South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-06-23
EXPECT CREWS TO
STAGE REAL FRAY
Great Interest Shown in Race
Between Yale and Harvard
Fights Next Saturday on the
Thames.

NEW YORK, June Z3.-All signs
point 10 some rvaI battles on SATURDAY
Wnen the 1ale ana harvard crews
meet on the river names at New Lon.
uon.
Tne pre-regatta betting favorS the
Crimson outnt IA the elgnJ-oared var
sity Daltle-Dut the marlIn ~ small.
Inc PROBABLE odus on race uay viii De
40 10 on harvard, although "a shower
OF ale backing may IOrcv IL 10 even
money.
me Harvard varsity crew oil 1915
looks Ike one Oi the very Uest tnat
ever pulled boat under the ,ruusOn
STANDARD IL certainty LOOKS - per
cent better than the 1915 crew tnaJ
was beaten Uy an = clash by ale last
year.
Yale, too, has a crew infinitely bet
ter than last year. Certalnly us I'M
prOVement, Oh paper. shows as hIgn
IN percentage as tnaJ OF Harvard.
And the crew that \ ale has UOdteu IN
the varsity shell this year looks Up
as one OF the SmOOthesL working tnaJ
ale has mad III ali the Years Of its
rowing history.
Little To- Choose.
ON form SO far there is little to
choose between the two crews Yale
furnished the biggest rowing surprise
OF many years when it won the tri-
angular regatta on May 10. Yale was
regarded as "A rank outsider. Prince
ton was the faVOrite, with Cornell
second choice. But the Yale crew
sculled across the finish line a COM
paratiVely easy winner
The Yale victory gave 1t the edge
over Harvard, but one week later
May 22-HarN ard ground off that edge
by defeating Cornell-and doing it de-
cisively.
And these two crews that beat the
unbeatable" Cornell are the crews
that will furnish an aquatic treat for
the thousands of rowing enthusiasts
who will journey to New London on
Saturday TO watch the 49th Yale
Harvard river battle.
Expect Good Race.
1t ought TO be a beautiful race to
watch, this eight-oared varsity affair,
and one that won't be decided until
the crews shoot up their stroke to
the human limit and whizZ along for
the last half mile TO The goal
Six Of the men who are slated TO
pull for Harvard in the varsity eight
are veterans of the crew that went TO
England last year and surprised the
rowing world by its victory in the big
Henley regatta. Those six men are:
III. \. Murray Of New York tcaptain
ana DOW OdID Is. l1dIWOOu NO. -,
OF Newton. Mass; X. b. @. Parson (No.
6),of Providence. r. l.; J. w. Mitten-
dorf (No. 81. of Baltimore; ID. =. Nor
gan Go. p, of New York, and G. G..
Lund of Boston, the wonderful stroke
oarsman. The other two men were
in the 1914 freshman crew. They are:
l. +. Stebbens Go. b. of New York.
and IL. Il. Cabot, jr. (NO. -, of Brook
line, Mass.
English Eliminated.
The thole pin is the only thing in
the Yale boat this year TO remind one
of the English stroke which was used
by Yale in 1913 with such disastrous
results. In 1914 the straight English
stroke was abolished and a modified
English stroke was used. but this year
Coach Nickalls has gone a step fur
Their and schooled his men in tho
straight American stroke.
The new stroke, with the use of
thole pins. makes the men reach out
bit further than they would without
these pins. but the longer sweep seems
to have given the Yale boat greater
power without any noticeable extra
eXertiOn.
There promises TO be a battle royal
in the other two races that are on the
regatta program-the eight-Oared Sec
ond varsity and the eight-Oared fresh
man Both colleges have boated some
great oarsmen in their younger crews
and the races promise 10 be thrillerS
from start to finish.