New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Columbia Grew
Made Favorite
La Big Regatta
Three Other Fights Expected
to Give the Blue and
White Boat Hard Fight
By Jack Lawrence

The collegiate rowing season reaches
its climax this week with the big re-
gatta at Poughkeepsie on Wednesday
and the four-mile struggle between
Yale and Harvard at New London on
Friday. The races at Poughkeepsie are
the most important that have been held
IN the East in more than a decade.
The outcome of the race between the
latter is of little consequence so far as
the intercollegiate rowing champion
ship is concerned, because both Yale
and Harvard have been consistently
bad performers on the water through
out the season. However, the ancient
rivalry between these colleges makes
any meeting between them interesting,
rgardless of how poor the performers
are. 1t is probable that the crowds
that line the banks of the Thames next
Friday will be just as enthusiastic in
a partisan way as though a champion
ship actually were at stake.
The Poughkeepsie battle, which
promises to be the hardest fought
contest ever rowed on the Hudson.
lacks only one feature to make it really
the greatest regatta ever staged in the
United States. The missing feature is
DR.. j. Duncan Spaeths splendid Prince
season 70 a string of magnificent vie
tories and no defeats.
Princeton Obdurate to Supplications
All sorts of pressure have been
brought SO bear upon the authorities
at Princeton with q view to having the
Leh -stroked Tigers in the Poughkeepsle
pageant, but it has all gone for naught-
DR.. Spaeth evidently knows when to
quit
AS the crews will 60 to the line in
the Hudson late Wednesday evening in
the varsity event there will be four
formidable contenders for first honors,
The crews entered are the Naval
Academy eight, winners of the Olympic
championship at Antwerp last year;
the University of California, rowing IN
the East for the first time; Syracuse,
Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania
and Columbia, the latter the only un-
defeated crew to start
A close study of the seasons per-
formances of all the crews involved
issue viii Ibe decided among the Navy.
Columbia, Cornell and California. Co
lambda will probably start slight fa
vorite The other two entries, Penn
sylvania and Syracuse, can be counted
out of it, III the case of Pennsylvania
the junior varsity has beaten the first
clew decisivly in all their trial races
since the two boats arrived on the
Hudson and will roy as the first eight
on Wednesday.
Mitchell. the 145-pound stroke Of
Penn's senior varsity. has been switched
to the junior shell, and since his trans
fer the lighter boat has proved the
faster in every test. A few days ago
Joe Wright, in a spirit of sportsman
ship, allowed the sixteen oarsmen 10
decide for themselves which boat would
enter the main event.
The showing the juniors hai been
r.uking evidently made them chesty,
for they would hear of noIhiag but
he ing allowed to row as the varsity
eight. In view of their string OF we
tories over the heavier crew they could
hs rdly be denied. Although they have
small chance of winning the varsity
race, they had very good ono IF
finishing in front in the junior event
Mitchell, who is captain of the var