The Alaska daily empire., 1922-07-07
WASHINGTON TO
 TAKE PLACE OF
 CREW OF NAVY
Wonder Crew of Next Colleg' Generation to Come from
 Western States.

SEATTLE, July 7.-Washington's s again next year. To face the facts bluntly. the same University of Washington supporters who raised $7,500 this year to send the Huskies to the annual intercollegiate regatta are already pledged to raise an other $75OO because their first $7,500 proved to the wide, wide world that they were backing conner, backing the crew that should fill the place held ,for three years by the Navy
 The Navy crew is now thing of the past If athletic history is to be repeated, the midshipmen of next year will never touch the record of the men whose seats they are taking Point out a championship aggregation in any line of sport, college life be- ing especially so, that blossoms over night as Ndfdr the Navy crew of 1920, and we'll show you a crew or a team three years hence that is a loser.
 Training Is Neglected
 It is the psychology of the thing that when a certain clique of power full men take their places on an ath- 1etic team the rest of the student body looks on them as idols, as inn possible of replacement and neglects the preliminary training that is nec- essary to make the replacing athletes <~f t1,o x,ybn
 Take the University of Washington baseball team as an example. Its career closely parallels the Navy crew. Coming to the University as freshmen, 10 of the IA regulars on this years team had sufficient strength even to beat the varsity. For two years they have been good, and they have another year of win ming baseball ahead of them-but what then?
 This years Frosh lacked class. in fact there were but three real ball Claynrs on the club. Next years Frosh are liable to be just as weak, with the result that whom Coach Mathews is forced to rebuild two years hence he is going to be face to. face with a lack of varsity ma terial that is liable to tax his pa tience
 Crew Is On Its Way
 But all this is just batter as com pared with the real thing, which is that Washington must go to Pough- keepsie again Of the II oarsmen who made tine Pougl1keepsie trip only Cushman is lost to Washington for next year. and coming along are the eight members of the Freshman crew who proved themselves equally proficient, in fact were able time and again to push the varsity to the limit ever the three-mile Lake Washington course.
 Washington's era of crew prosper dty has arrived and every advantage must be taken of it if one is to be- lieve the crew supporters who have been gathering here and there since the recent great race and talking things over.
 Just wait until next year." de- c1ared B. C. Beck, chairman of the committee which raised the fund to send Washington East and also head of the board of stewards which is looking after rowing at the Uni ve-sitv. Washington loses just one man by graduation. Eight of the Poughkeepsie nine will be available for Coach Leader next year. The crew is all that has been said of it and vastly. more.
 "The elemental conflict. now row ing history, showed us all a group of men whose skill and stamina are tested high and whose mighty grit thrills ms. It will be a long time before Washington will go into any future Poughkeepsie regatta as a dark horse"