Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09
HUDSON HISTORIC ROWING WATERS Annual Collegiate Regatta Poueheepsie Its Last
 Legs-Big Expense in Maintaining Crews-Cornel
 and Syracuse Hold Sway.

i this done there would be no need o1 going to Poughkeepsie for all the col l leges involved can offer the shorter course. This objection is based or
 the stand of coaches like Courtney oi Cornell, and Spaeth, of Princeton against the longer race because of the strain on the contestant. It is further sustained by the fact that Pennsyl-
 vania has no home waters on which to train for a four mile race and that Princeton is in the same fix. AL though Princeton does not now row at PoughlSeepsie there is no reason why 1t would not join the Intercollegiate
 Rowing association if the race were cut down to two miles. And Princeton
 would be splendid addition.
 One reason why Cornell has not
 fought to move the regatta to Ithaca even for four-n1ile racing, where con-
 ditions are even better than on the Hudson. has been due to the fact that Columbia owns it's training quarters and boat house at Poughkeepsie. Such
 change would be a big loss to Col umbia. But now that Columbia is
 about on it's last legs in rowing. and 1t is freely predicted this will be it's
 last year in the game. Cornell is in a position to go after things.
 The regatta date has been a matter of so much controversy between rail- road and regatta committee, the form :
 CT refusing to hold it late in Dune or early in July because of the travel l1CIOenL to the FOurCn-Lle IlInC- II would best suit the colleges concerned because of examinations-that stand will have to be made by one side or the other, very likely this year. which will wind up the regatta. Owing to the date of the races it has been neces- ary for the colleges participating to have the oarsmen take special final ex- aminations at their Poughkeepsie training quarters. To do this faculty permission has to be obtained and fac YIlf rriS fre, s,tn is not easy While such a condition has existed for many years at other regattas several college faculties are objecting to this in connection with it is very doubtful if Cornell will be given faculty sanction this spring, which means the breaking up of the regatta if Columbia abandons rowing as predicted. It was conflict of this kind last spring which came near winding up things at that time so far as Cornell was concerned. And there is little doubt but Pennsylvania is worried over it's rowing outlook. It would not be among the impossibilities to have the Quakers get out.
 With Columbia out and the Quakers no stronger than in past years the race would be a dual between Cornell and Syracuse. Now such a happening is love between these two. Indeed the recent strength of Syracuse in rowing which should hold for two more years at least. is a good reason for thinking the regatta is over.
 What the result of the wind-up of this regatta will be no one can foretell It probably would lead to more two mile racing during the collegiate sea- son on college waters. Whether it would mean the abandonment of the idea of a big regatta on the round robin order after final examinations is a matter of conjecture. Rowing is a big expense and a food deal of it is born by very loyal grad duates At Columbia these men have shaken the burden. It would not be a surprose to see anything happen. Last year the rowing figures at four colleges were appalling. In looking them over re- member that at Harvard they had an amateur coach and at Yale, it is said the cost of coaching was borne in part by gradutes so the full mount ex- pended does not show in the following figures: