New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-30
YALE WAY ROW
PRINCETON In
RACE In FALL
Blues Course a Departure
and Will Give NickallS
a Line on Men.

Yale's announced determination to
row a race during the coming fall IN
order to give Guy Nickalls a chance TO
get a line on the men who will be called
on to row in the varsity eight next
spring has already given rise to much
speculation Princeton, IT seems TO
many, is the logical crew which the
Blue will desire to meet, but both
PENNSYLVANIA and Columbia are said TO
be in the running, although it is hardly
likely that Columbia will receive much
consideration, because the course which
the New York oarsmen use on the Hud-
son is hardly any better than the Yale
course on New Haven Harbor.
In view of the cordial relations which
are being fostered between Yale and
Pennsylvania it would not be surpris-
ing to see the Blue arrange to send its
crew to the Schuylkill, which Is at all
times every bit as fine a course as Lake
Carnegie and could be utilized just as
late in the season as the Princeton
course.
The re urn of Guy Nickalls to New
Haven is not surprising to those VINO
know of the conditions under which he
has b. working with the Yale crews
for the last two years When Nlckall 5
first crossed the Atlantic to take up the
work of putting Yale rowing back at
the head of the river, he was guaran-
teed a salary of $4,000 for a season last
ing little more than three months.
PAYNE Whitney and W. Averill Harri-
man agreed to pay the major portion
of this stipend. When the Yale eight
won in 1914 Nickalls received an in
crease. and it is said that he will re-
turn this year at $500.
Ellis Ward. who coached the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania crews fer more
than twenty-five years, is an avowed
candidate for his old place, made vacant
bv the resignation of Vivian Nickalls.
Ward has addressed a letter TO the
alumni and is asking their support to
his application.
From sources close TO the University
Of Pennsylvania athletic committee II
ha, been learned that Wards candi-
da will receive scant consideration.
Whatever support Ward gets from the
alumni will be based wholly on senti-
ment. so the committee will not appoint
hi again under any circumstances.
Ward coached three winning crews IN
II last eighteen years or his work at
Pennsylvania. his last being in 1900.
In the two or three years before his
retirement his support from the under
graduates fell away to nothing and his
crew SQUADS were so small that he had
difficulty in taking more than one or
two substitutes to Popghkeepsie each
year.
Ward has developed profitable oar
making business. which he carries on
in West Philadelphia.
Plans are afoot at Columbia 10 get
the fall rowing season under way with
such an impetus that II will give jim
Rice a SQUAD of one hundred or more
men 10 work with from the opening
day of the university. Not since 1906,
when Rice first took charge on Morn
ingside Heights, has there been much
activity in fall rowing on Morningside
Heights. but Rice Is determined TO
make a change this year, and the ulti-
matur which he delivered 10 the row
ing authorities in July that he must
have a SQUAD of one hundred men is
likely to bear. fruit.
Fred Plastead, who rugged Yale's
racing shells for years and Is now in
r, arge of the Gould boathouse at Co
umbia, is trying 10 arrange an old
mems race on Saratoga Lake next
month. Plaistead is sixty-seven, and
for the last five years has been trying
to promote such a race with success.