The New York herald., 1922-01-28
PLAN GREAT RACE
AT 1923 HENLEY
Most Colleges Agree to Row in
American Short Distance
Championship.
BY SAMUEL y. BRooKMAN.

A short distance intercollegiate rowing
championship of America. a Henley dis
tance championship. in which practi-
cally every college identified with the
sport will be participant. is plan of
the American Rowing Association that
seems certain of realization in another
year. 1t Is too late to carry out the
idea this coming season. for conflicts OF
regatta dates already exist and cannot
be eliminated so as to make ii possible
for all or nearly all the colleges TO
send crews to the event. According to
officials, however. who attended the an
nual meeting of the American Rowing
Association at the Harvard Club yester-
day, colleges almost without exception
intend to cooperate with the association
after the season of 1922 to make the
short distance championship race cer-
tainty in 1923 and as representative an
event as it possibly can be.
If the plan goes through the American
Rowing Association regatta of 1923 will
be two day event, the first day Of
which will be set aside almost eXclu-
sively for elimination trials, with the
finals on the second Colleges will be
asked to hold preliminary trials of their
own on home waters to determine their
fastest short distance crews, so that II
win not be necessary for a college to
enter more than one eight in the race
at the American Rowing Association re-
gatta, which by the way Is also known
as the American Henley regatta.
On the first day crews will be drawn
by lot and sent off in groups OF four
II the field is large enough semi-final
eliminations may also be necessary. the
idea being to narrow the championship
final to about four or five surviving
crews. With shorter distance racing
gaining favor among college rowing Of
ficials and coaches the association has
every reason to expect banner entry
for the initial event.
BY way of arousing greater interest
in rowing among the collegians, the
American Rowing Association decided
Yesterday to add two new events to this
years Henley regatta, which Is sched-
uled for Saturday. May 27, on the
Schuylkill at Philadelphia. One will be
a race open to third varsity crews, In
which any oarsmen other than those on
the varsity and junior varsity will be
eligible The second new eight cared
race will be for crews other than var
sity for the st. Paul's cup offered by
Charles l.. Borie, who is University OF
Pennsylvania member OF the associa-
tion.
Incidentally the A. r. A. expects to
hold the annual Chllds cup race of 1928
In connection with the Henley regatta
Pennsylvania which will have the
choice of date and venue next year.
having expressed willingness to accept
the offer of the association.
Thomas Reath OF Pennsylvania was
reelected chairman of the association
yesterday and Julian W. Curtiss OF
Yale vice-chairman. Rudolph Rauch OF
Princeton succeeds Russell II. Johnson
as treasurer and John A. Brown o.
Pennsylvania retains the office OF secre-
tary. Others present at yesterdays
meeting were:
DIR. ]. Duncan Spaeth and Henry Is
Thompson of Princeton, Romeyn Berry
and John McGovern OF Cornell, Charles
III. Mapes of Columbia, J. M. Goetchus OF
| Yale. Elliott Farley and r. Heberhowe
| of Harvard, nt-Commander f.
| w. Rockwell of the Navy, r. Il. Lee Will
! hanson OF Baltimore and Charles Ia
Borie and William /. Forbes Of Penn
| sylvania.