The New York herald., 1922-11-10
Rowing Association Arranges
Dates to Avoid Conflict
in Spring.
PROGRAM NOT COMPLETE
Early Opening Of Season Will
Make Colleges Rush Crew
Training.
ny SAMUEL J. BRooKMAN.


There was a concerted effort on the
part of the delegates to the annual
meeting OF the American Rowing AS
sociation at the Harvard Club yester-
day to draw up a varsity crew sched-
ule for next spring that will see date
conflicts reduced to minimum. The
colleges arranging conflicting e-
gattas. The delegates felt the time
had arrived for all hands to work to-
gether to avoid scrambling of dates.
and 1t was with that idea foremost that
a tentative schedule was drawn up.
The complete list is not ready for
publication. but the dates for the an
nua American Henley and the Childs's
cup race were announced as May 26
and April 20. respectively. Both these
events will be rowed on the Schuylhill
at Philadelphia.
The Childs cup date II OF especial In
terest because It Is Just two weeks
earlier than tho usual day for this three
cornered regattasin which Princeton.
Columbia and Pennsylvania are the con-
testants. 1t was held on May 13 on
Lake Carnegie. Princeton. last spring and
the second Saturday in May the year
before. No doubt the April date for
the Childs Cup race next spring was
prompted by a desire to avoid the con-
gestion Of May regattas: it was one OF
the steps In the direction of a more
evenly distributed schedule.
VIII Rush Crew Development.
Princeton. Columbia and Pennsyi-
vania coaches will have to rush the
development of their varsity crews as
they never did before to have the oars
men rowing in satisfactory form by the
day of the Childs cup event. Every
body concerned will be praying for an
early spring. Pennsylvania, which usu-
ally finds 1t possible to start outdoor
practice a week or two ahead of the
rival colleges, will have whatever ad-
vantage there may be in the early date.
The April Childs cup date may mean
shift In the date for the annual Penn
Yale regatta. Yale has expressed dis
satisfaction with an early April date for
a dual regatta and the change in the
Childs cup event may permit a May date
for the dual race between the varsities
and junior varsities OF the Ellis and
Quakers. The Childs cup race at Prince
ton. by the way. proved to be one OF the
best contested of the season last spring.
After a sensational tussle the Tiger crew
beat the Columbia eight by the scant
margin of foot, with Penn third
The Henley date, May 26. is the usual
one-the last Saturday In May. There
was considerable talk last spring anent
the advisability Of enlarging the Henley
regatta into three day affair In which
every amateur club and every college
actively engaged In the sport would be
asked to compete. The delegates dis
eussed the project enthusiastically. hut
telt that the time was not yet ripe for
May regatta Of the size proposed
They considered 1t advisable to acquaint
everybody with the plan first, to feel
the pulse OF the amateur and college
rowing authorities rather than launch
three lay event without sufficient as
surance Of necessary support IT was
considered entirely possible that by 1924
the three day Henley would be fact.
Some of Races in View.
Besides the Childs cup event. the var.
sity regattas. dual and three cornered
that are likely to be held in the East
next spring will include Yale Penn, Yale.
Princeton-Cornell, Penn-Harvard. Navy
Syracuse, Navy Harvard Princeton, Co
lumbia-Y Yale. Columba-M. l. T., Har-
vard-Cornell. Harvard-M. I. T. and
Yale-Harvard, as wen as the annual in
tercollegiate regatta on the Hudson.
The American Rowing Association
Yesterday reelected Thomas B. Reath Of
Pennsylvania, chairman; William Z
Curtis OF Yale. vice-chairman Rudolph
Rauch OF Princeton, treasurer, and John
Arthur Brown OF Pennsylvania, secre-
tary. Others present at the meeting
were DR.. j. Duncan Spaeth, the Prince
ton rowing coach Henry p. Thompson
OF Princeton. Romeyn Berry, graduate
manager Of athletics Mt Cornell; II.
Thurston OF Syracuse, Morton @. Bogue.
chairman OF the board of stewards Of
the intercollegiate Rowing Association
John Goetchius of Yale. DR.. r. Heber
Howe Clement Il. Wood and Sheridan
Logan of Harvard and Commander
Rockwell Of the navy.