New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-13
Contest Between Yale and
Harvard Should Be One
of Best in Years.
HUDSON QUARTERS
FILLING RAPIDLY
Columbia Looks Better as Date
of Contest Approaches
Penn Also Improving.

Both Yale and Harvard advanced
long step in development for their duel
on the Thames, on June 2b. during tho
first week in quarters, at New London
and unless all signs fail. the struggle
between the Crimson and the Blue will
be one Of the greatest college boat
races OF many years. Both are so
evenly matched that only the race itself
can decide the question of superiority
and both proved their mettle by their
victory over Cornell six weeks ago
At Poughkeepsie the stage has been
longer in filing, and Cornell and Leland
Stanford have still 70 make their ap-
pearance on the regatta course, over
which Eve crews Columbia, Cornell,
Pennsylvania. Stanford and Syracuse
will row on June 2s. Although 1t is
generally conceded that the race on the
Thames will decide the intercollegiate
championship. the struggle on the Hud-
son will not be lacking IN interest.
There will be complications in the
championship title If Syracuse or the
Leland Stanford crew, fresh from vic
tory over California and Washington
on The Coast. should triumph over the
Hudson triumvirate Of Columbia, Cor
nell and Pennsylvania, the original and
only members Of the Intercollegiate
Rowing Association.
Happily, Guy Nickalls pulled the
Yale squad through the threatened
siege Of ptomaine poisoning without the
loss Of single days practice. Further
more, the Yale men have not lost any
Of the edge which Nickalls is working
for. II is probable that Nickalls's quick
action in hurrying a battery of physi-
clans UP 20 the quarters the minute
the first man complained has saved the
Blue from q handicap which could not
have been overcome in the ten days
now remaining before the race.
10 Is still early in the day TO drive
crews through time trials at racing
speed, and for that reason neither the
Harvard nor Yale Fights has had an
out-snd-out test against the watch. 10
any one save the coach q time trial
conveys little, because conditions vary
so much in the course Of even half an
hour that what ight be a mediocre
performance az one hour OF the day
would be record breaking two hours
later. Therefore. unless all the condl-
tons are known, time trials are always
more misleading than helpful.
Harvard Is Right.
Jim Wray apparently has his Har-
ward crew well in hand and is taking
care that the big eight does not come
along so fast that il will be stale on
race day. Wrav had the varsity eight
prettv nearly az the point Of perfection
for the Cornell race. The stroke which
the Crimson used in that race was
little short for a four-mile contest and
Wray has had 10 lengthen II out con-
siderably and also bring the beat down.
With this done Wray's task will be
finished.
The Crimson had little room left for
further development after meeting
Cornell. although some observers say
that several of the Harvard men rowed
themselves pretty nearly out 70 beat
the Ithacans, and for this reason Yale,
which finished strong in its race with
Cornell only the week before, has some
thing the better Of the Crimson.
After all the upheavals which Rave
taken place in the Columbia varsity
eight Jim Rice is at last getting down
10 something that looks Ike another
good crew on the Hudson. Inc loss G.
Tichborne was hard blow 10 me 20
hirbia coach, and his return 20 me
nightly welcome, for it put Rice in
position 70 make couple Of much de-
sired changes in the personnel Of the
big crew.
Rice is not claiming another winning
crew, but he thinks that If things go
right now he will have a crew that Will
not be far out of the running IN the
bip race. The fact that Dummy
Manner, bow man for the 1914 crew.
has reached a condition where 1t IS
safe 10 use him in the shell, gives the
Blue and White three veterans from
the 1914 crew.
II Jauss, the new man whom Rice is
trying out in the eight, comes up TO ex-
pectations, the Columbia crew will be
one 10 be feared Like all Of Rice's
crews, the workmanship OF the eight as
wellnigh perfect and the she'll spins
along.
Perhaps the most surprising feature
Of the work Of the Columbia squad is
the showing of the Junior varsity