The Alaska citizen., 1917-04-02
REGATTA DATES
 ARE ANNOUNCED
(Assoclated Press Correspondencel

Associated Press Correspondence)
 NEW YORK, Mar-The various eastern colleges which support row ing. with the exception Of the Navy and Syracuse University, have com pleted their regatta schedules with the result that the oarsmen have a busy season of competition before them. The Naval academy crew man. agement nas been handicapped 5jy :htG unsettled international situation. and no racing dates have been announced. Syracuse has also failed to make public it's crew contests.
 Other varsity rowing Ccnters, how ever, have been active, and Prince ton, Cornell. Columbia. Pennsylvania Harvard and Yale will enter eight pared crews in dual. triangular and championship regattas. Owing to the short seasosn. there will be several conflicting dates, which is unfor- tunate, since it will cause a distri- button of interest on days when two contests of importance are to be rowed on widely separated courses
 The season opens with the annual Pennsylvania-Yal race at Philadel- phia, on Friday. April G. A week later the Pacific coast regatta will be held at Oakland, Cal, and will be followed with interest in the east, in view of the fact that the winning crew is expected to row in the Intercollegiate Championship Re gatta on the Hudson late in June on April 19 Princeton and liar ward will swing into action with a race on Carnegie Lake. at Princeton. to be followed on May 12 by two of the more important of the early spring rega ttas At Philadelphia the American Henley will be staged with first and second college crews com peting in a number of the SChuylkill events On the same day the tri- angular regatta for the Childs Cup will be rowed at Princeton with the crews from Columbia, Pennsylvania and Princeton competing for the his toric trophy.
 On the following Saturday two dual regattas of great interest will be rowed respectively at Boston and New Haven. On the Charles River Basin course Harvard and Columbia will meet in a 1 7-S-mile contest. while Yale and Cornell match row ing form and endurance at Derby, not far from the site of the New Haven university. This race will be !, h., of t,g I,,, River course, which has been highly praised by Coach NiCkalls of Yale
 Cayuga Lake, at Ithaca, N. Y, will be the scene of the next race, for Princeton and Cornell eights will row a two-mile contest there during the Spring Day celebration, Saturday. May 26. This event will end the preliminary rowing season. as less than month will remain in which to train for the International Regatta at POughkeepsie on Thursday, June 2l, to be followed the next day by the annual New London regatta, be- tween Yale and Harvard on the Thames river. The complete inter collegiate rowing schedule to date is as follows:
 April 6-Yale vs. Pennsylvania at
 Philadelphia Pa
 April 14-Pacific Coast Intercollegi-
 ate Regatta, Oakland, Cal.
 April 19-HarVard vs. Princeton at
 Princeton. N. J.
 May 12-American Henley. Philadel-
 phia. Pa.
 May 12-Childs Cup Race. Princeton.
 Pennsylvania and Columbia. at
 Princeton, N. J.
 May 19-Columbia vs. Harvard, at
 Boston, Mass.
 May 19-Cornell vs. Yale, at Derby,
 Conn.
 May 26-Princeton vs. Cornell. at
 Ithaca, N. Y.
 June 21-Intercolleg:ate Regatta. at
 POughkeepsie, N. Y.
 June p Harvard Yale Regatta. New
 London. Conn.