The Washington herald., 1918-03-04
COLLEGE CREW
DESIGNS RACE
American Rowing Associa-
ton Regatta Goes to
Midshipmen.

New York, March S.-Despite the
fact that the Poughkeepsie, New Lon
don and American Henley regattas
have been abandoned for the duration
of the war America will MT be with
out it's intercollegiate rowing classic
this year. At meeting of the Amer
lean Rowing Association at Column
hia University Club yesterday after
noon it was decided to hold a national
patriotic regatta at Annapolis this
spring. According to the plans laid
down by the association it will be
the largest and most representative
collegiate regatta yet neId in this
country.
Crews representing Yale. Harvard,
Columbia. Princeton. Pennsylvania.
Annapolis. Cornell and possibly syria
Cuse will measure strokes. They will
be invited, and it is understood ell will
compete.
The association also voted to stage
a contest for freshmen crews provided
three or more colleges Will send hrSt-
year crews to the regatta. but the
me mbers were unanimous i'm their de
cisiOn that the eligibility rules should
rot be changed and that freshmen
should not be allowed in varsity
boats.
Likely Date May 25.
The races will he held on the Severn
River, which furnishes ample space
for a race of ten crews. The regatta
probably will be held on May .. The
distance of the varsity race will be
two miles.
The association decided upon the
race as a result of the requests made
by Secretary Baker. Secretary Daniels
and Maj. Gen. Wood that all the
colleges and universities of the coun-
try continue all athletic sports during
the war.
No Western crews will be invited to
compete. but that is simply because it
is feared that they would be unable
to procure transportation for their
men and shells. AS matters stand
now only Washington of the Western
contingent is doing any rowing.
In fact, lack of transportation facili-
ties threatened to prevent the race
Several of the representatives were
of the opinion that it would be i'm
possible for some of the Eastern in
stitutiOns to get their men and shells
to Annapolis, but this obstacle was
overcome when Lieut.. Commander
Gutter of the navy declared that it
would be necessary only to get the
men there; that If they could not
bring along their. shells the Naval
Academy would loan them boats for
the event.
This patriotic and sportsmanlike
proposition appealed to the skeptical
ones and then all agreed that they
could see no other obstacle which
might crop up to prevent the contest.
Although Syracuse was not repre-
sented at the meeting and earlier in
the season had announced its abandon
ment of the sport, it was the general
opinion that the upstate institution
would revive the sport 1t is known
that Coach Jim Ten Eyck has more
than 100 men training on the machines
and that they could be boated without
much difficulty.
With it, as with Cornell, the only
difficulty would be in getting trans
portation to the Severn, but as 1t
would not be necessary for either COL
lege to have its own shell for the con-
test this difficulty can easily be over
come.
Yale. Pennsylvania. Princeton, Co.
lumbia and the Naval Academy were
represented at the meeting, and re-
grets came from Harvard and Cornell.
Thomas Reath, of Pennsylvania,
acted as chairman. Fred Allen and
Julian Curtiss represented Yale; Lieut..
Commander Guilder. the Naval Acad-
emy; Charles Halsted Mapes, Francis
S. Bangs and Harry A. Fisher, Co
lumbia; Dean William McClenahan,
Princeton. and Mr.. Reath and John A.
Brown, Pennsylvania.