Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-14
penn VARSITY EIGHT
STILL IN DOUBT
Coach Wright Unable to DETER
mine Which Eight Will Start
in Feature Race Tomorrow
RUGH HAS infected FOOT

WHEN it comes to being in a guam
w dairy. Josephus Wright. coach of
the University Of Pennsylvania, de.
serves the palm. Joe isn't exactly tear
ing hair nor sputtering about his task
but his mind is as active as a wasp
on a mans arm.
Let it be known that the University
OF pennsylvania has two crews desig-
mated BY their coach as the Red and
White and known among the followers
OF the rowing sport as the varsity and
the junior varsity. For three weeks the
Reds just to show their spite made the
Blues look like the color they rep
resent. They defeated them so often,
that 1t got mOnOtonous.
Also the Blues became considerable
peeved and determined to wipe out the
stigma of the many reverses. They
succeeded after a while, until now they
are battling the Reds even stephen.
On Wednesday. Wright held trial
that was expected to prove the hSt. The
Blues came through and walloped the
varsity by narrow margin.
Last night, as the dusk was settling
across the Schuylkill. Wright held
another trial and the Reds surprised BY
shooting their frail craft across the
finish line n scant four feet in advance
of the Blues. All OF which added more
to the quandry OF Josephns Wright.
Which crew to select. That is the
mooted question causing Wright to lay
awake nights and fight the races from
start to finish.
| In experience the Reds or varsity
have the call, but in fighting spirit and
In improvement the odds must be handed
by the skimpiest margins to the Blues.
Put the two on the scales and the bal
ance is SO perfect that the question be.
comes all the more mootcd.
~ am not in any hurry to announce
which crew l shall start as the varsity"
said Wright this morning. II must
have time to think. This isn't situa.
tion that comes up every day. and it
needs considerable figuring out before a
decision can be reached.
"Will you decide tonight?' Wright
was asked. IL cannot say" he said
II may not make my decision until the
crews get ready to launch their craft
Saturday afternoon. and maybe not
until they are up at the starters line
ready for the gun. There is really no
difference between tho two eights. They
measure up to Il, and the result is my
indecisiOn.
"As for Yale, there Is a greater dif.
icrNuCo III tuelF TWO elSDtS, tnaC 1E,
varsity and Junior varsity. and it takes
no hair pulling 70 decide which crew 70
start. With Penn the difference is
around a second, with either the Reds
or the Blues having the advantage"
Wright thinks that the Yale varsity
and junior varsity are excellent eights
after seeing them paddle up and down
the Schuylkill yesterday morning and
afternoon. The Ellis did not hold a time
trial yesterday. but worked up a few
starts. after which a quarter mile brush
was held, with the varsity first, the
juniors second and the lightweights or
l50-pounders trailing along IN third
place.
What may cause Wright to select the
red. or varsity, crew to start in the
main race tomorrow afternoon is the
injury to one of the junior oarsmen.
Rugh who has been rowing No. O
on the jay wees ever since outdoor prac-
tics started, suffered an infected foot,
and yesterday had the injured part cut
He rowed in the afternoon, and showed
little effects, but said that the foot
bothered him lot. If the soreness
Is out tomorrow, that may cause a shift
that will send the jaw wees to the start
ing post as the varsity.
No matter how intense the pain,
Rugh isn't going to leave the boat. A
change at this juncturc would com
pletely break up the eight, according
TO rowing sharps. as the men have
been rowing together now for several
weeks without change.