The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-09
TIGER CREW WINS;
COLUMBIA, SECOND,
JUST BEATS PENN
onIy Two Feet Between Rice's
Boat and Quakers- New
York Men Have Hard Luck.
rUILDS CUP GOES HOME
FIRST TIME SINCE 1881
Second Section

PRINCETON. May s.--Princeton's eight
JARED crew swept across the finish In
,mpressive fashion this afternoon In the
annual triangular regatta for the Childs
.beu.,re Gun on Lake Carnegie.
Columbia was length and half be-
hind Princeton and Pennsylvania was
o,iv two feet after the New Workers,
r,ee--ovn is gay to. Knight IN celebration
q, the event for Il means the return OF
N. ChIlds trophy. which had not been
won by a homo crew since 1851.
As the crews passed the mile mark II
~as clear that the Tigers had the race
we'll in hand. but tho contest for second
MACE was 50 close that even after the
hats had crossed the finish line the
majority Of people did not know whether
Columbia or Pennsylvania got the sec
ond honor. The finish was comparable
only 10 the one at New London last
June. when Yale nosed out Harvard for
FRS. place.
The New Workers. were IN third place
practically all OF the way down the
course and apparently were bested by
both OF the other boats. But Stroke
Myers raised the count and challenged
the Quakers position IT was mag
nlhcent squirt. the bow pulling up even
with the Red and Blue bow, and they
seesawed back and forth according to
the stroke and run OF the two boats.
The two bows flashed across the finish
in almost the same instant and none but
those In the judges boat could tell their
order. The judges decided in favor Of
the Blue and White shell. Edwin Gould.
the distance separating the two boats
being only TWO feet. All tho difference
lay IN the timing of the stroke. the
Ponrsylvan'ans flushing on the run and
the Mo-n'uESidc men on the stroke.
The Princeton eight spoke eloquently
fcr It's coach, Prof. \ Duncan Spas.h.
The Tigers Workmanship was excellent.
her patchwork clean and they had a
powerful drive IN the boat with very
Little check between strokes. The judy
rent " stroke Putnam was superb.
After The first hurried strokes In getting
under way be settled down to long.
easy stroke at 80, lowering IL later to
3. Tn, power soon told and gradually
the smell crept up on the others At the
nile mark Princeton easily had the
lead. the twenty for the doctor" at the
'hrer-quarter mile having given IL a
were impossible to overhaul. and the
'twen'y for capt. Putnam" on which
the CREW darIsd over the line hardly
was needed
Colunh.as men showed careful coach
ing bat the shell did not have the same
drive That 10 had q year ago. The blade
work was vastly superior to Pennsyl-
van.as, tut not up TO the Tigers. An
unusual accident NJ the mile mark inn
Heded 'Ha Now Workers.. who were trying
. crawl up 10 even terms with Penn
srly3ma. The coNswaiu ran afoul of the
flags hat marked the lanes and all four
o. the oars on the port side struck
the POLE which fortunately was not more
TIM .tp'uE that bent before the
oa-s II .t had been heavier II at least
would has" stripped all the port sweeps
and possibly have tipped the shell over.
TIE oJ sWcp made a quick and plucky
recover, and when they crossed the
tnlsu .ue they We're rowing in splendid
FORM
There was slight wind blowing up
The course from the southwest. but II
was hardly enough to interfere with any
o. me crews when they were sent away
a. $500 .y Referee g. H. Wood of Har-
ward. Columbia WAS under the west
bank PENNSYLVANIA in the middle and
Princeton on the Canal side. II was
almost am even start, though Jim Rice.
coach NJ Columbia. said that his men
go' away poorly PENNSYLVANIA shot out
'r-' win Columbia second and Prince
ION third Princeton and Pennsylvania
were rowing thirty-siN strokes to the
minute and Columbia tnlrty-five. They
ned Their position 10 the half mile. when
Princeton showed ahead of Columbia.
10Th ~ these crews having dropped TO