New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-14
Columbia Faces
Tiger and Penn
Fights To-day
Three Crews Show Fine
Form i'm Final Workout
ON Harlem River Course
BY Jack Lawrence


The varsity Fights of Columbia.
Princeton and the University of Penn
syivania had their final tuuing-up
SPINS on. the Harlem River late YES
teroay afternoon and are all set for
the triangular tussle this afternoon
Tor possession Of the Child's Gun.
Inc Princeton crew reached The
murky coast of the Harlem late ves-
terday afternoon and just had time to
hustle into their seagoing buds aor a
two-mile workout.
me Tiger she'll, the same one in
which Old Nassau's "B" crew rowed to
a spectacular victory over the cham
piousnlp Navy eight on Lake Carnegie
lase Saturday, arrived early in the
morning and was rugged andS ready
when DR.. j. Duncan Spaeth and his
oand of stalwart oarsmen hurried into
day. ~ ''ie
Darkness was setting in when the
princeton navy cast Off from the Nom
pareil float.
Coaches Talk But Little
The three coaches, whose charges
engage IN to-day's maritime battle
mad little to say last night that would
Indicate how they felt as to the re-
suit DR.; Spaeth, suave and gracious,
was evasiye On the subject of Prince
TONS chances, although, it was evident
tnat he VIVA pleased with. the almost
perfect Workmanship that Captain
Hugh Cresawell and the seven men
behind him have shown in recent
Joe Wright, the Penn coach, did not
appear Jubilant, but seemed confident
1haC the Quaker varsity would make
a better showing than it did against
the Navy on the Severn two weeks ago.
mere has been number of changes
IN the Penn she'll and the weight
seems distributed to better advantage
than it has been in the past.
Genial Jim Rice, commodore of Co.
i.umbia's navy, said he hoped the bows
from the Heights would finish in
front, but declared that he had no in.
tention of betting the family plate on
their chances. Two weeks ago, Just
an hour before the Blue and White
com olnatlon went cut on the Housa-
tonic and sang Tosti's Good Bye to
the Yale varsity, Rice succeeded in
convincing the writer that Columbia
would be lucky to finish at all.
The Columbia and Pennsylvania
crews skinned up and down the Har-
lem yesterday while hundreds Of rail-
6iros along the Speedway looked on.
The difference in the two styles of oars
mansh1p was striking. Joe Wright's
huskles use a short and sharp pull.
while the local oarsmen have a sty1e
that is long, easy and represents what
one oldtimer described as the poetry
of Craftsmanship"
Sidney Waldecker, who is acting as
understudy in the Columbia boat for
ts2ntaIn III
his place at No. very satisfactorily
and has done splendid work, consider
ing that he had not handled an oar this
season until Van Houten was taken i'll.
Princeton Crews Tuned up
DR.. Spaeth may give his crew mild
tuning up this morning, with a view to
acqqainting them with the course,
which is considered one of the trickiest
IN the East. The other boats in the
three-cornered debate will remain idle
to-day until it Is time to pipe all hands
on deck for the big struggle.
Dr.. Spaeth pursued the Princeton
varsity last evening in 8 motor boat
and shouted instructions through a
megaphone. Much time was given to
practicing starts. When the coach re-
turned to the Nonpareil float his polite
ret1cence could not disguise the conf
0e4SS oi4dt iOiAeu penlnQ ms Deam1ng
countenance.
The Tigers did not reach the Harlem
until o'clock yesterday afternoon, and
when they had finished their workout
they dressed and motored to the Penn
ssylvania Hotel, where they are making
their headquarters.
The junior varsity race between
Pennsylvania and Columbia is sched-
uled to start at Fordham Bridge at
$3.50 and the triangular varsity event
at the same place at o'clock.
Columbia drew lane No. /, which is
nearest the Speedway and is considered
to be the most favorable under food
tide conditions, which will prevail
when the race is rowed. Pennsylvania
drew the middle berth and Princeton
the one on the Bronx shore.