Evening star., 1920-02-16
0ARSMEN TO HAVE
A BANNER SEASON
Unusual Activity Is Due in
Rowing WorId-Herring's
Stars Stir Discussion.
by WALTER CAMP

| We are going to have in the year
| iS2O. among other notable athletic con-
| tests. one of the greatest rowing sea
| sons we have ever seen, and it is Il
| great pity that the climax cannot be
reached in the Harvard crew going over
| to the British Henley to defend as
! holders of the grand challenge cup.
| At this writing it seems probable that
| the Henley stewards viii not set the
| date forward as they have been re-
queSted to do, in order to make i u"S-
| Sible for Harvard to row her New Lon
! don race with Yale and then journey
! over to the British Thames to defend
! their trophy. However. the Union Boat
| Club of Boston undoubtedly will be on
/ hand, and June 80 to July should see
| a most interesting British Henley. For
| il must be remembered that It was the
Union Boat Club which ca"a against
| Harvard in the finals on that mem
| orable occasion in July. 1914. when
I these two crews, all Americans, fought
! out the issue in the finals of the blue
| ribbon event of the world. the grand
| challenge cups for eights at Henley
First Event Next Month.
| The first on the lists of rowing events
| will be the California interclass regat-
/ ia on the Pacific coast. March p. The
| next will be the meeting of Yale and
| Pennsylvania on the Schuylkill, Phila-
! delphia. on April ). On April "a the
1 Harvard crew goes to Annapolis to
| meet the Navy, and if the middieS are
! anything like what they were last year
/ Harvard will have hard time Of it.
| On the first day of May the Pacific
! coast regatta will be held at Oakland,
i and on that same day Princeton goes
| to Cambridge to meet the Harvard
crew on the Back Bay. On the Sth of
| May. Ten Eyck's Syracuse crew will go
! to Annapolis for struggle with the
Navy on the Severn. There has been
some talk of the Childs cup regatta
! being rowed on the Schuylkill on May
| s. but that race may be combined with
the American Henley taking place on
the 29th.
| A tentative program is being ar
ranged for the invitation regatta on
| the Severn at Annapolis on the 18th
of May, but that is the present date
| set for the triangular race of Cornell
| Princeton and Yale at Princeton on
Carnegie lake. On the Goth of May it
has been tentatively arranged that
| Seattle, hut this is not finally deter
mined. On the 22d of May Harvard
| goes to Ithaca to row Cornell on Lake
Cayuga. The 10Th is the date probably
fixed for the Am merican Henley at Phila-
! deIphia. Then there is a month of res.
New London. on the Thames, on June
%, and the Poughkeepsie regatta will
come within a few days of this date
! Altogether, one could not devise more
| interesting program of races than are
outlined in this probable schedule.
HerrinE's Stars Cause Debate.
Herring's selection of star Princeton
| foot ball players has not only created
a stir, but has brought out an infinite
nj CIIn fo oof No I, in
has been so interesting for a long time
nor has there been anything which
more pointedly developed the difficult
, ties of such a selection.
| One of the most marked of these
ideas is one with which the writer has
many times been brought face to face
namely. the great influence which must
| be accorded to the fact of what COM
petition man had. Daniel of the
Sun has brought this out in speaking
of the fact that Biggs played three
years against Heffelfinger. Not only
against a rival team. but it has often
happened between candidates for the
same position in a home team.
Perhaps the most striking illustra-
| ton of this was when Barbour was
| quarterback at Yale and Vance Nc
| Cormick was substitute quarter. AS
| Mccormick once said in a fit of de-
spair, Barbour is never laid up" Bar
bour never takes day off" and Bar
bour always plays straight through
! the afternoon, SO what chance have
got?" The result was that McCor-
mick. who was naturally a quarter
| back, was for time made into a full
back. and a first-class one he made
| too.
Now. naturally it is hard to imagine
| any guard good enough to wrest the
position from Heffelfinger in the old
days, but undoubtedly there were
! many men on various teams whose
| position would have been secure and
| who might even have made the all
American team if it had not been for
some veteran star who held the posi-
| ton. For instance. this year there
! never was such a galaxy of first-class
backfield men as covered the gridironS
! and a man in that array who might
| under ordinary conditions have had an
opportunity to show himself veri-
| table wonder might. for instance. have
| been a substitute for Rodgers of West
| Virginia. Or. as to linemen, what
| chance had the substitute for West of
| Colgate at tackle. for Youngstrom of
| Dartmouth as a guard? Such a man
| would have had little chance to dis
! play his wares"
Copyright 1920