New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-19
RICE FINALLY
PICKS COLUMBIA
VARSITY CREW
After Another Shake-Up
Says He Is Pleased with
the New Combination.

Poughkeepsic. n. Y. June 1s.-Co-
lrmbia's varsity crew was finally
chosen here. to-day. Jim Rice put
through another Of his famous shifts
this morning, and when the crew came
in from the morning row told his men
that il was the finest piece OF rowing
they have done since they have been
on the regatta course.
BY the new arrangement, Manner
rows at bow; Jauss, No. q 1lchDorne,
No. 3; Sanborn. No. 4; Diekmann, No.
B; Bratton, No. S: Ferris, No. Z; Worm
ser, stroke, and Fogg. coxswain. Dick
mann, Ferris and Wormser are the only
men in this combination who did not
row in the varsity before the big
shake-up yesterday.
Rice is enthusiastic over this COM
bination, and said tonight that the
crew which beats II on race day Will
have 10 row its best. The eight aver
ages 1914 pounds in weight, is half an
inch over six feet in height, and every
man in the boat, except Bratton, who
is twenty-five, is twenty years old. II
is a smooth rowing crew, and one that
slips along with little apparent effort.
Wormser, the new stroke oar, Is
marvel-the wonder being that he ever
developed into an oarsman at all. But
Rice has made not an ordinary oarsman
but an extraordinary oarsman OF an
elongated boy who stands feet 31s
inches and weighs only 154 pounds.
The rearrangement of the varsity
eight again necessarily brought about
Il shift in the junior eight, which prob
ably will row on race day in this order:
Sengstaken, bow; Burghard, No. 2;
Man bach, No. 3; Hoover, No. 4; ST.
monjs, No. >; Sturgeon, No. 6; Cronen-
berg, No. 7; Myers, stroke, and Pad
dock, coXswain.
Rice brought his crews downstream
both morning and afternoon, and the
reconstructed varsity had no trouble IN
outsprinting the juniors every time II
tried. Bratton, the big No. man, has
suddenly lost his tendency 10 slug, and
the whole Blue and White shell speeds
along with wonderful pace.
Vivian Nickalls put through his daily
shake-up of tho two Pennsylvania
crews right on schedule time. When
the cights came down for the morning
row he sent Kayll to No. 3 in the var
sity boat and moved Borie down 10 No.
7, transplautng VOL from that seat
TO No. 3 in the junior eight. Having
had the morning shuttle the crews went
out on the river and the juniors pro-
cecded to beat the varsity. Ihereupon
Nickalls threw oarsmen around the boat
house right and left and worked out
two brand new varsity combinations.
Their order was: Varsity -Chlckerlng'
bow; Butler, No. 2; Scott, No. 3; Pep
per. No. 4; Garyin, No. >; Merrick, No.
6; Borie. No. 7, and Shoemaker, stroke.
Junior varsity Gels, bow; Gotham.
No. 2; Kayll, No. 3; Guenther, No. a;
VOL. No. 3; Schellens, No. 6; Hide
brand, No. :, and Marcy, stroke.
Nickalls wasted no time in trying
out the new combinations, and lined the
two UP for a four-minute row. The
juniors got off to a bad start, and the
varsity had three-quarters of length
ut the end Of the first half minute.
By that time the juniors had their
bearings and then settled down to beat
+ the varsity by a quarter Of a length
when Nickalls shouted time.
The Leland Stanford crew reached its
quarters at Highland this morning, but
the she'll did not come in until after 6
f o'clock tonight, and the result was
/ that the California oarsmen did not 90
T out. They will row twice tomorrow
] but only once a day next week. The
coach, F. r. Guernan, was coxswain OF
the 1912 Stanford crew, and is the
Youngest coach in the game.
Cornell had a long, easy row down
stream, and Syracuse did not venture
out at all, on account Of the heat.