Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-26
GREATEST OF ALL COLLEGE REGA7TAS
Will be Rowed Hudson Poughkeepsie Monday, June 28 Leland Stanford Eight Champions fo the Pacific Coast Is Heaviest Crew-Oarsmen Fast Rounding Into Shape for Big Struggle.

Speed. speed, speed is the incessant cry heard from the coaches of the five varsity eights that are being poll ished and burnished for the greatest of all college boat races to be held on the Hudson at Poughkeepsie, June 2S. Changes, counter changes, shake ups and shifts each and every one an ex- pertinent to determine the combination that will produce the last fraction of speed, have been of daily occurrmce in the Poughkeepsie rowing colonies and now, with the regatta only a few away, everything is being shaped for the big struggle.
 Columbia Cornell, Pennsylvania, Syracuse and Iceland Stanford are the crews that will face each other in the long four-mile grind, and each one of these crews will go through it's final work, marking the last of six months of effort, in the coming six days. With so many changes, 1t Is not strange that there is no fa- 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- nia did not end until last week.
 On early season form the three crews first named seem to be the class of the regatta, but with the closer inspection that comes as race day draws nigh, Columbia and Pennsylva- mia do not loom up as large while Cornell, having recovered from it's preliminary slump, seems to have come to life with a crew which, al- though not a wonderful Cornell eight, is nevertheless quite up to the Cor nell average. That is saying a great deal when 1t is remembered that in the last twenty years Cornell has won twelve of twenty varsity races. Columbia and Pennsylvania have been so changed around in the last few days that even their coaches have difh- culty in telling the men apart These eleventh hour shake-ups are likely to of the two crews affected, and it is an open question whether or not they will recover and get together In time to be at their best in the big race.
 Both Jim Rice and Vivian Nickalls are too experienced in the art of row ing to make changes at the last minute unless changes are absolutely neces- sary. Both coaches found their var sity eights slowing down after having progressed along the road of develop ment to a fair stage of perfection.
 All changes are in the interest of which have been evolved are inquest ionabIy faster than the crews that rowed in their places beNOre. Wheth- CT the new combinations will hold to-
 gether and row in form in the race is the one thing that is bothering NickalIs and Rice to-day.
 Syracuse is more or less of a dark horse. The eight which Jim Ten Eyck has brought down from the Salt City is husky, but not as husky as some have come to the Hudson with him. It is stroked by Osman, the big Duluth scul1er, who carries the eight along at a high pace and at a high beat. Whether the Orange can stand up un- der such treatment causes much specu- lation among those who have observed them closely. It takes a mighty husky crew to row Osman's stroke, and this Syracuse crew does not seem capable of keeping up in the strain of a four mile contest.
 Over two miles the Orange is unde- niably fast but after that the pace of the shell begins to slacken and the crew have difficulty in keeping to- gether. Next to Columbia, Ten Eyck has the lightest varsity crew on the river, and such 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 decisive half of the journey.
 The Leland Stanford eight is the heaviest combination that has ever sat in a shell on the Hudson in the mem- ory of the present generation. The Ca1ifornians lack just a quarter of a pound of averaging 180 pounds to the man. That there is power in such a heavy crew there can be no question
 but there is a question as to whether or not the power will be properly ap- piled, and whether or not a crew of