The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-06-04
TITLE At STAKE
IN dual REGATTA
For the First Time in Years,
Champion Will Be Named in
Yale-Harvard Regatta.
EDGE ON POUGHKEEPSIE
Crimson and Old Eli Crews Appear
to Be Evenly Matched-Penn
Failure.
EDGE ON POUGHKEEPSIE

Philadelphia. Pa. June Am unprece-
dented thing is about to happen in IN
tercollesiate rowing For the first time
in many years the four-mile champion
ship crew will be found in the Harvard
Yale regatta at New London instead OF
the Pousbkeepsie regatta. There Will not
be any four-mile race between the WIN
ners of these respective reGattas. but at
the two-mle distance Yale has beaten
Pennsylvania, Columbia and Cornell.
while Harvard has triumphed over Cor
nell. There are still two entries in the
Poughkeepsie regatta which Harvard and
Yale have not met. They are Syracuse
and Leland Stanford. Should either of
these eights win at Poughkeepsie it
would have a good argument with The
New London winner.
From what is known of the Syracuse
crew. II does not look like a winner IN
the Hudson, ard II Leland Stanford Is to
, come through victorious the WestcrncTs
will have to show better rowing than has
, yer been seen from Pacific Coast crew
to date
Right now Yale and Harvard are ap-
parently evenly matched. with Harvard
possibly more finished crew. Yale beat
| Cornell at Princeton by quarter of a
boat length. One week later Cornell lost
| to Harvard on Lake Cayuga by full
| length. It was the same crew that repre-
scented Cornell on both occasions. The
| Ithacans should have been at their best
against Harvard. for they had a week
| rest and were on their own course. Yet
| Harvard gained commanding lead In
| the first mile and Cornelrs usual sprint
made no impression on Harvards lead
! What struck the observers at Ithaca was
| the tremendous power in the Harvard
| boat and the clean blade work Of .he
| Crimson oarsmen. In both respects they
! suggested more power than Yale. and FOR
| that reason Harvard will probably go to
| New London a slight favorite.
| The belief is growing every day that
in spite of Pennsylvania hard luck
this spring the Quakers will have a
crew as strong as that Of a year ago.
iIf that results Pennsylvania should
win at Poughkeepsie in spite of Cor
nell and Columbia. There will be a
great deal of surprise il Columbia wins
again, for the New Workers. boat is
made up almost entirely OF new men.
The return to the Quaker shell Of Gar
vim and Marcy of last years boat
with Shoemaker from the 1913 crew.
ought to eradicate the weaknesses
which have been worrying Coach
! Nickalls.
Cornell's crew has been largely made
over since the Harvard boat race. The
most radical change was the promo
ton of Collyer. last years freshman
| stroke, from No. to stroke in the
| varsity eight In giving the pace
making job to Collyer Coach Courtney
is but following out the suggestion OF
many rowing critics and other coaches
who contended that Collyers work last
year stamped him as one of the great
est freshman strokes ever seen at
| Poughkeepsie. Vivian Nichalls. the
Pennsylvania coach, even before the
race, ra-ed over his form and strength.
II he develops fast enough now he may
be the means of remaking the Cornell
| crew.