound