Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-06
THESE ARE "EXAM"
DAYS FOR OARSMEN
AT POUGHKEEPSIE
'Cramming' Is Principal Oc-
cupation and Grew Work
Is a Thing Apart
COLUMBIA is CONFIDENT

| POUGHKEEPSIE, n. Y, June 6. - AL
| though there is war in Europe and therein
| engaged is Vivian Nickals, there also are
| three eight-oared shell races to be rowed
here in less than two weeks, one never
would sense that fact these days by n visit
to the crew quarters of Pennsylvania and
Cornell. Here the talk is "Mr. Wright
may please stay up until 103O tonight to
run over the formulae for alcohol" or
Mr. Courtney, may / please get up at
tomorrow to bone on Mark Anthony? I
never could find out why he was so foolish
as to leave Egypt"
Never word do you hear about the
grth of the Syracuse stroke or the bois
of Collyer, the Cornell stroke. or of thole-
pins or the reason why Yale and Harvard
don't come up here every year and get
licking.
It is nothing but binomial theorems.
quantative analysis, the history of the
Medes and similar exciting subjects. These
oarsmen are oblvous to yellow-colored
sporting extras or the latest time trial made
by Columbia. For these fellows are taking
their final examinations. Crew work is
thing apart.
Professor Foster Not Present
Now If Professor Foster, of Reed Uni
versty. who indicted intercollegiate sport
only were here the Poughkeepsie Hospital
or the Vassar Sanitarium would have a
patient suffering from shock. AS he isn't
muck -raSing he nevertheless must pause
and consider for the very good reason that
here is proof on every side that college
| oarsmen study
Why, when the Quaker varsity crew
started down the course this morning, Al
Foster, coxswain, who is all wrapped up
in engineering, kept yelling Give her gas !!
Give her gasl" just like a regular engineer
in Vanderbilt cup race. Rowing news
vyb Isn't qttCh all
tory, philosophy, metaphysics, engineering
and architecture.
Penn's oarsmen even got the goat of Joe
Wright when he set out to ask them about
their outriggers on the new shell which
needs adjusting. How high shall I raise
yours, Chickering?" he yelled to the cap
tain, and before he knew it the Red and
Blue leader was taking into account the
specific gravity OF the shell, his strength
test and blood pressure and combining
them into formula . find the value of
X. This is no place for regular news
paper reporter.
HOyle Not Practical
The Quakers arrived here Saturday eve
ming In time for a row and Cornell broke
the Sabbath by detraining at $3.50, Just
| like Red Cross outfit removing soldiers
| from an ambulance. At least you would
have thought so the way John Hoyle i'm
pressed them to care for these fragile
| boats.
Personally. it was beySnd understanding.
| for Hoyle makes those same shells and
| gets 5000 per for them. All OF which goes
| TO prove that unless Courtney can come
| to the rescue Cornell is taking a chance in
leaving her crews in the hands OF Hoyle.
| He showed right away on his arrival that
| he wasn't a practical man.
One has TO go up to the Columbia quar-
| ters TO get a line on rowing. Exams
were finished there last week and the
boys can give attention 10 things OF inn
portance. They have It all figured out that
| they can lick Pennsylvania and give Cor
nell a rub Wrights crew is too light
| and hasn't the punch. Cornell's Is a heav-
| Ter looking outfit and sufficiently rounded
TO give any OF them trouble But they
| are pretty sore over the fact that the
| Quakers have taken their old honor OF
being the lightest crew on the river. There
isn't an alibi left Tor them.