New-York tribune., 1919-02-16
No Standard Tennis Rules
Which C0Uer All Nations
Yale Crews
Sure tOHave
Busy Season

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Feb. 15.-With
the announcement that Yale is plan
ming to send its varsity crew to the
English Henley in July, the most pre-
tentious programme ever launched for a
single rowing season at the university
has been started. The undergraduates
believe the trip is extremely likely.
They are unanimously behind it, the
Yale Daily News" has urged it, and
Professor Mather A Abbott, the crew
coach, has warmly indorsed it.
The only obstacle is the financial
problem of transportation for the oars
men, as DR.. Abbott has pointed out
that the shells, oars and rowing equip
ment will be provided by the English
universities and clubs. Yale under
graduates will contribute generously
to the project and Yale's wealthy
alumni are regarded as likely to make
The journey possible.
Professor Abbott has completely
shifted Yale's rowing outlook from "
cramped, restricted season, with the
New London regatta with Harvard q
possibility, 10 the most extensive ever
projected. At present the events
which he is projecting include:
Races with the varsity, freshmen
and perhaps some of the other class
crews against Harvard on the Ameri-
can Thames; a triangular race with
Princeton and Cornell at Derby on the
Housatonic in May; at least two
crews for the American Henley on the
Schuylkill in May; races for the class
and other unit crews with preparatory
school crews at the spring regatta in
May; an international uatcn between
the Yale varsity and picked English
crews in the English Henley.
DR.. Abbott's motto is "a coach, a
race and a seat in the shell for every
candidate who reports" He has kept
adding to the 'varsiety and class squads
which now number about four hundred
and he boasts that not an oarsman will
be dropped till the college closes for
the summer term.
Meanwhile he has secured the assist
ance of former oarsmen, and they are
coaching the material in the funda-
mentals of rowing both for sports sake
and the love of victory, which he says
comes from having an objective IN the
shape of some sort of races with which
to bring the season to a climax.
The coach has been favored by the
weather, which has allowed him tc
bring. the candidates to the harbOr sew
eral weeks earlier than usual, and he
has been able to give them almost con.
tnuous practice the past fortnight, de-
spite floating ice and slightly cooler
weather.
He has made a direct start TOWARD
selecting the varsity squad by picking
four crews, which Will take part in s
number of mutual races, from which
the varsity eight and the second crew
viii be picked
The first crew has been selected a!
follows:
Stroke, Soderston; No. 7, Mead; No
G, Ewing; No. 5. Benson; No. a, Moul
ton; No. 9. Bucholz; No. 2, Munson
bow, Mali: coxswain, Carson.
OF this combination Soderston stroket
the Yale fre shman eight three seasons
ago, while Ewing, Benson, Munson an'
Moulton arc former varsity substi
tutes. Captain Mead was member o
the varsity eight last season.
The selection of new varsity strok
car is occupying the close attention O
Dr. Abbott. Hemenway, stroke of tn
freshmen last year, and Austin an,
Schietfelin, two former varsity substi
tutes, are stroking the second, thir'
and fourth crews.