Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-06-24
Yale and Harvard
Crews Ready for
Annual Race Saturday

night await the 53rd annual race be-
tween the varsity crews. 1t will be
held on the Thames River four-mile
course tomorrow afternoon. While
the athletes who will man the shells
rest in their camps at Red Top and
Gales Ferry. few miles from here.
this little Connecticut city welcomes
the influx of the regatta crowd"
which it has come to know and to
prepare annually for with increased
menu and hotel prices, while with
banners of the rival Crimson and
Blue and street vendors who seek to
extract from the exuberant under
graduate as much loose currency as
possible.
The regatta girl,% chaperoned by
cautious parents who have made the
trip by motor or by private yacht,
lends feminine touch. rivalled only
at the Harvard Yale football game.
Tomorrow she will provide the out
standing feature of the colorful crowd
which will fill the slow moving OBJ
servation trains as they crawl along
the river shore keeping pace with the
straining crews. The fact that both
varsity Fights in tomorrow's big
race have been defeated more than
once this spring dampens in no way
the enthusiasm of the crowd which
recognizes only that Harvard and
Yale are the rivals.
Added to the usual throng that
will witness the regetta is a portion
of the crowd that attended the inter-
collegiate championship event at
Poughkeepsie yesterday and made a
"trip" of it by coming here today
Most of this group are the dyed in
the-woof' rowing enthusiasts, neu-
trails tomorrow. including oarsmen
and coaches of other colleges and
veteran experts of no college affiIia-
tons.
Both universities will send to the
starting line tomorrow afternoon in
the varsity race, Fights g'GeralIy
thought to be inferior to those IF last
season, when Harvard defeated Yale
by several lengths. Hayward has won
only one varsity race, beating the
weak Mass. Tech. eight but losing to
Cornell and also to Princeton and the
Navy in a triangular contest Yale
has been defeated by Pennsylvania
and Columbia in dual races, and by
Princeton and Cornell in a triangular
regatta while a Yale eight also de-
feated the Mass Tech. oarsmen.
However, both Eli Yale and John
Harvard will show improved crews
tomorrow. To both. the contest is the
single aim throughout the training
grind Of several months. Victory or
defeat on the Thames makes the sea-
son a success or a failure for the
crews. irrespective of earlier results
The university winning tomorrow
takes the lead in the series Of con-
tests which has lasted more than half
a century. Each has won the var
sity race rs times and that fact will
stir the rivals to greater efforts than
ever. ,
Also the coaching systems in thu
two camps, especially at Yale, will BE
under close observation. Yale's VIC
tory in 1919 has been the only Eli
triumph over Harvard on the water
since 1915. The surprising and over
whelming defeat on the Thames last
year has been followed by several de-
feats and unsettled conditions in Yale
rowing.
These conditions reached a climax
three weeks ago when Guy Nickalls,
in charge at Yale since 1914. with
the exception of the war years. re-
signed and James Corderry, who had
been Nickalls assistant this year
took charge of the Ellis when they
went into camp at Gales Ferry.
During the training of the eight there,
Corderry has been assisted by
Churchill Peters, captain and stroke
of the 1890 Yale varsity. Victory for
Yale tomorrow will bring to Cor
derry recognition as the miracle
man" of Yale rowing history.
In Robert F. Herrick and william
Haines, Harvard has had at the
helm this spring the same coaching
combination which developed the
record breaking Crimson varsity
crew OF 1916 and the junior varsity
eight Of the same year which COM
peted in the English Royal Henley
and won the Grand Challenge Cup In
that classic event.
Harvard viii be a pronounced fay-
orfte In the freshman race fomoSJoW.