Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-06-22
College Crews
Clash Today Over
Hudson River Course

kuuOO1l 1GlN NOu1 S0
Poughkeepsie, n. Y, June 21.-Rival
college crews, after a lapse of five
years, will renew their struggles for
supremacy here tomorrow over the
Hudson River course. the
scene of more than a score of hard
fought races for intercollegiate row.
ing honors. The East's greatest col
lcge oarsmen's carnival has not been
staged here since 1916.
Tonight, hotels and gathering places
of all kinds in this city and surround
ing towns are filled with rowing en-
thusiasts while stalwart members of
a half-dozen varsity crews, one Of
them from the Golden Gate, are rest
ing in preparation for tomorrow's
contest. Final practice spins
were taken in the gathering dusk two
or three hours ago and only one or
two coaches plan to send their charges
light early sessions tomorrow.
The University of California eight,
while defeated by Princeton on Lake
Carnegie June 4. is far from an I'M
considered contender in tomorrow's
race Rowing experts who saw the
CalifornianS fall before probably the
greatest eight Princeton has had. rec
ogniZed in the western shell eight
young physical specimens
who, employing a shorter stroke than
customary in the East, failed to use
to the best advantage their great driv-
ing power. The crew undoubtedly
learned much from the Princeton race
and probably has garnered still more
from association with other crews
since arriving here for training Oars
men of experience are confident that
an increased length of stroke and
more advantageous leg action tomor-
row will improve the eight SO per
cent over its showing at Princeton
when it forced the Tigers to a new
course record. Western crews are al
ways considered dangerous and the
performance of, the Stanford crew
here in 1915 has not been forgotten.
On this seasons records, the power
full Columbia University eight, win
ner of the Childs' Cup regatta on the
Harlem River. is expected to be the
foremost upholder of Eastern pres
tige with Coach John Hoyles Cor
nell eight the enigma of the meet.
Columbia's varsity has been proved.
in two races. The Morningside
Heights crew outrowed Yale by more
than length over the mile and five
sixteenths course at Derby. Conn, on
April 80, and on May Z, without Cap
tain Van Houton. who was i'll then in
a hospital, surprised the college world
by distancing Captain Hugh Cress-
wells Princeton "A" outfit at New
y ork. Waldecker replaced Captain
Van Houten in the boat but the shift
seemingly robbed the crew of none of
It's effectiveness. The long. steady
which the Columbians main
tanned at lower beat than that of the
Tigers, proved the efficacy of Coach
Jim Rice's instruction and placed the
Blue and White eight at the tentative
top O. the heap" among the Eastern
college navies
Cornell, with John Hoyle at the
helm instead of the mourned "Old
Man." the late Charles e. Courtney, is
the puzzle of the regatta. The Big
Red eight is considered in many quar-
tiers as not improbable winner. Cor
nelfs two varsity races this season
have not thrown definite light on the
capabilities of the eight. Cornell out
rowed Harvard which in view of the
carly performances of the Crimson,
does not necessarily stamp the Ithaca
crew as powerful.
Mystery surrounds the triangular
race in which Cornell was beaten by
Princeton while both defeated Yale on
Lake Cayuga. For the first time in
the memory of veterans, Cornell
caught a crab" on Cayuga,
throwing the entire eight out of it's
stroke. However, critics who wit
messed the race were loath to say that
Cornell would have beaten Princeton,
even had the. stroke gone smoothly
throughout. Princeton's lead at the fin
ish was three and one-half lengths.
Navy. last seasons intercollegiate
and Olympic champion, but few
weeks ago defeated by Princeton. is
here for blood" So intent were
Middle" oarsmen on rowing here that
several crew members sacrificed
spring Burroughs. Ooach Glendon's
eight challenged Princeton to a return
race after the Tigers had defeated the
Navy. Princeton was unable again to
race the Annapolis men and the fu-
ture admirals have come here intent
on proving. SO far as it can be done in
this regatta, that they had. and still
have. the country's strongest eight.
California. accustomed to the three
mile distance, Cornell, Columbia and
the Navy, should furnish one of the
most thrilling contests ever seen on
the Hudson with Penn and Syracuse
seemingly the prospective outsiders"
The size and enthusiasm of the
crowd which invaded this city tonight
indicate that the regatta will be well
coined back here tomorrow with fer
vor. Syracuse was the winner of the
last race here, Cornell second, Colum-
bia third and Pennsylvania fourth. In
1917. 1918 and 1919. the regatta was
suspended because Of war conditions.
Last season; it was held On Lake Cay
uga over two-mile distance with the